Jed (given name)

Jed is a masculine given name or nickname, usually of Jedediah.

Politicians

 * Jed Johnson (Oklahoma) (1888–1963), politician from Oklahoma
 * Jed Johnson, Jr. (1939–1993), U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, son of Jed Johnson
 * Jed Lipsky, politician from Vermont

In sports

 * Jed Adcock (born 1985), Australian rules footballer
 * Jed Anderson (born 1994), Australian rules footballer
 * Jed Bews (born 1993), Australian rules footballer
 * Jed Brown (born 1991), New Zealand rugby union player
 * Jedidiah Jed Collins (born 1986), American National Football League player
 * Jed Graef (born 1942), American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
 * Jed Hansen (born 1972), American Major League Baseball player
 * Jed Holloway (born 1992), Australian rugby union footballer
 * Jed Hoyer (born 1973), American executive vice-president and general manager of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team
 * Jed Hughes, American college football and National Football League coach
 * Jadwiga Jędrzejowska (1912–1980), Polish tennis player nicknamed "Jed"
 * Jed Jones, American tennis player, semifinalist in the 1906 US Open
 * Jed Lamb (born 1992), Australian rules footballer
 * Jed Lowrie (born 1984), American Major League Baseball player
 * Jed Metcher (born 1990), Australian Grand Prix motorcycle racer
 * Jed Ortmeyer (born 1978), American National Hockey League player
 * Jed Prentice, American slalom canoer, world champion in 1989 and 1991
 * Jed Roberts (born 1967), Canadian Football League player
 * Jed Rowlands, New Zealand rugby union coach
 * Jed Steer (born 1992), English football goalkeeper
 * Jed Stugart (born 1970), American football coach, current head coach for the Lindenwood Lions
 * Jed Wallace (born 1994), English footballer
 * Jed Weaver (born 1976), American National Football League player
 * John Edward Jed York (born c. 1980), American CEO of the San Francisco 49ers National Football League team
 * Jedidiah Jed Zayner (born 1984), American soccer player

In arts and entertainment

 * Jed Allan (1935–2019), American actor, particularly on soap operas
 * Jed Brophy (born 1963), New Zealand film actor
 * Jed Harris (1900–1979), Austrian-American theater producer and director and film writer born Jacob Hirsch Horowitz
 * Jed Johnson (designer) (1948–1996), American interior designer and lover of Andy Warhol
 * Jed Kurzel (born 1976), Australian film composer and musician
 * Jed Mercurio (born 1966), British television writer, producer and director and novelist
 * Jed Perl (born 1951), American art critic and author
 * Jed Prouty (1879–1956), American film actor
 * Jed Riffe, American filmmaker
 * Jed Simon (born 1964), Canadian musician
 * Jed Whedon (born 1974), American screenwriter and musician
 * Jed Morgans (born 1998), British musician and record label executive

Academics

 * Jed Buchwald, American historian, professor of history at Caltech
 * Jed Rubenfeld, American Yale Law School professor and author

Other

 * Jed S. Rakoff (born 1943), American federal judge
 * Jed Smock, also known as Brother Jed (1943–2022), confrontational American evangelist and campus preacher

Fictional characters

 * Josiah Bartlet ("Jed"), on the American television series The West Wing
 * Jed Clampett, on the American television series The Beverly Hillbillies
 * Jedediah Leland ("Jed"), reporter in the film Citizen Kane
 * Jemima Marshall ("Jed") (female), in John le Carrés novel The Night Manager and on the British TV mini-series of the same name
 * Jed Olsen, the alias of Danny Johnson, who is The Ghost Face in the multiplatform video game Dead by Daylight
 * Jed Stone, on the British soap opera Coronation Street
 * Jed Wright, the only boss in the Xbox 360 video game demo Dead Rising 2: Case Zero