Jonah (given name)

Jonah is a masculine given name derived from the יוֹנָה, Yonā, meaning dove or pigeon. It is the name of the Abrahamic prophet Jonah.

People

 * Jonah of Moscow (died 1461?), Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus'
 * Jonah Anguka, Kenyan author
 * Jonah Ayunga, Kenyan football player
 * Jonah Barrington (journalist), English journalist
 * Jonah Barrington (judge), Irish judge and politician
 * Jonah Barrington (squash player), English squash player
 * Jonah Bayliss, American baseball player
 * Jonah Berger, American marketing professor
 * Jonah Blechman, American actor
 * Jonah Blank, American journalist
 * Jonah Bobo, American child actor
 * Jonah Bokaer, American media artist
 * Jonah Bolden, Australian basketball player
 * Jonah Burt, Canadian judoka
 * Jonah David Jang, Nigerian politician
 * Jonah Edelman, American advocate for public education reform
 * Jonah Falcon, American actor and writer
 * Jonah Feingold, American writer of short films
 * Jonah Frankel, Israeli writer
 * Yonah Gerondi, Catalan rabbi and moralist
 * Jonah Goldberg, American conservative political commentator
 * Jonah Hill, American actor and writer
 * Jonah Holmes, English rugby player
 * Jonah Jackson (born 1997), American football player
 * Jonah Jones, American jazz trumpeter
 * Jonah Jones (sculptor), Welsh artist
 * Jonah Keri, Canadian journalist
 * Jonah Kim, South Korean cellist
 * Jonah Koslen, American singer-songwriter
 * Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, Prince of Hawai'i and American politician
 * Jonah Kumalae, Hawaiian politician and ukulele manufacturer
 * Jonah Laulu (born 2000), American football player
 * Jonah Lehrer, American science author and journalist
 * Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player
 * Jonah Lowe, New Zealand rugby player
 * Jonah Lotan, Israeli actor
 * Jonah Matranga, American singer and songwriter
 * Yona Melnik, Israeli judoka
 * Jonah Meyerson, American actor
 * Jonah Monheim (born 2002), American football player
 * Metropolitan Jonah Paffhausen, primate of the Orthodox Church in America
 * Jonah Parzen-Johnson, American saxophonist
 * Jonah Peretti, co-founder of Buzzfeed and The Huffington Post
 * Jonah Piikoi, Hawaiian nobleman and politician
 * Jonah Raskin, American writer
 * Jonah Ray, American comedian
 * Jonah Rockoff, American economist
 * Jonah Sanford, American politician and Union Army colonel
 * Jonah Savaiinaea, American football player
 * Jonah Sharp, American electronic music producer
 * Jonah Sithole, Zimbabwean guitarist
 * Jonah Williams (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Jonah Wise, American rabbi
 * Jonah Yano, Canadian musician

Fictional characters

 * Jonah Beck, a main character on the Disney Channel series Andi Mack
 * Jonah Hex, an American western comic book hero in DC Comics
 * J. Jonah Jameson, in Spiderman comics and movies
 * Jonah Marshall, a character from the analog horror series, The Mandela Catalogue
 * Jonah Takalua, a main character in the Australian comedy series Summer Heights High
 * Jonah Wizard, a teenage movie star from the 39 Clues series
 * Jonah Byrde, character in Netflix TV Show "Ozark"
 * Jonah Simms, character in TV show "Superstore"

Male variants

 * Giona (Italian)
 * Jonàs (Catalan)
 * Jona (Croatian)
 * Jonáš (Czech)
 * Jonah (English)
 * Jonas (German, Swedish, Latin, Lithuanian and Portuguese)
 * Jónás (Hungarian)
 * Jónas (Icelandic)
 * Yunus (Indonesian)
 * Jonasz (Polish)
 * Jonaš (Prekmurje dialect of Slovene)
 * Jonáš (Slovak)
 * Jona (Slovene)
 * Jonás (Spanish)
 * Yonah or Yona (יונה) (Hebrew and Yiddish)
 * Yunus (Turkish)
 * Younes (يونس) (Arabic)
 * Joonas (Estonian and Finnish)
 * Joona (Finnish)
 * Yunsi (Berber)
 * Ionas (Ίωνας) (Greek)
 * Yunis (Azerbaijani)
 * Iunus (ইউনুস)
 * Jona (Yoruba)
 * Yunan (Syriac)