Ned (given name)

Ned is an English given name and variant of Ed, sometimes short for Edward, Edmund, Edgar, or Edwin. Ned can also be a diminutive for the Slavic name Nedeljko.

People with the given name Ned, or its variants

 * Ned Abraham (born 1961), Australian surgeon
 * Ted Alley (1881–1949), former Australian rules footballer listed in some sources as Ned Alley
 * Edward Almond (1892–1979), United States Army general best known as the commander of the Army's X Corps during the Korean War
 * Ned Ambler (born 1968 or 1969), American photographer and talent scout
 * Ned Austin (1925–2007), American actor
 * Ned Azemia (born 1997), Seychellois hurdler
 * Ned Barkas (1901–1962), English professional footballer
 * Ned Beatty (1937–2021), American actor
 * Ned Bellamy (born 1957), American actor
 * Ned Benson (born 1977), American filmmaker
 * Ned Bittinger (born 1951), American artist
 * Ned Block (born 1942), American philosopher
 * Ned Bouhalassa (born 1962), Canadian composer
 * Ned Boulting (born 1969), British sports journalist and television presenter
 * Ned Buntline (1821 or 1823–1886), American publisher, journalist, writer, and publicist
 * Ned Cameron (born 1987), American singer, songwriter, and record producer
 * Ned Catic (born 1978), Australian rugby league footballer
 * Ned Chaillet (born 1944), American-born British radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist
 * Ned Cobb (1885–1973), American tenant farmer
 * Ned Collette (born 1979), Australian musician and singer-songwriter
 * Ned Crotty (born 1986), American lacrosse player
 * Ned Cuthbert (1845–1905), American baseball player
 * Ned Daly (1891–1916), Dublin's 1st battalion commandant during the 1916 Easter Rising
 * Ned Dameron, American science fiction and fantasy artist
 * Ned Davis (1886–1961), Australian politician
 * Ned Day (1945–1987), American television journalist
 * Ned Dennehy (born 1965), Irish actor
 * Ned Donaghy, American soccer referee active in the 1920s and 1930s
 * Ned Dowd (born 1950), American film producer and former actor
 * Ned Eckersley (born 1989), English cricketer
 * Ned Eisenberg (1957-2022), American actor
 * Ned Endress (1918–2010), American basketball player
 * Ned Evett (born 1967), American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
 * Ned Fairchild (1929–2015), American songwriter
 * Ned Freed (born 1959), American software developer
 * Ned Garver (1925–2017), American baseball pitcher
 * Ned Glass (1906–1984), American character actor
 * Ned Goldreyer, American television writer, television producer and comedian
 * Ned Gregory (1839–1899), Australian cricketer
 * Ned Hanlan (1855–1908), Canadian professional sculler, hotelier and alderman
 * Ned Harris (1916–1976), American baseball player
 * Ned Herrmann (1922–1999), creator of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument
 * Ned Hollister (1876–1924), American biologist
 * Ned Irish (1905–1982), American basketball promoter
 * Ned Jarrett (born 1932), American race car driver
 * Ned Jenkins (1904–1990), Welsh rugby union player
 * Ned Kelly (1850s–1880), Australian outlaw and folk hero
 * Ned Lamont (born 1954), American businessman and politician, 89th Governor of Connecticut
 * Ned Luke (born 1958), American actor
 * Ned Maddrell (1877–1974), Manx fisherman
 * Ned Markosian, American philosopher
 * Ned Martel, American television writer and producer
 * Ned Martin (1923–2002), American sportscaster
 * Ned McGowan (lawyer) (1813–1893), American lawyer and politician
 * Ned McHenry (born 2000), Australian rules footballer
 * Ned McWherter (1930–2011), American politician
 * Ned Merriam (1884–1956), American track athlete, football player, and coach
 * Ned Mettam (1868–1943), English footballer
 * Ned Miller (1925–2016), American country music singer-songwriter
 * Ned O'Connor (1877–1956), Australian rules footballer
 * Ned Officer (1869–1927), Australian rules footballer
 * Ned O'Gorman (1929–2014), American poet and educator
 * Ned O'Keeffe (born 1942), Irish politician
 * Ned O'Sullivan (born 1950), Irish politician
 * Ned Palmer, British cheesemonger and author
 * Ned Price (born 1982), American Spokesperson for the United States Department of State
 * Ned Rorem (1923–2022), American composer and writer
 * Ned Scott (1907-1967), American photographer who worked in the Hollywood film industry
 * Ned Sherrin (1931–2007), British impresario, writer, game show host and raconteur
 * Ned Sparks (1883–1957), Canadian character actor
 * Ned Sublette (born 1951), American composer, musician, record producer, musicologist, and author
 * Ned Vizzini (1981–2013), American writer
 * Ned Yost (born 1955), American baseball player and manager

Fictional characters

 * Ned Banks, a character from the Ghost Whisperer
 * Ned Bigby, the main protagonist of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
 * Ned Dorneget, a Cyber Division Special Agent in the police series NCIS
 * Ned Flanders, a character from The Simpsons
 * Ned Flemkin, the titular character from the Canadian animated television series Ned's Newt
 * Ned Gerblansky, a character from South Park
 * Ned Quartermaine, a character from the soap opera General Hospital
 * Ned Dorsey, one of the two main characters from the television series Ned & Stacey
 * Ned Land, a character from the 1870 adventure novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
 * Ned Leeds, a character in Marvel Comics
 * Ned Merrill, a character from the 1964 short story "The Swimmer"
 * Ned Nederlander, one of the three protagonists in the 1986 western comedy Three Amigos
 * Ned Needlemeyer, the titular character from the short-lived 1997 animated series Nightmare Ned
 * Ned Nickerson, the boyfriend of Nancy Drew in the novels of the same name
 * Ned Plimpton, a character from the 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
 * Ned Racine, a character from the 1981 film Body Heat
 * Ned Ryder, a character from the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited
 * Ned Ryerson, a character from the 1993 comedy Groundhog Day
 * Ned Schneebly, a character from the 2003 comedy School of Rock
 * Ned Stark, a character from the A Song of Ice and Fire series
 * Ned, the main character from the television series Pushing Daisies
 * Ned, a character from the television series The Tribe
 * Ned, the titular host of talk show set in outer space, Earth to Ned
 * Ned, the wombat in The Koala Brothers
 * Ned, a creature in the music video for "Chlorine", a song by the band Twenty One Pilots
 * Ned, short for Nedwin, a character from the 2011 fantasy novel Beyonders: A World Without Heroes
 * Neddie Seagoon, a character in The Goon Show