Thaddeus

Thaddeus (Thaddaeus, Θαδδαῖος, from תדי) is a masculine given name.

As of the 1990 Census, Thaddeus was the 611th most popular male name in the United States, while Thad, its diminutive version, was the 846th most popular.

Alternate forms

 * Taco – Dutch
 * Tadeu (ind. Tade) – Albanian
 * Թադէոս ("Tadeos"), Թադևոս ("Tadevos"), Թաթոս ("Tatos") – Armenian
 * Tadija – Croatian
 * Tadeáš – Czech
 * Thaddée – French
 * თადეოზი (tadeozi) Georgian
 * Thaddäus – German
 * Tádé – Hungarian
 * Tadáias (Biblical), Tadhg (given name) – Irish
 * Taddeo – Italian
 * Taddeus (Biblical; old translation), Taday (modern translation) – Turkish
 * Tadejs – Latvian
 * Tadas – Lithuanian
 * Тадеј (Tadej) - Macedonian
 * Thadhewoos – Malayalam
 * Tadeusz, Tadzio – Polish
 * Tadeu – Portuguese
 * Тадэвуш ("Tadevush") – Belarusian
 * Фаддей ("Faddey") or Фадей ("Fadey") – Russian
 * Тадей ("Тadey") – Ukrainian
 * Тадеј (Tadej), Тадија (Tadija) – Serbian
 * Tadej – Slovenian
 * Tadeo – Spanish
 * Tadewos – Amharic

Biblical figures

 * Thaddaeus, usually identified as Jude the Apostle, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus
 * Thaddeus of Edessa, one of the Seventy Disciples

==Orthodox saints ==
 * Apostle Jude son of James (Lebbaeus, Thaddeus), brother of Jesus,
 * Thaddeus of Edessa, one of the Seventy Disciples, bishop of Beirut,
 * Venerable Thaddeus of Lukh,
 * New Hieromartyr Archbishop Thaddeus (Uspensky) of Tver,
 * Venerable Thaddeus of Stepantsminda,
 * Venerable Thaddeus the Confessor of the Studion,
 * Saints Thaddeus.

Thaddeus

 * Thaddeus of Naples (fl. 1291), crusade chronicler
 * Thaddeus (bishop of Caffa), 14th-century Armenian Catholic friar and bishop
 * Thaddeus Bullard, American professional wrestler better known as Titus O'Neil
 * Thaddeus Cahill (1867–1934), American inventor of the telharmonium
 * Thaddeus P. Dryja, American ophthalmologist and geneticist
 * Thaddeus Grauer, Austrian art dealer
 * Thaddeus William Harris (1795–1856), American entomologist, botanist and librarian
 * Thaddäus Huber (1742–1798), Austrian violinist and composer
 * Thaddeus B. Hurd, American architect and amateur historian
 * Thaddeus Kirkland (born 1955), American politician
 * Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Polish general in the American Revolution
 * Thaddeus S. C. Lowe (1831–1913), American Civil War scientist and inventor
 * Thaddeus McCotter (born 1965), American politician
 * Thaddeus Moss (born 1998), American football player
 * Thaddeus O'Sullivan (born 1947), Irish film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
 * Ari Thaddeus Pilichowski, 20th-century French-British linguist and conference interpreter, better known as Teddy Pilley
 * Thaddeus Coleman Pound (1833–1914), Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin and grandfather of Ezra Pound
 * Thaddeus Stevens (1792–1868), leader of the Radical Republicans during the American Civil War and Reconstruction
 * Thaddeus Ward (born 1997), American baseball player
 * Thaddeus Young, American basketball player for the Toronto Raptors
 * Thaddeus Joy, boat captain of "Seneca Chief" on Erie Canal.

Thad

 * Thad Jones (1923–1986), American jazz trumpeter and bandleader
 * Thad Lewis (born 1987), American National Football League quarterback
 * Thad Luckinbill, American actor on the soap opera The Young and the Restless
 * Thad Starner, American computer scientist, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, technical lead of Google Glass

Fictional characters

 * General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross, Marvel comics character, mainly an antagonist of Hulk
 * Agent John Thaddeus Myers, character in Hellboy (2004) by Guillermo Del Toro
 * Doctor Thaddeus Bodog Sivana, DC comics character, an antagonist of Captain Marvel
 * Thaddeus Sholto, character in The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 * Tadzio, character in the film and novella Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
 * Thaddeus Beaumont in The Dark Half by Stephen King
 * Tadeus, character in "Requiem: a Halucination" by Antonio Tabucchi
 * Thaddeus Caractacus Evillard “Pecker” Bird, major Character in the Starbuck Chronicle by Bernard Cornwell
 * "The Chief" in the CONTROL spy agency in Get Smart
 * Thaddeus Thatch, paternal grandfather of Milo James Thatch in Atlantis: The Lost Empire
 * Thaddeus Bile, a character in the 2001 Disney/Pixar animated film Monsters, Inc.
 * Thaddeus, character in the film Your Highness
 * Dr. Thaddeus Morocco, an antagonist in the animated series Transformers: Rescue Bots
 * Thad Castle, on television series Blue Mountain State
 * Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture, on the animated series The Venture Bros.
 * Thaddeus Bradley, in the movie Now You See Me
 * Brother Thaddeus, in the film Heaven Help Us