Thaddeus (, , from ) 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.

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 – Polish

• Tadeu – Portuguese

• Тадэвуш (Tadevuš) – Belarusian

• Фаддей ("Faddey") or Фадей ("Fadey") – Russian

• Тадей ("Тadey") – Ukrainian

• Тадеј (Tadej), Тадија (Tadija) – Serbian

• Tadej – Slovenian

• Tadeo – Spanish

• Tadewos – Amharic

• ததேயு (Thathéyu/Dhathéyu) – Tamil

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

References:

• 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

People

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 Matthews (1958–2025), American pastor and broadcaster

• 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

• Thaddäus Weigl (1776–1844), Austrian composer and music publisher

• Thaddeus A. Wood (1852–1936), American politician and Mississippi state senator

• 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 Mcann, character in the novel Bog Child by Siobhab Dowd

• 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 Chronicles 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

• Lieutenant/Captain Thaddeus Harris in the film Police Academy

• Captain Thadeus, of the Osiris, in the Final Flight of the Osiris in The Animatrix

• Dr. Thaddius Blakk, the main antagonist in the animated series Slugterra

See also

• Addai

• Taddei

• Tadeo Gomez, an American musician

References

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