Jonah (given name)
Jonah is a prophet described in the scriptures of abrahamic religions as having been swallowed by a large fish.
The given name Jonah may also refer to:
- Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen), current Primate of the Orthodox Church in America
- The father of Simon Peter in John 1:42 and 21:15-17
People with the given name Jonah
- Jonah Bayliss, American baseball player
- Jonah Bobo, American child actor
- Jonah Bolden, Australian basketball player
- Jonah Edelman, American advocate for public education reform
- Jonah Falcon, American actor/writer
- Jonah Goldberg, conservative commentator in the United States
- Jonah Hill, American actor/writer
- Jonah Jones, American jazz trumpeter
- Jonah Jones (sculptor), Welsh artist
- Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, Prince of Hawai'i and American politician
- Jonah Lehrer, American science author and journalist
- Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player
- Jonah Matranga, singer and songwriter
- Jonah Raskin, American writer
- Jonah Ray, American comedian
- Jonah of Moscow, Metropolitan bishop of Moscow
- Yonah Gerondi, Rabbi Jonah of Gerondi
- Yona Melnik (born 1949), Israeli Olympic judoka
Fictional characters
- Jonah Hex, an American western comic book hero in DC Comics
- Jonah Takalua, one of the three main characters in the Australian comedy series Summer Heights High
- Jonah, a character from Margaret Peterson Haddix's book, Found
- Jonah Baldwin, a character in the movie Sleepless in Seattle
- Jonah Aickman, a character in the movie The Haunting in Connecticut
- J. Jonah Jameson, a character in the Spider-man comics and movies
- Ultra Boy, a DC Comics superhero whose birth name is Jo Nah
- Jonah Kirby, a character from the TV series Waterloo Road
- Jonah Matsuka, a character from the manga, movie and TV series Toward the Terra
Male variants
- Giona (Italian)
- Jonàs (Catalan)
- Jona (Croatian)
- Jonáš (Czech)
- Jonah (English)
- Jonas (German, Swedish, Lithuanian and Portuguese)
- Jónás (Hungarian)
- Jónas (Icelandic)
- Jonasz (Polish)
- Jonaš (Prekmurje dialect of Slovene)
- Jonáš (Slovak)
- Jona (Slovene)
- Jonás (Spanish)
- Yona (Hebrew)
- Yunus (Turkish)
- Younes (يونس) (Arabic)
- Joonas (Estonian and Finnish)
- Yunsi (Berber)
- Ionas (Ίωνας) (Greek)
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