# 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 and 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