# Thaddeus

Thaddeus (Latin: Thaddaeus, Ancient Greek: Θαδδαῖος, romanized: Thaddaĩos, from Imperial Aramaic: תדי, romanized: Ṯaday) 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 ("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

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 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 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