Obed (name)

Obed (Hebrew: עוֹבֵד, romanized: ‘Ōḇēḏ, lit. '"worshipper"') is a given name, following the biblical figure Obed. It may also serve as a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Obed Akwa (born 1955), Ghanaian retired lieutenant-general and former Chief of the Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces
• Obed Ariri (born 1956), Nigerian gridiron football placekicker
• Obed Asamoah (born 1936), Ghanaian politician
• Obed Barney (fl. 1843–1844), American politician
• Obed Cétoute (born 1983), Canadian gridiron football player
• Obed Dickinson (1818–1892), American pioneer, abolitionist, minister and business owner
• Obed Dlamini (born 1937), Prime Minister of Swaziland (1989–1993)
• Obed Enamorado (born 1985), Honduran football goalkeeper
• Obed Estrada (born 1994), Mexican footballer
• Obed Gómez (born 1966), Puerto Rican artist
• Obed Hall (1757–1828), American politician and pioneer
• Obed Crosby Haycock (1901–1983), American engineer and educator
• Obed Hussey (1792–1860), American inventor
• Obed Simon Johnson (1881–1970), American academic, chaplain, congregational missionary and student of Chinese culture and history
• Obed Macy (1801–1857), American physician, pioneer and politician
• Obed Martínez (born 1996), Mexican footballer
• Obed McCoy (born 1997), Vincentian cricketer
• Obed Mlaba, mayor of the eThekwini, South Africa
• Obed Mutanya (born 1981), Zambian long-distance and cross-country runner
• Obed Nicholls (1885–1962), Cornish artist
• Obed Owusu (born 1990), Ghanaian footballer
• Obed Psych, stage name of Ghanaian Canadian singer Obed Awelinga-Nzuh
• Obed Rincón (born 1985), Mexican footballer
• Obed F. Strickland (1833–1887), justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory
• Obed Sullivan (born 1968), American boxer
• Obed Taylor (1824–1881), American architect
• Obed Vargas (born 2005), American soccer player
• Obed Wheeler (1841–1898), American businessman and politician

Surname

• Elisha Obed (born 1952), Bahamanian boxer
• Rhema Obed (born 1991), English footballer
• Z. Obed (died 2020), Indian politician

See also

• All pages with titles containing Obed
• Obed (disambiguation)
• Oved, a spelling variant of the name

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