Thaddeus

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Thaddeus (Latin: Thaddaeus, Ancient Greek: Θαδδαῖος, romanized: Thaddaîos, 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

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• 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

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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