Jude
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Jude may refer to:
- Jude, a medieval Romanian judge over an area called a Judeţ, similar to a county
- Hey Jude, a song by the Beatles
- Jude (UML Tool), a computer program to design Unified Modeling Language diagrams
- Jude (singer), an American musician and songwriter
- Jude the Obscure, a novel by Thomas Hardy
- Jude (film), a film based on the Hardy novel, directed by Michael Winterbottom
- St. Jude Medical, a medical device company
- Jude Law, an English actor
- Jude Lizowski, a character from the television show 6teen
- Jude Milhon, a hacker and author who used the pseudonym Saint Jude
- "Jude" - 'Jew' in German. The word was displayed on the Yellow star Jews had to wear under the Nazi regime between 1936 and 1945.
Jude or Judas (יהודה "Praise", Standard Hebrew Yəhuda, Tiberian Hebrew Yəhûḏāh) was the name of several people in the New Testament. The original Greek text of the New Testament makes no difference between the names Judah, Judas and Jude, rendering them all as Ioudas; but in many English translations Judah is used for the Old Testament figure and the tribe named after him, Judas is used only for Judas Iscariot, and Jude for all other New Testament persons of the same name.
- Jude, a common name for The Epistle of Jude contained in the New Testament of the Bible
- Jude the Apostle, an apostle also called Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus, the patron saint of lost causes in the Catholic Church
- Jude, brother of Jesus, who is sometimes identified as being the same person as Jude the Apostle.
- Jude Thomas, usually identified as Thomas the Apostle
- Judas the Zealot mentioned in the Epistle of the Apostles and the Decretum Gelasianum
- Judas Iscariot, betrayer of Jesus