Jason (disambiguation)
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| Jason | |
| Gender: | Male |
|---|---|
| Origin: | Greek |
| Meaning: | "Healer" |
Jason is a common given name for a male. It comes from Greek origin, meaning "healer" (from iasthai - to heal). It also appears in the Hebrew Bible and in this instance may represent a variant of Joshua. It was adopted as an English name in the 17th Century.
A feminine form of the name is Jacin, derived from the Spanish name Jacinta, or the Americanized version Jacinda - meaning Hyacinth.
The name Jason makes up the first letters of sequential months from July to November.
People known by the first name Jason include:
- Jason, the Greek hero who led the Argonauts and married Medea.
- Saint Jason
- Jason of Cyrene
- Jason, pseudonym of Norwegian comics creator John Arne Sæterøy
- Jason Gunn, New Zealand television personality
- Jason Ritter, American actor and son of actor John Ritter
- Caushun (Jason Herndon)
- Jason Spezza, a proffessional ice hockey player for the Ottawa Senators
Modern fictional characters named Jason include:
- Jason Bourne, featured in the Bourne series of movies
- Jason Lee Scott, Red/Gold Ranger in Power Rangers series.
- Jason Voorhees, recurring antagonist in the Friday the 13th Movie Series.
- Jason White, fictional character from Superman Returns
Other uses of Jason:
- The Jason-1 satellite altimeter is a science project to measure the ocean surface topography, named after the Greek hero.
- JASON reactor, a nuclear reactor in Greenwich, London. (Dismantled 1999)
- Jason (rocket)
- JASON Defense Advisory Group, a USA defense and war oriented consulting group
- Jason (robot), an unmanned submersible robot developed by Dr. Robert Ballard
- Jason Junior, a prototype of the Jason robot submersible used to explore the wreck of the RMS Titanic
- Jayce, an occasional abbreviation (phonetically, if not literally) of Jason.
- JSON, a lightweight computer data interchange format pronounced like "Jason"
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