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Gideon
Gideon
Gideon was an Israelite judge who appears in the Book of JudgesGideon may also refer to:- Religion :* Gideon , a figure in the Book of Mormon* Gideons International, distributor of copies of the Bible- Media :...

 was an Israelite judge who appears in the Book of Judges

Gideon may also refer to:

Religion

  • Gideon (Book of Mormon)
    Gideon (Book of Mormon)
    According to the Book of Mormon, Gideon was a faithful Nephite leader, and a strong man and an enemy to King Noah. After King Noah's expulsion and death by fire, Gideon counseled with Noah's son, King Limhi in Mosiah 20: 17-22. He proposed a plan for escaping from Lamanite bondage. Gideon grew to...

    , a figure in the Book of Mormon
  • Gideons International
    Gideons International
    Gideons International is an evangelical Christian organization dedicated to distributing copies of the Bible in over 94 languages and 194 countries of the world, most famously in hotel and motel rooms. The organization was founded in 1899 in Janesville, Wisconsin, as an early American parachurch...

    , distributor of copies of the Bible

Media

  • "Gideon", a song by Kentucky-based band My Morning Jacket
    My Morning Jacket
    My Morning Jacket is an American rock band from Louisville, Kentucky.The band consists of Jim James , Tom 'Two-Tone Tommy' Blankenship , Patrick Hallahan , Carl Broemel , and Bo Koster .-History:My Morning Jacket was...

    , from their album Z
  • Gideon (album)
    Gideon (album)
    Gideon is the eighth solo studio album by Kenny Rogers, issued by United Artists Records in 1980. It reached #1 on the country charts and the top 20 of the pop charts...

    , a 1980 album by Kenny Rogers
  • Gideon (comics)
    Gideon (comics)
    Gideon is a fictional character, a mutant supervillain appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza...

    , a Marvel Comics supervillain
  • Gideon (film)
    Gideon (film)
    -Plot:Gideon Oliver Dobbs is a man with a mental disability. He moves into a nursing home known as Lakeview, with many elderly inhabitants. They are all grumpy old men and women. Gideon is much younger than the other residents, which causes confusion when he first introduces himself...

    , a 1999 film starring Christopher Lambert
  • Gideon (play)
    Gideon (play)
    Gideon, a play by Paddy Chayefsky, is a seriocomic treatment of the story of Gideon, a judge in the Old Testament. The play had a successful Broadway run in 1961 and was broadcast on NBC in 1971 as a Hallmark Hall of Fame special.-The story:...

    , Paddy Chayefsky's 1961 Broadway drama
  • Gideon (TV series)
    Gideon (TV series)
    Gideon was an late 1970s/early 1980s animated UK children's television series.This basic animation was centered around Gideon, a duck with an unusually long neck...

    , an early 1980s children's TV cartoon series
  • Gideon of Scotland Yard
    Gideon of Scotland Yard
    Commander George Gideon of London's Scotland Yard is a fictional policeman created by John Creasey under the pseudonym J.J. Marric. He appeared in the first of 26 police procedural novels by Creasey, Gideon's Day, in 1955.- The character :...

    , George Gideon, a fictional detective in novels, film and television created by John Creasey
  • Gideon the Elder, a character in the television show Charmed
  • "Gideon: Tuba Warrior", a VeggieTales episode
  • Gideon's Crossing
    Gideon's Crossing
    Gideon's Crossing is a US medical drama starring Andre Braugher. The series was loosely based on the experience of real-life physician Jerome Groopman and his book The Measure of Our Days. It premiered on October 10, 2000, and ran for one season, with its last episode airing on April 9, 2001, with...

    , an American television series
  • Jason Gideon
    Criminal Minds
    Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime...

    , a BAU profiler in the television show Criminal Minds

Other

  • Clarence Earl Gideon
    Clarence Earl Gideon
    Clarence Earl Gideon was a poor drifter accused in a Florida state court of felony theft. His case resulted in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Gideon v...

    , a prisoner who brought Gideon v. Wainwright to the Supreme Court
  • Gideon v. Wainwright
    Gideon v. Wainwright
    Gideon v. Wainwright, , is a landmark case in United States Supreme Court history. In the case, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who are unable to afford their own...

    , a major American court battle which required state courts to provide indigent defendants with legal counsel at taxpayer expense
  • Elmo Gideon
    Elmo Gideon
    Elmo Clifford Gideon was an American painter and sculptor of the 20th and 21st centuries.Thursday, April 12, 2001 was declared “Gideon Day” with an official Proclamation by the Miami-Dade County Office of the Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. -External links:* *...

    , American artist known for the Gideon Holocaust Collection
  • Global Infectious Disease Epidemiology Network (GIDEON), a medical decision support tool
  • Cadfan ap Iago
    Cadfan ap Iago
    Cadfan ap Iago was King of Gwynedd . Little is known of the history of Gwynedd from this period, and information about Cadfan and his reign is minimal....

    , an old Welsh king also known as Gideon
  • Gideon Gartner
    Gideon Gartner
    Gideon I. Gartner is an entrepreneur and philanthropist, best known as the founder of Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company.- Early life :Gartner was born in Israel and grew up in New York City...

    , entrepreneur and philanthropist
  • Gideon, the Rastafarian term
    Rastafarian vocabulary
    Iyaric, Livalect or Dread-talk is a created dialect of English in use among members of the Rastafari movement. African languages were lost among Africans when they were taken into captivity as part of the slave trade, and adherents of Rastafari teachings believe that English is an imposed colonial...

     for Armageddon
    Armageddon
    Armageddon is, according to the Bible, the site of a battle during the end times, variously interpreted as either a literal or symbolic location...

  • Gideon Kliger
    Gideon Kliger
    Gideon "Gidi" Kliger is an Israeli Olympic sailor, who is a sailing world championship three-time bronze medalist.-Biography:...

     (born 1980), Israeli Olympic sailor and world championship bronze medalist
  • Gideon Mantell
    Gideon Mantell
    Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist...

    , an English geologist
  • George Osborne
    George Osborne
    George Gideon Oliver Osborne, MP is a British Conservative politician. He is the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, a role to which he was appointed in May 2010, and has been the Member of Parliament for Tatton since 2001.Osborne is part of the old Anglo-Irish aristocracy, known in...

    , Chancellor of the Exchequer whose birth-name was Gideon, however due to his and his mother's dislike to the name, he changed it to "George" and kept Gideon as a middle name.
  • Gideon Force
    Gideon Force
    The Gideon Force was a small British-led African regular force which acted as a Corps d'Elite amongst the irregular Ethiopian forces fighting the Italian occupation forces in Ethiopia during the East African Campaign of World War II...

    , Ethiopian regular force during World War II
  • Gideon Graves, the big bad
    Big Bad
    Big Bad is a term originally used by the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series to describe a major recurring adversary, usually the chief villain or antagonist in a particular broadcast season...

     of Scott Pilgrim
    Scott Pilgrim
    Scott Pilgrim is a graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. It consists of six digest size black-and-white volumes, released between August 2004 and July 2010, by Portland-based independent comic book publisher Oni Press. It was later republished by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins...

  • Operation Gideon
    Operation Gideon
    Operation Gideon was a Haganah offensive launched in the closing days of the British Mandate in Palestine, as part of the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. Its objectives were to capture Beisan , clear the surrounding villages and bedouin camps and block one of the possible entry routes...

    , a 1948 Haganah
    Haganah
    Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.- Origins :...

     military operation to capture Beisan.
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