Ted
Encyclopedia
Ted is:
- a nickname for:
- EdwardEdwardEdward is an English given name. It is derived from Old English words ead and weard...
- Edwin
- Theodore
- Edward
- short for Teddy boyTeddy BoyThe British Teddy Boy subculture is typified by young men wearing clothes that were partly inspired by the styles worn by dandies in the Edwardian period, styles which Savile Row tailors had attempted to re-introduce in Britain after World War II...
Notable people
People known as “Ted” include:- Bruce Slesinger (known simply as Ted), second drummer for the Dead Kennedys
- Ted BundyTed BundyTheodore Robert "Ted" Bundy was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women during the 1970s, and possibly earlier...
(1946-89), serial killer active in the 1970s - Ted DansonTed DansonEdward Bridge “Ted” Danson III is an American actor best known for his role as central character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers, and his role as Dr. John Becker on the series Becker. He also plays a recurring role on Larry David's HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm and starred alongside Glenn Close...
, American actor - Ted GärdestadTed GärdestadTed Gärdestad , internationally known as Ted Gardestad, Ted Gaerdestad or just Ted was a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician.-Early career:...
, Swedish singer-songwriter - Sir Edward HeathEdward HeathSir Edward Richard George "Ted" Heath, KG, MBE, PC was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and as Leader of the Conservative Party ....
(known as Ted Heath) (1916-2005), British Prime Minister 1970-74 - Ted Heath (bandleader)Ted Heath (bandleader)Ted Heath, musician and big band leader, led Britain's greatest post-war big band recording more than 100 albums and selling over 20 million records...
(1902-69), English bandleader - Ted JacksonTed JacksonTed M. Jackson is senior staff photographer for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana. He contributes to the newspaper’s extensive gallery of photographs of events in the Greater New Orleans Area....
(born 1955), prize-winning photographer - Ted Kaczynski (known as "The Unabomber"), American mathematician and social critic who carried out a campaign of bombings and mail bombings
- Ted KennedyTed KennedyEdward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history...
(1932-2009), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts - Ted Kennedy (ice hockey) (1925-2009), Canadian ice hockey player
- Ted KnightTed KnightTed Knight was an American actor best known for playing the comedic role of Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Henry Rush on Too Close for Comfort, and Judge Elihu Smails in Caddyshack.- Early years :...
, American actor - Ted KoppelTed KoppelEdward James "Ted" Koppel is an English-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery Channel before resigning in 2008...
, American broadcast journalist - Ted "Kid" Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff; 1893-1970), English world champion Hall of Fame welterweight boxer
- Ted NolanTed NolanTheodore John Nolan is currently the Head Coach of Latvia men's national ice hockey team...
, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive - Ted NugentTed NugentTheodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...
, American hard rock guitarist and vocalist - Ted Schuehle, Bass guitar player for Anabret, Chimestone and The Stereo Kings
- Ted SorensenTed SorensenTheodore Chaikin "Ted" Sorensen was an American presidential advisor, lawyer and writer, best known as President John F. Kennedy’s special counsel, adviser and legendary speechwriter. President Kennedy once called him his “intellectual blood bank.”-Early life:Sorensen was born in Nebraska, the son...
, speechwriter and adviser to John F. Kennedy - Ted StricklandTed StricklandTheodore "Ted" Strickland was the 68th Governor of Ohio, serving from 2007 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives, representing ....
, American politician - Ted StevensTed StevensTheodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens, Sr. was a United States Senator from Alaska, serving from December 24, 1968, until January 3, 2009, and thus the longest-serving Republican senator in history...
(1923-2010), longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate - Ted TurnerTed TurnerRobert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television...
, American media proprietor and philanthropist - Ted WilliamsTed WilliamsTheodore Samuel "Ted" Williams was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 21-year Major League Baseball career as the left fielder for the Boston Red Sox...
(1918-2002), American baseball hall-of-famer
Fictional characters
Notable fictional characters known by the nickname “Ted” include:- Ted BucklandTed BucklandTheodore "Ted" Buckland, Esq., most commonly referred to as Ted Buckland , is a fictional character played by Sam Lloyd in Bill Lawrence series Scrubs and Cougar Town, and the only character to appears in both series.Created for Scrubs, Ted is the depressive, suicidal and incompetent lawyer of the...
, character from the U.S. television series Scrubs - Father Ted Crilly, character from the UK television sitcom Father Ted
- Theodore Logan (known as Ted Logan), one of the main characters from the U.S. comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent AdventureBill & Ted's Excellent AdventureBill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction–comedy buddy film and the first film in the Bill & Ted franchise in which two metalhead slackers travel through time to assemble a menagerie of historical figures for their high school history presentation.The film was written by...
- Theodore Schmidt (known as Ted Schmidt), character from the North American TV series Queer as Folk
- Theodore Sprague (known as Ted Sprague), character from the U.S. television series Heroes
- Ted Striker, character from the US Comedy movie Airplane!Airplane!Airplane! is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures...
- Ted, the Generic Guy, character from the comic strip Dilbert
- Theodore Evelyn Mosby (known as Ted Mosby), character from the U.S. television series How I Met Your Mother
- Ted Bovis, cynical comedian from the UK television sitcom Hi-de-Hi!Hi-de-Hi!Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom that aired on the BBC from 1980-1988. It was set in a holiday camp during the 1950s and 1960s and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who had written Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum. The title was the phrase used to greet the campers and in early episodes...
- Ted, gamekeeper of Lord Ralph Mayhew in the Ted & RalphTed & RalphTed and Ralph are fictional characters created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, played by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson in the BBC comedy sketch show The Fast Show...
sketches from the UK television comedy series The Fast Show
Other things called Ted
- Ted (word processor)Ted (word processor)Ted is a word processor for the X Window System environment, which runs on Linux and other Unix-like systems. Developed primarily by Mark de Does, Ted is a lightweight yet full-featured word processor....
, free software word processor for the X Window System environment - Ted (airline)Ted (airline)Ted was one of two "airline within an airline" divisional brands of United Airlines. It targeted vacation locations. Ted targeted to compete in the low cost airline market. In contrast to United's high end divisional "sub-fleeted" brand called United p.s., "Ted" comes from the last three letters...
, airline brand United Airlines operated in the US - Television Electronic DiscTelevision Electronic DiscTelevision Electronic Disc is a discontinued video recording format, released in 1975 by Telefunken and Teldec. The format used flexible foil discs, which spun at 1,500 rpm on a cushion of air...
, unsuccessful videodisc format developed by Telefunken in 1975, and abbreviated as TeD - "Ted (Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode)Ted (Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode)"Ted" is episode 11 of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Although she tries to take Angel's advice to allow her mother to have a man who is not Hank Summers in her life, Buffy is unable to warm up to Joyce's new boyfriend...
", episode of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Ted (album)Ted (album)Ted was the second album from Swedish singer/songwriter Ted Gärdestad, released in 1973 on the Polar Music label. It contains the hits "Jag Ska Fånga En Ängel", "Sol, Vind Och Vatten", "Come Give Me Love" as well as his 1973 Melodifestivalen entry "Oh Vilken Härlig Da'" . The album was produced by...
, by Swedish singer-songwriter Ted Gärdestad - TED (conference)TED (conference)TED is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading"....
that defines its mission as "ideas worth spreading" - Ted (film)Ted (film)Ted is an upcoming American comedy film directed by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis and Laura Vandervoort. Filming began in May 2011 in Boston and Swampscott...
, an upcoming American comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane and starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis
See also
- TED (disambiguation) (acronym)
- Teds (disambiguation)Teds (disambiguation)Teds or TEDS may refer to*Transducer Electronic Data Sheet*Teddy Boys*Trinity Evangelical Divinity School*The Ellen DeGeneres Show*Twins Early Development Study*TETRA Enhanced Data Service*Tactical Eye Devices, a US Army term for eyeglasses...
- Ed (disambiguation)
- Teddy (disambiguation)
- Ted, a 1980 song by RedgumRedgumRedgum were an Australian folk and political music group formed in Adelaide in 1975 by singer-songwriter John Schumann, Michael Atkinson on guitars/vocals and Verity Truman on flute/vocals; they were soon joined by Chris Timms on violin. All four had been students at Flinders University and...
from the album Virgin GroundVirgin GroundVirgin Ground is the second album by Redgum. The title is taken from the first track.It was originally released as on vinyl and cassette... - Torpedo TedRecurring enemies in the Mario seriesThis is a list of common enemies in the Mario series of video games. The enemies on the list are in alphabetical order.-Bloopers:Bloopers are white, squid-like creatures that first appear in Super Mario Bros. In some Mario sports games, the Mario Kart series and Super Mario Sunshine, they are...