Tobias is a Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 version of the Hebrew biblical name "Toviyah" (טוביה), meaning "Yahweh

Yahweh

Yahweh is the name of God in the Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jews and Christians.The word Yahweh is a modern scholarly convention for the Hebrew , transcribed into Roman letters as YHWH and known as the Tetragrammaton, for which the original pronunciation is unknown...

 is good". It is a popular male given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

 in Germany

Germany

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, Scandinavia

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, the United States

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 and amongst Jewish people. In English-speaking countries it is often shortened to Toby

Toby

Toby is a popular male name in many English speaking countries.The name is ultimately derived from Hebrew אלוהים הוא טוב Alohim hoa Tov and roughly translates as "The Lord is Good". The name is now often used in its own right, but originated as a contraction of Tobias...

. Other diminutives are Tobi (English, Germany), Tobsen (Germany) and Tobbe (Sweden). Tobias has also been a surname.

Biblical

Several people are called Tobias in The Bible:

• Tobias, son of Tobit; "Book of Tobias" is an older name for the Book of Tobit
  Book of Tobit
  The Book of Tobit is a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon, pronounced canonical by the Council of Carthage of 397 and confirmed for Roman Catholics by the Council of Trent...
  
  
• Tobias the elder
• Tobias, father of Hircanus
• Tobiah (Ammonite)
  Tobiah (Ammonite)
  Tobiah was an Ammonite official who incited the Ammonites to hinder Ezra and Nehemiah's efforts to rebuild Jerusalem. He, along with Sanballat the Horonite and Geshem the Arab, resorted to a stratagem, and, pretending to wish a conference with Nehemiah, invited him to meet them at Ono, Benjamin...
  
  
• Tobias, brother-in-law of Onias II
  Onias II
  Onias II was the son of Simon the Just. He was still a minor when his father died, so that his uncle Eleazar, and after him the latter's uncle Manasseh, officiated as high priests before he himself succeeded to that dignity...
  
  , father of the Joseph who succeeded in pacifying Ptolemy III Euergetes.
• Tobbe, son-in-law of Onias III
  Onias III
  Onias III was a Jewish High Priest, the son of Simon II. He is described as a pious man who, unlike the Hellenizers, fought for Judaism. Seleucus Philopator defrayed all the expenses connected with the sanctuary and was friendly to the Jews...
  
  , son of Onias II

As a given name

• Tobias (Animorphs)
  Tobias (Animorphs)
  Tobias is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series Animorphs written by K.A. Applegate. His surname is never mentioned, but had the Ellimist not altered time in order to take his father, Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, back to his old life, his full name would have been Tobias Fangor, the...
  
   (fictional character)
• Tobias (martyr)
  Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and Companions
  Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus , Tobias , Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and Companions are venerated as Christian martyrs.They were soldiers who were burned at the stake at Sebaste during the reign of Emperor Licinius....
  
  , Christian martyr and saint
• Tobias Abse
  Tobias Abse
  Dr. Tobias Abse is a professor at Goldsmiths College of the University of London . An expert on fascism, Abse has written extensively on the rise of the Fascist Right in Italy prior to World War II -References:...
  
   (professor)
• Tobias Abstreiter
  Tobias Abstreiter
  Tobias Abstreiter is a German professional ice hockey centre. During his playing career he was described as a two-way player and a faceoff specialist.-Professional career:...
  
   (hockey center)
• Tobias Angerer
  Tobias Angerer
  Tobias Angerer is a German cross country skier, and skies with the SC Vachendorf club. He graduated from the Skigymnasium Berchtesgaden in 1996. His occupation is "Sports Soldier"...
  
   (cross country skier)
• Tobias Arlt
  Tobias Arlt
  Tobias Arlt is a German luger who has competed since the 2000s. He won a silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 2008 FIL World Luge Championships in Oberhof, Germany....
  
   (luger)
• Tobias Bamberg
  Tobias Bamberg
  Tobias "Theo" Leendert Bamberg was a professional magician. Born in Holland, Bamberg performed under the name Okito which was an anagram of Tokio...
  
   (magician)
• Tobias Barreto de Meneses
  Tobias Barreto de Meneses
  Tobias Barreto de Meneses was a Brazilian poet, philosopher, jurist and critic, famous for creating the "Condorism" and revolutionizing Brazilian Romanticism and poetry...
  
   (critic/poet)
• Tobias Beecher
  Tobias Beecher
  Tobias Beecher is a main character on the television show Oz, played by Lee Tergesen. He is one of only eight regular characters to survive the entire run of the show...
  
   (from the TV series Oz)
• Tobias Beer
  Tobias Beer
  Tobias Beer is an English actor. Born in Cambridge, he studied at Oxford University and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art...
  
   (actor)
• Tobias Bernstrup
  Tobias Bernstrup
  Tobias Bernstrup is a contemporary artist working with videos, interactive works, live performances and electronic music...
  
   (contemporary artist)
• Tobias Billström
  Tobias Billström
  Tobias Lennart Billström is a Swedish politician currently serving as Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy in the Swedish government. Billström, a member of the Moderate Party, has been a Member of Parliament since 2002 representing Malmö Municipality...
  
   (politician)
• Tobias Bjarneby
  Tobias Bjarneby
  Tobias Bjarneby was born in 1974 in Stockholm. He is one of Sweden's most noted video game journalists. He was the editor in chief of Super PLAY magazine from 1996 to December 2004 and has written for Aftonbladet. Currently he is the editor in chief of LEVEL. He has advocated for public acceptance...
  
   (video game journalist)
• Tobias Bogner
  Tobias Bogner
  Tobias Bogner is a German ski jumper. He debuted in the World Cup in the team competition in Willingen on February 11, 2007.-External links:* http://www.kombiundspezinachwuchs.de/Bognerprofil.htm...
  
   (ski jumper)
• Tobias Bonhoeffer
  Tobias Bonhoeffer
  Tobias Bonhoeffer is a German neurobiologist. He is director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and head of the department Cellular and Systems Neurobiology....
  
   (neurobiologist)
• Tobias Bridge
  Tobias Bridge
  Sir Tobias Bridge was fought for Parliament in the English Civil War, served the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell during the Interregnum and after the restoration he served King Charles II.Pape...
  
   (Major-General in the First English Civil War)
• Tobias S. Buckell
  Tobias S. Buckell
  Tobias S. Buckell is a Grenadian science fiction writer. His 2008 novel, Halo: The Cole Protocol, made the The New York Times Best Seller list. He currently lives in Bluffton, Ohio.-Biography:...
  
   (science fiction author)
• Tobias Carlsson
  Tobias Carlsson
  Tobias Carlsson is a Swedish footballer, currently playing for Kalmar FF.-External links:**...
  
   (Kalmar FF footballer)
• Tobías Zúñiga Castro
  Tobías Zúñiga Castro
  Tobías Zúñiga Castro was a Costa Rican politician. He served as a diplomat and was Secretary of State. He was a member of the People's Party....
  
   (politician)
• Tobias Cohn
  Tobias Cohn
  Tobias Cohn or Tobias Kohn was a Polish-Jewish physician of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
  
   (17/18th century physician)
• Tobias Cole
  Tobias Cole
  Tobias Martin Piers Trevor Cole is an Australian countertenor and leading artist with Opera Australia.-Early life:Cole was born in Leiden, the Netherlands while his father was working at the University of Leiden as a radio astronomer. In 1976 he commenced his education at Newington College. Aged...
  
   (countertenor)
• Tobias Joaquim Dai
  Tobias Joaquim Dai
  General Tobias Joaquim Dai is the former Minister of National Defence of Mozambique. He took office on January 17, 2000 and was replaced by Filipe Nhussi in March 2008.Dai is the brother-in-law of President Armando Guebuza....
  
   (politician)
• Tobias Dantzig
  Tobias Dantzig
  Tobias Dantzig was a Baltic German Russian American mathematician, the father of George Dantzig, and the author of NUMBER: The Language of Science and Aspects of Science .Born in Latvia, Dantzig studied mathematics with Henri Poincaré in Paris...
  
   (mathematician)
• Tobias Delius
  Tobias Delius
  Tobias Delius is a musician who plays the tenor saxophone & clarinet.-Music career:Delius began playing saxophone in 1980 in Germany...
  
   (musician)
• Tobias Dier
  Tobias Dier
  Tobias Dier is a German professional golfer.Dier was born in Nürnberg. He won the 1998 German Amateur Open Championship and turned professional later that year. He won a European Tour card by finishing sixth on the Challenge Tour Order of Merit in 1998...
  
   (golfer)
• Tobias Druitt
  Tobias Druitt
  Tobias Druitt is an author of fantasy novels. Tobias Druitt is the pseudonym of two authors who write together, Diane Purkiss and Michael Dowling....
  
   (author, pseudonym)
• Tobias Ellwood
  Tobias Ellwood
  Tobias Martin Ellwood is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Bournemouth East.-Early life:Ellwood was born in New York City and educated at schools in Bonn and Vienna...
  
   (politician)
• Tobias Enhus
  Tobias Enhus
  Tobias Enhus is a Swedish music composer living in the US. His work has appeared in films, such as Black Hawk Down. He has also created music for television commercials, including the haunting score heard in a 2006 commercial for Mercedes-Benz S-Class vehicles...
  
   (composer)
• Tobias Enström
  Tobias Enström
  Ulf Tobias Enström is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman, currently playing for and an alternate captain of the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
   (hockey defenceman)
• Tobias Exxel
  Tobias Exxel
  Tobias "Eggi" Exxel, born February 27 1973, is the current bass player for the power metal band Edguy. Tobias was hired by Edguy in 1998 when vocalist Tobias Sammet, who had played bass since the band's formation in 1992, decided the band should have someone who could focus on playing the...
  
   (bass player from Edguy)
• Tobias Forsberg (hockey winger)
• Tobias Frere-Jones
  Tobias Frere-Jones
  Tobias Frere-Jones is a prolific type designer who works in New York City with fellow type designer Jonathan Hoefler at Hoefler & Frere-Jones, a type foundry in lower Manhattan...
  
   (type designer)
• Tobias Fünke (character in the TV series Arrested Development)
• Tobias Furneaux
  Tobias Furneaux
  Captain Tobias Furneaux was an English navigator and Royal Navy officer, who accompanied James Cook on his second voyage of exploration. He was the first man to circumnavigate the world in both directions....
  
   (Royal Navy officer)
• Tobias Geffen
  Tobias Geffen
  Tobias Geffen was an American Orthodox rabbi. He served as the leader of Congregation Shearith Israel in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1910 to 1970...
  
   (rabbi)
• Tobias Grahn
  Tobias Grahn
  Tobias Grahn is a Swedish professional football midfielder.- Career :On 18 February 2007, Grahn played his first La Liga match for Gimnàstic against Racing de Santander. He made his debut for Hertha on 25 August 2007 in the 2–0 loss to Arminia Bielefeld in the Bundesliga...
  
   (Gimnàstic de Tarragona midfielder)
• Tobias Gregson (fictional character in a number of the "Sherlock Holmes" novels)
• Tobias Grünenfelder
  Tobias Grünenfelder
  Tobias Grünenfelder is a Swiss alpine skier. He is the 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2010 Swiss champion in Super-G. He also won national Downhill gold in 2007 and 2009.He participated at the World Championships in Vail 1999, St...
  
   (Swiss alpine skier)
• Tobias Hecht
  Tobias Hecht
  Tobias Hecht is an American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator.He received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 1995 from the University of Cambridge, and was the winner of the 2002 Margaret Mead Award, for his book At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil, an innovative...
  
   (American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator)

• Tobías Hernández
  Tobías Hernández
  Rafael Tobías Hernández Alvarado , commonly known as "Toby Hernández", is a former Major League Baseball catcher and right-handed batter who played for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1984....
  
   (Major League Baseball player)
• Tobias Hill
  Tobias Hill
  Tobias Hill is an award-winning British poet, essayist, writer of short stories and novelist.-Life:Tobias Hill was born in Kentish Town, in North London, to parents of German Jewish and English extraction: his maternal grandfather was the brother of Gottfried Bermann, confidant of Thomas Mann and,...
  
   (poet/novelist)
• Tobias Hoesl
  Tobias Hoesl
  Tobias Hoesl is a German television actor.-Selected filmography:*2006 Der Arzt vom Wörthersee 2 , tv-movie*2006 1974 - Vorwärts in die Vergangenheit, tv-movie...
  
   (German television actor)
• Tobias Hogan
  Tobias Hogan
  Tobias G. Mealey was a politician from Monticello, Minnesota who served in both houses of the Minnesota State Legislature from 1873 to 1882.-Notes:...
  
   (1823–1904, politician from Monticello, Minnesota)
• Tobias Holmberg
  Tobias Holmberg
  Tobias Holmberg is a Swedish Bandy player who currently plays for Västerås SK as a midfielder. Tobias is a youth product of Västerås SK where he has remained through his career so far. Tobias made his first team debut in the 2003-2004 season...
  
   (Swedish Bandy player)
• Tobias Holmqvist
  Tobias Holmqvist
  Tobias Holmqvist is a Swedish professional footballer who currently plays for Hammarby IF. Born in Lund, Holmqvist formerly played for Helsingborgs IF, and has spent loan spells at GAIS and Falkenbergs FF....
  
   (Swedish footballer)
• Tobias Hume
  Tobias Hume
  Tobias Hume was a Scottish composer, viol player and soldier.Little is known of his life. Some have suggested that he was born in 1569 because he was admitted to the London Charterhouse in 1629, a pre-requisite to which was being at least 60 years old, though there is no certainty over this...
  
   (composer & soldier)
• Tobias Hysén
  Tobias Hysén
  Glenn Tobias Hysén is a Swedish footballer who plays as a striker for Allsvenskan side IFK Göteborg and the Swedish national team. He is the son of Glenn Hysén.-Early life:...
  
   (IFK Göteborg footballer)
• Toby Isaacs (fictional character from the TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation)
• Detective Tobias Jones (fictional character)
• Tobias Jones (writer)
  Tobias Jones (writer)
  -Biography:Tobias Jones is a British author and journalist. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, and he then worked at the London Review of Books and the Independent on Sunday. He moved to Parma in Italy in 1999. He returned to the UK in 2004...
  
   (author & journalist)
• Tobias Kamke
  Tobias Kamke
  Tobias Kamke is a German tennis player. He reached his career high ranking in singles at No. 64 on 31 January 2011 and in doubles at No. 419 on 17 October 2011.-2008:...
  
   (German tennis player)
• Tobias Karlsson (songwriter) (Swedish record producer)
• Tobias Kassung
  Tobias Kassung
  Tobias Kassung is a German classical guitarist and composer.He studied with Prof. Hubert Käppel at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and continued his studies with Simon Dinnigan at the UCE Birmingham Conservatoire of Music and with Antigoni Goni at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles.He is founder...
  
   (German classical guitarist and composer)
• Tobias Krantz
  Tobias Krantz
  Tobias Kjell Bertil Krantz is a Swedish politician of the Liberal People's Party. He served as Minister for Higher Education and Research in the Swedish government between 17 June 2009 and 5 October 2010.- Education :...
  
   (Swedish politician)
• Tobías Lasser
  Tobías Lasser
  Tobías Lasser , was a recognized Venezuelan botanist, being a fundamental pillar in the creation of the Botanical Garden of Caracas, the School of Biology and the Faculty of Sciences of the Central University of Venezuela...
  
   (Venezuelan botanist)
• Tobias Lear V (personal secretary)
• Tobias Levels
  Tobias Levels
  Tobias Levels is a German-Dutch footballer who plays for Fortuna Düsseldorf on loan from Borussia Mönchengladbach.-External links:* *...
  
   (German-Dutch footballer)
• Tobias Lindemann
  Tobias Lindemann
  Tobias Lindemann is a German architect, designer and media entrepreneur. He is the youngest of three children of Oskar Lindemann, a Protestant minister of the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland. The Lindemann family has its roots in Baden Württemberg and is widespread, with family members living...
  
   (German architect, designer and media entrepreneur)
• Tobias Linderoth
  Tobias Linderoth
  Tobias Jan Håkan Linderoth is a former Swedish football player.-Club career:Linderoth played for Stabæk and then an unremarkable spell at Everton marred by injury, where he scored once against Charlton Athletic in the League Cup, before he joined Copenhagen in summer 2004...
  
   (Galatasaray midfielder)
• Tobias Lohner
  Tobias Lohner
  Tobias Lohner was an Austrian Jesuit theologian.-Life:...
  
   (1619 - 1697, Austrian Jesuit theologian)
• Tobias Mabuta Munihango
  Tobias Mabuta Munihango
  Tobias Mabuta Munihango is a Namibian amateur boxer.Munihango finished in third place at the 1st AIBA African 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament held in January 2008 in Algeria but did not qualify for Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics on a technicality...
  
   (Namibian amateur boxer)
• Tobias Matthay
  Tobias Matthay
  Tobias Augustus Matthay was an English pianist, teacher, and composer.-Biography:Matthaw as born in London in 1858 to parents who had come from northern Germany and were naturalised British subjects...
  
   (teacher & composer)
• Tobias Matthew
  Tobias Matthew
  Tobias Matthew was Archbishop of York.-Life:He was the son of Sir John Matthew of Ross in Herefordshire, England, and of his wife Eleanor Crofton of Ludlow. He was born at Bristol and was educated at Wells, Somerset, and then in succession at University College and Christ Church, Oxford...
  
   (archbishop of York)
• Tobias Mayer
  Tobias Mayer
  Tobias Mayer was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon.He was born at Marbach, in Württemberg, and brought up at Esslingen in poor circumstances. A self-taught mathematician, he had already published two original geometrical works when, in 1746, he entered J.B. Homann's...
  
   (astronomer)
• Tobias Mehler
  Tobias Mehler
  Tobias Mehler is a Canadian actor who has appeared in film and television productions. Some notable roles include d'Artagnan on Young Blades, Zak Adama on Battlestar Galactica and Lieutenant Graham Simmons in Stargate SG-1...
  
   (Canadian actor)
• Tobias Menzies
  Tobias Menzies
  Tobias Menzies is an English stage, television, and film actor, best known for his role as Brutus in the 2005/2007 TV series Rome.-Early years:...
  
   (actor)
• Tobias Michael Carel Asser
  Tobias Michael Carel Asser
  Tobias Michael Carel Asser was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar of Jewish background, cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911 for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first Hague peace conference...
  
   (jurist)
• Tobias Mikaelsson
  Tobias Mikaelsson
  Tobias Lars Mikaelsson is a Swedish footballer who currently plays for Swedish Superettan side Ljungskile SK.He started his professional career with Aston Villa in England in 2007. After loan spells with Ljungskile SK and Port Vale, he signed with Swedish side FC Trollhättan in 2009...
  
   (Swedish football player)
• Tobias Mikkelsen
  Tobias Mikkelsen
  Tobias Pilegaard Mikkelsen is a Danish footballer. He plays as a winger for F.C. Nordsjælland in the Danish Superliga. Mikkelsen has 1 senior cap for Denmark, as well as a total of 11 youth caps under two different age groups.-Career:...
  
   (Danish football player)
• Tobias Moretti
  Tobias Moretti
  Tobias Moretti is an Austrian actor.-Biography:Born in Gries am Brenner, Tyrol, Moretti is the eldest of four brothers. His brothers are named Tomas, Cristoph and Gregor. Since 1997 he has been married to Julia Moretti , an oboist...
  
   (actor)
• Tobias Mullen
  Tobias Mullen
  Tobias Mullen was an Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Erie from 1868 to 1899.-Biography:...
  
   (1818-1900, Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Erie)
• Tobias Müller
  Tobias Müller
  Tobias Müller is a footballer from Switzerland who plays midfielder role for FC Aarau in the Swiss Super League.- Career :He was loaned to FC Wohlen of the Challenge League on 19 October 2007, and at the end of the season his loan was extended for another year.-External links:...
  
   (Swiss footballer)
• Tobias Nath
  Tobias Nath
  Tobias Nath is a German television actor.-External links:*...
  
   (German television actor)
• Tobias Nickenig
  Tobias Nickenig
  Tobias Nickenig is a German footballer who currently plays as a defender for Orduspor in Turkey.-Career:In the 2005–06 season Nickenig was called up for the first team of 1. FC Köln where he received little playing time and was eventually loaned out to Sportfreunde Siegen in the winter transfer...
  
   (German footballer)
• Tobias Crawford Norris (politician)
• Tobias Oetiker (Swiss software developer)

• Tobias Picker
  Tobias Picker
  Tobias Picker is an American composer. Picker began composing at the age of eight and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School and Princeton University, where his principal teachers were Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt...
  
   (composer)
• Tobias Pflüger
  Tobias Pflüger
  Tobias Pflüger is a German politician and former Member of the European Parliament . He represented the Die Linke, part of the European Left and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs...
  
   (politician)
• Tobias A. Plants
  Tobias A. Plants
  Tobias Avery Plants was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born at Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Plants apprenticed to a saddler at the age of twelve.He received a limited common school education....
  
   (1811 – 1887, U.S. Representative from Ohio)
• Tobias Pock
  Tobias Pock
  Tobias Pock was an Austrian Baroque painter from Swabian descent, a pioneer of sacral art....
  
   (Austrian Baroque painter)
• Tobias Ragg
  Tobias Ragg
  Tobias "Toby" Ragg is a fictional character who appears in various adaptations of the story Sweeney Todd.In the penny dreadful The String of Pearls, Tobias Ragg is in a madhouse, driven mad by Sweeney Todd, a barber who murdered his customers....
  
   (from musical Sweeney Todd)
• Tobias Rathgeb
  Tobias Rathgeb
  Tobias Rathgeb is a German football midfielder who currently plays for VfB Stuttgart II in the 3rd Liga.-Career:...
  
   (German football midfielder)
• Tobias Rau
  Tobias Rau
  Tobias Rau is a retired German footballer, who played as a left defender.In a career blighted by injuries, he was forced to retire at only 27.-VfL Wolfsburg:...
  
   (retired German footballer)
• Tobias Read
  Tobias Read
  Tobias Read is a Democratic member of the Oregon House of Representatives, representing District 27 since 2006.-External links:* Official government website* profile*Follow the Money - Tobias Read** campaign contributions...
  
   (member of the Oregon House of Representatives)
• Tobias Regner
  Tobias Regner
  Tobias Regner is a German singer, songwriter and musician who has enjoyed success in the rock music genre...
  
   (musician)
• Tobias Rustat
  Tobias Rustat
  Tobias Rustat was a servant to Charles II and benefactor of the University of Cambridge. He is best remembered for creating the first fund for the purchase of books at the Cambridge University Library...
  
   (1606?-1694, benefactor of the University of Cambridge)
• Tobias Sammet
  Tobias Sammet
  Tobias Sammet is the vocalist and primary songwriter of the German Power metal band Edguy, as well as the creator of the metal opera Avantasia and a member of the metal project Final Chapter. He also made guest appearances on the Rob Rock album Holy Hell and the metal opera Aina...
  
   (vocalist from Edguy)
• Tobias Schellenberg
  Tobias Schellenberg
  Tobias Schellenberg is a German competitive and synchronized diver.In 2000 he became three-time German Champion in competitive diving, and European Champion in synchronized diving on the 3 m springboard together with his partner Andreas Wels.In competitive diving, he won another two German...
  
   (competitive diver)
• Tobias Schenke
  Tobias Schenke
  Tobias Schenke is a German actor most famous for playing the character of Florian Thomas in Ants in My Pants and More Ants in the Pants and the older Jürgen Bartsch in The Child I Never Was....
  
   (German actor)
• Tobias Schiegl
  Tobias Schiegl
  Tobias Schiegl is an Austrian luger who competed from 1993 to 2010. He won fourteen medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with five golds , five silvers , and four bronzes Tobias Schiegl (born October 5, 1973 in Kufstein) is an Austrian luger who competed from 1993 to 2010. He won fourteen...
  
   (Austrian luger)
• Tobias Schneebaum
  Tobias Schneebaum
  Tobias Schneebaum was an American artist, anthropologist, and AIDS activist. He is best known for his experiences living, and traveling among the Harakmbut people of Peru, and the Asmat people of Papua, Western New Guinea, Indonesia then known as Irian Jaya.-Early life:He was born on Manhattan's...
  
   (artist & activist)
• Tobias Schneider
  Tobias Schneider
  Tobias Schneider is a German speedskater.He is employed by the German Army as a Sportsoldat . His best distances are the longer ones, the 5,000 m and 10,000 m, but he is also among the best current German allround skaters. On 25 November 2006 at the World Cup in Moscow he set a new German record...
  
   (German speedskater)
• Tobias Schönenberg
  Tobias Schönenberg
  Tobias Schönenberg is a German actor and photomodel.In 2003, Tobias began earning money as a photomodel...
  
   (actor & photomodel)
• Tobias Schweinsteiger
  Tobias Schweinsteiger
  ' is a German footballer who plays for SSV Jahn Regensburg in the 3rd Liga. His most remarkable effort was a second division 2–0 away win in 2006 with Eintracht Braunschweig against TSV 1860 München in which he scored both goals.-Personal life:He is the older brother of German international...
  
   (German footballer)
• Tobias Simon
  Tobias Simon
  Tobias Simon was a Miami civil rights lawyer, perhaps best known for his work in the 60's, defending the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists. Mr. Simon, provided legal counsel regarding marches in Florida and throughout the Deep South...
  
   (Miami civil rights lawyer)
• Tobias Sippel
  Tobias Sippel
  Tobias Sippel is a German football goalkeeper who plays for 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the Fußball-Bundesliga.-Early career:Sippel began his football career playing for his hometown club of SV 1911 Bad Dürkheim...
  
   (German football goalkeeper)
• Tobias Smollett
  Tobias Smollett
  Tobias George Smollett was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle , which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens.-Life:Smollett was born at Dalquhurn, now part of Renton,...
  
   (Scottish author)
• Tobias Snape (father of Severus Snape
  Severus Snape
  Severus Snape is a fictional character in the Harry Potter book series written by J.K. Rowling. In the first novel of the series, he is hostile toward Harry and is built up to be the primary antagonist until the final chapters. As the series progresses, Snape's character becomes more layered and...
  
   in the Harry Potter book series)
• Tobias Steinhauser
  Tobias Steinhauser
  Tobias Steinhauser is a former German cyclist. He is the brother-in-law of Jan Ullrich.Steinhauser lives together with his wife and three children in Scheidegg, Bavaria....
  
   (former German cyclist)
• Tobias Stephan
  Tobias Stephan
  Tobias Stephan is a Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Genève-Servette of the Swiss National League A...
  
   (hockey goaltender)
• Tobias Stimmer
  Tobias Stimmer
  Tobias Stimmer was a Swiss painter and illustrator. His most famous work is the paintings on the Strasbourg astronomical clock. He died in Strasbourg....
  
   (painter & illustrator)
• Tobias Summerer
  Tobias Summerer
  Tobias Summerer is a German tennis player, who reached a career high on 4 July 2005, when he became the number 159 of the world.-References:* *...
  
   (German tennis player)
• Tobias Truvillion
  Tobias Truvillion
  Tobias Truvillion is an African-American actor.Truvillion was born in Flushing, Queens in New York City. He attended Parson JHS. He has appeared on such television shows such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and in April 2006, joined the cast of the long-running soap opera One Life to Live as...
  
   (African-American actor)
• Tobias Unger
  Tobias Unger
  Tobias Benjamin Unger is a German athlete, specialist in 100 m and 200 m. Unger is 1.79 metres tall, weighing 70 kilograms....
  
   (athlete)
• Tobias Verhaecht
  Tobias Verhaecht
  Tobias Verhaecht was a painter and draughtsman active in Antwerp, Florence and Rome. Primarily a landscape painter, his style is indebted to mannerist world landscapes of artists like Joachim Patinir with high viewpoints, fantastic distant perspectives and three-colour scheme. Before Verhaecht...
  
   (draughtsman)
• Tobias Verwey
  Tobias Verwey
  Tobias Verwey is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. He has played first-class cricket with the Namibian cricket team since 2005, having represented the team in 12 Youth One Day Internationals between 2000 and 2002.He played for Namibia's Under-19 World Cup...
  
   (Namibian cricketer)
• Tobias Viklund
  Tobias Viklund
  Tobias Viklund is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman, currently playing for AIK in the Elitserien .-International play:...
  
   (Swedish ice hockey defenceman)
• Tobias Weis
  Tobias Weis
  Tobias Weis is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for 1899 Hoffenheim.-Club career:Weis began his career 1990 with SC Bibersfeld and joined after three years in summer 1993 to SF Schwäbisch Hall...
  
   (German footballer)
• Tobias Wendl
  Tobias Wendl
  Tobias Wendl is a German luger who has competed since the 2000s. He won a silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 2008 FIL World Luge Championships in Oberhof, Germany....
  
   (German luger)
• Tobias Whale
  Tobias Whale
  Tobias Whale is a comic book villain, a fictional character created by Tony Isabella and Trevor Von Eeden as Black Lightning's nemesis. He first appeared in Black Lightning #1 .-Fictional character biography:...
  
   (fictional character in DC comics)
• Tobias Willi
  Tobias Willi
  Tobias Willi is a German former football midfielder who played for MSV Duisburg, Austria Salzburg and SC Freiburg.-External links:* at Kicker.de...
  
   (former German football player)
• Tobias Wolff
  Tobias Wolff
  Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American author. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life , and his short stories. He has also written two novels.-Biography:Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama...
  
   (writer)
• Tobias Zachary Ziegler (fictional character in the TV drama The West Wing)

Middle name

• Abraham Tobias Boas
  Abraham Tobias Boas
  Abraham Tobias was a rabbi of a Hebrew congregation in Adelaide, South Australia.-Early life:Boas was born at Amsterdam, Holland, son of Tobias Eliesar Boas, rabbi, and his wife Eva Salomon Levi, née Linse. Boas was educated at Amsterdam Theological Seminary and studied theology under a well-known...
  
  
• Albert Tobias Clay
  Albert Tobias Clay
  Albert Tobias Clay was an American Semitic archaeologist, born in Hanover, Penna.He graduated at Franklin and Marshall College in 1889, and at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in 1892; was ordained to the Lutheran ministry in the latter year; was fellow in Assyrian and instructor in Hebrew at...
  
  
• Antonio Tobias Mendez
  Antonio Tobias Mendez
  Antonio Tobias Mendez is an American sculptor.-Works:Mendez has produced over twenty public monuments: his sculptures include Thurgood Marshall, Don Shula, Mohandas Gandhi, Major Taylor, and part of the United States Navy Memorial.as well as being nominated as one of the three finalists to...
  
   (born 1963), American sculptor
• Ferdinand Tobias Richter
  Ferdinand Tobias Richter
  Ferdinand Tobias Richter was anAustrian Baroque composer and organist.From 1675 to 1679 Richter served as organist at Heiligenkreuz Abbey in southern Austria. In 1683 he moved to Vienna to become court and chamber organist at the imperial court. In 1690 he was named first organist in the court...
  
  
• J. Tobias Anderson
  J. Tobias Anderson
  J Tobias Anderson is a Swedish artist and filmmaker, working with found footage and animation. He is best known for the short films 879 , My Name Is Grant , 879 Colour and Prairie Stop, Highway 41 - all referring to works by Alfred Hitchcock.In his video works, most frequently in the form of...
  
  
• Johan Tobias Sergel
  Johan Tobias Sergel
  Johan Tobias Sergel , Swedish sculptor, was born in Stockholm.-Biography:After studying for some time in Paris he went to Rome, where he remained for twelve years and sculpted a number of groups in marble, including, besides subjects from classical mythology, a colossal representation of "History,"...
  
  , Swedish sculptor
• Johann Tobias Beck
  Johann Tobias Beck
  Johann Tobias Beck was a German theologian.-Biography:Graduating from the University of Tübingen in 1826, he was ordained a minister, but later accepted an appointment as professor of theology at the University of Basel...
  
  
• Johann Tobias Bürg
  Johann Tobias Bürg
  Johann Tobias Bürg was an Austrian astronomer.Born in Vienna, Bürg worked as a professor and astronomer in Klagenfurt, in Carinthia. He subsequently worked as astronomical assistant at the observatory at Vienna from 1792 until he retired in 1813.He published some astronomical tables on the Moon...
  
   (astronomer)
• Johann Tobias Krebs
  Johann Tobias Krebs
  Johann Tobias Krebs was a German organist and composer.Krebs was born near Weimar, and died in the same area. He is known as a student of Johann Gottfried Walther and Johann Sebastian Bach....
  
   (composer)
• Johann Tobias Mayer
  Johann Tobias Mayer
  Johann Tobias Mayer was a German physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre zum Behuf der Vorlesungen über die Experimental-Physik, an 1801 physics text, was the most influential of its time in the German-speaking countries...
  
  

Places

• Tobias, Nebraska
  Tobias, Nebraska
  Tobias is a village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 106 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Tobias is located at ....
  
  , A US village
• Tobias Barreto, Sergipe
  Tobias Barreto, Sergipe
  Tobias Barreto is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Sergipe. Its population is 46,677 and its area is 1,033 km².It was formerly known as Vila de Campos do Rio Real, but was rechristened Tobias Barreto in order to honor the homonymous poet who was born in there....
  
  , a municipality in Brazil
• Tobias Fornier, Antique
  Tobias Fornier, Antique
  Tobias Fornier is a 4th class municipality in the province of Antique, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 27,331 people in 5,422 households.-History:In 1957, a barrio named Barasanan C was renamed to Ballescas...
  
  , a municipality in the Philippines
• Tobías Bolaños International Airport
  Tobías Bolaños International Airport
  Tobías Bolaños International Airport is one of the four international airports in Costa Rica and the secondary airport serving the city capital of San José after Juan Santamaría International Airport. Tobías Bolaños airport is located in downtown San José, namely, at the district of Pavas in San...
  
   in Costa Rica
• Tobias-Thompson Complex
  Tobias-Thompson Complex
  Tobias-Thompson Complex, also known as Little River Archeological District Tobias-Thompson Complex, also known as Little River Archeological District Tobias-Thompson Complex, also known as Little River Archeological District (14RC2,3,8,9,12,13,14,40, was designated a National Historic Landmark in...
  
  , a US National Historic Landmark