Ted may refer to:

Names

A shortened form of the following:

  • Edmund
  • Edward
  • Thaddeus
  • Theodore (given name)

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Ted, a character in the post-apocalyptic short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
  • Ted Clubberlang, a living teddy bear in the comedy franchise Ted
  • Ted, a homeless war veteran in the comic book series Kingsman: The Red Diamond
  • Ted Bartelo, a character in the American sitcom television series Kate & Allie
  • Ted Bufman, a character in the 1971 American comedy-drama B.S. I Love You
  • Ted Cole, character in Rising Sun (Crichton novel)
  • Ted, the Generic Guy, in comic strip Dilbert
  • Ted and Ralph sketches from the British TV series The Fast Show
  • Ted "Theodore" Logan, a character in the Bill & Ted film series
  • Ted Buckland, from the American TV series Scrubs
  • Ted Bufman, a character in the 1971 American comedy-drama movie B.S. I Love You
  • Father Ted Crilly, from the Irish TV sitcom Father Ted
  • Ted Crisp, in U.S. TV series Better Off Ted
  • Ted Denslow, a character in 1998 the American sports comedy movie BASEketball
  • Ted Franklin, in TV sitcom iCarly
  • Ted Grant, a character in the comic series DC Comics
  • Ted Glen, a character in the Postman Pat series
  • Ted Henderson, a character in the film and TV series Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
  • Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle from DC Comics
  • Ted Lawson, in sitcom Small Wonder (TV series)
  • Ted Lasso, title character from the eponymous television series
  • Ted Mosby, from the American TV series How I Met Your Mother
  • Ted Ramsey, a character in the American television sitcom Diff'rent Strokes
  • Ted Salter, a character in the 1937 British musical movie Song of the Forge
  • Ted Schmidt, from the North American TV series Queer as Folk
  • Ted Shackelford, in the movie and TV series Curious George
  • Theodore Sprague, from the American TV series Heroes
  • Ted Stoody, a character in the American sitcom television series George and Leo
  • Ted Stroehmann, a character played by Ben Stiller in the 1998 movie There's Something About Mary
  • Ted Talbot Sr., in the TV series Rectify
  • Ted Thompson, a character in the video game Bully
  • Theodore Wong, a character from the American web series Video Game High School

Films

  • Ted (film), a 2012 American comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane and starring MacFarlane alongside Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis
  • Ted 2, the 2015 sequel to the 2012 film, directed by MacFarlane and starring MacFarlane, Wahlberg and Amanda Seyfried

Music

  • Ted (album), by Swede Ted Gärdestad
  • "Ted", from the 1980 album Virgin Ground by Redgum
  • "Ted", from the 2006 album Body Riddle by electronic

Television

  • "Ted" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode)
  • Ted (TV series), a prequel spinoff of the Seth MacFarlane film series

People

Media

  • Ted Allen (born 1965), American writer
  • Ted Bassett (businessman) (1921–2025), American executive
  • Ted Cassidy (1932–1979), American actor
  • Ted Childs (born 1934), British television producer, screenwriter and director
  • Ted Cole (born 1971), Canadian voice actor
  • Ted Danson (born 1947), American actor
  • Ted Donaldson (1933–2023), American actor
  • Ted Failon (born 1962), Filipino broadcast journalist
  • Ted Healy (1896–1937), American comedian and actor
  • Ted Hughes (1930-1998), English Poet Laureate
  • Ted Hui (born 1982), Hong Kong politician
  • Ted Jackson (born 1955), photographer
  • Ted Key (1912–2008), American cartoonist and writer
  • Ted King (actor) (born 1965), American actor
  • Ted Knight (1923–1986), American actor
  • Ted Koppel (born 1940), American broadcast journalist
  • Ted Lange (born 1948), American actor, director and screenwriter
  • Ted Lowe (1920–2011), English snooker commentator
  • Ted Mack (radio-TV host) (1904–1976), US
  • Ted McGinley (born 1958), American actor
  • Ted Moore (1914–1987), British cinematographer
  • Ted Osborne (1900 or 1901–1968), comic artist
  • Ted Turner (1938–2026), American businessman
  • Ted Shackelford (born 1946), American actor
  • Ted Wilson, cast member of You Can't Do That On Television

Music

  • Ted Gärdestad (1956–1997), Swedish singer-songwriter
  • Ted Heath (bandleader) (1902–1969), English bandleader
  • Ted Herold (1942–2021), German singer
  • Ted Key (musician) (born 1960), English bass guitarist
  • Ted Nichols (1928–2026), American composer, conductor, arranger, educator, and minister of music
  • Ted Nugent (born 1948), American guitarist
  • Ted Sablay (born 1976), guitarist
  • Bruce Slesinger (known simply as Ted), Dead Kennedys drummer

Politics

  • Ted Budd (born 1971), American politician
  • Ted Carpenter (politician) (1951–2020), American politician from Arizona
  • Ted Cruz (born 1970), U.S. Senator
  • Ted Kennedy (1932–2009), U.S. Senator
  • Ted Knight (politician) (1933–2020), English Labour Party politician
  • Ted Lieu (born 1969), U.S. Representative
  • Ted Olson (born 1940), former U.S. Solicitor General
  • Ted Sorensen (1928–2010), speechwriter
  • Ted Stevens (1923–2010), U.S. Senator
  • Ted Strickland (born 1941), U.S. politician
  • Ted Wilson (mayor) (1939–2024), mayor of Salt Lake City

Sports

  • Ted Allen (wrestler) (1955–2010), American professional wrestler
  • Ted Arcidi (born 1958/1959), American former professional wrestler, actor, and powerlifter
  • Ted Arison (1924–1999), Israeli businessman
  • Ted Atkinson (1916–2005), Canadian-born American thoroughbred horse racing jockey
  • Ted Atkinson (footballer) (1920–2016), Australian rules footballer
  • Ted Bachman (born 1951–2023), American football player
  • Ted Baker (footballer) (1901–1986), Aussie rules footballer
  • Ted Baker (publican) (1872–1936), South Australian sportsman
  • Ted Beresford (1910–1990), British professional wrestler and promoter
  • Ted Brithen (born 1990), Swedish ice hockey player
  • Ted Christopher (1958–2017), American racing driver
  • Ted Dailey (1908–1992), American football player
  • Ted Dexter (1935–2021), English cricketer
  • Ted DiBiase (born 1954), American retired professional wrestler
  • Ted DiBiase Jr. (born 1982), American businessman, actor, and former professional wrestler
  • Ted Gerela (1944–2020), Canadian football player
  • Ted Ginn Jr. (born 1985), former American football player
  • Ted Ginn Sr. (born 1955), American football coach and father of Ted Ginn Jr.
  • Ted Glossop (1934–1998), Australian rugby league footballer and coach
  • Ted Goodwin (born 1951), Australian rugby league footballer
  • Ted Green (1940–2019), Canadian professional ice hockey
  • Ted Greene (American football) (1932–1982), American football player
  • Ted Hampson (born 1936), Canadian former ice hockey player
  • Ted Hampson (sprinter) (1910–1990), Australian athlete
  • Ted Hankey (born 1968), English professional darts player
  • Ted Harris (ice hockey) (born 1936), Canadian former professional ice hockey player
  • Ted Irvine (born 1944), Canadian former professional NHL hockey player and father of American professional wrestler Chris Jericho
  • Ted Kennedy (ice hockey) (1925–2009), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Ted King (cyclist) (born 1983), American cyclist
  • Ted "Kid" Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff; 1893–1970), English boxer
  • Ted Lindsay (1925–2019), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Ted Marchibroda (1931–2016), American football player
  • Ted Milian (born 1954), Canadian football player
  • Ted Nolan (born 1958), Canadian ice hockey coach and executive
  • Ted Oats, American professional wrestler
  • Ted Ryan (rower) (born 1957), Irish rower
  • Ted Simmons (born 1949), American baseball player
  • Ted Vincent (born 1956), American football player
  • Ted Whitten (1933–1995), Australian football player
  • Ted Williams (1918–2002), American baseball player
  • Ted Wilson (American football) (born 1964), former American football wide receiver
  • Ted Wilson (footballer) (1855–1???), footballer who played for Stoke

Other

  • E. E. Fresson (Ernest Edmund "Ted" Fresson, 1891–1963), British engineer and aviation pioneer
  • Edmund "Ted" Snow Carpenter (1922–2011), American anthropologist
  • Edmund "Ted" Happold (1930–1996), British engineer and founder of Buro Happold
  • Ted Baker (chemist) (born 1942), New Zealand scientist
  • Ted de Boer (born 1943), Dutch law scholar
  • Ted Brown (born 1950), British gay rights activist
  • Ted Bundy (1946–1989), American 1970s serial killer
  • Ted J. Case (1947–2015), American ecologist
  • Ted Hughes (judge) (1927–2020), Canadian judge
  • Ted Kaczynski ("The Unabomber"; 1942–2023), American terrorist
  • Ted Maher (born 1958), American Green Beret turned registered nurse
  • Ted Jeffrey Otsuki (born 1951), American fugitive
  • Ted Price (died 2004), American murder victim
  • Ted Thomas (Edmund Walter Thomas, born 1934), former acting judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand
  • Ted N. C. Wilson (born 1950), American president of the General Conference (GC) of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church

Other uses

  • Ted (airline), United Airlines brand
  • Ted (dog), known for appearances on Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
  • Ted (word processor)
  • Ted, a crash test dummy on the show MythBusters
  • Ted, a 2009 novel by Tony DiTerlizzi

See also

  • TED (disambiguation)
  • Tedd (given name)
  • Teddy (disambiguation)
  • Teddy Boy, a youth sub-culture of the 1950s
  • Teds (disambiguation)