thumb|upright=0.85|[[Tobias and the Angel, by Filippino Lippi]]

Tobias is the romanization into Latin letters of the Koine Greek name , which itself is a Hellenization of the Biblical Hebrew name . It is the name of several minor Biblical figures as well as a major character in the Book of Tobit. Tobias is a common male given name in English-speaking, German-speaking, Dutch-speaking, and Scandinavian-language regions.

In English-speaking regions, it is often shortened to Toby or Tobey. In German, this name appears as Tobias or Tobi; in French as Tobie; and in Swedish as Tobias or Tobbe.

In various languages

People known by the mononym

People called Tobias, Tobiah, or Tobijah include:

  • Tobias, son of Tobit, a Jewish man in the Book of Tobit who goes on a miraculous journey
  • Tobit, the father of Tobias; sometimes translated as "Tobias" himself in older sources such as the Vulgate and Douay–Rheims Bible
  • Tobiah (Ammonite), an Ammonite official and opponent of Nehemiah in the Book of Nehemiah
  • Tobiads, a Jewish faction active in Second Temple Period Judaism, notably during the Ptolemaic, Seleucid, and Maccabean eras; they claimed descent from a patriarch named Tobias
  • Tobias, a legendary 3rd-century Christian martyr among Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion and companions
  • Tobias of Jerusalem, a 2nd-century bishop of Jerusalem
  • Tobias (bishop of Rochester) (died 726), an English bishop
  • Tobijah, two persons mentioned in the Bible: a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat (); and a Jew traveling from Babylon to Jerusalem with precious metal for Zerubbabel ().

People with given name

  • Tobias (footballer, born 1949) (1949–2024), Brazilian footballer
  • Tobias Abse (born 1956 or 1957), British historian
  • Tobias Abstreiter (born 1970), German ice hockey center
  • Tobias Angerer (born 1977), German cross country skier
  • Tobias Arlt (born 1987), German luger
  • Tobias Bamberg (1875–1963), Dutch magician
  • Tobias Barreto (1839–1889), Brazilian poet and philosopher
  • Tobias Beer (born 1976), English actor
  • Tobias Bernstrup (born 1970), Swedish contemporary artist
  • Tobias Billström (born 1973), Swedish politician
  • Tobias Bjarneby (born 1974), Swedish video game journalist
  • Tobias de Boer (1930–2016), Dutch scientist
  • Tobias Bogner (born 1990), German ski jumper
  • Tobias Bonhoeffer (born 1960), German-American neurobiologist
  • Tobias Bridge (), English soldier and officer
  • Tobias S. Buckell (born 1979), Grenadian-American science fiction author
  • Tobias Capwell (born ), American military historian
  • Tobias Carlsson (footballer, born 1975), Swedish footballer defender
  • Tobias Carlsson (footballer, born 1995), Swedish footballer defender
  • Tobías Zúñiga Castro (1854–1918), Costa Rican politician
  • Tobias Cohn (1652–1729), Polish physician
  • Tobias Cole (born 1971), Australian opera singer and countertenor
  • Tobias Cremer (born 1992), German politician
  • Tobias Joaquim Dai (born 1950), Mozambican politician
  • Tobias Dantzig (1884–1956), Russian-American mathematician
  • Tobias Delius (born 1964), British-German musician and saxophonist
  • Tobias Dier (born 1976), German golfer
  • Tobias Dorzon (born 1984), American chef
  • Tobias Druitt, pseudonym of the authors Diane Purkiss and Michael Dowling
  • Tobiah ben Eliezer (), poet and Talmud commentator
  • Tobias Ebenberger (born 1990), German politician
  • Tobias Ellwood (born 1966), British politician and soldier
  • Tobias Enhus, Swedish composer
  • Tobias Enström (born 1984), Swedish hockey defenceman
  • Tobias Exxel (born 1973), German bass player for the band Edguy
  • Tobias Forge (born 1981), Swedish musician in the band Ghost
  • Tobias Forsberg (born 1988), Swedish hockey player winger
  • Tobias Frere-Jones (born 1970), American type designer
  • Tobias Furneaux (1735–1781), British Royal Navy officer
  • Tobias Geffen (1870–1970), American rabbi
  • Tobias Gentleman (), English mariner and writer
  • Tobias Grahn (born 1980), Swedish footballer midfielder
  • Tobias Grünenfelder (born 1977), Swiss alpine skier
  • Tobias Harris (born 1992), American NBA basketball player
  • Tobias Hecht (born 1964), American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator
  • Tobías Hernández (born 1958), Venezuelan MLB baseball player and catcher
  • Tobias Hill (1970–2023), British poet and novelist
  • Tobias Hoesl (born 1961), German television actor
  • Tobias Holmqvist (born 1988), Swedish footballer and striker
  • Tobias Hume ( – 1645), Scottish composer & soldier
  • Tobias Hysén (born 1982), Swedish footballer forward
  • Tobias Jensen (born 2004), Danish basketballer
  • Tobias Jesso Jr. (born 1985), Canadian musician
  • Tobias Jones (writer), British author and journalist
  • Tobias Jonsson (born 1996), Swedish Paralympic athlete
  • Tobias Justin (born 1996), Indonesian YouTuber
  • Tobias Jørgensen (born 2000), Danish Paralympic equestrian
  • Tobias Kamke (born 1986), German tennis player
  • Tobias Karkulowski (born 2004), Finnish footballer and defender
  • Tobias Karlsson (songwriter), Swedish record producer
  • Tobias Kassung (born 1977), German classical guitarist and composer
  • Tobias Krantz (born 1971), Swedish politician
  • Tobías Lasser (1911–2006), Venezuelan botanist
  • Tobias Lear V (1762–1816), American secretary
  • Tobias Levels (born 1986), German-Dutch footballer
  • Tobias Lindemann (born 1966), German architect, designer and media entrepreneur
  • Tobias Linderoth (born 1979), Swedish football midfielder and manager
  • Tobias Lohner (1619-1697), Austrian Jesuit theologian
  • Tobias Mabuta Munihango (born 1983), Namibian amateur boxer
  • Tobias "Tobey" Maguire (born 1975), American actor and film producer
  • Tobias Matthay (1858–1945), English pianist and composer
  • Tobias Matthew (1546–1628), English Anglican archbishop of York
  • Tobias Mayer (1723–1762), German astronomer
  • Tobias Mealey (1823–1904), American early settler of Minnesota
  • Tobias Mehler (born 1976), Canadian actor
  • Tobias Menzies (born 1974), English actor
  • Tobias Michael Carel Asser (1838–1913), Dutch lawyer and legal scholar
  • Tobias Mikaelsson (born 1988), Swedish football player
  • Tobias Mikkelsen (born 1986), Danish football player
  • Tobias Moretti (born 1959), Austrian actor
  • Tobias Mullen (1818-1900), Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Erie
  • Tobias Müller (disambiguation)
  • Tobias Nath (born 1979), German television actor
  • Tobias Nickenig (born 1984), German footballer
  • Tobias Nicklas (born 1967), German scholar of religion
  • Tobias Norris (1861–1936), Canadian politician
  • Tobias Picker (born 1954), American composer and pianist
  • Tobias Pflüger (born 1965), German politician
  • Tobias A. Plants (1811–1887), U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • Tobias Pock (1609-1683), Austrian Baroque painter
  • Tobias Pullen (1648–1713), Irish bishop
  • Tobias Rahim (born 1989), Danish singer and poet
  • Tobias Rathgeb (born 1982), German football midfielder
  • Tobias Rau (born 1981), German footballer left back
  • Tobias Read (born 1975), American politician and member of the Oregon House of Representatives
  • Tobias Regner (born 1982), German singer and guitarist
  • Tobias Reinhardt (born 1971), German classical scholar
  • Tobias Rustat (-1694), English courtier to Charles II
  • Tobias Sammet (born 1977), German musician and vocalist of Edguy
  • Tobias Schanfarber (1862–1942), American rabbi
  • Tobias Schellenberg (born 1978), German diver
  • Tobias Schenke (born 1981), German actor
  • Tobias Schiegl (born 1973), Austrian luger
  • Tobias Schneebaum (1922–2005), American artist and activist
  • Tobias Schneider (born 1981), German speedskater
  • Tobias Schönenberg (born 1986), German actor and film director
  • Tobias Schweinsteiger (born 1982), German footballer forward
  • Tobias Simon (1929–1982), Canadian-American civil rights lawyer
  • Tobias Sippel (born 1988), German footballer goalkeeper
  • Tobias Sjokvist (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player
  • Tobias Smith (born 2003), known by the screenname Tubbo, an English Minecraft streamer
  • Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), Scottish author and surgeon
  • Tobias Steinhauser (born 1972), German cyclist
  • Tobias Sten (born 2003), Norwegian country singer and songwriter
  • Tobias Stephan (born 1984), Swiss hockey goaltender
  • Tobias Stimmer (1539–1584), Swiss painter and illustrator
  • Tobias Summerer (born 1983), German tennis player
  • Tobias Tal (1847–1898), Dutch rabbi
  • Tobias Tornkvist (born 1994), Swedish ice hockey player
  • Tobias Truvillion (born 1975), American actor and model
  • Tobias Unger (born 1979), German track-and-field athlete
  • Tobias Verhaecht (1561–1631), draughtsman from Antwerp
  • Tobias Verwey (born 1981), Namibian cricketer
  • Tobias Viklund (born 1986), Swedish ice hockey defenceman
  • Tobias Weis (born 1985), German footballer
  • Tobias Wendl (born 1987), German luger
  • Tobias Whitaker (), English physician
  • Tobias Willi (born 1979), German football player
  • Tobias Wilner (born 1976), Danish musician and composer
  • Tobias Wolff (born 1945), American writer

Fictional characters with the given name

  • Tobias Beckett, a criminal in the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story and mentor to Han Solo
  • Tobias Beecher, a prisonor from the 1997 TV series Oz
  • Tobias Eaton, the protagonist in the Divergent series of novels by Veronica Roth
  • Tobias Fornell, an FBI special agent on the CBS show NCIS
  • Tobias Fünke, a character on the 2003 sitcom Arrested Development
  • Tobias Gregson, a Scotland Yard inspector in a number of the "Sherlock Holmes" novels
  • Tobias Jones, a detective from the Driver video games
  • Tobias Ragg, an apprentice barber in the musical Sweeney Todd
  • Tobias Rieper, a false name used by Agent 47 in the video game Hitman
  • Tobias Snape, father of Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series
  • Tobias Tenma, protagonist of the movie Astro Boy
  • Tobias Vaughn, an antagonist in the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Invasion
  • Tobias Whale, a criminal kingpin and villain in DC comics
  • Tobias Wilson, character on The Amazing World of Gumball
  • Jeff Tobias Winger, a character on the 2009 sitcom Community
  • Tobias 'Toby' Ziegler, the White House Communications Director in the TV drama The West Wing
  • Tobias, a character on the AMC drama Fear The Walking Dead
  • Tobias, a character on the CBS daytime drama series The Young and the Restless
  • Tobias, a minor character played by Gabriel Iglesias in Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL
  • Tobias, a character in the book series Animorphs and the Animorphs TV series
  • Tobias, a character in the video game The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard

See also

  • Tobias (surname)
  • Tobais

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