teddy

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Teddy is a common informal variation of the given names Edward and Theodore and, more rarely, their female equivalents, Edwina and Theodora. Teddy may refer to:

Given name

• Teddy Atlas (born 1956), boxing trainer and fight commentator
• Teddy Dunn (born 1981), American actor
• Teddy Edwards (1924-2003), American jazz saxphonist
• Teddy Geiger (born 1988), American singer and songwriter
• Teddy Higuera (born 1957), former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Teddy Hoad (1896-1986), West Indian cricketer
• Ted Kennedy (1932-2009), long-serving American Senator from Massachusetts
• Teddy Kollek (1911-2007), six time mayor of Jerusalem
• Theodore Long (born 1947), general manager for World Wrestling Entertainment
• Teddy Morgan (1880-1949), Welsh international rugby union player
• Teddy Park (born 1978), South Korean rapper and record producer
• Teddy Pendergrass (1950-2010), American singer and songwriter
• Teddy Riley (producer) (born 1967), American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
• Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
• Teddy Sheean (1923-1942), Royal Australian Navy sailor posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia
• Teddy Sheringham (born 1966), English retired footballer
• Teddy Tamgho (born 1989), French triple jumper
• Teddy Taylor (born 1937), British conservative politician
• Teddy Wang (1933-?), Chinese businessman kidnapped in 1990 and declared legally dead
• Teddy Wilson (1912-1986), American jazz pianist
• Teddy Yarosz (1910-1974), world middleweight boxing champion (1934-1935)
• Teddy Yip (1907-2003), Formula One racing team owner
• Tivadar Farkasházy (born 1945), Hungarian humorist, author, mathematician, economist and journalist

Arts and entertainment

• "Teddy" (story), in J. D. Salinger's Nine Stories
• Teddy (album), an album by Teddy Pendergrass
• Teddy Award, an international film award for films with LGBT topics
• Teddy, a fictional character in the Korean film Saraba Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Countdown

Animals

• Teddy (horse), a famous racehorse and sire
• Teddy, Mack Sennett's dog in his silent movies
• Teddy, a Guinea pig breed

Other uses

• Teddy (garment), a form of bodysuit-style garment
• Teddy Air, a defunct Norwegian regional airline
• Teddy Award, an award issued by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for the worst in high taxes and government waste
• Teddy, Kentucky, a small town in the United States
• Teddy Stadium, a football stadium in Jerusalem named after Teddy Kollek

Acronyms

• The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young study
• Terminology for the Description of Dynamics, an ontology for dynamics in systems biology

See also

• Ted (disambiguation)
• Teddy bear, a type of toy bear
• Teddy Ruxpin, an animatronic talking bear
• Teddy Boy, a phenomenon in youth culture since the 1950s

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