List of Famous people named Ted

Often it's a shorthand for Theodore, Edward. Similar names: Theodore, Edward, Teddy, Theda, Tedi, Tedy, Tedd, Tedde. Here are some famous Teds:

Ted Hamilton

First Name Ted
Born on November 30, 1936 (age 89)
Born in Australia

Edward Leslie "Ted" Hamilton (OAM), is an Australian singer, composer, playwright, entrepreneur and actor. He is possibly best known for playing the Pirate King in The Pirate Movie and police constable Kevin Dwyer in Division 4 (1969–73). More recently, he played Merlin in the TV series Guinevere Jones.

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Ted Osborne

First Name Ted
Born on February 6, 1900
Died on March 12, 1968 (aged 68)

Theodore H. "Ted" Osborne was an American writer of comics, radio shows and animated films, remembered for his contributions to the creation and refinement, during the 1930s, of Walt Disney cartoon characters.

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Ted McCord

First Name Ted
Born on August 2, 1900
Died on January 19, 1976 (aged 75)

Ted McCord, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer.

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Ted Jacobson

First Name Ted
Born on November 27, 1954 (age 71)

Theodore A. "Ted" Jacobson is an American theoretical physicist. He is known for his work on the connection between gravity and thermodynamics. In particular, in 1995 Jacobson proved that the Einstein field equations describing relativistic gravity can be derived from thermodynamic considerations.

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Ted Alfond

First Name Ted
Born on November 30, 1944 (age 81)
Net Worth $2.3B

Ted Alfond is an American billionaire businessman.

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Ted Key

First Name Ted
Born on August 25, 1912
Died on May 3, 2008 (aged 95)

Ted Key, was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known as the creator of the cartoon panel Hazel, which was later the basis for a television series of the same name, and also the creator of Peabody's Improbable History.

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Ted Sears

First Name Ted
Born on March 13, 1900
Died on August 22, 1958 (aged 58)

Edward Sears was an American animator during The Golden Age of American animation. Sears worked for the Fleischer Studios in the late-1920s and early-1930s, and was hired away from Max Fleischer to work at the Walt Disney studio in 1931.

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Ted White

First Name Ted
Born on January 25, 1926 (age 100)

Ted White is an American stuntman and actor who is best known for playing Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. He is also notable for having doubled for John Wayne, Fess Parker, Clark Gable, and Richard Boone.

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Ted Koehler

First Name Ted
Born on July 14, 1894
Died on January 17, 1973 (aged 78)

Ted L. Koehler was an American lyricist. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.

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Ted Healy

First Name Ted
Born on October 1, 1896
Died on December 21, 1937 (aged 41)

Ted Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. Though he is chiefly remembered as the creator of The Three Stooges and the style of slapstick comedy that they later made famous, he had a successful stage and film career of his own and was cited as a formative influence by several later comedy stars. His sister Marcia Healy appeared in The Sitter Downers with the Three Stooges.

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