List of Famous people named Thaddeus
Thaddeus Moss
Thaddeus Moss is an American football tight end for the Washington Football Team of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at NC State before transferring to LSU, where he caught two touchdowns in their 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship game victory. Moss signed as an undrafted free agent with the Washington Football Team in 2020. He is the son of Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Randy Moss.
Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. A fierce opponent of slavery and discrimination against African Americans, Stevens sought to secure their rights during Reconstruction, leading the opposition to U.S. President Andrew Johnson. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee during the American Civil War, he played a leading role, focusing his attention on defeating the Confederacy, financing the war with new taxes and borrowing, crushing the power of slave owners, ending slavery, and securing equal rights for the Freedmen.
Thaddeus Young
Thaddeus Charles Young Sr. is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Georgia Tech, before being drafted 12th overall in the 2007 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers.
Thaddeus McCotter
Thaddeus George McCotter is an American politician, radio host, and a member of the Republican Party who was the U.S. Representative from Michigan's 11th congressional district from 2003 to 2012. The district at the time consisted of portions of Detroit's northwestern suburbs, such as Livonia, Westland and Novi.
Thaddeus Mann
Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann was a biochemist who made significant contributions to the field of reproductive biology. Mann was born in Lwow, Austria-Hungary and was educated at Lwow University. He studied medicine at the Johannes Casimirus University in Lwow, obtaining the degrees of Physician in 1932 and Doctor of Medicine in 1934.
Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Thaddeus O'Sullivan is an Irish director, cinematographer, and screenwriter.
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway was a Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas who represented the state first in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1913 to 1921 and then in the U.S. Senate from 1921 until his death.
Thaddeus C. Pound
Thaddeus Coleman Pound was an American businessman from Wisconsin who served in both houses of the Wisconsin legislature, as the tenth Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, and as a U.S. Representative (1877–1883). His brother was Albert Pound, who also served in the Wisconsin Assembly. He was the grandfather of poet Ezra Pound.
Thaddeus William Harris
Thaddeus William Harris was an American entomologist and botanist. For the last few years of his life Harris was the librarian of Harvard University.
Thaddeus of Edessa
According to Eastern Christian tradition, Addai of Edessa or Thaddeus of Edessa was one of the seventy disciples of Jesus. He is possibly identical with Thaddaeus, one of the Twelve Apostles. From an early date his hagiography is filled with legends and fabrications. The saint himself may be entirely fictitious.