Ted

• a nickname for
• Edward
• Edwin
• Theodore
• short for Teddy boy

Notable people

• Bruce Slesinger (known simply as Ted), second drummer for the Dead Kennedys
• Ted Bundy (1946-89), serial killer active in the 1970s
• Ted Danson, American actor
• Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter
• Sir Edward Heath (known as Ted Heath) (1916-2005), British Prime Minister 1970-74
• Ted Heath (1902-69), English bandleader
• Ted Jackson (born 1955), prize-winning photographer
• Ted Kaczynski (known as "The Unabomber"), American mathematician and social critic who carried out a campaign of bombings and mail bombings
• Ted Kennedy (1932-2009), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
• Ted Kennedy (1925-2009), Canadian ice hockey player
• Ted Knight, American actor
• Ted Koppel, American broadcast journalist
• Ted "Kid" Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff; 1893-1970), English world champion Hall of Fame welterweight boxer
• Ted Nolan, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive
• Ted Nugent, American hard rock guitarist and vocalist
• Ted Schuehle, Bass guitar player for Anabret, Chimestone and The Stereo Kings
• Ted Sorensen, speechwriter and adviser to John F. Kennedy
• Ted Strickland, American politician
• Ted Stevens (1923-2010), longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate
• Ted Turner, American media proprietor and philanthropist
• Ted Williams (1918-2002), American baseball hall-of-famer

Fictional characters