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Tobias is the
transliteration
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of the
Greek which is a translation of the
Hebrew
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biblical name he, טוֹבִיה, Toviyah,
JahGod is good, label=none. With the biblical
Book of Tobias being present in the
Deuterocanon/
Apocrypha
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of the
Bible
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, Tobias is a popular male
given name
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for both Christians and Jews in
English-speaking countries
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,
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, the
Low Countries
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, and
Scandinavia
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n countries. In English-speaking countries, it is often shortened to
Toby. In German, this name appears as Tobias or Tobi; in French as Tobie; and in Swedish as Tobias or Tobbe. Tobias has also been a surname.
In other languages
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Danish
Danish may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark
People
* A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark
* Culture of Denmark
* Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ance ...
,
Norwegian,
German
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**Germania (historical use)
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** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ger ...
,
Dutch,
Swedish
Swedish or ' may refer to:
Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
,
Portuguese: Tobias
*
Amharic
Amharic ( or ; (Amharic: ), ', ) is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas, and also serves as a lingua franca for all oth ...
: ጦቢያ (T’obīya)
*
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
: Tobies
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Czech: Tobiáš, Tobias
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Croatian: Tobijaš
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Finnish: Topias, Topi
*
French
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* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
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: Tobie
*
Greek: Τωβίας ''(Tobías)''
*
Hebrew
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: Tovia, Tuvya
*
Hungarian: Tóbiás
*
Italian:
Tobia (name)
*
Lithuanian
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* Lithuanians
* Lithuanian language
* The country of Lithuania
* Grand Duchy of Lithuania
* Culture of Lithuania
* Lithuanian cuisine
* Lithuanian Jews as often called "Lithuanians" (''Lita'im'' or ''Litvaks'') by other Jew ...
: Tobijas
*
Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
: Tobiasz
*
Russian: Товий ''(Toviy)''
*
Spanish: Tobías
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Slovak: Tobiáš
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Yiddish
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: טבֿיה (''Tevye'')
Only name
Biblical
Several people are called Tobias or similar names in
the Bible
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era:
*Tobias, son of Tobit; "Book of Tobias" is an older name for the
Book of Tobit
The Book of Tobit () ''Tōbith'' or ''Tōbit'' ( and spellings are also attested) itself from he, טובי ''Tovi'' "my good"; Book of Tobias in the Vulgate from the Greek ''Tōbias'', itself from the Hebrew ''Tovyah'' " Yah is good", also k ...
*Tobias the elder; the name used for
Tobit in the
Vulgate
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The Vulgate is largely the work of Jerome who, in 382, had been commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Gospels u ...
and
Douay–Rheims Bible.
*Tobijah, two persons mentioned in the Bible: a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat (
2 Chronicles 17:8) and a Jew travelling from Babylon to Jerusalem with precious metal for Zerubbabel (
Zechariah 6:10,14).
*
Tobiah (Ammonite)
According to the Book of Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, Tobiah was an Ammonite official who attempted to hinder Nehemiah's efforts to rebuild Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile, and took over the storerooms of the Temple ...
- a significant leader of the opponents of
Nehemiah as recorded in that book.
*
Tobiads
The Tobiads were a Jewish faction in Ammon at the beginning of the Hasmonean period. They were philhellene, supporters of Hellenistic Judaism, in the early years of the 2nd century BCE.
What is known about the Tobiads is a combination of statem ...
, a Jewish or Ammonite faction at the beginning of the
Maccabean period
Other
*Tobias, Christian martyr, see
Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and Companions
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Tobias of Jerusalem
Tobias Bishop of Jerusalem, was the 2nd Century, fifth Bishop of Jerusalem. He was acquainted with Thaddeus of Edessa who was involved in healing, being one of the Seventy disciples.
According to Eusebius Tobias was a Jewish Christian born to Je ...
, 2nd-century bishop
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Tobias (bishop of Rochester) __NOTOC__
Tobias was a medieval Bishop of Rochester
The Bishop of Rochester is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury.
The town of Rochester has the bishop's seat, at the Cathedral Church ...
, died 726
Given name
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Tobias Abse
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(professor)
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Tobias Abstreiter
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Professional career
He started his career in 1987-88 with EV Landshut, playing ...
(hockey center)
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Tobias Angerer (cross country skier)
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Tobias Arlt
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(luger)
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Tobias Bamberg (magician)
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Tobias Barreto
Tobias Barreto de Meneses (June 7, 1839 – June 26, 1889) was a Brazilian poet, philosopher, jurist and literary critic. He is famous for creating the " Condorism" and revolutionizing Brazilian Romanticism and poetry. He is patron of the 38th cha ...
(critic/poet)
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Tobias Beecher
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(from the TV series Oz)
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Tobias Beer
Tobias Beer is an English screenwriter and actor.
Early life
Born in Cambridge, he studied at Oxford University and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. While at Oxford University, he won a blue in rugby union, scoring 11 points in the ...
(actor)
*
Tobias Bernstrup
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(contemporary artist)
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Tobias Billström (politician)
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Tobias Bjarneby
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(video game journalist)
*
Tobias de Boer
Pieter Cornelis Tobias de Boer (21 May 1930 – 2 May 2016) was a Dutch scientist. He was a professor at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Cornell University. His research interest were in the field of thermodynamics and ...
(scientist)
*
Tobias Bogner
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(ski jumper)
*
Tobias Bonhoeffer Tobias Bonhoeffer (born January 9, 1960 in Berkeley, California) is a German-American neurobiologist. He is director of the department Synapses – Circuits – Plasticity and current managing director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Int ...
(neurobiologist)
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Tobias Bridge
Sir Tobias Bridge fought for Parliament in the English Civil War, and served the The Protectorate, Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell during the Interregnum (England), Interregnum. After the restoration (England), Restoration, he served King Charles II ...
(Major-General in the First English Civil War)
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Tobias S. Buckell
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(science fiction author)
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Tobias Capwell (born ), American curator, military historian and jouster
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Tobias Carlsson
Johan Tobias Carlsson (born 25 February 1975) is a retired Swedish footballer who played as a defender. His last club was Kalmar FF in Allsvenskan.
Honours and awards
*Kalmar FF
**Allsvenskan: 2008
**Svenska Cupen: 2007
**Svenska Supercupen: 20 ...
(Kalmar FF footballer)
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Tobías Zúñiga Castro
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He was born in San Jose, Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, on ...
(politician)
*
Tobias Cohn (17/18th century physician)
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Tobias Cole
Tobias Martin Piers Trevor Cole (born 7 August 1971) is an Australian countertenor and leading artist with Opera Australia.
Early life
Cole was born in Leiden, Netherlands while his father was working at the Leiden University as a radio astronom ...
(countertenor)
*
Tobias Joaquim Dai
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(mathematician)
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Tobias Delius
Tobias Delius (born 15 July 1964) is a tenor saxophonist and clarinettist.
Early life
Delius was born in Oxford, England, on 15 July 1964. His mother was German and his father was Argentine. Delius was brought up largely in England and Germany. ...
(musician)
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Tobias Dier
Tobias Dier (born 29 September 1976) is a German professional golfer.
Dier was born in Nürnberg. He won the 1998 German Amateur Open Championship and turned professional later that year. He won a European Tour card by finishing sixth on the Cha ...
(golfer)
*
Tobias Druitt
Tobias Druitt is an author of fantasy novels. Tobias Druitt is the pseudonym of two authors who write together, Diane Purkiss and Michael Dowling.
Diane Purkiss is a tutor in English at Keble College, Oxford University, and she is the first Oxfo ...
(author, pseudonym)
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Tobiah ben Eliezer
Tobiah ben Eliezer ( he, טוביה בן אליעזר) was a Talmudist and poet of the 11th century, author of ''Lekach Tov'' or ''Pesikta Zutarta'', a midrashic commentary on the Pentateuch and the Five Megillot.
Biography
Zunz inferred from Tob ...
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Tobias Ellwood (politician)
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Tobias Enhus (composer)
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Tobias Enström
Ulf Tobias "Toby" Enström (born 5 November 1984) is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League with the Atlanta Thrashers and Winnipeg Jets. He left the NHL after 11 seasons to return and captain origi ...
(hockey defenceman)
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Tobias Exxel
Tobias "Eggi" Exxel (born 27 February 1973) is the current bass player for the power metal band Edguy. Tobias was hired by Edguy in 1998 when vocalist Tobias Sammet, who had played bass since the band's formation in 1992, decided the band should h ...
(bass player from Edguy)
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Tobias Forge (musician - Repugnant, Subvision, Ghost)
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Tobias Fornell
'' NCIS'' is an American police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The series was ...
(character on the TV series "NCIS")
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Tobias Forsberg
Hans Tobias Forsberg (born April 5, 1988) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player. He played in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) with Modo Hockey and Leksands IF.
Playing career
Forsberg is the brother of Johan Forsberg. Forsberg jo ...
(hockey winger)
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Tobias Frere-Jones
Tobias Frere-Jones (born Tobias Edgar Mallory Jones; August 28, 1970) is an American type designer who works in New York City. He operates the company Frere-Jones Type and teaches typeface design at the Yale School of Art MFA program.
Among his ty ...
(type designer)
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Tobias Fünke
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(character in the TV series ''Arrested Development'')
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Tobias Furneaux (Royal Navy officer)
*Tobías García Mota (Dominican-Mexican)
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Tobias Geffen
Tobias Geffen ( he, טוביה גפן; August 1, 1870 – February 10, 1970) was an American Orthodox rabbi. He served as the leader of Congregation Shearith Israel in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1910 to 1970. Geffen is widely known for his 1935 decis ...
(rabbi)
*
Tobias Gentleman Tobias Gentleman ( fl. 1614) was an English mariner and writer, known for his book ''England's way to win wealth'', recommending development of the herring fisheries in England.
Life
Gentleman was a son of Thomas and Joan Gentleman, of Southwold, ...
(fl. 1614, English mariner and writer)
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Tobias Grahn
Tobias Grahn (born 5 March 1980) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He won the 2002 Norwegian Football Cup with Vålerenga and the 2004 Allsvenskan with Malmö FF. A full international between 200 ...
(Gimnàstic de Tarragona midfielder)
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Tobias Gregson (fictional character in a number of the "Sherlock Holmes" novels)
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Tobias Grünenfelder
Tobias Grünenfelder (born 27 November 1977 in Elm, Glarus, Elm) is a Switzerland, Swiss alpine skier. He is the 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2010 Swiss champion in super-G. He also won national Downhill gold in 2007 and 2009.
He participated at the Wor ...
(Swiss alpine skier)
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Tobias Harris
Tobias John Harris (born July 15, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one season of college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers basketball, Ten ...
(National Basketball Association player)
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Tobias Hecht
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Hecht was born in Seattle, Washington. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 1995 from the ...
(American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator)
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Tobías Hernández (Major League Baseball player)
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Tobias Hill
Tobias Hill (born 30 March 1970 in London, England) is a British poet, essayist, writer of short stories and novelist.
Life
Tobias Hill was born in Kentish Town, in North London, to parents of German Jewish and English extraction: his maternal ...
(poet/novelist)
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Tobias Hoesl
Tobias Hoesl (born 29 September 1961 in Munich, West Germany) is a German television actor.
Selected filmography
*1984: ', TV miniseries
*1985: '' Morenga'' … Baron von Treskow
*1985: ''The Feather Fairy'' … Jacob
*1986: ''The Black Forest C ...
(German television actor)
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Tobias Hogan
Tobias Gilmore "T.G." Mealey (August 5, 1823 – April 27, 1904) was a Canadian-born American entrepreneur, politician, and early settler of Minnesota. He grew up in New Brunswick, made his fortune in the California Gold Rush, and became an influ ...
(1823–1904, politician from Monticello, Minnesota)
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Tobias Holmberg
Tobias Holmberg (born 11 May 1987) is a Swedish Bandy player who currently plays for Västerås SK as a midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, break ...
(Swedish Bandy player)
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Tobias Holmqvist
Tobias Holmqvist (born 23 January 1988) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a striker.
Career
Holmqvist played for Uppåkra between the ages of 6 and 13, before joining Helsingborg in January 2002. While with Helsingborg he spent loan ...
(Swedish footballer)
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Tobias Hume (composer & soldier)
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Tobias Hysén
Glenn Tobias Hysén (born 9 March 1982) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a forward or as a winger. Starting his career with Lundby IF in 1998, he went on to represent BK Häcken, Djurgårdens IF, Sunderland, IFK Götebo ...
(IFK Göteborg footballer)
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Detective Tobias Jones
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(fictional character)
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Tobias Jones (writer)
Tobias Jones is a British author, journalist, teacher and community-builder. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, and then worked at the '' London Review of Books'' and the ''Independent on Sunday''. He has written various works of fiction ...
(author & journalist)
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Tobias Kamke (German tennis player)
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Tobias Karlsson (songwriter)
Erik Tobias Karlsson is a Swedish songwriter and record producer based in Los Angeles. He has worked with artists such as Halsey, Adam Lambert, Joji, Carolina Liar, James Blunt, Anouk, Linkin Park, Skillet, Kris Allen, Infinite Mass, Pauline ...
(Swedish record producer)
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Tobias Kassung
Tobias Kassung (born 1977) is a German classical guitarist and composer.
He studied with Prof. Hubert Käppel at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and continued his studies with Simon Dinnigan at the UCE Birmingham Conservatoire of Music and with ...
(German classical guitarist and composer)
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Tobias Krantz
Tobias Kjell Bertil Krantz (born 7 April 1971) is a Swedish politician of the Liberal People's Party. He served as Minister for Higher Education and Research in the Swedish government between 17 June 2009 and 5 October 2010.
Education
Tobia ...
(Swedish politician)
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Tobías Lasser
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(Venezuelan botanist)
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Tobias Lear V
Tobias Lear (September 19, 1762 – October 11, 1816) was the personal secretary to President George Washington. Lear served Washington from 1784 until the former-President's death in 1799. Lear's journal details Washington's final moments and his ...
(personal secretary)
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Tobias Levels
Tobias Levels (born 22 November 1986) is a German former footballer of Dutch descent who played as a defender.
Club career
After his contract with Fortuna Düsseldorf had expired in summer 2014, Levels was a free agent for more than three months ...
(German-Dutch footballer)
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Tobias Lindemann
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(German architect, designer and media entrepreneur)
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Tobias Linderoth (Galatasaray midfielder)
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Tobias Lohner
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Life
He entered the Society of Jesus on 30 August 1637, at Landsberg am Lech, and spent his first years in ...
(1619 - 1697, Austrian Jesuit theologian)
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Tobias Mabuta Munihango
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Munihango finished in third place at the 1st AIBA African 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament held in January 2008 in Algeria but did not qualify for Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympi ...
(Namibian amateur boxer)
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Tobias Matthay (teacher & composer)
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Tobias Matthew (archbishop of York)
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Tobias Mayer (astronomer)
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Tobias Mehler
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Career
Mehler is known for playing d'Artagnan on ''Young Blades'', Zak Adama on '' Battlestar Galactica'' and Lieutenant Graham Simmons ...
(Canadian actor)
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Tobias Menzies
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(actor)
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Tobias Michael Carel Asser
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In 1911, he won the Nobel Peace Prize (together with Alfred Fried) for his work in the field of private international law, and in particular fo ...
(jurist)
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Tobias Mikaelsson
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He started his professional career with Aston Villa in England in 2007. After loan spells with Ljungskile and Port Vale, he signed with Swedish side Trollhättan in 2009. ...
(Swedish football player)
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Tobias Mikkelsen
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(Danish football player)
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Tobias Moretti
Tobias Moretti (; born Tobias Bloéb; 11 July 1959) is an Austrian actor.
Biography
Born in Gries am Brenner, Tyrol, Moretti is the eldest of four brothers, including Thomas, Christoph and fellow actor Gregor Bloéb. Since 1997, he has been marr ...
(actor)
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Tobias Mullen
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(1818-1900, Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Erie)
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Tobias Müller (disambiguation) Tobias Müller may refer to:
* Tobias Müller (footballer, born 1989), Swiss footballer
* Tobias Müller (footballer, born 1993), German footballer
* Tobias Müller (footballer, born 1994), German footballer
* Tobias Müller (darts player)
Tob ...
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Tobias Nath
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Dubbing roles (excerpt)
* Eddie Redmayne (as Balem Abrasax) in ''Jupiter Ascending''
* Michael Cyril Creighton (as Jake) in '' The Post''
...
(German television actor)
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Tobias Nickenig (German footballer)
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Tobias Norris
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(politician)
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Tobias Palmer
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(American football player)
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Tobias Picker (composer)
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Tobias Pflüger
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(politician)
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Tobias A. Plants
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Biography
Born at Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Plants apprenti ...
(1811 – 1887, U.S. Representative from Ohio)
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Tobias Pock Tobias Pock (or Poch, Bock or Pockh) (1609 - 12 June 1683) was an Austrian Baroque painter from Swabian descent, a pioneer of sacral art.
Pock was born in Konstanz, where his father worked as a master at the Cathedral. Tobias Pock probably was an ...
(Austrian Baroque painter)
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Tobias Pullen
Tobias Pullen (1648 – 22 January 1713), or Tobias Pullein, was an Irish bishop.
Biography
Pullen was Anglican bishop of Cloyne and of Dromore, born at Middleham, Yorkshire in 1648, was, according to Cotton, grandson of Samuel Pullein (1598– ...
(Irish bishop)
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Tobias Ragg (from musical ''Sweeney Todd'')
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Tobias Rathgeb
Tobias Rathgeb (born 3 May 1982, in Ostfildern) is a German retired Association football, football midfielder.
Career
On 6 January 2010, his contract with FC Hansa Rostock was terminated. One day later, he returned to the second team of VfB Stut ...
(German football midfielder)
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Tobias Rau
Tobias Rau (born 31 December 1981) is a German former professional footballer who played as a left back.
In a career blighted by injuries, he retired from professional play at only 27.
Club career Wolfsburg
Rau was born in Braunschweig, Lower ...
(retired German footballer)
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Tobias Read (member of the Oregon House of Representatives)
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Tobias Regner (musician)
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Tobias Reinhardt
Tobias Reinhardt (born 31 August 1971) is a German classical scholar, specialising in Latin literature and ancient philosophy. Since 2008, he has been the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi ...
(classical scholar)
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Tobias Rustat
Tobias Rustat (bapt. 17 September 1608 – 15 March 1694 N. S.) was a courtier to King Charles II and a benefactor of the University of Cambridge. He is remembered for creating the first fund for the purchase of books at the Cambridge Universit ...
(1606?-1694, benefactor of the University of Cambridge)
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Tobias Sammet
Tobias Sammet (born 21 November 1977) is a German musician, singer, songwriter, music producer and radio host best known for being the singer and primary songwriter of the power metal band Edguy, and the founder of the metal opera project Avant ...
(vocalist from Edguy)
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Tobias Schellenberg
Tobias Schellenberg (born November 17, 1978, in Leipzig) is a German competitive and synchronized diver.
In 2000 he became three-time German Champion in competitive diving, and European Champion in synchronized diving on the 3 m spring ...
(competitive diver)
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Tobias Schenke
Tobias Schenke (27 March 1981) is a German actor most famous for playing the character of Florian Thomas in '' Ants in the Pants'' and ' and the older Jürgen Bartsch in ''The Child I Never Was''.
In 2002, he was a lead actor in Alexander Pfeuff ...
(German actor)
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Tobias Schiegl
Tobias Schiegl (born 5 October 1973 in Kufstein) is an Austrian former luger who competed from 1993 to 2010. He won fourteen medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with five golds (Men's doubles: 1996, 1997; Mixed team: 1996,1997, 1999), f ...
(Austrian luger)
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Tobias Schneebaum
Tobias Schneebaum (March 25, 1922 – September 20, 2005) was an American artist, anthropologist, and AIDS activist. He is best known for his experiences living and traveling among the Harakmbut people of Peru, and the Asmat people of Papua, ...
(artist & activist)
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Tobias Schneider
Tobias Schneider (born 23 July 1981, Berlin) is a German speedskater.
He is employed by the German Army as a ''Sportsoldat'' (sports soldier). His best distances are the longer ones, the 5,000 m and 10,000 m, but he is also among the best current ...
(German speedskater)
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Tobias Schönenberg
Tobias Schönenberg (born 17 August 1986 in Hagen, West Germany) is a German actor and film director.
In 2003, Tobias began earning money as a photomodel. He had always planned to study medicine, but a year and a half later, his career took off w ...
(actor & photomodel)
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Tobias Schweinsteiger
Tobias Schweinsteiger (; born 12 March 1982) is a retired German footballer, who is the head coach of VfL Osnabrück. As player he was deployed as a midfielder or forward. He is the older brother of former German international Bastian Schweinste ...
(German footballer)
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Tobias Simon
Tobias is the transliteration of the Greek which is a translation of the Hebrew biblical name he, טוֹבִיה, Toviyah, JahGod is good, label=none. With the biblical Book of Tobias being present in the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha of the Bible, To ...
(Miami civil rights lawyer)
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Tobias Sippel
Tobias Sippel (born 22 March 1988) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Career
Early career
Born in Bad Dürkheim, Sippel began his football career playing for his homet ...
(German football goalkeeper)
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Tobias Sjokvist
Tobias is the transliteration of the Greek which is a translation of the Hebrew biblical name he, טוֹבִיה, Toviyah, JahGod is good, label=none. With the biblical Book of Tobias being present in the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha of the Bible, To ...
(born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player
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Tobias Smollett
Tobias George Smollett (baptised 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for picaresque novels such as ''The Adventures of Roderick Random'' (1748), ''The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle'' (1751) a ...
(Scottish author)
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Tobias Steinhauser
Tobias Steinhauser (born 27 January 1972) is a German former professional cyclist. He is the brother-in-law of Jan Ullrich.
Steinhauser lives together with his wife and three children in Scheidegg, Bavaria.
After his professional career he becam ...
(former German cyclist)
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Tobias Stephan
Tobias Stephan (born 21 January 1984) is a Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Lausanne HC of the National League (NL). He formerly played for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League, Genève-Servette HC and EV Zu ...
(hockey goaltender)
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Tobias Stimmer
Tobias Stimmer (7 April 1539 – 4 January 1584In the old style.) was a Swiss painter and illustrator. His most famous work is the paintings on the Strasbourg astronomical clock.
Biography
He was born in Schaffhausen, and was active in Sch ...
(painter & illustrator)
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Tobias Summerer
Tobias Summerer (born 1 February 1983 in Freising, Bavaria) is a German tennis player, who reached a career high on 4 July 2005, when he became the number 159 of the world.
He is currently the coach of fellow German Philipp Kohlschreiber
Phil ...
(German tennis player)
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Tobias Tal Tobias Tal (June 16, 1847 – October 24, 1898) was a Dutch rabbi who served as Chief Rabbi of the Hague. Life
Tal was born on June 16, 1847 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, son of Z. T. Tal.
Tal studied at the rabbinical seminary of Chief Rabbi Joseph ...
(Dutch rabbi)
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Tobias Tornkvist
Tobias is the transliteration of the Greek which is a translation of the Hebrew biblical name he, טוֹבִיה, Toviyah, JahGod is good, label=none. With the biblical Book of Tobias being present in the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha of the Bible, To ...
(born 1994), Swedish ice hockey player
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Tobias Truvillion
Tobias Truvillion (born October 1, 1975) is an American actor.
Career
In 2006, he received his first major role on ABC series '' One Life to Live'', playing Vincent Jones. He is also known for his roles on ''Empire'' (2016–17) and ''In Con ...
(African-American actor)
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Tobias Unger
Tobias Benjamin Unger (born 10 July 1979 ) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in sprints. (athlete)
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Tobias Verhaecht (draughtsman)
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Tobias Verwey
Tobias Verwey (born 2 November 1981) is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. He has played first-class cricket with the Namibian cricket team since 2005, having represented the team in 12 Youth One Day Internati ...
(Namibian cricketer)
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Tobias Viklund
Tobias Viklund (born 8 May 1986) is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman, who is currently under contract with Modo Hockey of the HockeyAllsvenskan (Allsv).
Playing career
Viklund joined Russian club, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg of the K ...
(Swedish ice hockey defenceman)
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Tobias Weis
Tobias Weis (born 30 July 1985) is a German retired footballer.
Club career
Weis began his career 1990 with SC Bibersfeld and joined after three years in summer 1993 to Sportfreunde Schwäbisch Hall. He played for SF Schwäbisch Hall until July 1 ...
(German footballer)
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Tobias Wendl
Tobias Wendl (born 16 June 1987) is a German luger who has competed since 1993, acting as a front. He won a silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 2008 FIL World Luge Championships in Oberhof, Germany, a silver and a bronze at the FIL Eu ...
(German luger)
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Tobias Whale (fictional character in DC comics)
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Tobias Willi (former German football player)
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Tobias Wolff (writer)
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Tobias Zachary Ziegler
Tobias "Toby" Zachary Ziegler is a fictional character in the television serial drama ''The West Wing'', played by Richard Schiff. The role of Toby Ziegler earned actor Richard Schiff the Primetime Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outsta ...
(fictional character in the TV drama ''The West Wing'')
Derivative name
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Tobey Maguire (actor)
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Toby Isaacs
'' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' is a Canadian teen drama television series created by Linda Schuyler and Yan Moore. The series is now considered the first incarnation and premiered on CTV on October 14, 2001, and then ended on MTV Canada and ...
(fictional character from the TV series ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'')
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Toby Jessel
Toby Henry Francis Jessel (11 July 1934 – 3 December 2018) was a British Conservative Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Twickenham from 1970 to 1997.
Early life
Jessel was born at Bearsted in Kent on 11 July 1934, the son ...
(British politician)
Fictional
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Tobias Beckett
Tobias Beckett is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, first appearing and portrayed by Woody Harrelson in the 2018 film '' Solo: A Star Wars Story''. He is a thief working for the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate and the mentor of Ha ...
, character in ''
Solo: A Star Wars Story'' and mentor to
Han Solo
Han Solo is a fictional character in the '' Star Wars'' franchise created by George Lucas. The character first appeared in the 1977 film '' Star Wars'' portrayed by Harrison Ford, who reprised his role in ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980) an ...
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Tobias Fornell
'' NCIS'' is an American police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The series was ...
, character on the CBS show, ''
NCIS NCIS or N.C.I.S. may refer to:
Law enforcement
* National Criminal Intelligence Service, the predecessor to the Serious Organised Crime Agency of the United Kingdom
* Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a United States law enforcement and intelli ...
''
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Tobias Fünke
''Arrested Development'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on the Fox network from November 2, 2003, to February 10, 2006. A fourth season of 15 episodes was released on Netflix on May 26, 2013. Created by Mitchell Hurwit ...
, character on the Fox sitcom, ''
Arrested Development''
*Tobias, character on the CBS daytime drama series, ''
The Young and the Restless
''The Young and the Restless'' (often abbreviated as ''Y&R'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in fictional Genoa City (not the real-life similarly-named Genoa City, Wi ...
''
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Tobias Snape
Severus Snape is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's ''Harry Potter'' series. He is an exceptionally skilled wizard whose sarcastic, controlled exterior conceals deep emotions and anguish. A Professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft ...
, father of
Severus Snape from the
''Harry Potter'' series
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Tobias Eaton
This is a list of major and minor characters in the ''Divergent'' book trilogy and its subsequent film adaptation, ''The Divergent Series''.
Main characters
Tris Prior
Beatrice "Tris" Prior is the viewpoint character in '' Divergent'' and ...
, a protagonist in a series of novels by Veronica Roth known as the
''Divergent'' trilogy
*Jeffery Tobias Winger, character on the sitcom
''Community''
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Tobias Wilson
The ''Amazing World of Gumball'' characters appear in the British-American animated sitcom ''The Amazing World of Gumball''. The series revolves around the daily life of 12-year-old cat Gumball Watterson and his family—adoptive brother Darwi ...
, character on ''
The Amazing World of Gumball''
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Tobias Zachary Ziegler
Tobias "Toby" Zachary Ziegler is a fictional character in the television serial drama ''The West Wing'', played by Richard Schiff. The role of Toby Ziegler earned actor Richard Schiff the Primetime Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outsta ...
, character on ''
The West Wing''
*Tobias, character on the AMC drama ''
Fear The Walking Dead''
*Tobias, character on Pokémon
*Tobias Tenma, protagonist of Astro Boy (Movie)
*Tobias, character in the book series ''
Animorphs'' and its ''
TV adaptation''
*Tobias Rieper, false name used by
Agent 47 on the video game
Hitman
Contract killing is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or persons. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of payment, monetary or otherwise. Either party may be ...
As a surname
{{main, Tobias (surname)
Places
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Tobias, Nebraska
Tobias is a village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 106 at the 2010 census.
History
Tobias was platted in 1884 when the railroad was extended to that point. It was named for Tobias Castor, a local settler. 1925 ...
, a village in the United States
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Tobias, Ohio
Tobias is an unincorporated community in Scott Township, Marion County, Ohio, United States. It is located northeast of Marion Marion may refer to:
People
*Marion (given name)
*Marion (surname)
*Marion Silva Fernandes, Brazilian footballer kn ...
, a village in the United States
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Tobias Barreto, Sergipe
Tobias Barreto is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Sergipe
Sergipe (), officially State of Sergipe, is a state of Brazil. Located in the Northeast Region along the Atlantic coast of the country, Sergipe is the smallest state in ...
, a municipality in Brazil
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Tobias Fornier, Antique
Tobias Fornier, officially the Municipality of Tobias Fornier, ( krj, Banwa kang Tobias Fornier; hil, Banwa sang Tobias Fornier; tl, Bayan ng Tobias Fornier), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Antique, Philippines. According to the ...
, a municipality in the Philippines
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Tobías Bolaños International Airport in Costa Rica
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Tobias-Thompson Complex
The Tobias-Thompson Complex, also known as the Little River Archeological District, is a complex of archaeological sites on the banks of the Little Arkansas River near Geneseo, Kansas, United States. The complex is an important set of sites that ...
, a United States National Historic Landmark
Companies
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Tobias (bass guitar company)
Tobias is a brand of bass guitars originally made by luthier Michael Tobias starting in the 1970s, and later bought out by Gibson. Nowadays, Tobias bass guitars are sold under the Epiphone division.
History
Tobias Guitars was established in Orl ...
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Michael Tobias Design
Michael Tobias Design (MTD) is a Kingston, New York-based manufacturer of electric bass guitars founded by luthier Michael Tobias in 1994.
Tobias, along with two part-time helpers, currently builds about 10 electric basses per month at his shop ...
bass guitar company
Other
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Tobias
Tobias is the transliteration of the Greek which is a translation of the Hebrew biblical name he, טוֹבִיה, Toviyah, JahGod is good, label=none. With the biblical Book of Tobias being present in the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha of the Bible, To ...
, a genus of crab spiders
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