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of the
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which is a translation of the
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biblical name he, טוֹבִיה, Toviyah, JahGod is good, label=none. With the biblical
Book of Tobias 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 kn ...
being present in the
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of the
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, Tobias is a popular male
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for both Christians and Jews in
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, German-speaking countries, the
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, and
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n countries. In English-speaking countries, it is often shortened to
Toby Toby is a popular, usually male, name in many English speaking countries. The name is from the Middle English vernacular form of Tobias. Tobias itself is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew טוביה ''Toviah'', which translates to ''Good i ...
. 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 a ...
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Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...
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German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...
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Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...
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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 Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...
: Tobias * Amharic: 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 *
Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus' Places * Czech, ...
: Tobiáš, Tobias * Croatian: Tobijaš *
Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...
: Topias, Topi * French: Tobie *
Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
: Τωβίας ''(Tobías)'' *
Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
: Tovia, Tuvya * Hungarian: Tóbiás *
Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...
:
Tobia (name) Tobia is a Greek-origin word which is used as a surname and a masculine given name. People with the name include: Surname * Blaise Tobia (born 1953), American artist and photographer * Jacob Tobia (born 1991), American LGBT rights activist and t ...
* Lithuanian: Tobijas *
Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...
: Tobiasz *
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: Товий ''(Toviy)'' *
Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
: Tobías * Slovak: Tobiáš *
Yiddish Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ve ...
: טבֿיה (''Tevye'')


Only name


Biblical

Several people are called Tobias or similar names in
the Bible The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a ...
era: *Tobias, son of Tobit; "Book of Tobias" is an older name for the Book of Tobit *Tobias the elder; the name used for Tobit in the
Vulgate The Vulgate (; also called (Bible in common tongue), ) is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible. 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 The Douay–Rheims Bible (, ), also known as the Douay–Rheims Version, Rheims–Douai Bible or Douai Bible, and abbreviated as D–R, DRB, and DRV, is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by member ...
. *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) - a significant leader of the opponents of
Nehemiah Nehemiah is the central figure of the Book of Nehemiah, which describes his work in rebuilding Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. He was governor of Persian Judea under Artaxerxes I of Persia (465–424 BC). The name is pronounced o ...
as recorded in that book. *
Tobiads The Tobiads were a Jews, Jewish faction in Ammon at the beginning of the Hasmonean dynasty, 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 Jewish or Ammonite faction at the beginning of the
Maccabean period The Maccabees (), also spelled Machabees ( he, מַכַּבִּים, or , ; la, Machabaei or ; grc, Μακκαβαῖοι, ), were a group of Jewish rebel warriors who took control of Judea, which at the time was part of the Seleucid Empire. ...


Other

*Tobias, Christian martyr, see Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and Companions *
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 * Tobias (bishop of Rochester), died 726


Given name

* Tobias Abse (professor) * Tobias Abstreiter (hockey center) *
Tobias Angerer Tobias Angerer (born 12 April 1977 in Traunstein, Bavaria) is a German cross-country skier, and skis with the SC Vachendorf club. He graduated from the Skigymnasium Berchtesgaden in 1996. His occupation is "Sports Soldier". Angerer has been com ...
(cross country skier) * Tobias Arlt (luger) *
Tobias Bamberg Tobias "Theo" Leendert Bamberg (1875–1963) was a professional magician. Born in the Netherlands, Bamberg performed under the name ''Okito'' which is an anagram of Tokio (Tokyo). His father had been court magician to King William III of the Ne ...
(magician) *
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) *
Tobias Beecher Tobias Beecher is a main character on the television show '' Oz'',Sean O'Sullivan and David WilsonImages of Incarceration: Representations of Prison in Film and Television Drama(Waterside Press, 2004) played by Lee Tergesen. He is one of only eig ...
(from the TV series Oz) * Tobias Beer (actor) * Tobias Bernstrup (contemporary artist) *
Tobias Billström Tobias Lennart Billström (born 27 December 1973) is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. He has served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Ulf Kristersson since 18 October 2022 and has been Member of the Riksdag since th ...
(politician) * Tobias Bjarneby (video game journalist) * Tobias de Boer (scientist) * Tobias Bogner (ski jumper) * Tobias Bonhoeffer (neurobiologist) * Tobias Bridge (Major-General in the First English Civil War) * Tobias S. Buckell (science fiction author) *
Tobias Capwell Tobias Emanuel ("Toby") Capwell FSA (born ) is an American historian who lives and works in London. His principal interest is in European arms and armour of the medieval and Renaissance periods (roughly, the 12th century to the 16th). He is Cur ...
(born ), American curator, military historian and jouster * Tobias Carlsson (Kalmar FF footballer) * Tobías Zúñiga Castro (politician) *
Tobias Cohn Tobias Cohn or Tobias Kohn (in Hebrew, Toviyyah ben Moshe ha-Kohen, Tuvia Harofeh - Tuvia the doctor; in Polish, Tobiasz Kohn) (also referred to as Toviyah Kats) (1652-1729) was a Polish-Jewish physician of the seventeenth and eighteenth centurie ...
(17/18th century physician) *
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 (politician) *
Tobias Dantzig Tobias Dantzig (; February 19, 1884 – August 9, 1956) was an American mathematician, the father of George Dantzig, and the author of '' Number: The Language of Science (A critical survey written for the cultured non-mathematician)'' (1930) and ''A ...
(mathematician) * Tobias Delius (musician) * Tobias Dier (golfer) * Tobias Druitt (author, pseudonym) * Tobiah ben Eliezer *
Tobias Ellwood Tobias Martin Ellwood (born 12 August 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician and soldier who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bournemouth East since 2005. He has chaired the Defence Select Committee since 2020 and was a Go ...
(politician) * Tobias Enhus (composer) * Tobias Enström (hockey defenceman) *
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 ...
(bass player from Edguy) *
Tobias Forge Tobias Forge (; born 3 March 1981) is a Swedish singer, musician, and songwriter. He is the leader and primary songwriter of the masked rock band Ghost, performing live as their vocalist under the stage names Papa Emeritus and Cardinal Cop ...
(musician - Repugnant, Subvision, Ghost) * Tobias Fornell (character on the TV series "NCIS") * Tobias Forsberg (hockey winger) *
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) * Tobias Fünke (character in the TV series ''Arrested Development'') *
Tobias Furneaux Captain Tobias Furneaux (21 August 173518 September 1781) was an English navigator and Royal Navy officer, who accompanied James Cook on his second voyage of exploration. He was one of the first men to circumnavigate the world in both directions ...
(Royal Navy officer) *Tobías García Mota (Dominican-Mexican) *
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 deci ...
(rabbi) * Tobias Gentleman (fl. 1614, English mariner and writer) * Tobias Grahn (Gimnàstic de Tarragona midfielder) *
Tobias Gregson This article describes minor characters from the ''Sherlock Holmes'' stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and from non-canonical derived works. The list excludes the titular character as well as Dr. Watson, Professor Moriarty, Inspector Lestrade, M ...
(fictional character in a number of the "Sherlock Holmes" novels) * Tobias Grünenfelder (Swiss alpine skier) *
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 before declar ...
(National Basketball Association player) * Tobias Hecht (American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator) * Tobías Hernández (Major League Baseball player) * Tobias Hill (poet/novelist) * Tobias Hoesl (German television actor) * Tobias Hogan (1823–1904, politician from Monticello, Minnesota) * Tobias Holmberg (Swedish Bandy player) * Tobias Holmqvist (Swedish footballer) *
Tobias Hume Tobias Hume (possibly 1579 – 16 April 1645) was a Scottish composer, viol player and soldier. Little is known of his life. Some have suggested that he was born in 1579 because he was admitted to the London Charterhouse in 1629, a prerequisit ...
(composer & soldier) *
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 G ...
(IFK Göteborg footballer) * Detective Tobias Jones (fictional character) * Tobias Jones (writer) (author & journalist) *
Tobias Kamke Tobias Kamke (born 21 May 1986) is a German former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 64 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in January 2011. In 2010, Kamke was awarde ...
(German tennis player) *
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, Pau ...
(Swedish record producer) * Tobias Kassung (German classical guitarist and composer) *
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 Tobi ...
(Swedish politician) * Tobías Lasser (Venezuelan botanist) *
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) * Tobias Levels (German-Dutch footballer) * Tobias Lindemann (German architect, designer and media entrepreneur) *
Tobias Linderoth Tobias Jan Håkan Linderoth (; born 21 April 1979) is a professional football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Swedish club Skövde AIK. He played as a midfielder, and played professionally in Sweden, Norway, England, Denm ...
(Galatasaray midfielder) * Tobias Lohner (1619 - 1697, Austrian Jesuit theologian) * Tobias Mabuta Munihango (Namibian amateur boxer) *
Tobias Matthay Tobias Augustus Matthay (19 February 185815 December 1945) was an English pianist, teacher, and composer. Biography Matthay was born in Clapham, Surrey, in 1858 to parents who had come from northern Germany and eventually became naturalised Brit ...
(teacher & composer) *
Tobias Matthew Tobias Matthew (also Tobie and Toby; 13 June 154629 March 1628), was an Anglican bishop who was President of St John's College, Oxford, from 1572 to 1576, before being appointed Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1579 to 1583, and Matthew ...
(archbishop of York) *
Tobias Mayer Tobias Mayer (17 February 172320 February 1762) was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon. He was born at Marbach, in Württemberg, and brought up at Esslingen in poor circumstances. A self-taught mathematician, he earned a l ...
(astronomer) * Tobias Mehler (Canadian actor) *
Tobias Menzies Tobias Simpson Menzies (born 7 March 1974) is an English stage, television and film actor. He is known for playing Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in the third and fourth seasons of Netflix's series ''The Crown'', for which he won the Primetime ...
(actor) * Tobias Michael Carel Asser (jurist) * Tobias Mikaelsson (Swedish football player) * Tobias Mikkelsen (Danish football player) * Tobias Moretti (actor) * Tobias Mullen (1818-1900, Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Erie) * Tobias Müller (disambiguation) * Tobias Nath (German television actor) * Tobias Nickenig (German footballer) * Tobias Norris (politician) * Tobias Palmer (American football player) *
Tobias Picker Tobias Picker (born July 18, 1954) is an American composer, artistic director, and pianist, noted for his orchestral works ''Old and Lost Rivers'', ''Keys To The City'', and ''The Encantadas'', as well as his operas ''Emmeline'', ''Fantastic Mr. ...
(composer) * Tobias Pflüger (politician) * Tobias A. Plants (1811 – 1887, U.S. Representative from Ohio) *
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 ...
(Austrian Baroque painter) * Tobias Pullen (Irish bishop) *
Tobias Ragg 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 ...
(from musical ''Sweeney Todd'') * Tobias Rathgeb (German football midfielder) * Tobias Rau (retired German footballer) *
Tobias Read Tobias Read (born July 1, 1975) is an American politician who is the current Oregon State Treasurer. He was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, representing District 27 from 2007–2017, which comprises parts of Beaverton, southwest ...
(member of the Oregon House of Representatives) *
Tobias Regner Tobias Regner (born 5 August 1982) is a German singer and guitarist who has enjoyed success in the rock music genre. He made his debut under major label Sony BMG Domestic after he won the highly publicized third season of the television series ...
(musician) * Tobias Reinhardt (classical scholar) * Tobias Rustat (1606?-1694, benefactor of the University of Cambridge) *
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 Avan ...
(vocalist from Edguy) *
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) *
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 Pfe ...
(German actor) *
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) * Tobias Schneebaum (artist & activist) * Tobias Schneider (German speedskater) * Tobias Schönenberg (actor & photomodel) * Tobias Schweinsteiger (German footballer) * Tobias Simon (Miami civil rights lawyer) * Tobias Sippel (German football goalkeeper) * Tobias Sjokvist (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player *
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 ...
(Scottish author) * Tobias Steinhauser (former German cyclist) *
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 Z ...
(hockey goaltender) *
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 Scha ...
(painter & illustrator) * Tobias Summerer (German tennis player) *
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) * Tobias Tornkvist (born 1994), Swedish ice hockey player * Tobias Truvillion (African-American actor) *
Tobias Unger Tobias Benjamin Unger (born 10 July 1979 ) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in sprints.
(athlete) *
Tobias Verhaecht Tobias Verhaecht (1561–1631) was a painter from Antwerp in the Duchy of Brabant who primarily painted landscapes. His style was indebted to the mannerist world landscape developed by artists like Joachim Patinir and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. H ...
(draughtsman) * Tobias Verwey (Namibian cricketer) * Tobias Viklund (Swedish ice hockey defenceman) * Tobias Weis (German footballer) * Tobias Wendl (German luger) *
Tobias Whale Tobias Whale is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is the archenemy of Black Lightning. Whale appears in the live-action Arrowverse series ''Black Lightning'', portrayed by Marvin "Krondon" Jones II ...
(fictional character in DC comics) * Tobias Willi (former German football player) *
Tobias Wolff 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, T ...
(writer) * Tobias Zachary Ziegler (fictional character in the TV drama ''The West Wing'')


Derivative name

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Tobey Maguire Tobias Vincent Maguire (born June 27, 1975) is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for playing the title character from Sam Raimi's ''Spider-Man'' trilogy (2002–2007), a role he later reprised in '' Spider-Man: No Way Hom ...
(actor) * Toby Isaacs (fictional character from the TV series ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'') *
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 so ...
(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 ...
* Tobias Fornell, character on the CBS show, '' NCIS'' * Tobias Fünke, character on the Fox sitcom, ''
Arrested Development The term "arrested development" has had multiple meanings for over 200 years. In the field of medicine, the term "arrested development" was first used, ''circa'' 1835–1836, to mean a stoppage of physical development; the term continues to be use ...
'' *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, ...
'' * Tobias Snape, father of
Severus 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 Witchcraf ...
from the ''Harry Potter'' series * Tobias Eaton, a protagonist in a series of novels by Veronica Roth known as the ''Divergent'' trilogy *Jeffery Tobias Winger, character on the sitcom ''Community'' * Tobias Wilson, character on ''
The Amazing World of Gumball ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' is an animated sitcom created by Ben Bocquelet for Cartoon Network. The series concerns the lives of 12-year-old Gumball Watterson, an anthropomorphic blue cat, and adoptive goldfish brother Darwin, who attend ...
'' * Tobias Zachary Ziegler, character on ''
The West Wing ''The West Wing'' is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999, to May 14, 2006. The series is set primarily in the West Wing of the White Hous ...
'' *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 ''Animorphs'' is a science fantasy series of children's books written by Katherine Applegate and her husband Michael Grant, writing together under the name K. A. Applegate, and published by Scholastic. It is told in first person, with all ...
'' and its ''
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As a surname

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Places

* Tobias, Nebraska, a village in the United States * Tobias, Ohio, a village in the United States *
Tobias Barreto, Sergipe Tobias Barreto is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality located in the States of Brazil, Brazilian state of Sergipe. Its population is 52,530 (2020) and its area is 1,033 km². It was formerly known as Vila de Campos do Rio Real, but was rechr ...
, a municipality in Brazil * Tobias Fornier, Antique, a municipality in the Philippines *
Tobías Bolaños International Airport Tobías Bolaños International Airport ( es, Aeropuerto Internacional Tobías Bolaños) is one of four international airports in Costa Rica, and the secondary airport serving the city of San José, after Juan Santamaría International Airport. ...
in Costa Rica * Tobias-Thompson Complex, 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 ...
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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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