Gideon (disambiguation)

Gideon is a character in the Hebrew Bible.

Gideon may also refer to:

• Gideon (name) is a male given name and surname of Hebrew origin

Religion

• Gideon (Book of Mormon), a figure in the Book of Mormon
• Gideons International, distributor of copies of the Bible

Arts, entertainment, and media

Film and television

• Gideon (Charmed), a character in the television show Charmed
• Gideon (film), a 1998 film starring Christopher Lambert
• Gideon (The Flash), an artificial intelligence from the television series The Flash
• Gideon (Legends of Tomorrow), an artificial intelligence from the television series Legends of Tomorrow
• Gideon (play), a 1961 Broadway drama by Paddy Chayefsky
• Gideon (TV series), an early 1980s children's TV cartoon series
• Gideon's Way, 1960s British television crime series
• Gideon Oliver, 1989 television series
• "Gideon: Tuba Warrior", a VeggieTales episode
• George Gideon of Scotland Yard, a fictional detective in novels, film and television created by John Creasey
• Jason Gideon, a character in the television show Criminal Minds
• Moff Gideon, the main antagonist of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian
• Gideon, Belle and Rumplestiltskin's son in the TV series Once Upon a Time
• Gideon Gleeful, a character from the television series Gravity Falls
• Gideon Gemstone, a character in the television series The Righteous Gemstones
• Gideon Graves, the main antagonist of the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim
• Gideon Grey, a character from Zootopia

Literature

• Gideon Planish, 1943 novel by Sinclair Lewis
• The Gideon Trilogy, 2006 science fiction book series
• Gideon the Ninth, 2019 science fantasy novel
• Gideon Nav, a protagonist in The Locked Tomb series of novels. Cavalier primary to the Reverend Daughter of Drearburh
• Gideon Fell, a fictional detective in novels created by John Dickson Carr

Music

• Gideon (album), a 1980 album by Kenny Rogers
• Gideon (band), an American hardcore band
• Gideon (Handel), a 1769 oratorio pastiche
• "Gideon", a song by My Morning Jacket from Z

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Gideon (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Gideon Mace, a Marvel Comics villain
• Gideon Stargrave, Near Myths comics character
• Armoured Gideon, 2000 AD comics character
• Gideon Falls, horror comic book series
• Sam Gideon, the main character in the video game Vanquish
• Gideon Jura, a Planeswalker in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering

Military

• Gideon Force, Ethiopian regular force during World War II
• Operation Gideon, a 1948 Haganah military operation to capture Beisan
• El Junquito raid (2018), codenamed Operation Gideon, Venezuela
• Operation Gideon (2020), Venezuela

Places

• Gideon, Missouri, U.S.
• Gideon, Oklahoma, U.S.
• Kfar Gideon, northern Israel

Other

• Gedeon Richter, (23 September 1872 – 30 December 1944) was a Hungarian pharmacist, founder of Gedeon Richter plc and a pioneer of the modern Hungarian pharmaceutical industry.
• Gideon Graves, the big bad of Scott Pilgrim
• Gideon McDuck, a Disney character
• Gideon v. Wainwright, a major American court battle which required state courts to provide indigent defendants with legal counsel at taxpayer expense
• Global Infectious Disease Epidemiology Network (GIDEON), a medical decision support tool
• a character in the Disney 1940 animated film Pinocchio
• the Rastafarian term for Armageddon

See also

• Sword of Gideon, a 1986 Canadian television film
• The Mark of Gideon, Star Trek episode