Tobias

Tobias (Τοβίας) is a Greek version of the Hebrew biblical name "Toviyah" (טוביה), meaning "The goodness of God". It is a popular male given name in Germany, Scandinavia, the United States and amongst Jewish people. In English-speaking countries it is often shortened to Toby. In German, this name appears as Tobias or Tobi; in French (where it is mostly found among Protestants) as Tobie; and in Swedish as Tobbe. Tobias has also been a surname.

Biblical

Several people are called Tobias in The Bible:

• Tobias, son of Tobit; "Book of Tobias" is an older name for the Book of Tobit.
• Tobias the elder
• Tobias, father of Hircanus
• Tobiah (Ammonite)
• Tobias, brother-in-law of Onias II, father of the Joseph who succeeded in pacifying Ptolemy III Euergetes.
• Tobbe, son-in-law of Onias III, son of Onias II.
• Tobiads, a Jewish or Ammonite faction at the beginning of the Maccabean period.

Fiction, movies, and television

• Tobias Fünke, character on the Fox sitcom, Arrested Development
• Tobias, character on the CBS daytime drama series, The Young and the Restless
• Tobias (Animorphs) (fictional character)
• Tobias Snape, father of Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series
• Tobias Eaton, the 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
• Tobias Zachary Ziegler, character on The West Wing
• Tobias, character on the amc drama Fear The Walking Dead
• Tobias, character on Pokémon

As a given name

• Tobias (martyr), Christian martyr and saint
• Tobias Abse (professor)
• Tobias Abstreiter (hockey center)
• Tobias Angerer (cross country skier)
• Tobias Arlt (luger)
• Tobias Bamberg (magician)
• Tobias Barreto (critic/poet)
• Tobias Beecher (from the TV series Oz)
• Tobias Beer (actor)
• Tobias Bernstrup (contemporary artist)
• Tobias Billström (politician)
• Tobias Bjarneby (video game journalist)
• Tobias Bogner (ski jumper)
• Tobias Bonhoeffer (neurobiologist)
• Tobias Bridge (Major-General in the First English Civil War)
• Tobias S. Buckell (science fiction author)
• Tobias Carlsson (Kalmar FF footballer)
• Tobías Zúñiga Castro (politician)
• Tobias Cohn (17/18th century physician)
• Tobias Cole (countertenor)
• Tobias Joaquim Dai (politician)
• Tobias Dantzig (mathematician)
• Tobias Delius (musician)
• Tobias Dier (golfer)
• Tobias Druitt (author, pseudonym)
• Tobias Ellwood (politician)
• Tobias Enhus (composer)
• Tobias Enström (hockey defenceman)
• Tobias Exxel (bass player from Edguy)
• Tobias Forge (musician)
• Tobias Fornell (character on the TV series "NCIS")
• Tobias Forsberg (hockey winger)
• Tobias Frere-Jones (type designer)
• Tobias Fünke (character in the TV series Arrested Development)
• Tobias Furneaux (Royal Navy officer)
• Tobias Geffen (rabbi)
• Tobias Grahn (Gimnàstic de Tarragona midfielder)
• Tobias Gregson (fictional character in a number of the "Sherlock Holmes" novels)
• Tobias Grünenfelder (Swiss alpine skier)
• Tobias Harris (National Basketball Association player)

• Tobias Hecht (American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator)
• Tobías Hernández (Major League Baseball player)
• Tobias Hill (poet/novelist)
• Tobias Hecht (American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator)
• Tobias Hoesl (German television actor)
• Tobias Hogan (1823–1904, politician from Monticello, Minnesota)
• Tobias Holmberg (Swedish Bandy player)
• Tobias Holmqvist (Swedish footballer)
• Tobias Hume (composer & soldier)
• Tobias Hysén (IFK Göteborg footballer)
• Toby Isaacs (fictional character from the TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation)
• Toby Jessel (British politician)
• Detective Tobias Jones (fictional character)
• Tobias Jones (writer) (author & journalist)
• Tobias Kamke (German tennis player)
• Tobias Karlsson (songwriter) (Swedish record producer)
• Tobias Kassung (German classical guitarist and composer)
• Tobias Krantz (Swedish politician)
• Tobías Lasser (Venezuelan botanist)
• Tobias Lear V (personal secretary)
• Tobias Levels (German-Dutch footballer)
• Tobias Lindemann (German architect, designer and media entrepreneur)
• Tobias Linderoth (Galatasaray midfielder)
• Tobias Lohner (1619 - 1697, Austrian Jesuit theologian)
• Tobias Mabuta Munihango (Namibian amateur boxer)
• Tobias Matthay (teacher & composer)
• Tobias Matthew (archbishop of York)
• Tobias Mayer (astronomer)
• Tobias Mehler (Canadian actor)
• Tobias Menzies (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 Crawford Norris (politician)
• Tobias Picker (composer)
• Tobias Pflüger (politician)
• Tobias A. Plants (1811 – 1887, U.S. Representative from Ohio)
• Tobias Pock (Austrian Baroque painter)
• Tobias Pullen (Irish bishop)
• Tobias Ragg (from musical Sweeney Todd)
• Tobias Rathgeb (German football midfielder)
• Tobias Rau (retired German footballer)
• Tobias Read (member of the Oregon House of Representatives)
• Tobias Regner (musician)
• Tobias Rustat (1606?-1694, benefactor of the University of Cambridge)
• Tobias Sammet (vocalist from Edguy)
• Tobias Schellenberg (competitive diver)
• Tobias Schenke (German actor)
• Tobias Schiegl (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 (Scottish author)
• Tobias Snape (father of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter book series)
• Tobias Steinhauser (former German cyclist)
• Tobias Stephan (hockey goaltender)
• Tobias Stimmer (painter & illustrator)
• Tobias Summerer (German tennis player)
• Tobias Tornkvist (born 1994), Swedish ice hockey player
• Tobias Truvillion (African-American actor)
• Tobias Unger (athlete)
• Tobias Verhaecht (draughtsman)
• Tobias Verwey (Namibian cricketer)
• Tobias Viklund (Swedish ice hockey defenceman)
• Tobias Weis (German footballer)
• Tobias Wendl (German luger)
• Tobias Whale (fictional character in DC comics)
• Tobias Willi (former German football player)
• Tobias Wolff (writer)
• Tobias Zachary Ziegler (fictional character in the TV drama The West Wing)
• Tobias McGangsta Gee (Cool Guy Supremo in TV Comedy Southside Soldiers)

Middle name

• Abraham Tobias Boas
• Albert Tobias Clay
• Antonio Tobias Mendez (born 1963), American sculptor
• Ferdinand Tobias Richter
• J. Tobias Anderson
• Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor
• Johann Tobias Beck
• Johann Tobias Bürg (astronomer)
• Johann Tobias Krebs (composer)
• Johann Tobias Mayer

Derivative name

See also: Toby and Tobey

• Tobey Maguire
• Tobiah ben Eliezer

As a surname

Main article: Tobias (surname)

Places

• Tobias, Nebraska, A US village
• Tobias Barreto, Sergipe, a municipality in Brazil
• Tobias Fornier, Antique, a municipality in the Philippines
• Tobías Bolaños International Airport in Costa Rica
• Tobias-Thompson Complex, a US National Historic Landmark

Companies

• Tobias (bass guitar company)
• Michael Tobias Design bass guitar company