Abba (given name)

Persons with the given name Abba, or who are known by that title

Jewish religious personalities

• Rabbi Abba (3rd-4th century), religious scholar
• Abba of Acre (3rd century), religious scholar
• Abba Arika (175–247), Babylonian religious scholar
• Abba bar Abba (2nd-3rd century), Babylonian religious scholar
• Abba bar Abina (3rd century), Palestinian religious scholar
• Abba bar Zabdai (3rd century), Palestinian religious scholar
• Abba ben Joseph bar Ḥama (270–350), Babylonian religious scholar known in the Talmud as Rava
• Abba Mordechai Berman (1919–2005), Polish rabbi and religious scholar
• Abba Hilkiah (1st century), Hasidic sage
• Abba Hillel Silver (1893–1963), U.S. Rabbi and Zionist leader
• Abba Hoshaya of Turya (3rd century), pious wool-washer
• Abba Jose ben Hanan (1st century), sage and tanna
• Abba Judan (2nd century), philanthropist
• Abba Mari (13th-14th century), French rabbi
• Abba Mari ben Simson Anatoli (c. 1194–1256), French scholar and translator of Arabic texts
• Abba Yudan (3rd century), Palestinian religious scholar
• Raba (Rabbah) Bar Jeremiah (also called "Abba"), Talmudist

Jimma rulers

• Abba Bok'a (died 1862), a ruler of the Kingdom of Jimma in what is today southwestern Ethiopia
• Abba Gomol, ruler of the Kingdom of Jimma 1862–78; son of Abba Bok'a
• Abba Jifar I (ruled 1830 - c. 1855), king of the Kingdom of Jimma
• Abba Jifar II (ruled 1878–1932), king of the Kingdom of Jimma
• Abba Jofir, Ethiopian aristocrat briefly (1932) king of the Kingdom of Jimma
• Abba Magal (c. 1800), Oromo leader, father of Abba Jifar I, founder of the Kingdom of Jimma

Others

• Abba (count) (734?–768), Frisian count
• Abba Thulle (), ibedul of Koror
• Abba Ahimeir (1897–1962), Russian Jewish journalist, historian, and Zionist
• Abba Cohen (born 1955/1956), American Orthodox Jewish advocate
• Abba Eban (1915–2002), Israeli diplomat and politician, and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
• Abba Gerasimus (5th century), Lycian Christian monk and abbot revered as a saint
• Abba Gindin (b. 1946), Finnish/Israeli ice hockey player
• Abba Habib (), Nigerian politician
• Abbot "Abbie" Hoffman (1936–1989), American activist whose Hebrew name was Abba
• Abba Hushi (1898–1969), Israeli politician
• Abba Kovner (1918–1987), Lithuanian/Israeli Jewish poet, writer, and partisan leader
• Abba Kyari (1938–2020), Nigerian military officer, governor, and business leader
• Abba P. Lerner (1903–1982), American economist
• Abba Musa Rimi (b. 1940), Nigerian politician, governor of Kaduna State
• Abba Goold Woolson (1838–1921), American writer

References

References

1. "Understanding Honorifics in the Talmudic Era".