Timothy is a male given name derived from the Greek Τιμόθεος or Timótheos, meaning "honouring God". It is a popular name in the US, lying in the top 100 names in each year since the 1960s. The name is also popular in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and Sweden.

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People named Timothy

• Timothy, first century Christian bishop whose name is associated with two books of the New Testament
• Timotheus, Christian martyr
• Timothy, a minor figure in the Book of Mormon

In sports:

• Tim Borowski, German football (soccer) player
• Tim Brooke-Taylor, English actor
• Tim Cahill, Australian football (soccer) player for the English team Everton FC
• Tim Henman, British tennis player
• Tim Lincecum, American baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants
• Timothy Peters, NASCAR driver
• Tim Tebow, football quarterback of the Florida Gators

In the arts:

• Timothy Bottoms, American actor
• Timothy Dalton, English actor
• Timothy Hutton, American actor
• Timothy Leary, American writer, psychologist, psychedelic drug advocate, and one of the first people to be buried in space
• Timothy Olyphant, American actor
• Timothy Omundson, American actor
• Timothy Spall, English actor
• Timbaland (Timothy Z. Mosley), record producer and rapper
• Tiny Tim (musician) (Herbert Buckingham Khaury), American musician

In others:

• Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing
• Timothy Treadwell, deceased grizzly bear enthusiast
• Christopher Timothy, Welsh actor

Fictional characters

• Tim (Edward Ardizzone character), a fictional character in a series of illustrated children's books by Edward Ardizzone
• Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol) (Tim Cratchit), a fictional character from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
• Tim Drake, the third character to go by the name of "Robin" in the DC Universe comics
• Timothy Lovejoy, a fictional character from The Simpsons
• Timothy McGee, a fictional character from the NCIS TV Series.
• Tim, the fictional anti-villain that serves as the protagonist of the video game Braid.
• Timothy, a character in the book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• Tim Riggins, a fictional character from Friday Night Lights (TV series)

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