Abba (given name)

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

Jewish/Babylonian/Palestinian religious scholars

• Abba of Acre, Jewish religious scholar
• Abba Arika, Jewish/Babylonian religious scholar
• Abba bar Abba, Jewish/Babylonian religious scholar
• Abba bar Zabdai, Jewish/Palestinian religious scholar
• Abba ben Joseph bar Ḥama, Jewish/Babylonian religious scholar known in the Talmud as Rava
• Abba Mordechai Berman, Polish Jewish rabbi and religious scholar
• Abba Hilkiah, Jewish Hasidic sage
• Abba Jose ben Hanan, Jewish sage and tanna
• Abba Mari, French/Jewish rabbi
• Abba Mari ben Simson Anatoli, a French/Jewish scholar and translator of Arabic texts
• Raba Bar Jeremiah, a Jewish Talmudist

  Horse names of Jimma rulers

• Abba Bok'a, 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 and Abba Jifar II, kings of the Kingdom of Jimma
• Abba Jofir, Ethiopian aristocrat briefly king of the Kingdom of Jimma
• Abba Magal, Oromo leader, father of Abba Jifar I, founder of the Kingdom of Jimma

  Others

• Abba, a Frisian count
• Abba Ahimeir, Russian Jewish journalist, historian, and Zionist
• Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician, and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
• Abba Gerasimus, Lycian Christian monk and abbot revered as a saint
• Abba Gindin, Finnish/Israeli ice hockey player
• Abba Habib, Nigerian politician
• Abbot "Abbie" Hoffman, whose Hebrew name was Abba
• Abba Hushi, Israeli politician
• Abba Kovner, Lithuanian Jewish/Israeli poet, writer, and partisan leader
• Abba Kyari, Nigerian military officer, governor, and business leader
• Abba P. Lerner, American economist
• Abba Musa Rimi, Nigerian politician, governor of Kaduna State
• Abba Hillel Silver, U.S. Rabbi and Zionist leader
• Abba Goold Woolson, American writer