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Gideon Falter, a journalist who recently got arrested for disrupting a human rights parade.
“Visions of Gideon” is one of the two original Sufjan Stevens' songs (the other one is “Mystery of Love”) from the soundtrack for Call Me By Your Name.
Dr. Gideon Fell is the main detective of most of John Dickson Carr's mystery novels under his own name. The books involving Fell were usually cleverly-plotted locked-room mysteries like "The Hollow Man" and "He Who Whispers."
Gideon's Bible.
Y'all really do be sleeping on Gideon, from Criminal Minds. Literally a king, might've had a few bumps but ultimately he was a great person :)
This is the middle name for Alexander "Alec" Gideon Lightwood from The Mortal Insturments.
19 Kids and Counting star Joy Duggar recently named her son Gideon Martyn.
A famous bearer of the name Gideon is a man by the name of Gideon Hahn.
Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka have twins Gideon Scott and Harper Grace, born October 12 2010.
Gideon the cat is a character in Pinocchio.
The defendant in the United States Supreme Court case, Gideon v. Wainwright, was Clarence Earl Gideon. The Court's decision held that state courts had to provide counsel to criminal defendants who could not afford an attorney, a landmark case which guaranteed rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution to not only federal defendants, but state-charged defendants, as well.
Gideon Gleeful is a character on Disney Channel's animated series "Gravity Falls."
Gideon was the name of Jigsaw's/John Kramer's unborn, miscarried son in the Saw franchise.
'Gideon's Bible' is mentioned in The Beatles' "Rocky Raccoon" [1968].
Gideon Gordon Graves is the main antagonist in the Scott Pilgrim book series.
He was played by Jason Schwartzman in the film "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World".
Gideon Yago is a popular MTV correspondent.
A famous bearer is Broadway star Gideon Glick, who starred as Ernst in the original cast of the Tony Award winning show Spring Awakening.
Gideon Prewett was Molly Weasley's brother in the Harry Potter series.
Famous bearer: Gideon Mantell, the paleontologist who excavated the first iguanadon.
One of the main characters on the television show Criminal Minds is named Jason Gideon. He goes by Gideon.
In the musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Gideon is the youngest of the brothers. (Adam, Benjamin, caleb, Daniel, Ephraim, Frank, and Gideon)
Season six of the popular Witch-themed dramedy "Charmed" introduced a powerful Elder named Gideon.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_%28Charmed%29 )He assited Leo when Leo first became a Whitelighter, supported Leo and Piper's marriage, and was headmaster of Magic School (think a Professor at Hogwarts, like McGonagall or Dumbledore). He also happened to try the entire sixth season to kill baby Wyatt (Leo and Piper's son) for the "greater good," seeing that Wyatt would grow too powerful.He fails, and ends up being killed by Leo, but before he dies, he manages to kill Wyatt's younger brother (who came to the past to save Wyatt) Chris (my favorite character in the entire show). In an alternate future, Gideon's attempt on Wyatt's life caused Wyatt to instead of die, turn evil.

That Benedict Arnold-type character, and sacrifice anything for the "greater good" morality, is all I can think about from this name.
Gideon is the name of the Christmas angel in the movie "One Magic Christmas".
King Arthur's name as a child was Gideon.
The Gideons is a world-wide organization that gives out free Bibles.

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