Yedidia, Yedidya, Yedidiah, etc. is both a given name and a surname, the original Hebrew of Jedediah.The Hebrew name of the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria Yedidia Be'eri (1931–2004), Israeli politician Yedidia Shofet (1908–2005), Iranian rabbi Yedidya Ya'ari, former commander of the Israeli Navy Yedidya Eisenshtat, Israeli architect, author of the Anzac Memorial, Israel Yedidia Stern, Israeli jurist and legal scholar