Gideon

Gideon

Gideon (; Hebrew: גִּדְעוֹן, Modern: Gīdʿōn, Tiberian: Gīḏəʿōn) also named Jerubbaal and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites is recounted in Judges 6–8 of the Book of Judges in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible. Gideon was the son of Joash, from the Abiezrite clan in the tribe of Manasseh and lived in Ephra (Ophrah). As a leader of the Israelites, he won a decisive victory over a Midianite army despite a vast numerical disadvantage, leading a troop of 300 men. Archaeologists in southern Israel have found a 3,100-year-old fragment of a jug with five letters written in ink that appear to represent the name Jerubbaal, or Yeruba'al. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gideon is the 612th most popular politician (up from 695th in 2019).

Gideon is most famous for his victory in the case of Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the requirement for indigent criminal defendants to be provided with attorneys.