Edmund

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Gender Masculine Language(s) Old English Variant form(s) Eadmund		Language(s) English Derivation ēad + mund
Meaning "prosperity", "riches" + "protector"

Edmund is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ēad, meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and mund, meaning "protector".

Persons named Edmund include:

Nobility

Edmund the Martyr (died 869 or 870), king of East Anglia

Edmund I (922–946), King of England from 939 to 946

Edmund Ironside (989–1016), also known as Edmund II, King of England in 1016

Edmund of Scotland (after 1070 – after 1097)

Edmund Crouchback (1245–1296), son of King Henry III of England and claimant to the Sicilian throne

Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (1249–1300), English earl

Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402), son of King Edward III of England

Sir Edmund Cornwall, KB (1483)

In religion

Saint Edmund (disambiguation), religious title given to several persons

Eadmund of Winchester (died between 833 and 838), once thought to have been a Bishop of Winchester

Edmund of Durham (died 1041), Bishop of Durham

Edmund Arrowsmith (1585–1628), Jesuit, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

Edmund Campion (1540–1581), English Jesuit priest and martyr

Edmund Gennings (1567–1591), English priest and martyr

Edmund Kalau (1928–2014), German missionary and minister

Edmund Rich (1175–1240), also called Edmund of Abingdon; Archbishop of Canterbury

Edmund Ignatius Rice (1762–1844), founder of the Congregation of Christian Brothers

In politics

Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish statesman, political theorist, and philosopher

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (born 1938), commonly known as Jerry Brown; governor of California

Edmund Muskie (1914–1996), American Secretary of State

Edmund Stoiber (born 1941), German politician, former minister-president of the state of Bavaria

In other fields

Edmund Anscombe (1874–1948), New Zealand architect

Edmund Crispin, pseudonym of English crime fiction writer Bruce Montgomery (1921–1978)

Edmund Davy (1785–1857), English chemist

Edmund Fritz (before 1918 – after 1932), Austrian actor, film director, and music manager

Edmund H. Garrett (1853–1929), American artist

Edmund Gettier (born 1927), American philosopher

Edmund Goulding (1891–1959), British film writer and director

Edmund Gunter (1581–1626), British mathematician

Sir Edmund Hillary (1919–2008), New Zealand mountaineer

Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), philosopher and mathematician

Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Sir William Edmund Ironside (1880–1951), field marshal and chief of the British Imperial General Staff

Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside (born 1924), British politician and engineer, son of William Edmund Ironside

Edmund Lenihan (born 1950), Irish author and storyteller

Edmund P. Murray (1930–2007), American novelist and journalist

Edmund Reid (1846–1917), head of the Metropolitan Police's CID during the time of the Jack the Ripper

Ed Skoronski (1910–1996), American football player

Edmund Sonnenblick, American cardiologist

Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), English poet

Fictional characters

Edmund (King Lear), an antagonist in the play King Lear by William Shakespeare

Edmund Bertram, character in the novel Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Edmund Blackadder, the protagonist of the BBC historical comedy series Blackadder

Edmund Pevensie, character in The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Edmund Tyrone, character in the drama Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

Edmund Hewlett, character in AMC's Turn: Washington's Spies

References

Edmund Wikipedia

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