Edward

Variant forms

The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte.

Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo, German and Dutch Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy, Woody and Ned. Edward can be abbreviated as Edw.

People called Edward

See also: All pages beginning with "Edward"

Medieval

Edward the Elder (c. 874 – 924), the son of Alfred the Great

Edward the Martyr (c. 962 – 978), English king and Christian martyr

St. Edward the Confessor (c. 1003 – 1066), English King; patron saint of England until 1348

Edward I of England (1239–1307), called Longshanks; conqueror of Wales

Edward Balliol (c. 1283 – 1367), pretender to the Scottish throne during the reign of David II

Edward II of England (1284–1327), deposed in January 1327, probably murdered

Edward III of England (1312–1377), one of the most successful English kings of medieval times

Edward, the Black Prince (1330–1376), eldest son of King Edward III

Edward, Duke of Guelders (1336–1371)

Edward IV of England (1442–1483), older brother of Richard III, father of Edward V

Edward V of England (1470 – c. 1483), one of the princes in the Tower

Edward VI of England (1537–1553), the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour

Modern

Nobility

Lord Edward FitzGerald (1763–1798), Irish aristocrat and revolutionary

Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), the son of George III, father of Queen Victoria

Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1841–1910), the son of Queen Victoria

Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (1894–1972), the son of George V, abdicated

Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, grandson of George V

Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the son of Queen Elizabeth II

Politicians

Edward Dembowski (1822–1846), Polish leftist, philosopher and columnist

Edward Stanley Kellogg (1870–1948), 16th Governor of American Samoa

Edward Stettinius, Jr. (1900–1949), former United States Secretary of State

Edward Gierek (1913–2001), First Secretary of Polish United Workers Party from 1970 to 1980

Edward Heath (1916–2005), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Edward Youde (1924–1986), 26th Governor of Hong Kong

Edward Kennedy (1932–2009), better known as Ted Kennedy; former United States senator

Edward L. Romero, entrepreneur and American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Andorra between 1998 and 2001

Ed Miliband (born 1969), former leader of the UK Labour Party

Artists and intellectuals

Edward Said (1935–2003), Palestinian-American academic

Edward Blishen, English author

Ed Byrne (academic), Principal of King's College London and former Vice-Chancellor of Monash University

Edward Elgar, English composer with Anglo-Saxon first and last names

Edward Grimes, one of the two members of Irish pop duo Jedward

Edward Hopper (1882–1967), American realist painter

Edward Daniel Leahy, Irish painter

Edward Barker (cartoonist), English cartoonist who signed his drawings simply as Edward

Edward Gould, English animator and creator of Eddsworld

Edward John David "Eddie" Redmayne (born 1982), Academy Award winning English actor

Edward Christopher Sheeran, English singer-songwriter and musician

Edward Gorey, American illustrator

Sports

Ed Gainey (Canadian football), American player of Canadian football

Ed Hodgkiss

Ed Hochuli (born 1950), NFL Official

Edward Lawrence Levy, English world champion weightlifter

Ed Mieszkowski (1925–2004), American football player

Edward Weitz (born 1946), Israeli Olympic weightlifter

Other

Edward Brown (born 1942), involved in a tax dispute with the U.S. government

Edward Snowden (born 1983), American who disclosed National Security Agency secrets

Edward J. Steimel (1922–2016), American columnist, political activist, and lobbyist

Edward Douglas (1901–1967), Scottish Roman Catholic

Edward Rohan Amerasekera (1916-1974), first indigenous Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force

People surnamed Edward

John Edward, professional name of John Edward McGee, Jr. (born 1969), American self-proclaimed psychic

Fictional characters

Ed, Edd n Eddy, television show, as well as main characters thereof

Edward, fictional platypus from Camp Lazlo

Edward, a character in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Edward AKA: DEATH, a main character and assassin from the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series

Edward Bear, mock "formal" name for a teddy bear—another name for Winnie-the-Pooh

Edward the Blue Engine, a character from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

Eddie Brock, Marvel Comics character in some notable Spider-Man stories

Edward Cullen, the vampire love-interest in the fantasy/romance novels of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series

Edward Elric, the protagonist in the anime/manga series, Fullmetal Alchemist

Edward Ferrars, character in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Edward Elizabeth Hitler, a character from Bottom

Edward Hyde, the title character's evil alter ego in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Edward James Kenway, the protagonist of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

Edward Mars, the shipwrecked marshal in Lost

Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate, the captain of the Whitebeard Pirates in One Piece

Edward Nigma, The Riddler, Batman villain

Edward Richtofen, a sociopathic German scientist from Call of Duty: World at War and appears in the Nazi Zombies mode as well as in Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Edward Rochester, the love interest of Jane in Jane Eyre

Edward Scissorhands, movie directed by Tim Burton and written by Caroline Thompson, and its title character

Edward "Stubbs" Stubblefield, the fictional undead from the Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse video game

Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, fantasy version of an historical figure of the same name, in the fourth "Jack Sparrow" movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV, a wild little girl from the anime Cowboy Bebop

Edward Chris von Muir, "spoony bard" of Final Fantasy IV

Mister Ed, the talking horse, from the television series (1958-1966) of the same name