Edgar

This article is about the name Edgar. For other uses, see Edgar (disambiguation) and Eadgar (disambiguation).

Edgar is a common name from Old English words ead (meaning "rich, happy, prosperous") + gar (meaning "spear"). Literally meaning "prosperity-spear" or "prosperous spearman." It may refer to:

People with the name Edgar

Historical figures

• Edgar the Peaceful (942–975), king of England
• Edgar of Scotland (1074–1107), king of Scotland
• Edgar the Ætheling (c.1051–c.1126), last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England

People with the given name Edgar

• Edgar Angara, Filipino lawyer
• Edgar Baumann, Paraguayan javelin thrower
• Edgar John Bergen, American actor, radio performer, ventriloquist
• Edgar Buchanan, American actor
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, U.S. writer, creator of Tarzan
• Edgar F. Codd, British computer scientist
• Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
• Edgar Degas, French painter
• Edgar Fonseca, Colombian road cyclist
• Edgar Gonzalez (disambiguation), multiple people
• Edgar Grospiron, French freestyle skier and Olympic champion
• Edgar Guest, American poet
• J. Edgar Hoover, former head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Edgar Martínez, Major League Baseball player who played for the Seattle Mariners
• Edgar Meyer, American bassist
• Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
• Edgar Morais, Portuguese actor
• Edgar Allan Poe, American author
• Edgar Pêra, a Portuguese cinematographer.
• Edgar Ponce (1974–2005), Mexican actor and dancer
• Edgar Prado, Peruvian jockey
• Edgar Ramirez, Venezuelan actor
• Edgar Nelson Rhodes, Canadian politician
• Edgar Humberto Ruiz, Colombian road cyclist
• Edgar Savisaar, Estonian politician (Keskerakond)
• Edgar Seligman, British 2-time Olympic champion fencer
• Edgar Sengier, Belgium director of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga during World War II
• Edgar Varèse, French composer
• Edgar Velasquez, Venezuelan boxer
• Edgar Winter, American musician
• Edgar Wright, British director
• Edgar Yaeger, American artist

Fictional characters with the given name Edgar

• Edgar Linton, a leading character from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• Edgar, a leading character in Shakespeare's King Lear
• Edgar Bones, fictional character from the Harry Potter series of novels by J.K. Rowling
• Edgar Friendly, an underground rebel leader in the 1990s movie Demolition Man
• Edgar Roni Figaro, character in the Final Fantasy VI video game
• Edgar McGraw, character in several films by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, including Kill Bill Vol. 1
• Edgar Stiles, character in the television series 24
• Edgar, a character in The Zimmer Twins
• Edgar, from the video Edgar's fall on YouTube
• Edgar, the computer in the 1984 film: Electric Dreams
• Edgar E Gore, a character in Frankenweenie

People with the surname Edgar

• Barrie Edgar, English television producer
• David Edgar (academic), British professor at Caledonian Business School
• David Edgar (footballer), Canadian footballer
• David Edgar (playwright), British playwright
• David Edgar (swimmer), American swimmer
• Don Edgar, Australian sociologist
• Frankie Edgar, American mixed martial arts fighter
• James Edgar (entrepreneur), British businessman who dressed up as Santa Claus for Christmas
• Jim Edgar, American politician
• Jimmy Edgar, Detroit-based electronic music artist
• John Edgar, Illinois pioneer and politician
• Jon Edgar, British artist
• Kika Edgar, Mexican actress and singer
• Marriott Edgar, British poet
• Robert Allan Edgar, United States federal judge
• Robert W. Edgar, American politician
• Ross Edgar, British track cyclist
• Scott Edgar (basketball coach), American basketball coach
• William Edgar, British mechanical engineer

Fictional characters with the surname Edgar

• Judge Edgar, character in the Judge Dredd comic strip

See also

• Edgar (disambiguation)
• Edgars, the Latvian language cognate of the English name
• Edgars, a chain of department stores in South Africa owned by Edcon Limited