Edson

Edson may refer to:

Places

Canada

• Edson, Alberta

United States

• Edson, Kansas, an unincorporated community
• Edson, South Dakota, a ghost town
• Edson, Wisconsin, a town
  • Edson (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

People

Given name

• Édson, a Brazilian given name, often written as Edson
• Edson (footballer, born 1977), Brazilian footballer
• Edson (footballer, born 1987), Brazilian footballer
• Edson (footballer, born 1990), Brazilian footballer
• Edson (footballer, born 1991), Brazilian footballer
• Edson (footballer, born 1998), Brazilian footballer
• Edson Álvarez (born 1997), Mexican footballer
• Edson Braafheid (born 1983), Dutch footballer
• Edson Buddle (born 1981), American soccer player
• Edson Minga (born 1979), Congolese born Hong Kong footballer
• Edson B. Olds (1802–1869), American politician
• Edson A. Putnam (1832-1917), American politician
• Edson Warner (born 1930), Canadian sports figure
• Edson White (1849–1928), American Seventh-day Adventist and publisher

Surname

• Allan Edson (1846–1888), Canadian painter
• Billy Edson (1874–1965), football player, lawyer, and politician in Iowa
• C. L. Edson (1881–1975), American newspaper columnist, humorist, and poet
• Carroll A. Edson (1891–1986), early leader in the Boy Scouts of America; co-founder of the Order of the Arrow scouting honor society
• Charles Edson (1864–1936), American composer
• Evelyn Edson (born 1940), American medievalist and historian of cartography
• Fanny Carter Edson (1887–1952), American geologist
• Franklin Edson (1832–1904), 85th Mayor of New York
• Gary Edson, president of Conservation International
• Gus Edson (1901–1966), American cartoonist (originally "Edelstein")
• Hilary Edson (born 1965), American soap opera actress
• Hiram Edson (1806–1882), pioneer of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• J. T. Edson (1928–2014), English author of American Westerns
• Jerrod Edson (born 1974), Canadian novelist
• Job A. Edson (1854–1928), president of the Kansas City Southern Railway
• John Joy Edson, American banker
• Katherine Philips Edson (1870–1933), American labor and women's rights activist
• Lewis Edson (1748–1820), early American composer
• Marcellus Gilmore Edson (1849–1940), Canadian pharmacist who was the first person to patent peanut butter
• Margaret Edson (born 1961), American playwright
• Merritt A. Edson (1897–1955), U.S. Marine Corps General
• Mike Edson (born 1942), British Church of England clergyman
• Norman Lowther Edson (1904–1970), New Zealander biochemist
• Rich Edson (born 1981), American journalist
• Richard Edson (born 1954), American actor
• Russell Edson (1935–2014), American poet, novelist, writer and illustrator
• Susan Ann Edson (1823–1897), American doctor and personal physician to James A. Garfield
• William Alden Edson (1912–2012), American scientist and engineer

Other

• Edson Range, a rifle range at Camp Pendleton, near Oceanside, California
• USS Edson, a destroyer of the United States Navy