Edward

Edward
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Old English: Eadweard
Meaning	ead 'Riches', 'Prosperous' or 'Fortune' and weard 'Guardian' or 'Protector'
Other names
Related names	Édouard, Eduardo, Eddie, Ed, Ned, Woody

Edward is an English and Polish given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon form Ēadweard, composed of the elements ead "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and weard "guardian, protector".

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 with titles 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 1970-1980
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 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.

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
Ed Gainey (Canadian football), American player of Canadian football
Edward Lawrence Levy, English world champion weightlifter
Ed Mieszkowski (1925–2004), American football player
Edward Douglas (1901–1967), Scottish Roman Catholic
Ed Hochuli (born 1950), NFL Official
Edward Rohan Amerasekera, first indigenous Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force

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 4th "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