Edgar

Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name Eadgar (composed of ead "rich, prosperous" and gar "spear").

Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, revived in the 18th century, and was popularised by its use for a character in Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819).

People with the name Edgar

Historical figures

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

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, American author, creator of Tarzan
Edgar Cason, American businessman and philanthropist
Edgar Cayce, American psychic and healer
Edgar F. Codd, British computer scientist
Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
Edgar Degas, French painter
Edgar Fonseca, Colombian road cyclist
Édgar González (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 P. Jacobs, Belgian comic book creator
Edgar Jankauskas, First Lithuanian footballer to win the UEFA Champions League
Edgar H. Lancaster, Jr., American politician and lawyer
Edgar Martínez, American Major League Baseball player who played for the Seattle Mariners
Edgar Meyer, American bassist
Edgar Middleton (1894–1939), British playwright and author
Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
Edgar Morais, Portuguese actor
Edgar Oliver, American performance artist and playwright
Edgar Pêra, Portuguese cinematographer
Edgar Allan Poe, American author
Édgar Ponce (1974–2005), Mexican actor and dancer
Edgar Prado, Peruvian-born American jockey
Édgar Ramírez, Venezuelan actor
Edgar E. Rand (c. 1905-1955), American business executive.
Edgar Nelson Rhodes, Canadian politician
Édgar Humberto Ruíz, 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
Édgar Velásquez, 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 video game Final Fantasy VI.
Edgar McGraw, character in several films by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, including Kill Bill: Volume 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
Edgar "Egg" Cooke, a leading character in the TV series This Life

People with the surname Edgar

Barrie Edgar (1919–2012), English television producer
David Edgar (footballer) (born 1987), Canadian footballer
David Edgar (playwright) (born 1948), English playwright
David Edgar (swimmer) (born 1950), American swimmer
David Edgar (academic), professor at Caledonian Business School, part of Glasgow Caledonian University
Don Edgar (born 1936), Australian sociologist
Frankie Edgar (born 1981), American mixed martial arts fighter
George Edgar (1837–1913), American university president
George Edgar (diplomat) (born 1960), British ambassador
James David Edgar (1841–1899), Canadian politician
James Edgar (entrepreneur) (1843–1909), Scottish-American founder of Edgar Department Stores and the first department store Santa Claus
James Douglas Edgar (1884–1921), English professional golfer
Jim Edgar (born 1946), American politician
Jimmy Edgar (born 1983), American electronic music artist
John Edgar (disambiguation), several people
Jon Edgar (born 1968), British sculptor
Kika Edgar (born 1985), Mexican actress and singer
Marriott Edgar (1880–1951), British poet
Robert Allan Edgar (born 1940), U.S. federal judge
Robert W. Edgar (1943–2013), American politician
Ross Edgar (born 1983), British track cyclist
Scott Edgar (basketball coach) (born 1955), American basketball coach
Thomas Edgar (MP) (by 1508–1547), English politician
Thomas Edgar (volleyball) (born 1989), Australian volleyball player
Thomas F. Edgar, American chemical engineer
William Edgar (disambiguation), several people

Fictional characters with the surname Edgar

Judge Edgar, character in the Judge Dredd comic strip