Edwina

Edwina

Gender	Female
Origin
Meaning	rich friend
Other names
Related names	Edwin

The name Edwina is the female version of the male name Edwin, which derives from Old English and means "rich friend." Edwin was a popular name until the time of the Norman Conquest, and then wasn't often used again until Victorian times.

People

• Edwina Booth (1909–1991), American actress
• Edwina Brown (born 1978), American former basketball player and current college assistant coach
• Edwina Brudenell (born 1961), granddaughter of Adm. Louis Mountbatten
• Edwina Currie (born 1946), former Conservative Member of Parliament
• Edwina Dumm (1910-2007), comic strip artist
• Edwina Hume Fallis (1876-1957), American educator, writer, toy designer
• Edwina Hart (born 1957), Welsh Assembly Minister for Social Justice
• Edwina Mountbatten (1901–1960), English heiress and wife of Adm. Louis Mountbatten
• Edwina Noone, pseudonym used by author Michael Avallone
• Edwina Sandys, sculptor and granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill
• Edwina Tops-Alexander, Australian equestrian rider

Fictional characters

• Edwina Brown, in the film National Velvet (1944), played by Angela Lansbury
• Edwina Cutwater, in the film All of Me (1984), played by Lily Tomlin
• Edwina Dunn, on the soap opera EastEnders
• Edwina Ferguson, in the M*A*S*H episode "Edwina"
• Edwina Lewis, on the soap opera One Life to Live
• Edwina Lionheart, played by Diana Rigg in the film Theatre of Blood
• Edwina Moira, in the Thief computer game series
• Edwina Monsoon, though changed to Edina, the main character of the BBC television series Absolutely Fabulous played by Jennifer Saunders
• Edwina Richese, in the novel Dune: House Atreides
• Edwina Spoonapple, in the musical Dear Edwina
• Edwina Winston, on The Simpsons (former lover of Abraham Simpson)
• Edwina Fulton, in the movie Monkey Business played by Ginger Rogers (1952)