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 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 beginning with "Edward"

Medieval

Further information: Saint Edward (disambiguation), Duarte (disambiguation), and Prince Edward (disambiguation)

• 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 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

See also

• Edwards (surname)
• Edwards syndrome, genetic disorder
• Prince Edward Island, Canadian province situated in the Maritime