Edmund

For other uses, see Edmund (disambiguation).

Edmund
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	English
Origin
Language(s)	Old English
Derivation	ēad + mund
Meaning	"prosperity", "riches" + "protector"
Other names
Variant form(s)	Eadmund
Derivative(s)	Eamonn, Edmond

Edmund is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ēad, meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and mund, meaning "protector".

Persons named Edmund include:

People

Nobility

• Edmund the Martyr (died 869 or 870), king of East Anglia
• Edmund I (922–946), King of England from 939 to 946
• Edmund Ironside (989–1016), also known as Edmund II, King of England in 1016
• Edmund of Scotland (after 1070 – after 1097)
• Edmund Crouchback (1245–1296), son of King Henry III of England and claimant to the Sicilian throne
• Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (1249–1300), English earl
• Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402), son of King Edward III of England
• Sir Edmund Cornwall, KB (1483)

In religion

• Saint Edmund, religious title given to several persons
• Eadmund of Winchester (died between 833 and 838), once thought to have been a Bishop of Winchester
• Edmund of Durham (died 1041), Bishop of Durham
• Edmund Arrowsmith (1585–1628), Jesuit, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
• Edmund Campion (1540–1581), English Jesuit priest and martyr
• Edmund Gennings (1567–1591), English priest and martyr
• Edmund Rich (1175–1240), also called Edmund of Abingdon; Archbishop of Canterbury
• Edmund Ignatius Rice (1762–1844), founder of the Congregation of Christian Brothers

In politics

• Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish statesman, political theorist, and philosopher
• Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (born 1938), commonly known as Jerry Brown; governor of California
• Edmund Muskie (1914–1996), American Secretary of State
• Edmund Stoiber (born 1941), German politician, former minister-president of the state of Bavaria

In other fields

• Edmund Anscombe (1874–1948), New Zealand architect
• Edmund Crispin, pseudonym of English crime fiction writer Bruce Montgomery (1921–1978)
• Edmund Davy (1785–1857), English chemist
• Edmund H. Garrett (1853–1929), American artist
• Edmund Gettier (born 1927), American philosopher
• Edmund Goulding (1891–1959), British film writer and director
• Edmund Gunter (1581–1626), British mathematician
• Sir Edmund Hillary (1919–2008), New Zealand mountaineer
• Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), philosopher and mathematician
• Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Sir William Edmund Ironside (1880–1951), field marshal and chief of the British Imperial General Staff
• Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside (born 1924), British politician and engineer, son of William Edmund Ironside
• Edmund Lenihan (born 1950), Irish author and storyteller
• Edmund P. Murray (1930–2007), American novelist and journalist
• Edmund Reid (1846–1917), head of the Metropolitan Police's CID during the time of the Jack the Ripper
• Ed Skoronski (1910–1996), American football player
• Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), English poet

Fictional characters

• Edmund (King Lear), an antagonist in the play King Lear by William Shakespeare
• Edmund Bertram, character in the novel Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• Edmund Blackadder, the protagonist of the BBC historical comedy series Blackadder
• Edmund Pevensie, character in The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
• Edmund Tyrone, character in the drama Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

See also

• All pages beginning with "Edmund"
• Edmund (disambiguation)
• Edmunds (disambiguation)
• Edmond (disambiguation)
• Edmund Ironside (disambiguation)
• Edward