Edgar
This article is about the name Edgar. For other uses, see Edgar (disambiguation) and Eadgar (disambiguation).
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 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
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
See also
- Edgar Award, a literature award honouring Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgars (name), the Latvian language cognate of the English name
- Edgars, a chain of department stores in South Africa owned by Edcon Limited
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