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".^[1]

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 (disambiguation), 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 Fritz (before 1918 – after 1932), Austrian actor, film director, and music manager
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

References

↑ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 84, ISBN 9780198610601

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