Edmund
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
Kings and nobles
- Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia
- Edmund I, King of England from 939 to 946
- Edmund Ironside, also known as Edmund II, King of England in 1016
- Edmund of Scotland
- Edmund Crouchback, son of King Henry III of England and claimant to the Sicilian throne
- Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall, earl of Cornwall; English nobleman of royal descent
- Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of King Edward III of England
- Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond, English and Welsh nobleman
- Edmund, Prince of Schwarzenberg, the last created Austrian field marshal of the 19th century
In religion
- Saint Edmund (disambiguation), religious title given to several persons
- Eadmund of Winchester, once thought to have been a Bishop of Winchester
- Edmund of Durham, Bishop of Durham
- Edmund Arrowsmith, Jesuit, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
- Edmund Campion, English Jesuit priest and martyr
- Edmund Gennings, English priest and martyr
- Edmund Kalau, German missionary and minister
- Edmund Peiris, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic priest, Bishop of Chilaw from 1940-1972
- Edmund Rich, also called Edmund of Abingdon; Archbishop of Canterbury
- Edmund Ignatius Rice, founder of the Congregation of Christian Brothers
In politics
- Edmund Burke, Irish statesman, political theorist, and philosopher
- Edmund Barton, Australian prime minister
- Edmund Hungate Beaghan, English politician
- E. J. Cooray, Sri Lankan Senator, Minister of Justice of Sri Lanka from March 1960 to July 1960
- E. B. Dimbulane, Sri Lankan Member of Parliament for Alutnuwara
- Edmund Rowland Gooneratne, Sri Lankan Gate Mudaliyar, scholar, planter, Buddhist revivalist
- Edmund L. Oldfield, American politician
- Edmund Walter Jayawardena, Sri Lankan lawyer and diplomat
- Edmund Muskie, American Secretary of State
- Edmund G. Brown, Sr., commonly known as Pat Brown; governor of California, 1959–1967
- Edmund G. Brown, Jr., commonly known as Jerry Brown; governor of California
- Edmund Peiris, Sri Lankan Muhandiram
- Edmund Randolph, American founding father and governor of Virginia
- Edmund Samarakkody, Sri Lankan Trotskyist, trade unionist
- Edmund Stoiber, German politician, former minister-president of the state of Bayern
- Edmund Tsaturyan, Armenian politician, member of the National Assembly of Armenia
- Edmund (Tiruchendur MLA), Indian politician, elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly in 1971
In other fields
- Sir Edmund Andros, English colonial administrator under the Royal House of Stuart
- Edmund Anscombe, New Zealand architect
- Edmund Cobb, American actor
- Edmund Collein, East German architect and Bauhaus photographer
- Edmund Crispin, pseudonym of English crime fiction writer Bruce Montgomery
- Edmund L. Cushing, chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
- Edmund Davy, English chemist
- Edmund Eagles, British painter
- Edmund Fritz, Austrian actor, film director, and music manager
- Edmund H. Garrett, American artist
- Edmund Gettier, American philosopher
- Edmund Goulding, British film writer and director
- Edmund Gunter, British mathematician
- Edmund Gwenn, British actor
- Edmund Hashim, American actor
- Edmund Hewavitarne, Sri Lankan businessman and army reservist
- Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer
- Edmund Husserl, philosopher and mathematician
- Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Sir William Edmund Ironside, field marshal and chief of the British Imperial General Staff
- Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside, British politician and engineer, son of William Edmund Ironside
- Edmund Kemper, American serial killer and necrophile
- Edmund Blair Leighton, British artist
- Edmund Lenihan, Irish author and storyteller
- Edmund Lowe, American actor
- Edmund McMillen, American video game designer
- Edmund P. Murray, American novelist and journalist
- Edmund Rack, English writer
- Edmund Reid, head of the Metropolitan Police's CID during the time of the Jack the Ripper
- Ed Skoronski, American football player
- Edmund Kirby Smith, American general, telegraph president, and professor of mathematics and botany.
- Edmund Sonnenblick, American cardiologist
- Edmund Spenser, English poet
- Edmund White, American writer
- Edmund Wilson, American writer and literary critic
- Edmund Yaghjian, Armenian-born American painter, educator
- Edmund Irvine, Northern Irish racing driver and property investor
- Edmund Jordan, Irish motorsport executive, broadcaster, racing driver and businessman
Fictional characters
- Edmund, an antagonist in the play King Lear by William Shakespeare
- Edmund Bertram, in the novel Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Edmund Blackadder, the protagonist of the BBC historical comedy series Blackadder
- Edmund Pevensie, main character in several of The Chronicles of Narnia book series by C. S. Lewis
- King Edmund, a supporting character in the animated show of ''Tangled''