Edmund

Gender:
Origin: English
1759 famous people named Edmund found on Wikipedia.
50889 male, 60 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 1137-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 130-th in year 1914
Used in: English, German, Polish

Meanings

Also, Edmund. a male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich, happy” and “protection.”.

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".

Masc. proper name, Old English Eadmund, literally "prosperity-protector," from ead "wealth, prosperity, happiness" (see Edith). The second element is mund "hand, protection, guardian," from PIE root *man- (2) "hand."

Wealthy protection, prosperous protection, fortunate protector; combine of ead (prosperity, riches) and mund (protector).

Famous People: 1759 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Edmund Hillary 1919 New Zealand mountaineer
2 Edmund Kemper 1948 American serial killer
3 Edmund Burke 1729 Anglo-Irish statesman
4 Kyle Edmund 1995 British tennis player
5 Edmund II of England 0989 King of the English, Wessex dynasty
6 Edmund I of England 0921 Anglo Saxon monarch
7 Edmund Husserl 1859 German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology
8 Edmund Spenser 1552 English poet
9 Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond 1430 English noble
10 Edmund Muskie 1914 Senator of the USA
11 Edmund McMillen 1980 American video game designer
12 Edmund the Martyr 0841 King of East Anglia from about 855 until his death
13 Edmund Gwenn 1877 Actor
14 Edmund Barton 1849 First Prime Minister of Australia and founding justice of the High Court of Australia
15 Edmund Pevensie Fictional English boy, a lead character in the first three Narnia books
16 Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York 1341 Duke of York
17 Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby 1861 British Army general
18 Edmund Randolph 1753 American attorney
19 Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset 1499 Duke of Somerset
20 Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset 1406 English military personnel
21 Edmund Reid 1846 Head of the CID in the Metropolitan Police's H Division
22 Edmund Purdom 1924 Actor
23 Edmund Kirby Smith 1824 Confederate Army general
24 Edmund Leighton 1852 British Romantic painter
25 Edmund Wilson 1895 American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters
26 Edmund Campion 1540 English Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
27 Edmund Crouchback 1245 English noble
28 Edmund Blackadder Fictional character
29 Edmund Cartwright 1743 British inventor
30 Edmund Ignatius Rice 1762 Founder of the Congregation of Christian Brothers
31 Edmund de Waal 1964 British ceramic artist
32 Edmund Andros 1637 British governor of several North American colonies
33 Edmund Janniger 1995
34 Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March 1391 Heir presumptive to King Richard II of England
35 Edmund White 1940 American novelist and LGBT essayist
36 Edmund Heines 1897 SA-Obergruppenführer
37 Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent 1301 English Earl
38 Edmund Dulac 1882 French magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer
39 Edmund Thomas Clint 1976 Indian artist
40 Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside 1880 British Army officer
41 Edmund Character in Shakespeare's King Lear
42 Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk 1472 English nobleman and Yorkist heir
43 Edmund McIlhenny 1815 American businessman
44 Edmund Phelps 1933 American economist
45 Edmund Leach 1910 British anthropologist
46 Edmund Landau 1877 German Jewish mathematician
47 Edmund Pettus 1821 Confederate Army general
48 Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March 1352 Earl of March and jure uxoris Earl of Ulster
49 Edmund Gettier 1927 American philosopher
50 Edmund Ruffin 1794 American scientist and politician
51 Edmund Lowe 1890 American actor
52 Edmund Dudley 1462 English politician
53 Edmund Chen 1961 Singaporean actor
54 Edmund Sylvers 1957 American singer
55 Edmund Beecher Wilson 1856 American zoologist, geneticist
56 Edmund Kean 1787 English actor
57 Edmund Morris 1940 American writer
58 Edmund Lyndeck 1925 American actor
59 Edmund Stoiber 1941 German politician
60 Edmund J. Davis 1827 Union Army General
61 Edmund Trebus 1918 POlish hoarder
62 Edmund Gosse 1849 Poet, author, and critic
63 Edmund Robertson 1943 British mathematician
64 Edmund Morgan 1916 American historian
65 Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel 1285 English Earl
66 Edmund Leopold de Rothschild 1916 English financier
67 Edmund Blunden 1896 English poet, author and literary critic
68 Edmund Spangler 1825 Carpenter, stagehand
69 Edmund Crispin 1921 British composer
70 Edmund Pendleton 1721 American politician
71 Edmund Rubbra 1901 British composer
72 Edmund Bonner 1500 Bishop of London, was an English bishop
73 Edmund Wojtyła 1906 Polish physician
74 Edmund Goulding 1891 British film director
75 Edmund Waller 1606 English poet and politician
76 Edmund Ho 1955 Chinese politician
77 Edmund Bordeaux Szekely 1905 Hungarian scholar
78 Edmund Grindal 1519 Archbishop of Canterbury
79 Edmund C. Lynch 1885 American banker
80 Edmund H. North 1911 American screenwriter
81 Edmund G. Ross 1826 American politician
82 Edmund Stasiak 1960
83 Edmund Herring 1892 Australian Army general during World War II and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
84 Edmund Evans 1826 British wood engraver and printer
85 Edmund C. Tarbell 1862 American Impressionist painter
86 Edmund Glaise-Horstenau 1882 German general
87 Edmund Clerihew Bentley 1875 British writer
88 Edmund Berry Godfrey 1621 English magistrate
89 Edmund Gunter 1581 British mathematician
90 Edmund W. Barker 1920 Singaporean politician
91 Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy 1939 British peer
92 Edmund M. Clarke 1945 American computer scientist
93 Edmund Roberts 1784 American diplomat
94 Edmund Bertram
95 Edmund Entacher 1949 Austrian officer
96 Edmund P. Gaines 1777 United States army officer
97 Edmund Veesenmayer 1904 German general
98 Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset 1438 Duke of Somerset
99 Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford 1378 English Earl
100 Edmund Reggie 1926 American politician
101 Edmund Kennedy 1818 Australian explorer
102 Edmund Blacket 1817 Australian architect
103 Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent 1416 English politician
104 Edmund Arrowsmith 1585 Lancaster Jesuit priest
105 Edmund Creffield
106 Edmund Jacobson 1888 American physiologist
107 Edmund Heckler 1906 German businessman
108 Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer 1251 2nd Baron Mortimer
109 Edmund Entin 1985 American actor
110 Edmund Ludlow 1617 English politician
111 Edmund Ansin 1936 American businessman
112 Edmund Sharpe 1809 English architect and engineer
113 Edmund Kalau 1928 German missionary
114 Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent 1855 British politician
115 Edmund Shakespeare 1580 Brother of William Shakespeare
116 Edmund Trzcinski 1921 American playwright
117 Edmund A. Walsh 1885 American priest
118 Edmund Giambastiani 1948 United States Navy admiral
119 Edmund Lenihan 1950 Irish writer
120 Edmund Tylney 1536 English courtier
121 Edmund Bergler 1899 American psychoanalyst
122 Edmund Happold 1930 British engineer and activist
123 Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe 1816 British architect
124 Edmund S. Valtman 1914 Cartoonist
125 Edmund Ætheling Son of King Edmund Ironside of England.
126 Edmund Cooper 1926 British writer
127 Edmund Musgrave Barttelot 1859 British Army officer
128 Edmund Friedemann Dräcker 1888 Fictional human
129 Edmund Hockridge 1919 Canadian actor and singer
130 Edmund Kiss 1886 German writer and archaeologist
131 Edmund Snow Carpenter 1922 Anthropologist
132 Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent 1384 English nobleman
133 Edmund Szoka 1927 Catholic cardinal
134 Edmund Clowney 1917 American theologian
135 Edmund Hartt American shipbuilder
136 Edmund Dell 1921 British politician
137 Edmund Copeland Professor of physics
138 Edmund C. Moy 1957 Former director of United States Mint, businessman
139 Edmund of Scotland 1100 Scottish prince
140 Edmund Roßmann 1918 German World War II fighter ace
141 Edmund Jaeger 1887 American biologist
142 Edmund Kugbila 1990 American football player, offensive lineman
143 Edmund Klich 1946 Polish officer
144 Edmund Erlemann 1935 Roman-Catholic German priest
145 Edmund Mortimer 1376 English rebel with Welsh leader Owain Glyndŵr
146 Edmund de Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford 1273 English Baron
147 Edmund Newell 1857 American entertainer
148 Edmund Breon 1882 Actor
149 Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons 1790 Royal Navy admiral
150 Edmund Dick Taylor 1804 American politician
151 Edmund Sears 1810 American minister
152 Edmund T. Allen 1896 American test pilot
153 Edmund B. Fitzgerald 1926 American businessman
154 Edmund Cobb 1892 Actor
155 Edmund Berkeley 1909 American computer scientist
156 Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick Irish noble and justiciar
157 Edmund Curll 1675 British publisher and bookseller
158 Edmund Nathanael 1889 German flying ace
159 Edmund Blampied 1886 British artist
160 Edmund Shaa Lord Mayor of London
161 Edmund D. Pellegrino 1920 American academic
162 Edmund D. Edelman 1930 American politician
163 Edmund Lockyer 1784 British soldier and explorer of Australia
164 Edmund Pery, 7th Earl of Limerick 1963 Irish earl
165 Edmund Breese 1871 Actor
166 Edmund Gibson 1669 British bishop
167 Edmund Hottor 1993 Footballer
168 Edmund Conen 1914 German footballer
169 Edmund Clifton Stoner 1899 British physicist
170 Edmund Capon 1940 Australian art historian
171 Edmund MacDonald 1908 US actor
172 Edmund Payne 1863 English singer-actor-comedian
173 Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby 1716 British noble
174 Edmund Davy 1785 British chemist
175 Edmund Scarborough 1617 American politician
176 Edmund Gurney 1847 British psychic researcher
177 Edmund Nelson 1960 American football player
178 Edmund Gennings 1567 English martyr
179 Edmund Weiner 1950 British lexicographer
180 Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies 1906 British Baron
181 Edmund Bourne American psychologist
182 Edmund Clarence Stedman 1833 American poet, critic, and essayist
183 Edmund Daniel Halim Mamusung Indonesian journalist
184 Edmund Heller 1875 American zoologist
185 Edmund Rucker 1835 Confederate Army officer
186 Edmund Charaszkiewicz 1895 Polish Army intelligence officer
187 Edmund Sutton 1425 English knight
188 Edmund Guerrier 1840 American interpreter
189 Edmund Gerber 1988 German boxer
190 Edmund Bräuning 1905 German merchant
191 Edmund Jennings Lee I 1772 American mayor
192 Edmund de Unger 1918 Hungarian art collector
193 Edi Bierling 1929 German actor
194 Edmund Bacon 1785 American business manager
195 Edmund de Mortimer 1306 English knight
196 Edmund Rumpler 1872 Austrian automobile and aircraft designer
197 Edmund E. Anderson 1906 American industrial designer
198 Edmund Schulthess 1868 Member of the Swiss Federal Council
199 Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet 1805 British colonial administrator
200 Edmund Daukoru 1943 Nigerian politician