Edward


Gender:
Origin: English
8562 famous people named Edward found on Wikipedia.
1291006 male, 5363 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 169-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 8-th in year 1923
Used in: English, Polish

Meanings

A male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich, happy” and “guardian.”.

Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon form Éadweard, composed of the elements ead "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and weard "guardian, protector".

Masc. proper name, from Old English Eadweard, literally "prosperity-guard," from ead "wealth, prosperity" (see Edith) + weard "guardian" (see ward (n.)). Among the 10 most popular names for boys born in the U.S. every year from 1895 to 1930.

Wealthy guardian, wealth protector.

Famous People: 8562 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Edward Snowden 1983 American whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor
2 Edward VIII 1894 King of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936
3 Edward VII 1841 King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India
4 Edward Norton 1969 American actor
5 Edward VI of England 1537 King of England, Tudor dynasty
6 Edward IV of England 1442 King of England
7 Edward I of England 1239 King of England
8 Edward II of England 1284 King of England; born in Caernarfon
9 Edward III of England 1312 King of England
10 Edward Herrmann 1943 American actor
11 Edward Furlong 1977 American actor
12 Edward James Olmos 1947 American actor and director
13 Edward V of England 1470 King of England
14 Edward the Confessor Anglo-Saxon king of England
15 Edward Burns 1968 American actor and director
16 Edward Heath 1916 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
17 Edward Smith 1850 Captain of the RMS Titanic
18 Edward G. Robinson 1893 Romanian American actor
19 Edward Hopper 1882 Prominent American realist painter and printmaker
20 Edward Fox 1937 English stage, film and television actor
21 Edward Jenner 1749 English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination
22 Edward the Elder 0871 English king, son of Alfred the Great
23 Edward R. Murrow 1908 Television journalist
24 Edward Bernays 1891 American public relations consultant, marketing pioneer
25 Edward Said 1935 Professor of English and literature
26 Edward Mezvinsky 1937 American politician
27 Edward Teller 1908 Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
28 Edward Woodward 1930 English actor
29 Edward Elgar 1857 (1857–1934) English composer
30 Edward Baker Lincoln 1846 The second son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln
31 Edward Albee 1928 American playwright
32 Edward Holcroft 1987 English actor
33 John Edward 1969 American television personality and professional psychic medium
34 Edward Witten 1951 American theoretical physicist
35 Edward Higgins White 1930 American astronaut
36 Edward Albert 1951 American television and film actor
37 Edward Edwards 1933 American serial killer
38 Edward Zwick 1952 American film maker
39 Edward the Martyr 0962 King of the English
40 Edward L. Masry 1932 American politician
41 Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales 1453 Prince of Wales
42 Edward Thorndike 1874 American psychologist
43 Edward Paisnel 1925 Jersey sex offender
44 Edward Bunker 1933 Novelist, screenwriter, actor
45 Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk 1956 British peer
46 Edward Gorey 1925 American writer, artist, and illustrator
47 Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick 1475 English Earl
48 Edward Gibbon 1737 English historian and Member of Parliament
49 Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset 1506 Nobleman
50 Edward Low 1690 Pirate
51 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham 1478 English noble, born in Wales
52 Edward Winter 1937 American actor
53 Edward O'Hare 1914 United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
54 Edward Abbey 1927 American author and essayist
55 Edward Lear 1812 British artist, illustrator, author and poet
56 Edward Capehart O'Kelley 1857 American outlaw
57 Edward Byers 1979 A United States Navy SEAL who received the Medal of Honor
58 Edward Oxford 1822 Failed assassin of Queen Victoria
59 Edward Burnett Tylor 1832 English anthropologist
60 Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford 1550 English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era
61 Edward Mulhare 1923 Actor
62 Edward Weston 1886 American photographer
63 Edward Tudor-Pole 1955 British actor and singer
64 Edward Elric Character in Fullmetal Alchemist
65 Edward Heffron 1923 American military personnel
66 Edward Everett Horton 1886 Actor
67 Edward de Bono 1933 Maltese physician
68 Edward J. DeBartolo, Jr. 1946 American football owner
69 Edward Hibbert 1955 British actor
70 Edward S. Curtis 1868 American photographer
71 Edward Platt 1916 Actor
72 Edward Maya 1986 Romanian singer
73 Edward Burne-Jones 1833 Artist from England
74 Edward Brooke 1919 Politician from the United States
75 Edward Tufte 1942 American statistician (b.1942) noted for his writings on information design
76 Edward Leedskalnin 1887 American artist
77 Edward Highmore 1961 British actor
78 Edward Steichen 1879 American photographer, artist and curator
79 Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1803 English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician
80 Edward F. Cox 1946 American lawyer
81 Edward O. Thorp 1932 American mathematician
82 Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales 1473 Only legitimate child of Richard III of England
83 Edward M. Kennedy, Jr. 1961 American lawyer
84 Edward Braddock 1695 British Army general
85 Edward Hardwicke 1932 English actor
86 Edward Kelley 1555 English alchemist
87 Edward L. Doheny 1856 Irish American oil tycoon
88 Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick 1988 Member of the House of Windsor
89 Edward Hogg 1979 British actor
90 Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu 1926 British politician
91 Edward Coke 1552 English lawyer and judge
92 Edward Ruscha 1937 American artist and photographer
93 Edward Shames 1922 U.S. army officer during World War II
94 Edward Lee Howard 1951 CIA officer
95 Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe 1908 British peer
96 Edward Tipper 1921
97 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby 1799 British Prime Minister
98 Edward Brittain 1895
99 Edward T. Hall 1914 American anthropologist
100 Edward Seaga 1930 Prime Minister of Jamaica
101 Edward Lowassa 1953 Tanzanian politician
102 Edward Sapir 1884 American linguist and anthropologist
103 Edward B. Titchener 1867 American psychologist
104 Edward Arnold 1890 American actor
105 Edward Andrews 1914 American actor
106 Edward England 1700 Pirate
107 Edward Mitchell Bannister 1828 Black Canadian-American painter
108 Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon 1862 British Liberal statesman
109 Edward Dmytryk 1908 Canadian-American film director
110 Edward Thomas 1878 Poet and journalist
111 Edward Conard Businessperson
112 Edward Rutledge 1749 American politician
113 Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York 1373 British military personnel
114 Edward Douglass White 1845 American politician, lawyer and judge
115 Edward Binns 1916 American actor
116 Edward Norton Lorenz 1917 American mathematician and meteorologist
117 Edward Carson, Baron Carson 1854 Irish politician, barrister and judge
118 Edward Everett 1794 American politician, orator, statesman
119 Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany 1878 Irish writer and dramatist
120 Edward Frenkel 1968 Mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics
121 Edward St Aubyn 1960 British writer
122 Edward Lee
123 Edward James 1907 British poet and arts patron
124 Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon 1609 English politician
125 Edward Sinclair 1914 English actor
126 E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax 1881 British politician
127 Edward Carpenter 1844 British poet and academic
128 Edward Bellamy 1850 American author and socialist
129 Edward G. Robinson Jr. 1933 American actor
130 Edward Klein 1937 American writer
131 Edward Kitsis 1971 American screenwriter
132 Edward Daly 1933 Catholic bishop
133 Edward the Exile 1016 Son of King Edmund Ironside and of Ealdgyth
134 Edward Luttwak 1942 American military strategist
135 Edward Drinker Cope 1840 American paleontologist and biologist
136 Edward C. Tolman 1886 American psychologist
137 Edward Cornwallis 1713 British Army general
138 Edward Yang 1947 Taiwanese film director and screenwriter
139 Edward Enninful Fashion magazine editor
140 Edward Lansdale 1908 United States general
141 Edward Winslow 1595 Mayflower passenger
142 Edward Davenport 1966 English fraudster
143 Edward Barbanell 1977 American actor
144 Edward Brophy 1895 American actor and comedian
145 Edward J. O'Hare 1893 American lawyer
146 Edward Francis Hutton 1875 American financier
147 Edward Razek Businessman
148 Edward Rutherfurd 1948 British writer
149 Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth 1757 Royal Navy admiral
150 Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire 1895 Head of the Devonshire branch of the Cavendish family
151 Edward Bruce 1275 Brother of Robert I of Scotland; High King of Ireland
152 Edward Mallory 1930 American actor
153 Edward M. House 1858 American diplomat
154 Edward Rydz-Śmigły 1886 Polish general
155 Edward Whymper 1840 British mountaineer
156 Edward Akufo-Addo 1906 Second President of the Republic of Ghana
157 Edward Gordon Craig 1872 Modernist stage designer and theatre director
158 Edward MacDowell 1860 American composer
159 Edward Soja 1940 American urban planner
160 Edward Hicks 1780 American artist
161 Edward FitzGerald 1809 An English poet and writer
162 Edward Mills Purcell 1912 American physicist
163 Edward J. Flanagan 1886 American priest
164 Edward Petherbridge 1936 British actor
165 Edward John Eyre 1815 British explorer and colonial administrator
166 Edward Atterton 1962 Actor
167 Edward Condon 1902 Physicist
168 Edward Pakenham 1778 Irish-born British general
169 Edward Bonham Carter 1960 British businessman
170 Edward Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby 1962 English noble
171 Edward Syah Pernong 1958
172 Edward Durell Stone 1902 American architect
173 Edward Cheserek 1994 Athlete
174 Edward Gardner 1974 British conductor
175 Edward Miszczak 1955
176 Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford 1539 1st Earl of Hertford
177 Edward S. Herman 1925 American journalist
178 Edward Porter Alexander 1835 Confederate Army general
179 Edward Alleyn 1566 English actor
180 Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr. 1909 American businessman
181 Edward Gierek 1913 Polish politician
182 Edward Adrian Wilson 1872 English polar explorer
183 Edward Vernon 1684 Royal Navy admiral
184 Edward Everett Hale 1822 American author and Unitarian clergyman
185 Edward Byrne 1966 American police officer
186 Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke 1705 Royal Navy admiral
187 Edward McKendree Bounds 1835 Clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church South
188 Edward Van Sloan 1882 American film character actor
189 Edward Taylor 1642 American poet
190 Edward J. Scott 1944 American television producer
191 Edward Wilmot Blyden 1832 Liberian politician
192 Edward Egan 1932 Catholic cardinal
193 Edward Yourdon 1944 American software engineer and pioneer in the software engineering methodology
194 Edward Nixon 1930 American businessman
195 Edward Stratemeyer 1862 Book packager, publisher and writer
196 Edward Bond 1934 English writer best known as a dramatist
197 Edward Dickens 1852 Australian politician, child of Victorian-era novelist Charles Dickens
198 Edward C. Hugler 1950 American government official
199 Edward Austen Knight 1768 Brother of Jane Austen
200 Edward Leigh 1950 British politician