Eddie (given name)

Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for given names such as Edward, Edmund, Edgar, Edison, Edsel, Edwin, Eduardo or Edmundo. It is also occasionally used as a given name on its own. Notable people known as Eddie or Eddy include:

Sports

 * Eddie Aikau (1946–1978), American surfer
 * Eddie Alvarez, American mixed martial artist
 * Eddie Charlton (1929–2004), Australian snooker and billiards player
 * Eddie Charlton (born 1988), English squash player
 * Eddie Cheever, American race car driver
 * Eddy Curry, American professional basketball player
 * Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, British ski jumper
 * Eddie Elder, American football player
 * Eddie Fatu (1973–2009), Samoan-American wrestler
 * Eddie Foster (born 1954), American football player
 * Eddie Griffin (basketball) (1982–2007), American basketball player
 * Eddie Guardado, American baseball closer
 * Eddie Guerrero (1967–2005), Mexican-American professional wrestler
 * Eddie Hall (born 1988), English professional strongman, winner of the 2017 World's Strongest Man Competition
 * Eddy Hamel (1902–1943), American soccer player for Dutch club AFC Ajax who was killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp
 * Eddie House (born 1978), American basketball player
 * Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish Formula One driver
 * Eddie Jackson (safety) (born 1993), American football player
 * Eddie Jones (basketball), American basketball player
 * Eddie Jones (rugby union), Australian rugby coach and former player
 * Eddy Koaz (born 1959), Israeli Olympic judoka
 * Eddy W M Lai (born 1973), horse racing jockey
 * Eddy Merckx (born 1945), Belgian professional cyclist
 * Eddie Miles, American football player
 * Eddie Murray, American baseball player
 * Eddie O'Sullivan, head coach of Irish rugby team
 * Eddy Piñeiro (born 1995), American football player
 * Eddie Price, Tulane University Green Wave and NFL running back
 * Eddie Robinson (Basketball) (born 1976), American basketball player
 * Eddie Vanderdoes (born 1994), American football player
 * Eddy Wilson (American football) (born 1997), American football player

Music

 * Eddy Arnold (1918–2008), American country music singer and musician
 * Eddie Clarke (musician) (1950–2018), British guitarist, member of the band Motörhead
 * Eddy Chen (born 1993), Australian born-Taiwanese violinist, performing on the TwoSet Violin YouTube channel
 * Eddie Cochran (1938–1960), American rockabilly musician
 * Eddie Fisher (singer) (1928–2010), American singer
 * Eddy Grant, Guyana-born British reggae musician
 * Eddie Harsch (1957–2016), Canadian keyboardist, member of The Black Crowes
 * Eddie "Evil Eddie" Jacobson, frontman for Australian band Butterfingers
 * Eddie McGuire, Australian television presenter and businessman
 * Eddy Mitchell, French rock singer and actor
 * Eddie Money (1949–2019), stage name of Edward Mahoney, American rock musician
 * Eddie Morton (1870–1938), American rag-time singer and comedian
 * Eddie Rabbitt (1941–1998), American country music singer and songwriter
 * Eddie Van Halen (1955–2020), American guitarist and songwriter
 * Eddie Vedder, American singer, musician and songwriter, frontman of Pearl Jam
 * Eddy Zervigon (born 1942), Cuban flautist and bandleader
 * Eddie (Iron Maiden), mascot of the band Iron Maiden

Acting

 * Eddie Cahill, American actor
 * Eddie Cibrian, Cuban-American actor
 * Eddie Garcia (1929–2019), Filipino actor, television personality, and producer
 * Eddie Izzard, English actor, comedian, writer and political activist.
 * Eddie Murphy, African-American actor, comedian and singer.
 * Eddie Paskey, American actor
 * Eddie Redmayne, English actor
 * Eddie Shin, Korean-American actor

Politics

 * Eddie Hughes (Australian politician)
 * Eddie Hughes (British politician)
 * Eddie Lumsden (born 1952), American politician
 * Eddie Settle, North Carolinan senator

Other professions

 * Eddie Bauer (1899-1986), American outdoorsman, inventor, author, and businessman
 * Eddie Carmel (born Oded Ha-Carmeili; 1936–1972), Israeli-born entertainer with gigantism and acromegaly, popularly known as "The Jewish Giant"
 * Eddy de Jongh (born 1931), Dutch art historian
 * Eddie Fitte (born 1987), Argentinian journalist, writer
 * Eddie Gossage (born 1958), American businessman, race promoter
 * Eddie Linden, British-Irish poet and magazine editor
 * Eddie Mosley (1947–2020), American serial killer
 * Eddie Price III, Louisiana elected official
 * Eddie Rickenbacker, American World War I flying ace, credited with shooting down more enemy planes than any other American pilot during that conflict
 * Eddie Villanueva, Filipino evangelist and president-founder of the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide
 * Eddie Woo, Australian mathematician

Fictional characters

 * Eddie, a character played by Meat Loaf in the 1975 musical Rocky Horror Picture Show
 * Eddie, a character in 1998 American comedy movie My Giant
 * Eddie, a character in the movie 2009 American comedy film The Hangover
 * Eddie, one of the police officers in the American sitcom The Simpsons
 * Eddie, a dog in the American sitcom Frasier
 * Eddie, the shipboard computer on the starship Heart of Gold in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 * Eddie, one of the main characters in the Ice Age film franchise
 * Eddie, the antagonist of the racing video game Need for Speed: Underground, also appears in Need for Speed (2015 video game)
 * Eddy (Tony Sampson in the entire Ed, Edd n Eddy franchise; James Arnold Taylor in FusionFall) is the self-appointed leader of the Eds
 * Eddy, a character played by Nico Jouvel in the British web series Corner Shop Show
 * Eddie Brock, anti-hero also known as Venom
 * Eddie Carr, field researcher from The Lost World by Michael Crichton
 * Eddie Dean (The Dark Tower), from The Dark Tower
 * Eddy Gordo, in the video game series Tekken
 * Eddie Haskell, a fictional character on the Leave It to Beaver television sitcom
 * Eddie Elizabeth Hitler, from the 1990s British comedy show Bottom, played by Adrian Edmondson
 * Eddie Kaspbrak, from Stephen King’s It
 * Eddie Lindstrom, a character in a 2001 American independent comedy-drama movie Little Secrets
 * Eddie Menuek, from the sitcom Friends
 * Eddie Morra, in the 2011 film Limitless
 * Eddie "The Freak" Munson, a character in season 4 of Stranger Things
 * Eddie Redcliffe, one of the main characters in the Australian series Deadloch
 * Eddie Russett, the protagonist in the novel Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde.
 * Eddie Valiant, from Who Framed Roger Rabbit
 * Eddie Windass, in the British soap-opera Coronation Street
 * Eddie Winslow, from Family Matters