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:

Kings and nobles

 * 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), earl of Cornwall; English nobleman of royal descent
 * Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402), son of King Edward III of England
 * Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond (1430–1456), English and Welsh nobleman
 * Edmund, Prince of Schwarzenberg (1803–1873), the last created Austrian field marshal of the 19th century

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 Kalau (1928–2014), German missionary and minister
 * Edmund Peiris (1897–1989), Sri Lankan Roman Catholic priest, Bishop of Chilaw from 1940-1972
 * 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 Barton (1849−1920), Australian prime minister
 * 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 (1845–1914), Sri Lankan Gate Mudaliyar, scholar, planter, Buddhist revivalist
 * Edmund L. Oldfield (1863–1938), American politician
 * Edmund Walter Jayawardena, Sri Lankan lawyer and diplomat
 * Edmund Muskie (1914–1996), American Secretary of State
 * Edmund G. Brown, Sr. (1905–1996), commonly known as Pat Brown; governor of California, 1959–1967
 * Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (born 1938), commonly known as Jerry Brown; governor of California
 * Edmund Peiris, Sri Lankan Muhandiram
 * Edmund Randolph (1753–1813), American founding father and governor of Virginia
 * Edmund Samarakkody (1912–1992), Sri Lankan Trotskyist, trade unionist
 * Edmund Stoiber (born 1941), German politician, former minister-president of the state of Bayern
 * Edmund Tsaturyan (1937–2010), 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 (1637–1714), English colonial administrator under the Royal House of Stuart
 * Edmund Anscombe (1874–1948), New Zealand architect
 * Edmund Cobb (1892–1974), American actor
 * Edmund Collein (1906–1992), East German architect and Bauhaus photographer
 * 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 (1927–2021), American philosopher
 * Edmund Goulding (1891–1959), British film writer and director
 * Edmund Gunter (1581–1626), British mathematician
 * Edmund Gwenn (1877–1959), British actor
 * Edmund Hashim (1933–1974), American actor
 * Edmund Hewavitarne (1873–1915), Sri Lankan businessman and army reservist
 * 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 (1924–2020), British politician and engineer, son of William Edmund Ironside
 * Edmund Kemper (born 1948), American serial killer and necrophile
 * Edmund Blair Leighton (1852–1922), British artist
 * Edmund Lenihan (born 1950), Irish author and storyteller
 * Edmund Lowe (1890–1971), American actor
 * Edmund P. Murray (1930–2007), American novelist and journalist
 * Edmund Rack (c. 1735–1787), English writer
 * 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 Kirby Smith (1824–1893), American general, telegraph president, and professor of mathematics and botany.
 * Edmund Sonnenblick (1932–2007), American cardiologist
 * Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), English poet
 * Edmund Wilson (1895–1972), American writer and literary critic

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