Edwin

The name Edwin means "wealth-friend". It comes from ēad (wealth, good fortune) and wine (friend). Thus the Old English form is Ēadwine, a name widely attested in early medieval England. Edwina is the feminine form of the name.

Notable people and characters with the name include:

Historical figures

 * Edwin of Northumbria (died 632 or 633), King of Northumbria and Christian saint
 * Edwin (son of Edward the Elder) (died 933)
 * Eadwine of Sussex (died 982), Ealdorman of Sussex
 * Eadwine of Abingdon (died 990), Abbot of Abingdon
 * Edwin, Earl of Mercia (died 1071), brother-in-law of Harold Godwinson (Harold II)
 * Edwin Sandys (bishop) (1519–1588), Archbishop of York

Modern era

 * E. W. Abeygunasekera, Sri Lankan Sinhala politician
 * Edwin Ariyadasa (1922–2021), Sri Lankan Sinhala journalist
 * Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), British artist
 * Edwin Eugene Aldrin (born 1930), birth name of Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
 * Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890–1954), American inventor
 * Edwin Batdorf (1853–1927), American colonel
 * Edwin L. Bauer (1905–c. 1989), American tropical modernist architect in Hawai'i
 * Edwin Bennett (potter) (1818–1908), English American pioneer of the pottery industry and art in the United States
 * Edwin Bennett (cricketer) (1893–1929), English cricketer
 * Edwin Keppel Bennett (1887–1958), English writer, poet, Germanist and academic
 * Edwin Biedermann (1877–1929), British real tennis player
 * Edwin Birdsong (1941–2019), American keyboardist and organist
 * Edwin Booth (1833–1893), American Shakespearean actor
 * Edwin H. Brainard (1882–1957), American Marine aviation pioneer
 * Edwin Bramall (1923–2019), Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces
 * Edwin Cassiani (born 1972), Colombian boxer
 * Edwin Centeno (1981–2010), Peruvian race walker
 * Edwin Chadwick (1800–1890), British social reformer
 * Edwin Clarke (1919–1996), British neurologist and medical historian
 * Edwin L. Cox, American oilman and philanthropist from Dallas, Texas
 * Edwin M. Cronk (1918–2020), American diplomat
 * Edwin Davies (1946–2018), British businessman and philanthropist
 * Edwin L. Elwood (1847–1907), American soldier
 * Edwin Encarnación (born 1983), Dominican baseball player
 * Edwin Escobar (born 1992), Venezuelan baseball player
 * Edwin L. Felter (1917–2004), justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
 * Edwin Henry Fitler (1825–1896), American businessman and politician
 * Edwin E. Floyd (1924–1990), American mathematician
 * Edwin M. Gardner (1845–1935), American painter
 * Edwin Ghazal (born 1968), also known as Edwin (musician), Canadian musician
 * Edwin Goedhart (born 1962), American politician
 * Edwin Norman Hartshorn (1835–1901), American politician and educator
 * Edwin Haslam (1932–2013), British physical organic chemist
 * E. L. B. Hurulle (1919–2009), Sri Lankan Sinhala diplomat, provincial governor
 * Edwin N. Hubbell (1815–1897), American politician
 * Edwin Hubble (1889–1953), American astronomer
 * Edwin Jackson (baseball) (born 1983), American baseball player
 * Edwin R. Keedy (1880–1958), American Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
 * Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), British architect
 * Edwin McCain (born 1970), American musician
 * Edwin Meese (born 1931), American attorney general
 * Edwin Moses (born 1955), American hurdler
 * Edwin Mosquera (footballer) (born 2001), Canadian footballer
 * Edwin Mosquera (weightlifter) (1985–2017), Colombian weightlifter
 * Edwin Newman (1919–2010), American newscaster and journalist
 * Edwin Olivarez (born 1963), Filipino politician
 * Edwin Orozco (born 1982), Colombian road cyclist
 * Edwin Alfred Rickards (1872–1920), British architect
 * Edwin Spanier (1921–1996), American mathematician
 * Edwin Starr (1942–2003), American soul music singer
 * Edwin Thomas (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Edwin Tsai, Hong Kong former tennis player
 * Edwin Tsitsi (1925–1997), Nauruan politician
 * Edwin van der Sar (born 1970), Dutch football player
 * Edwin Vurens (born 1968), Dutch football player
 * Edwin Walker (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Ed. Weinberger (born 1945), American screenwriter and television producer
 * Edwin Wijeyeratne (1889–1968), Sri Lankan cabinet minister
 * Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964), American mathematician
 * Edwin (director) (born 1978), Indonesian filmmaker

Fictional and mythical characters

 * Edwin Drood, main character in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens
 * Deputy Edwin Durland, in Gravity Falls, an animated television series
 * Edwin Jarvis, a Marvel Comics supporting character
 * Aun (known as Edwin the Old in English), mythical Swedish king
 * Edwin, a puppet character in Pajanimals, a children's television series
 * Edwin Payne, one of the Ghost detectives in Dead Boy Detectives a Comic book written by Neil Gaiman also adapted as a Netflix tv series.