Edwina

The name Edwina is a feminine form of the male name Edwin, which derives from Old English and means "rich friend." Edwin was a popular name until the time of the Norman Conquest, then fell out of favour until Victorian times.

People

 * Edwina Bartholomew (born 1983), Australian journalist
 * Edwina Benner (1885–1955), American politician
 * Edwina Bone (born 1988), Australian field hockey player
 * Edwina Booth (1909–1991), American actress
 * Edwina Brown (born 1978), American former basketball player and current college assistant coach
 * Edwina Chamier (1890–1981), Canadian Alpine skiing Olympic champion
 * Edwina Cornish, Australian biologist
 * Edwina Currie (born 1946), British writer, broadcaster and former Member of Parliament
 * Edwina P. Dalton (born 1936), American politician
 * Edwina Eustis Dick (1908–1997), American contralto
 * Edwina Dumm (1910–2007), American comic strip artist
 * Edwina Dunn (born 1958), English entrepreneur
 * Edwina Hume Fallis (1876–1957), American educator, writer, toy designer
 * Edwina Findley (born 1980), American actress
 * Edwina Garcia (born 1944), American politician
 * Edwina Grima (born 1969), Maltese judge
 * Lady Edwina Louise Grosvenor (born 1981), British prison reformer
 * Edwina Hart (born 1957), Welsh Assembly Minister for Social Justice
 * Edwina Hayes (born 1973), English singer-songwriter
 * Edwina Keane (born 1990), Irish camogie player
 * Edwina Kennedy (born 1959), Australian golfer
 * Edwina Kruse (1848–1930), American educator
 * Edwina Lau (born 1965), Hong Kong police officer
 * Edwina McGrail (born 1950), Welsh artist
 * Edwina Donnelly Mitchell (1894–1968), American lawyer and prison superintendent
 * Edwina Mountbatten (1901–1960), English heiress and wife of Admiral Louis Mountbatten
 * Edwina Palmer (born 1955), Japanese associate professor
 * Edwina Pettway (born 1950), American artist
 * Edwina Pio, New Zealand academic
 * Edwina Rogers (born 1964), American agnostic
 * Edwina Sandys (born 1938), British artist
 * Edwina Spicer (born 1948), Zimbabwean journalist
 * Edwina Stewart (1934–2020), Northern Irish communist and civil-rights activist
 * Edwina Tops-Alexander (born 1974), Australian equestrian rider
 * Edwina von Gal, American landscaper
 * Edwina Whitney (1868–1970), American librarian
 * Edwina Florence Wills (1915–2002), American artist

Fictional characters

 * Edwina Brown, in the film National Velvet (1944), played by Angela Lansbury
 * Edwina Chicken, a minor character in the film Chicken Run (2000)
 * Edwina Cutwater, in the film All of Me (1984), played by Lily Tomlin
 * Edwina Ferguson, in the M*A*S*H episode "Edwina"
 * Edwina Fulton, in the movie Monkey Business played by Ginger Rogers (1952)
 * Edwina Lewis, on the soap opera One Life to Live
 * Edwina Lionheart, played by Diana Rigg in the film Theatre of Blood
 * Edwina "Ed" McDunnough, in the movie Raising Arizona, played by Holly Hunter
 * Edwina Moira, in the Thief computer game series
 * Edina Monsoon, born Edwina, the main character of the BBC television series Absolutely Fabulous, played by Jennifer Saunders
 * Edwina Richese, in the novel Dune: House Atreides
 * Edwina Sharma, on the streaming television series Bridgerton played by Charithra Chandran
 * Edwina Spoonapple, in the musical Dear Edwina
 * Edwina Winston, on The Simpsons (former lover of Abraham Simpson)
 * Edwina, an animated character in the television series My Friend Rabbit