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:

People

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
• Edmund Hungate Beaghan (1703–1755), English politician
• 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 H. Taylor Jr. (1830–1923), American politician and distiller from Kentucky
• 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 L. Cushing (1807–1883), chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
• Edmund Davy (1785–1857), English chemist
• Edmund Eagles, British painter
• Edmund Fritz (before 1918after 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 McMillen (born 1980), American video game designer
• 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 White (1940–2025), American writer
• Edmund Wilson (1895–1972), American writer and literary critic
• Edmund Yaghjian (1903–1997), Armenian-born American painter, educator
• Edmund Irvine (born 1965), Northern Irish racing driver and property investor
• Edmund Jordan (1948–2025), Irish motorsport executive, broadcaster, racing driver and businessman

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 '