# Edward Johnson

Edward, Eddie or Ed Johnson may refer to:

## Politicians

* Edward Johnson (founder of Woburn, MA) (1598–1672), colonial military officer and writer
* Edward Johnson (mayor) (1767–1829), mayor of Baltimore
* Edward A. Johnson (1860–1944), first African American elected to New York state legislature
* Edward Johnson (British politician) (1834–1895), Member of Parliament for Exeter, 1880–1885
* Eddie Bernice Johnson (1934–2023), American politician
* B. Ed Johnson (1914–1983), American businessman, broadcaster and politician from Georgia

## Cultural figures

* Ed Johnson (broadcaster) (G. Edwin Johnson, died 2001), farm broadcaster from Delaware, Ohio, founder of Agri Broadcasting Network
* Edward Johnson (tenor) (1878–1959), Canadian tenor and manager of the Metropolitan Opera
* Edward Johnson (composer) (1572–1601), English composer
* Teddy Johnson (1920–2018), English entertainer, see Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson
* Eddie Johnson (musician) (1920–2010), American jazz musician
* Edward Johnson (actor), British actor
* Edward Killingworth Johnson (1825–1896), British wood-engraver, illustrator, and watercolour painter

## Sports figures

* Ed Johnson (American football) (born 1983), American football player
* Ed Johnson (baseball) (1899–1975), American Major League outfielder
* Ed Johnson (basketball) (1944–2016), American basketball center
* Eddie Johnson (American soccer) (born 1984), American soccer player
* Eddie Johnson (racing driver) (1919–1974), American racecar driver
* Eddie Johnson (English footballer) (born 1984), English footballer
* Edward Johnson (footballer, born 1859) (1859–1901), English footballer
* Eddie Johnston (born 1935), Canadian ice hockey player
* Eddie Johnson (linebacker) (1959–2003), American football player
* Eddie Johnson (punter) (born 1981), American football player
* Eddie Johnson (basketball, born 1959), American basketball small forward
* Eddie Johnson (basketball, born 1955) (1955–2020), American basketball guard
* Eddie Johnson (boxer) (1927–1986), American Olympic boxer

## Others

* Edward Albert Johnson (1885–1949), member of the Early Birds of Aviation
* Edward Johnson (general) (1816–1873), American Civil War
* Edward Hibberd Johnson (1846–1917), inventor and business associate of American inventor Thomas Edison
* Edward Mead Johnson (1852–1934), co-founder of Johnson and Johnson and Mead Johnson
* Edward Earl Johnson (1960–1987), American murderer
* Edward Daniel Johnson (1816–1889), London watch and chronometer maker
* E. A. Johnson, Canadian plant ecologist
* Ed Johnson (1882–1906), American lynch-mob victim, see Lynching of Ed Johnson
* Ed L. Johnson, American martial artist and Isshin-Ryu karate instructor
* Edward Johnson III (1930–2022), American investor and businessman
* Edward Johnson (lawyer) Canadian civil servant
* Edward C. Johnson II (1898–1984), American businessman
* Eddie T. Johnson (born 1959), Superintendent of Chicago Police Department 2016–2019
* J. Edward Johnson (1890–1976), lawyer, historian and early leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

## In fiction

* Coffin Ed Johnson, a protagonist in Chester Himes's Harlem Detective novels
* Cousin Eddie Johnson, a redneck character in the National Lampoon's Vacation film series, played in each case by Randy Quaid