# Eddie (given name)

Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for given names such as Edward, Edmund, Edgar, Edison, Edsel, Edwin, Eduardo, Edmundo or Ed. It is also occasionally used as a given name on its own. Notable people known as Eddie or Eddy include:

## Sports

* Eddie Aikau (1946–1978), American surfer
* Eddie Alvarez (born 1984), American mixed martial artist
* Eddie Charlton (1929–2004), Australian snooker and billiards player
* Eddie Charlton (born 1988), English squash player
* Eddie Cheever (born 1958), American race car driver
* Eddy Curry (born 1982), American professional basketball player
* Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards (born 1963), British ski jumper
* Eddie Elder (born 1989), American football player
* Eddie Fatu (1973–2009), Samoan-American wrestler
* Eddie Foster (born 1954), American football player
* Eddie Griffin (basketball) (1982–2007), American basketball player
* Eddie Guardado (born 1970), American baseball closer
* Eddie Guerrero (1967–2005), Mexican-American professional wrestler
* Eddie Gutierrez (soccer) (born 1983), American soccer player
* Eddie Hall (born 1988), English professional strongman, winner of the 2017 World's Strongest Man Competition
* Eddy Hamel (1902–1943), American soccer player for Dutch club AFC Ajax who was killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp
* Eddie House (born 1978), American basketball player
* Eddie Irvine (born 1965), Northern Irish Formula One driver
* Eddie Jackson (safety) (born 1993), American football player
* Eddie Jones (basketball) (born 1971), American basketball player
* Eddie Jones (rugby union) (born 1960), Australian rugby coach and former player
* Eddy Koaz (born 1959), Israeli Olympic judoka
* Eddy W M Lai (born 1973), horse racing jockey
* Eddie Melai (1941–2004), Australian rules footballer
* Eddy Merckx (born 1945), Belgian professional cyclist
* Eddie Miles (born 1968), American football player
* Eddie Murray (born 1956), American baseball player
* Eddie O'Sullivan (born 1958), head coach of Irish rugby team
* Eddy Piñeiro (born 1995), American football player
* Eddie Price (1925–1979), Tulane University Green Wave and NFL running back
* Eddie Robinson (Basketball) (born 1976), American basketball player
* Eddie Salcedo (born 2001), Italian footballer
* Eddie Vanderdoes (born 1994), American football player
* Eddy Wilson (American football) (born 1997), American football player

## Music

* Eddy Arnold (1918–2008), American country music singer and musician
* Eddie Clarke (musician) (1950–2018), British guitarist, member of the band Motörhead
* Eddy Chen (born 1993), Australian born-Taiwanese violinist, performing on the TwoSet Violin YouTube channel
* Eddie Cochran (1938–1960), American rockabilly musician
* Eddie Fisher (singer) (1928–2010), American singer
* Eddy Grant (born 1948), Guyana-born British reggae musician
* Eddie Harsch (1957–2016), Canadian keyboardist, member of The Black Crowes
* Eddie "Evil Eddie" Jacobson, frontman for Australian band Butterfingers
* Eddie McGuire (born 1964), Australian television presenter and businessman
* Eddy Mitchell (born 1942), French rock singer and actor
* Eddie Money (1949–2019), stage name of Edward Mahoney, American rock musician
* Eddie Morton (1870–1938), American rag-time singer and comedian
* Eddie Peregrina (1945–1977), Filipino singer and matinee idol
* Eddie Rabbitt (1941–1998), American country music singer and songwriter
* Eddie Van Halen (1955–2020), American guitarist and songwriter
* Eddie Vedder (born 1964), American singer, musician and songwriter, frontman of Pearl Jam
* Eddy Zervigon (born 1942), Cuban flautist and bandleader
* Eddie (Iron Maiden), mascot of the band Iron Maiden

## Acting

* Eddie Cahill (born 1978), American actor
* Eddie Cibrian (born 1973), Cuban-American actor
* Eddie Garcia (1929–2019), Filipino actor, television personality, and producer
* Eddie Gutierrez (actor) (born 1942), Filipino actor and former matinee idol
* Eddie Izzard (born 1962), English actor, comedian, writer and political activist.
* Eddie Mercado (1938–2006), Filipino film actor, television actor, film director, television director, and television presenter
* Eddie Mesa (born 1940), Filipino retired actor and singer
* Eddie Murphy (born 1961), African-American actor, comedian and singer.
* Eddie Paskey (1939–2021), American actor
* Eddie Redmayne (born 1982), English actor
* Eddie Rodriguez (1932–2001), Filipino film actor and director
* Eddie Shin, Korean-American actor
* Eddie Spears, (born 1982), Indigenous-American actor

## Politics

* Eddie Hughes (Australian politician)
* Eddie Hughes (British politician) (born 1968)
* Eddie Lumsden (born 1952), American politician
* Eddie Settle, North Carolinan senator

## Other professions

* Eddie Bauer (1899–1986), American outdoorsman, inventor, author, and businessman
* Eddie Carmel (born Oded Ha-Carmeili; 1936–1972), Israeli-born entertainer with gigantism and acromegaly, popularly known as "The Jewish Giant"
* Eddy de Jongh (born 1931), Dutch art historian
* Eddie Fitte (born 1987), Argentinian journalist, writer
* Eddie Gossage (born 1958), American businessman, race promoter
* Eddie Linden (1935–2023), British-Irish poet and magazine editor
* Eddie Mosley (1947–2020), American serial killer
* Eddie Price III (born 1953), Louisiana elected official
* Eddie Rickenbacker (1890–1973), American World War I flying ace, credited with shooting down more enemy planes than any other American pilot during that conflict
* Eddie Villanueva (born 1946), Filipino evangelist and president-founder of the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide
* Eddie Woo, Australian mathematician

## Fictional characters

* Eddy Stone, a main character in the 1961 British drama film Victim, played by Donald Churchill
* Eddie, a character played by Meat Loaf in the 1975 musical Rocky Horror Picture Show
* Eddie, a character in 1998 American comedy movie My Giant
* Eddie, a character in the movie 2009 American comedy film The Hangover
* Eddie, one of the police officers in the American sitcom The Simpsons
* Eddie, a dog in the American sitcom Frasier
* Eddie, the shipboard computer on the starship Heart of Gold in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
* Eddie, one of the main characters in the Ice Age film franchise
* Eddie, the antagonist of the racing video game Need for Speed: Underground, also appears in Need for Speed (2015 video game)
* Eddy (Tony Sampson in the entire Ed, Edd n Eddy franchise; James Arnold Taylor in FusionFall) is the self-appointed leader of the Eds
* Eddy, a character played by Nico Jouvel in the British web series Corner Shop Show
* Eddie Brock, anti-hero also known as Venom
* Eddie Carr, field researcher from The Lost World by Michael Crichton
* Eddie Dean (The Dark Tower), from The Dark Tower
* Eddy Gordo, in the video game series Tekken
* Eddie Haskell, a fictional character on the Leave It to Beaver television sitcom
* Eddie Elizabeth Hitler, from the 1990s British comedy show Bottom, played by Adrian Edmondson
* Eddie Kaspbrak, from Stephen King's It
* Eddie Lindstrom, a character in a 2001 American independent comedy-drama movie Little Secrets
* Eddie Menuek, from the sitcom Friends
* Eddie Morra, in the 2011 film Limitless
* Eddie "The Freak" Munson, a character in season 4 of Stranger Things
* Eddie Redcliffe, one of the main characters in the Australian series Deadloch
* Eddie Russett, the protagonist in the novel Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde.
* Eddie Valiant, from Who Framed Roger Rabbit
* Eddie Windass, in the British soap-opera Coronation Street
* Eddie Winslow, from Family Matters