# 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 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 Davy (1785–1857), English chemist
* Edmund Eagles, British painter
* Edmund Fritz (before 1918 – after 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 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 Wilson (1895–1972), American writer and literary critic
* Edmund Irvine (born 1965), Northern Irish former racing driver and property investor, Formula 1 Grand Prix Winner and 24 Hours of Le Mans Class Winner
* Edmund Yaghjian (1903–1997), Armenian-born American painter, educator

## 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 Tangled