# Edwin

The name Edwin means "wealth-friend". It comes from Old English: ēad (wealth, good fortune) and Old English: wine (friend). Thus the Old English form is Ēadwine, a name widely attested in early medieval England. Edwina is the feminine form of the name.
Notable people and characters with the name include:

## Historical figures

* Edwin of Northumbria (died 632 or 633), King of Northumbria and Christian saint
* Edwin (son of Edward the Elder) (died 933)
* Eadwine of Sussex (died 982), Ealdorman of Sussex
* Eadwine of Abingdon (died 990), Abbot of Abingdon
* Edwin, Earl of Mercia (died 1071), brother-in-law of Harold Godwinson (Harold II)
* Edwin Sandys (bishop) (1519–1588), Archbishop of York

## Modern era

* E. W. Abeygunasekera, Sri Lankan Sinhala politician
* Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926), English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest
* Edwin Ariyadasa (1922–2021), Sri Lankan Sinhala journalist
* Edwin Arrieta Arteaga (died 2023), Colombian murder victim
* Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), British artist
* Edwin Eugene Aldrin (born 1930), birth name of Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
* Edwin Anderson, several people
* Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890–1954), American inventor
* Edwin Bailey (politician) (1836–1908), English-American businessman and politician
* Edwin Batdorf (1853–1927), American colonel
* Edwin L. Bauer (1905–c. 1989), American tropical modernist architect in Hawai'i
* Edwin Bennett (potter) (1818–1908), English American pioneer of the pottery industry and art in the United States
* Edwin Bennett (cricketer) (1893–1929), English cricketer
* Edwin Keppel Bennett (1887–1958), English writer, poet, Germanist and academic
* Edwin Biedermann (1877–1929), British real tennis player
* Edwin Birdsong (1941–2019), American keyboardist and organist
* Edwin Booth (1833–1893), American Shakespearean actor
* Edwin H. Brainard (1882–1957), American Marine aviation pioneer
* Edwin Bramall (1923–2019), Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces
* Edwin Cardona (born 1992), Colombian professional footballer
* Edwin Cassiani (born 1972), Colombian boxer
* Edwin Catmull (born 1945), American computer scientist, animator, and co-founder of Pixar
* Edwin Centeno (1981–2010), Peruvian race walker
* Edwin Cerrillo (born 2000), American professional soccer player
* Edwin Chadwick (1800–1890), British social reformer
* Edwin Cheney (1869—1942), American electrical engineer
* Edwin Clarke (1919–1996), British neurologist and medical historian
* Edwin Cole, multiple people
* Edwin L. Cox, American oilman and philanthropist from Dallas, Texas
* Edwin M. Cronk (1918–2020), American diplomat
* Edwin Davies (1946–2018), British businessman and philanthropist
* Edwin Denby (1903–1983), American poet, novelist, dance critic
* Edwin Denby (1870–1929), American lawyer and politician
* Edwin Díaz (born 1994), Puerto Rican professional baseball player
* Edwin Edwards, multiple people
* Edwin L. Elwood (1847–1907), American soldier
* Edwin Encarnación (born 1983), Dominican baseball player
* Edwin Escobar (born 1992), Venezuelan baseball player
* Edwin L. Felter (1917–2004), justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
* Edwin Feulner (born 1941), American activist
* Edwin Henry Fitler (1825–1896), American businessman and politician
* Edwin E. Floyd (1924–1990), American mathematician
* Edwin M. Gardner (1845–1935), American painter
* Edwin Ghazal, also known as Edwin (musician), Canadian musician
* Edwin Goedhart (born 1962), American politician
* Edwin Norman Hartshorn (1835–1901), American politician and educator
* Edwin Haslam (1932–2013), British physical organic chemist
* Edwin Hawkins (1943–2018), American musician and singer
* E. L. B. Hurulle (1919–2009), Sri Lankan Sinhala diplomat, provincial governor
* Edwin N. Hubbell (1815–1897), American politician
* Edwin Hubble (1889–1953), American astronomer
* Edwin Jackson (baseball) (born 1983), American baseball player
* Edwin R. Keedy (1880–1958), American Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
* Edwin Lefèvre (1871–1943), American journalist, writer, and diplomat
* Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), British architect
* Edwin H. May Jr. (1924–2002), American politician
* Edwin C. May, American parapsychologist
* Edwin May (1823–1880), American architect in Indiana
* Edwin McCain (born 1970), American musician
* Edwin Meese (born 1931), American attorney general
* Edwin Moses (born 1955), American hurdler
* Edwin Mosquera (footballer) (born 2001), Colombian footballer
* Edwin Mosquera (weightlifter) (1985–2017), Colombian weightlifter
* Edwin Newman (1919–2010), American newscaster and journalist
* Edwin Olivarez (born 1963), Filipino politician
* Edwin Orozco (born 1982), Colombian road cyclist
* Edwin Poots (born 1965), British politician
* Edwin Portillo (born 1962), Salvadoran footballer and manager
* Edwin Quilagury (born 1977), Venezuelan football manager
* Edwin Alfred Rickards (1872–1920), British architect
* Edwin Schlossberg (born 1945), American designer, author, and artist
* Edwin Spanier (1921–1996), American mathematician
* Edwin Stanton (1814–1869), American lawyer and politician
* Edwin Starr (1942–2003), American soul music singer
* Edwin Sutherland (1883–1950), American sociologist and criminologist
* Edwin Thomas, multiple people
* Edwin Torres, multiple people
* Edwin Tsai, Hong Kong former tennis player
* Edwin Tsitsi (1925–1997), Nauruan politician
* Edwin van der Sar (born 1970), Dutch football player
* Edwin Vurens (born 1968), Dutch football player
* Edwin Walker, multiple people
* Ed. Weinberger (born 1945), American screenwriter and television producer
* Edwin Wijeyeratne (1889–1968), Sri Lankan cabinet minister
* Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964), American mathematician
* Edwin (director) (born 1978), Indonesian filmmaker

## Fictional and mythical characters

* Edwin Drood, main character in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens
* Deputy Edwin Durland, in Gravity Falls, an animated television series
* Edwin Jarvis, a Marvel Comics supporting character
* Edwin Kingston, a character in television series Matlock played by Sam Anderson
* Edwin Murray, the maker of the Mimic in Five Nights At Freddy's a horror video game series.
* Edwin Payne, one of the Ghost detectives in Dead Boy Detectives a Comic book written by Neil Gaiman also adapted as a Netflix TV series.
* Aun (known as Edwin the Old in English), mythical Swedish king
* Edwin, a puppet character in Pajanimals, a children's television series
* Edwin, a character from the horror comic series Witch Creek Road