List of people named Edith
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This is a list of notable people with the given name Edith.
- Edith of Wessex
- Edith Bosch, Dutch judoka
- Edith Bowman, television/radio presenter
- Edith Bunker, character portrayed by Jean Stapleton on the sitcom All in the Family
- Edith Cavell, nurse.
- Edith Evans, actress.
- Edith Hamilton, classicist, educator and writer on mythology.
- Edith Head, designer
- Edith Jacobson, psychoanalyst.
- Edith Jones, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
- Edith Massey, American actress and singer. Also a Dreamlander
- Edith Mayne, British freestyle swimmer
- Edith Piaf, singer
- Edith Roosevelt, first lady of Theodore Roosevelt
- Edith Sedgwick, film actress and muse of artist Andy Warhol
- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (1887–1964) DBE, British poet and critic.
- Edith Stein, German philosopher, Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died at Auschwitz.
- Edith Wharton, author of The Age of Innocence
- Matilda of Scotland (born Edith), first wife and queen consort of Henry I.