Edmund (given name)

Edmund
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	English
Origin
Language(s)	Old English
Derivation	ēad + mund
Meaning	"prosperity", "riches" + "protector"
Other names
Derivative(s)	Eamonn, Edmond

Edmund is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ēad, meaning "prosperity", "riches"; and mund, meaning "protector".^[1]

List of people with the given name

St. Edmund Arrowsmith (1585–1628), English priest and martyr
Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (born 1938), Governor of California
Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish statesman, political theorist, and philosopher
St. Edmund Campion (1540–1581), English priest and martyr
Edmund Crispin, pseudonym of English crime fiction writer Bruce Montgomery (1921–1978)
Edmund H. Garrett (1853–1929), American artist
Edmund Goulding (1891–1959), British film writer and director
Edmund Gunter (1581–1626), British mathematician
Edmund Hillary (1919–2008), New Zealand mountaineer
Edmund Lenihan (born 1950), Irish author and storyteller
Edmund P. Murray (1930–2007), American novelist and journalist
Edmund Muskie (1914–1996), American Secretary of State
Edmund Rich (1175–1240), Archbishop of Canterbury
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), English poet

List of fictional characters with the given name

Edmund (King Lear), from Shakespeare's King Lear
Edmund Bertram, from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
Edmund Blackadder, from the BBC show Blackadder
Edmund Pevensie, from C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia
Edmund Tyrone, from Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night

References

^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 84, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1

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