Edgar

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This article is about the name Edgar. For other uses, see Edgar (disambiguation) and Eadgar (disambiguation).

Edgar is a common name from Old English words ead (meaning "rich, happy, prosperous") + gar (meaning "spear"). Literally meaning "prosperity-spear" or "prosperous spearman." In Spanish it is accented Édgar.

It may refer to:

People with the name Edgar

Historical figures

Edgar the Peaceful (942–975), king of England
Edgar of Scotland (1074–1107), king of Scotland
Edgar the Ætheling (c.1051–c.1126), last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England

People with the given name Edgar

Edgar Allan Poe, American author
Edgar Angara, Filipino lawyer
Edgar Baumann, Paraguayan javelin thrower
Edgar John Bergen, American actor, radio performer, ventriloquist
Edgar Buchanan, American actor
Edgar Rice Burroughs, U.S. writer, creator of Tarzan
Edgar F. Codd, British computer scientist
Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
Edgar Degas, French painter
Edgar Fonseca, Colombian road cyclist
Édgar González (disambiguation), multiple people
Edgar Grospiron, French freestyle skier and Olympic champion
Edgar Guest, American poet
J. Edgar Hoover, former head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Edgar Martínez, American Major League Baseball player who played for the Seattle Mariners
Edgar Meyer, American bassist
Edgar Middleton (1894–1939), British playwright and author
Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
Edgar Morais, Portuguese actor
Edgar Pêra, a Portuguese cinematographer.
Édgar Ponce (1974–2005), Mexican actor and dancer
Edgar Prado, Peruvian-born American jockey
Édgar Ramírez, Venezuelan actor
Edgar Nelson Rhodes, Canadian politician
Édgar Humberto Ruíz, Colombian road cyclist
Edgar Savisaar, Estonian politician (Keskerakond)
Edgar Seligman, British 2-time Olympic champion fencer
Edgar Sengier, Belgium director of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga during World War II
Edgar Varèse, French composer
Édgar Velásquez, Venezuelan boxer
Edgar Winter, American musician
Edgar Wright, British director
Edgar Yaeger, American artist

Fictional characters with the given name Edgar

Edgar Linton, a leading character from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Edgar, a leading character in Shakespeare's King Lear
Edgar Bones, fictional character from the Harry Potter series of novels by J.K. Rowling
Edgar Friendly, an underground rebel leader in the 1990s movie Demolition Man
Edgar Roni Figaro, character in the Final Fantasy VI video game
Edgar McGraw, character in several films by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, including Kill Bill Vol. 1
Edgar Stiles, character in the television series 24
Edgar, a character in The Zimmer Twins
Edgar, from the video Edgar's fall on YouTube
Edgar, the computer in the 1984 film: Electric Dreams
Edgar E Gore, a character in Frankenweenie

People with the surname Edgar

Barrie Edgar, English television producer
David Edgar (academic), British professor at Caledonian Business School
David Edgar (footballer), Canadian footballer
David Edgar (playwright), British playwright
David Edgar (swimmer), American swimmer
Don Edgar, Australian sociologist
Frankie Edgar, American mixed martial arts fighter
James Edgar (entrepreneur), British businessman who dressed up as Santa Claus for Christmas
Jim Edgar, American politician
Jimmy Edgar, Detroit-based electronic music artist
John Edgar, Illinois pioneer and politician
Jon Edgar, British artist
Kika Edgar, Mexican actress and singer
Marriott Edgar, British poet
Robert Allan Edgar, United States federal judge
Robert W. Edgar, American politician
Ross Edgar, British track cyclist
Scott Edgar (basketball coach), American basketball coach
William Edgar, British mechanical engineer

Fictional characters with the surname Edgar

Judge Edgar, character in the Judge Dredd comic strip