Edmund (given name)

Edmund is a male first name. The name comes from the Old High German and means " rich warrior " or " protector of property ".

Name-day

• Edmund the Martyr (c. 840-869/870 ) King of East Anglia on 20 November
• Edmund Rich of Abingdon (1170/1180-1240) on 16 November
• Edmund Campion (1540-1581) on 1 December

Variants

• Edmond ( English, French)
• Edmond, Edmondo ( Italian)
• Eamon (Irish)
• Odon ( Hungarian)
• Eadmund (Old English )
• Emond

Well-known bearers of the name

Ruler

• Edmund I. (England ) (c. 921-946 ), King of England
• Edmund II (England ) (c. 989-1016 ), King of England
• Edmund (East Anglia ) (c. 840-869/870 )
• Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster ( 1245-1296 )
• Edmund, Earl of Rutland (1443-1460), English nobleman

First name

Edmund

• Edmund Aigner (1900-1968), Austrian politician ( SPÖ)
• Edmund Becker ( * 1956 ), German football player and coach
• Edmund Crispin (1921-1978), a British crime writer and composer
• Edmund Hillary (1919-2008), New Zealand mountaineer, first man to climb Mount Everest ( 1953)
• Edmund Hoffmann (1907-1974), co-founder of the League of Displaced
• Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), Austrian philosopher and mathematician
• Edmund Lons (1880-1964), German Forstmann and cynologist
• Edmund Noortwyck (1890-1954), German jurist, civil servant and politician
• Edmund Purdom (1924-2009), British actor
• Edmund Stoiber (* 1941), German politician ( CSU)
• Edmund Casimir Szoka (* 1927), American Cardinal

Edmondo

• Edmondo De Amicis (1846-1908), Italian writer

Family name

• Kyle Edmund (* 1995), British tennis player

Fictional characters

• Edmund Pevensie, one of the main characters in books by CS Lewis
• Edmund, the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester, in William Shakespeare's " King Lear"
• Edmund Blackadder, protagonist of the BBC series " Blackadder "
• Edmund bag Bauer, the main character of the Austrian TV series " A real Wiener goes under"

Business

• C. Edmund & Company, a former British motor vehicle manufacturer