Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for given names such as
Edward
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”.
History
The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sa ...
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Edmund
Edmund is a masculine given name or surname in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ''ēad'', meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and ''mund'', meaning "protector".
Persons named Edmund include:
People Kings and ...
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Edgar,
Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These invention ...
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Edsel,
Edwin,
Eduardo or
Edmundo. It is also occasionally used as a given name on its own. Notable people known as Eddie or Eddy include:
Sports
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Eddie Aikau (1946–1978), American surfer
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Eddie Alvarez, American mixed martial artist
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Eddie Charlton (1929–2004), Australian snooker and billiards player
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Eddie Charlton (born 1988), English squash player
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Eddie Cheever, American race car driver
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Eddy Curry, American professional basketball player
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Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, British ski jumper
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Eddie Elder
Eddie Elder (born February 14, 1989) is an American football defensive back who is currently a free agent. He attended Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California. He first enrolled at the College of San Mateo before transferring to A ...
, American football player
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Eddie Fatu (1973–2009), Samoan-American wrestler
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Eddie Foster (born 1954), American football player
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Eddie Griffin (basketball)
Eddie Jamaal Griffin (May 30, 1982 – August 17, 2007) was an American professional basketball player from Philadelphia. He last played for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, who waived him on March 13, 2007. Months later, he was killed in a c ...
(1982–2007), American basketball player
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Eddie Guardado, American baseball closer
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Eddie Guerrero (1967–2005), Mexican-American professional wrestler
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Eddie Hall (
born
Born may refer to:
* Childbirth
* Born (surname), a surname (see also for a list of people with the name)
* ''Born'' (comics), a comic book limited series
Places
* Born, Belgium, a village in the German-speaking Community of Belgium
* Born, Luxe ...
1988), English professional strongman, winner of the 2017 World's Strongest Man
Competition
Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, ind ...
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Eddy Hamel (1902–1943), American soccer player for Dutch club AFC Ajax who was killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp
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Eddie House (born 1978), American basketball player
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Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish Formula One driver
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Eddie Jackson (safety) (born 1993), American football player
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Eddie Jones (basketball), American basketball player
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Eddie Jones (rugby union), Australian rugby coach and former player
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Eddy Koaz
Eddy Koaz ( he, אדי קואז; born 10 May 1959) is an Israeli Olympic judoka
is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百� ...
(born 1959), Israeli Olympic judoka
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Eddy Merckx (born 1945), Belgian professional cyclist
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Eddie Miles, American football player
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Eddie Murray, American baseball player
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Eddie O'Sullivan, head coach of Irish rugby team
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Eddy Piñeiro (born 1995), American football player
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Eddie Price, Tulane University Green Wave and NFL running back
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Eddie Robinson (Basketball) (born 1976), American basketball player
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Eddie Vanderdoes
Eddie Norman Vanderdoes IV (born October 13, 1994) is an American football nose tackle who is a free agent. He played college football at UCLA, where he was named first-team Freshman All-America.
College career
Vanderdoes originally signed a ...
(born 1994), American football player
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Eddy Wilson (American football)
Eddy Wilson II (born February 13, 1997) is an American former professional football player. He played college football at Purdue.
Early life
Wilson attended West Bloomfield High School in West Bloomfield, Michigan. As a senior, he tallied 72 ...
(born 1997), American football player
Music
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Eddy Arnold (1918–2008), American country music singer and musician
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Eddie Clarke (musician) (1950–2018), British guitarist, member of the band Motörhead
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Eddy Chen (born 1993), Australian born-Taiwanese violinist, performing on the TwoSet Violin YouTube channel
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Eddie Cochran
Ray Edward Cochran (; October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960) was an American rock and roll musician. Cochran's songs, such as " Twenty Flight Rock", " Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody" and " Somethin' Else", captured teenage frustration and desir ...
(1938–1960), American rockabilly musician
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Eddie Fisher (singer)
Edwin Jack Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American singer and actor. He was one of the most popular artists during the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show, '' The Eddie Fisher Show''. Actress E ...
(1928–2010), American singer
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Eddy Grant, Guyana-born British reggae musician
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Eddie Harsch
Eddie Harsch (born Edward Hawrysch; May 27, 1957 – November 4, 2016) was a Canadian keyboardist and member of Detroit-based jam band Bulldog. Previous to that he was The Black Crowes' keyboardist from 1991 to 2006. Harsch was replaced on k ...
(1957–2016), Canadian keyboardist, member of The Black Crowes
*Eddie "Evil Eddie" Jacobson, frontman for Australian band
Butterfingers
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Eddie McGuire, Australian television presenter and businessman
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Eddy Mitchell, French rock singer and actor
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Eddie Money (1949–2019), stage name of Edward Mahoney, American rock musician
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(1870–1938), American rag-time singer and comedian
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Eddie Rabbitt (1941–1998), American country music singer and songwriter
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Eddie Van Halen
Edward Lodewijk Van Halen ( , ; January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020) was an American musician and songwriter. He was the guitarist, keyboardist, backing vocalist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Van Halen, which he co-founded along ...
(1955–2020), American guitarist and songwriter
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Eddie Vedder, American singer, musician and songwriter, frontman of Pearl Jam
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Eddie (Iron Maiden), mascot of the band Iron Maiden
Acting
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Eddie Cahill, American actor
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Eddie Cibrian, Cuban-American actor
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Eddie Garcia (1929–2019), Filipino actor, television personality, and producer
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Eddie Izzard, English actor, comedian, writer and political activist.
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Eddie Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and singer. He rose to fame on the sketch comedy show ''Saturday Night Live'', for which he was a regular cast member from 1980 to 1984. Murphy has als ...
, African-American actor, comedian and singer.
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Eddie Paskey, American actor
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Eddie Redmayne, English actor
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Eddie Shin, Korean-American actor
Politics
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Eddie Hughes (Australian politician)
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Eddie Hughes (British politician)
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Eddie Lumsden (born 1952), American politician
Other professions
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Eddie Carmel (born Oded Ha-Carmeili; 1936–1972), Israeli-born entertainer with gigantism and acromegaly, popularly known as "The Jewish Giant"
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Eddy de Jongh (born 1931), Dutch art historian
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Eddie Fitte
Eddie Fitte (born Eduardo Giménez Fitte, July 17, 1987) is an Argentinian journalist, writer, producer and television host.
Career
Fitte started his career writing for the national newspaper Diario Clarin. Later on, he branched into televis ...
(born 1987), Argentinian journalist, writer
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Eddie Linden
Edward Sean Linden (born John Edward Glackin; 5 May 1935) is a Scottish poet, literary magazine editor and political activist. From 1969 to 2004, he published and edited the poetry magazine ''Aquarius'', which, according to ''The Irish Post'', m ...
, British-Irish poet and magazine editor
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Eddie Mosley
Eddie Lee Mosley (March 31, 1947 – May 28, 2020) was an American serial killer and rapist who murdered at least eight women in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, between 1973 and 1987. He was arrested in 2001 following the results of a DNA profiling te ...
(1947–2020), American serial killer
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Eddie Price III, Louisiana elected official
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Eddie Rickenbacker, American World War I flying ace, credited with shooting down more enemy planes than any other American pilot during that conflict
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Eddie Villanueva, Filipino evangelist and president-founder of the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide
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Eddie Woo
Edward Kent Woo is an Australian secondary school teacher and writer best known for his online mathematics lessons published on YouTube. In 2018, Woo was awarded the Australia's Local Hero Award.
Early life
Woo's ethnic Chinese parents migrat ...
, Australian mathematician
Fictional characters
*Eddie, a character played by
Meat Loaf
Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947 – January 20, 2022), known professionally as Meat Loaf, was an American rock singer and actor. He was noted for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. He is on t ...
in the 1975 musical
''Rocky Horror Picture Show''
*Eddie, a character in 1998 American comedy movie ''
My Giant''
*Eddie, a character in the movie 2009 American comedy film ''
The Hangover''
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Eddie, a dog in the American sitcom ''
Frasier''
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Eddie, the shipboard computer on the starship ''Heart of Gold'' in
''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''
*Eddie, one of the main characters in the
Ice Age film franchise
*Eddie, the antagonist of the racing video game ''
Need for Speed: Underground'', also appears in ''
Need for Speed (2015 video game)''
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Eddy, a character played by Nico Jouvel in the British web series ''
Corner Shop Show''
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Eddie Brock, anti-hero also known as Venom
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Eddie Carr
Edward Miller Carr (3 October 1917 – 1998) was an English professional association football, footballer and coach (sport), manager.
Career
Born in Wheatley Hill, Carr started his career at Arsenal F.C., Arsenal, joining in 1935 but he spent ...
, field researcher from ''The Lost World'' by Michael Crichton
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Eddie Dean (The Dark Tower), from ''The Dark Tower''
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Eddy Gordo
is a video game character from the ''Tekken'' series by Namco Bandai Games. The character is a Brazilian capoeira fighter. Introduced in ''Tekken 3'' in 1997, Eddy has since appeared in every game thereafter (albeit he is not a participant in th ...
, in the video game series ''Tekken''
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Eddie Haskell, a fictional character on the Leave It to Beaver television sitcom
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Eddie Elizabeth Hitler, from the 1990s British comedy show ''
Bottom'', played by
Adrian Edmondson
*Eddie Kaspbrak, from Stephen King’s ''
It''
*Eddie Lindstrom, a character in a 2001 American independent comedy-drama movie ''
Little Secrets''
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Eddie Menuek
Various characters appeared in the sitcom ''Friends'' and its Spin-off (media), spin-off series ''Joey (TV series), Joey'', which respectively aired for ten seasons and two seasons on NBC from 1994 to 2006. ''Friends'' featured six main cast member ...
, from the sitcom ''Friends''
*Eddie Morra, in the 2011 film ''
Limitless''
*Eddie "The Freak" Munson, a character in season 4 of ''
Stranger Things
''Stranger Things'' is an American science fiction horror drama television series created by the Duffer Brothers, who also serve as showrunners and are executive producers along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen. Produced by Monkey Massacre Pr ...
''
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Eddie Valiant, from ''
Who Framed Roger Rabbit''
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Eddie Windass, in the British soap-opera ''
Coronation Street
''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by ITV Granada, Granada Television and shown on ITV (TV network), ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based ...
''
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Eddie Winslow, from ''
Family Matters''
See also
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Eddy Rodríguez (disambiguation)
Eddie or Eddy may refer to:
Science and technology
*Eddy (fluid dynamics), the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid flows past an obstacle
* Eddie (text editor), a text editor originally for BeOS and now ported to Lin ...
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Eddie the Eagle (disambiguation) Eddie the Eagle (born 1963) is a British ski jumper.
Eddie the Eagle or Eddie Eagle may also refer to:
People
* Ed Belfour (born 1965), Canadian ice hockey goalie nicknamed "Eddie the Eagle"
Mascots
* Eddie Eagle, the NRA's gun safety mascot
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Eddy (surname)
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Eddie (disambiguation)
Eddie or Eddy may refer to:
Science and technology
*Eddy (fluid dynamics), the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid flows past an obstacle
* Eddie (text editor), a text editor originally for BeOS and now ported to Lin ...
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Hypocorisms
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