Edward, Eddie or Ed Johnson may refer to:

Politicians

Edward Johnson (founder of Woburn, MA) Captain Edward Johnson (1598–1672) was a leading figure in colonial Massachusetts, and is one of the founders of Woburn, Massachusetts. Johnson probably came to America in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. He returned to England in 1636 or 1637 ...

(1598–1672), colonial military officer and writer *

Edward Johnson (mayor) Edward Johnson (1767 – 1829) was an American politician and businessman. He was a native of Baltimore, Maryland and served as that city's mayor for six terms between 1808 and 1824. A staunch member of Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party, ...

(1767–1829), mayor of Baltimore * Edward A. Johnson (1860–1944), first African American elected to New York state legislature *

Edward Johnson (British politician) Edward Johnson (1833 - 2 November 1894) was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. Johnson was the son of John Johnson of St Osyth's Priory, Essex, and his wife Ann Haward, daughter of William Haward o ...

(1834–1895), Member of Parliament for Exeter, 1880–1885 *

Eddie Bernice Johnson Eddie Bernice Johnson (December 3, 1934 – December 31, 2023) was an American politician who represented Texas's in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2023. Johnson was a member of the Democratic Party. Johnson was electe ...

(1934–2023), American politician *

B. Ed Johnson Benjamin Edward Johnson (October 28, 1914 – June 8, 1983) was an American businessman, broadcaster and politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. He resided in Columbus in Muscogee County, where he was the first elected mayor of that city, from ...

(1914–1983), American businessman, broadcaster and politician from Georgia

Cultural figures

Ed Johnson (broadcaster) Ed Johnson (born G. Edwin Johnson) was the founder of Agri Communicators, Inc., the parent company of the Agri Broadcast Network (ABN). Career Johnson was the founder, president, and CEO of Agri Communicators Inc., which included the Agri Broad ...

(G. Edwin Johnson, died 2001), farm broadcaster from Delaware, Ohio, founder of Agri Broadcasting Network *

Edward Johnson (tenor) Edward Patrick Johnson, CBE (22 August 187820 April 1959) was a Canadian operatic tenor who was billed outside North America as Edoardo Di Giovanni. He became general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan, New York City from 1935 to 19 ...

(1878–1959), Canadian tenor and manager of the Metropolitan Opera *

Edward Johnson (composer) Edward Johnson (fl. 1572–1601) was an English composer. Johnson's compositions were highly regarded in his time, but few of them survive. Life Johnson was born about 1549.According to a 1601 deposition in which he gave his age as about fifty-tw ...

(1572–1601), English composer *Teddy Johnson (1920–2018), English entertainer, see

Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson Pearl Lavinia Carr (2 November 1921 – 16 February 2020) and Edward Victor "Teddy" Johnson (4 September 1919 – 6 June 2018) were English husband-and-wife entertainers who were best-known during the 1950s and early 1960s. They were the UK's Eu ...

Eddie Johnson (musician) Edwin Lawrence Johnson (December 11, 1920 – April 7, 2010) was an American jazz and blues tenor saxophonist. Early life Johnson was born in Napoleonville, Louisiana, and moved with his family to Chicago at the age of two. As a teenager, ...

(1920–2010), American jazz musician * Edward Johnson (actor), British actor * Edward Killingworth Johnson (1825–1896), British wood-engraver, illustrator, and watercolour painter

Sports figures

* Ed Johnson (American football) (born 1983), American football player * Ed Johnson (baseball) (1899–1975), American Major League outfielder *

Ed Johnson (basketball) Ed Lee Johnson (June 17, 1944 – April 5, 2016) was an American professional basketball player. After a collegiate career at Tennessee State University, Johnson was selected in both the 1968 ABA draft and 1968 NBA draft. In a career that spann ...

(1944–2016), American basketball center *

Eddie Johnson (American soccer) Edward Abraham Johnson (born March 31, 1984) is an American former association football, soccer player. He played the majority of his fourteen-year club career in the U.S. with FC Dallas, the Kansas City Wizards, Seattle Sounders FC, and D.C. ...

(born 1984), American soccer player *

Eddie Johnson (racing driver) Eddie Johnson (February 10, 1919 – June 30, 1974) was an American race car driver. Born in Richmond, Virginia, Johnson grew up in Los Angeles, where he was a high school acquaintance of 1950 Indianapolis 500 winner Johnnie Parsons. He drove i ...

(1919–1974), American racecar driver *

Eddie Johnson (English footballer) Edward William Johnson (born 20 September 1984) is an English former footballer, who ended his career with Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer. He was a midfielder but also played as a striker and represented his country at the under-16, ...

(born 1984), English footballer *

Edward Johnson (footballer, born 1859) Edward Johnson (28 November 1859 – 30 June 1901) was an English footballer who played for Stoke and the England national team. He scored Stoke's first goal in the FA Cup and is also the club's first player to be capped. Club career Johnson wa ...

(1859–1901), English footballer *

Eddie Johnston Edward Joseph Johnston (born November 24, 1935) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender and former coach and general manager in the National Hockey League. His professional career spanned fifty-three years (twenty-two as a player ...

(born 1935), Canadian ice hockey player * Eddie Johnson (linebacker) (1959–2003), American football player *

Eddie Johnson (punter) Edward Lynn Johnson (born March 2, 1981) is an American former professional football punter. He was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL draft. He played college football at Idaho State. Johnson was also a memb ...

(born 1981), American football player *

Eddie Johnson (basketball, born 1959) Edward Arnet Johnson (born May 1, 1959) is an American former professional basketball player who spent 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and a year in the Greek Basket League midway through his career. With nearly 1,200 gam ...

, American basketball small forward *

Eddie Johnson (basketball, born 1955) Edward Lee Johnson Jr. (February 24, 1955 – October 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. He played 10 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) – mainly as a member of the Atlanta Hawks – from 1977 to 1987. ...

(1955–2020), American basketball guard *

Eddie Johnson (boxer) Eddie Johnson (December 12, 1927 – October 9, 1986) was an American boxer. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially br ...

(1927–1986), American Olympic boxer

Others

*Edward Albert Johnson (1885–1949), member of the

Early Birds of Aviation The Early Birds of Aviation is an organization devoted to the history of early pilots. The organization was started in 1928 and accepted a membership of 598 pioneering aviators. Membership was limited to those who piloted a glider, gas balloon ...

Edward Johnson (general) Edward "Allegheny" Johnson (April 16, 1816 – March 2, 1873) was a United States Army officer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. Highly rated by Robert E. Lee, he was made a divisional commander under Richard S. Ewell. On the f ...

(1816–1873), American Civil War *

Edward Hibberd Johnson Edward Hibberd Johnson (January 4, 1846 – September 9, 1917) was an inventor and business associate of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison. He was involved in many of Edison's projects, and was a partner in an early organization which evolved ...

(1846–1917), inventor and business associate of American inventor Thomas Edison *

Edward Mead Johnson Edward Mead Johnson (April 23, 1852 – March 20, 1934) was an American businessman and one of the co-founders of Johnson & Johnson. In 1886, Edward Mead Johnson abandoned a career in law and joined his two brothers Robert Wood Johnson I, and ...

(1852–1934), co-founder of Johnson and Johnson and Mead Johnson *

Edward Earl Johnson Edward Earl Johnson (June 22, 1960 – May 20, 1987) was a man convicted in 1979 at the age of 18 and subsequently executed by the U.S. state of Mississippi for the murder of a policeman, J.T. Trest, and the sexual assault of a 69-year-old woma ...

(1960–1987), American murderer *

Edward Daniel Johnson Edward Daniel Johnson (30 September 1815 – 8 March 1889) was an English watch and marine chronometer maker from London. He was a founder member and vice President of the British Horological Institute, which was formed in June 1858. During his e ...

(1816–1889), London watch and chronometer maker * E. A. Johnson, Canadian plant ecologist *Ed Johnson (1882–1906), American lynch-mob victim, see Lynching of Ed Johnson *Ed L. Johnson, American martial artist and Isshin-Ryu karate instructor *

Edward Johnson III Edward Crosby "Ned" Johnson III (June 29, 1930 – March 23, 2022) was an American billionaire businessman who, along with daughter Abigail Johnson, owned and ran Fidelity Investments and Fidelity International until his death in March 2022. I ...

(1930–2022), American investor and businessman * Edward Johnson (lawyer) Canadian civil servant * Edward C. Johnson II (1898–1984), American businessman * Eddie T. Johnson (born 1959), Superintendent of Chicago Police Department 2016–2019 *

J. Edward Johnson J. Edward Johnson (often J. Ed) was a lawyer and historian whose professional career was largely set in the East Bay area of California. He was also an early leader in the area of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving as the ...

(1890–1976), lawyer, historian and early leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

In fiction

*Coffin Ed Johnson, a protagonist in Chester Himes's Harlem Detective novels *Cousin Eddie Johnson, a redneck character in the ''

National Lampoon's Vacation ''National Lampoon's Vacation'', sometimes referred to as simply ''Vacation'', is a 1983 American black comedy road film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, John Candy, and Chris ...

'' film series, played in each case by Randy Quaid

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