Eddy (given Name)

Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for given names such as Edward, Edmund, Edgar, Edison, Edsel, Edwin, Eduardo, Edmundo or Ed. It is also occasionally used as a given name on its own. Notable people known as Eddie or Eddy include:

Sports

* Eddie Aikau (1946–1978), American surfer
*Eddie Alvarez (born 1984), American mixed martial artist
*Eddie Charlton (1929–2004), Australian snooker and billiards player
*Eddie Charlton (born 1988), English squash player
*Eddie Cheever (born 1958), American race car driver
*Eddy Curry (born 1982), American professional basketball player
* Eddy Edigin (born 1995), German professional basketball player
* Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards (born 1963), British ski jumper
* Eddie Elder (born 1989), American football player
*Eddie Fatu (1973–2009), Samoan-American wrestler
* Eddie Foster (born 1954), American football player
*Eddie Griffin (basketball) (1982–2007), American basketball player
* Eddie Guardado (born 1970), American baseball closer
*Eddie Guerrero (1967–2005), Mexican-American professional wrestler
* Eddie Gutierrez (soccer) (born 1983), American soccer player
*Eddie Hall (born 1988), English professional strongman, winner of the 2017 World's Strongest Man Competition
* Eddy Hamel (1902–1943), American soccer player for Dutch club AFC Ajax who was killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp
*Eddie House (born 1978), American basketball player
*Eddie Irvine (born 1965), Northern Irish Formula One driver
*Eddie Jackson (safety) (born 1993), American football player
*Eddie Jones (basketball) (born 1971), American basketball player
*Eddie Jones (rugby union) (born 1960), Australian rugby coach and former player
* Eddy Koaz (born 1959), Israeli Olympic judoka
* Eddy W M Lai (born 1973), horse racing jockey
* Eddie Melai (1941–2004), Australian rules footballer
*Eddy Merckx (born 1945), Belgian professional cyclist
*Eddie Miles (born 1968), American football player
*Eddie Murray (born 1956), American baseball player
*Eddie O'Sullivan (born 1958), head coach of Irish rugby team
*Eddy Piñeiro (born 1995), American football player
*Eddie Price (1925–1979), Tulane University Green Wave and NFL running back
* Eddie Robinson (Basketball) (born 1976), American basketball player
* Eddie Salcedo (born 2001), Italian footballer
* Eddie Vanderdoes (born 1994), American football player
* Eddy Wilson (American football) (born 1997), American football player

Music

*Eddy Arnold (1918–2008), American country music singer and musician
*Eddie Clarke (musician) (1950–2018), British guitarist, member of the band Motörhead
* Eddy Chen (born 1993), Australian born-Taiwanese violinist, performing on the TwoSet Violin YouTube channel
*Eddie Cochran (1938–1960), American rockabilly musician
*Eddie Fisher (singer) (1928–2010), American singer
*Eddy Grant (born 1948), Guyana-born British reggae musician
* Eddie Harsch (1957–2016), Canadian keyboardist, member of The Black Crowes
*Eddie "Evil Eddie" Jacobson, frontman for Australian band Butterfingers
*Eddie McGuire (born 1964), Australian television presenter and businessman
*Eddy Mitchell (born 1942), French rock singer and actor
*Eddie Money (1949–2019), stage name of Edward Mahoney, American rock musician
* Eddie Morton (1870–1938), American rag-time singer and comedian
* Eddie Peregrina (1945–1977), Filipino singer and matinee idol
*Eddie Rabbitt (1941–1998), American country music singer and songwriter
*Eddie Van Halen (1955–2020), American guitarist and songwriter
*Eddie Vedder (born 1964), American singer, musician and songwriter, frontman of Pearl Jam
* Eddy Zervigon (born 1942), Cuban flautist and bandleader
*Eddie (Iron Maiden), mascot of the band Iron Maiden

Acting

*Eddie Cahill (born 1978), American actor
*Eddie Cibrian (born 1973), Cuban-American actor
*Eddie Garcia (1929–2019), Filipino actor, television personality, and producer
*Eddie Gutierrez (actor) (born 1942), Filipino actor and former matinee idol
*Eddie Izzard (born 1962), English actor, comedian, writer and political activist.
* Eddie Mercado (1938–2006), Filipino film actor, television actor, film director, television director, and television presenter
*Eddie Mesa (born 1940), Filipino retired actor and singer
*Eddie Murphy (born 1961), African-American actor, comedian and singer.
* Eddie Paskey (1939–2021), American actor
*Eddie Redmayne (born 1982), English actor
*Eddie Rodriguez (1932–2001), Filipino film actor and director
* Eddie Shin, Korean-American actor
*Eddie Spears, (born 1982), Indigenous-American actor

Politics

* Eddie Hughes (Australian politician)
* Eddie Hughes (British politician) (born 1968)
* Eddie Lumsden (born 1952), American politician
* Eddie Settle, North Carolinan senator

Other professions

*Eddie Bauer (1899–1986), American outdoorsman, inventor, author, and businessman
*Eddie Carmel (born Oded Ha-Carmeili; 1936–1972), Israeli-born entertainer with gigantism and acromegaly, popularly known as "The Jewish Giant"
*Eddy de Jongh (born 1931), Dutch art historian
*Eddie Fitte (born 1987), Argentinian journalist, writer
* Eddie Gossage (born 1958), American businessman, race promoter
*Eddie Linden (1935–2023), Scottish-Irish poet and magazine editor
* Eddie Mosley (1947–2020), American serial killer
*Eddie Price III (born 1953), Louisiana elected official
*Eddie Rickenbacker (born 1946), Filipino evangelist and president-founder of the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide
* Eddie Woo, Australian mathematician

Fictional characters

*Eddy Stone, a main character in the 1961 British drama film ''Victim'', played by Donald Churchill
*Eddie, a character played by Meat Loaf 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''
* Eddie, one of the police officers in the American sitcom ''The Simpsons''
* Eddie, a dog in the American sitcom ''Frasier''
* 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)''
* Eddy (Tony Sampson in the entire ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' franchise; James Arnold Taylor in FusionFall) is the self-appointed leader of the Eds
*Eddy, a character played by Nico Jouvel in the British web series ''Corner Shop Show''
*Eddie Brock, anti-hero also known as Venom
*Eddie Carr, field researcher from ''The Lost World'' by Michael Crichton
* Eddie Dean (The Dark Tower), from ''The Dark Tower''
* Eddy Gordo, in the video game series ''Tekken''
*Eddie Haskell, a fictional character on the Leave It to Beaver television sitcom
* 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''
* Eddie Menuek, from the sitcom ''Friends''
*Eddie Morra, in the 2011 film '' Limitless''
*Eddie "The Freak" Munson, a character in season 4 of ''Stranger Things''
*Eddie Redcliffe, one of the main characters in the Australian series ''Deadloch''
*Eddie Russett, the protagonist in the novel '' Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron'' by Jasper Fforde.
*Eddie Valiant, from ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''
*Eddie Windass, in the British soap-opera ''Coronation Street''
* Eddie Winslow, from ''Family Matters''

See also

* Eddy Rodríguez (disambiguation)
* Eddie the Eagle (disambiguation)
* Edie (name), given name and surname
* Eddy (surname)

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