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, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form is Édith. Contractions and variations of this name include Ditte, Dita, and Edie. It was a common first name prior to the 16th century, when it fell out of favour. It became popular again at the beginning of the 19th century, and in 2016 it was ranked at 488th most popular female name in the United States, according to the Social Security online database.Social Security online database
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Edith

Edith of Polesworth Saint Edith of Polesworth (also known as Editha or Eadgyth; d. ?c.960s G C Baugh et al (1970)"Colleges: Tamworth, St Edith" in ''A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3'', ed. M W Greenslade and R B Pugh (London, Victoria County History s ...

(died c. 960), abbess *

Edith of Wessex Edith of Wessex ( 1025 – 18 December 1075) was Queen of England from her marriage to Edward the Confessor in 1045 until Edward died in 1066. Unlike most English queens in the 10th and 11th centuries, she was crowned. The principal source on ...

(1025–1075), Queen of England * Edith of Wilton (961–984), English nun * Edith the Fair (1025–1086), first wife or mistress of King Harold II of England *

Edith Abbott Edith Abbott (September 26, 1876 – July 28, 1957) was an American economist, statistician, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Abbott was a pioneer in the profession of social work with an educationa ...

(1876–1957), American economist *

Edith Vosburgh Alvord Edith Vosburgh Alvord (1875-1962) was an American suffragist and active Detroit clubwoman. Biography Alvord was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1875. At twenty years old (in 1895), she began attending Olivet College, where she would gradu ...

(1875–1962), American suffragist *

Edith Archibald Edith Jessie Archibald (7 April 1854 – 11 May 1936) was a Canadian suffragist and writer who led the Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), National Council of Women of Canada and the Local Council of Women of Halifax. For her many ...

(1854–1936), Canadian suffragist *

Edith Baird Edith Elina Helen (Winter-Wood) Baird (22 February 1859 – 1 February 1924) was a chess composer who in her day was the most prolific composer of chess problems in the world. She published under her married name as Mrs. W. J. Baird and was some ...

(1859–1924), American chess composer *

Edith Bideau Edith Bideau (November 6, 1888 — 1958), later Edith Bideau Normelli, was an American soprano and music educator from Kansas. Early life Edith Mae Bideau was from Chanute, Kansas, the daughter of Georges K. Bideau and Jennie Hale Bideau. Her f ...

(1888–1958), American soprano, music educator *

Edith von Bonsdorff Edith Helena von Bonsdorff (née Anderson; 24 April 1890 – 19 April 1968) was a Danish-Finnish ballet dancer and choreographer. Biography Edith von Bonsdorff was born Edith Anderson on 24 April 1890 in Ringsted, Kingdom of Denmark. In 1909 ...

, (1890–1968) Danish-Finnish ballerina and choreographer *

Edith Bouvier Beale Edith Bouvier Beale (November 7, 1917 – January 14, 2002), nicknamed Little Edie, was an American socialite, fashion model, and cabaret performer. She was a first cousin of Jacqueline Onassis and Lee Bouvier Radziwill. She is best known for ...

(1917–2002), American socialite and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy *

Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (October 5, 1895 – February 5, 1977) was an American socialite and singer known for her reclusive and eccentric lifestyle. Known as Big Edie, she was a sister of John Vernou Bouvier III and an aunt of Jacquelin ...

(1895–1977), American socialite and aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy *

Edith Bosch Edith Bosch (born 31 May 1980) is a Dutch judoka. Her Olympic debut was at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney where she finished seventh. She won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the middleweight division. She was also European champio ...

(born 1980), Dutch judoka *

Edith Bowman Edith Eleanor Smith (born January 1974) is a Scottish radio DJ and television presenter. She hosted ''Colin and Edith'', weekday afternoons, weekend breakfast, and ''The Radio 1 Review'' on BBC Radio 1 until 2014 and has presented a variety of m ...

(born 1974), British television and radio presenter *

Edith Cavell Edith Louisa Cavell ( ; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Be ...

(1865–1915), British nurse *

Edith Mellado Céspedes Edith Angélica Mellado Céspedes (born 7 June 1938) is a Peruvian former Fujimorist politician and educator. Biography Edith Mellado Céspedes was born on 7 June 1938 in Huancayo, Peru. She attended the local Maria Auxiliadora School through ...

(b. 1938), Peruvian politician and educator * Edith Brown Clement (born 1948), American judge * Edith Clements (1874–1971), American botanist * Edith Cowan (1861–1932), Australian politician and member of parliament *

Édith Cresson Édith Cresson (; née Campion; born 27 January 1934) is a French politician from the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so. She was the only woman to be prime minister until 2022, wh ...

(born 1934), French politician and prime minister * Edith Dimock (1876–1955), American painter *

Edith Durham Edith Durham, (8 December 1863 – 15 November 1944) was a British artist, anthropologist and writer who is best known for her anthropological accounts of life in Albania in the early 20th century. Her advocacy on behalf of the Albanian cause ...

(1863–1944), British writer and anthropologist *

Edith Eaton Sui Sin Far (, born Edith Maude Eaton; 15 March 1865 – 7 April 1914) was an author known for her writing about Han Chinese, Chinese people in North America and the Chinese American experience. "Sui Sin Far", the pen name under which most of he ...

(1865–1914), Canadian writer * Edith Efron (1922–2001), American journalist * Edith Ellis (1861–1916), British writer * Edith Evans (1888–1976), British actress *Edith Falco (born 1963), better known as Edie Falco, American actress * Edith Fisch (1923–2006), American jurist and legal scholar * Edith Flagg (1919–2014), American fashion designer * Edith M. Flanigen (born 1929), American chemist * Edith Willis Linn Forbes (1865–1945), American poet and writer * Edith Frank (1900–1945), German mother of diarist and Holocaust victim Anne Frank * Edith González (1964–2019), Mexican actress * Edith Green (1910–1987), American politician and congresswoman * Edith Julia Griswold (1863-1926), American lawyer and patent expert *

Edith Grossman Edith Grossman (born March 22, 1936) is an American Spanish-to-English literary translator. One of the most important contemporary translators of Latin American and Spanish literature, she has translated the works of Nobel laureate Mario Vargas ...

(born 1936), American literary translator *

Edith Hacon Edith Hacon (1875 – 25 August 1952) also known as Rhyllis Llewellyn Hacon, later Mrs "Amaryllis" Robichaud, was a leading Scottish suffragist from Dornoch, a World War One nursing volunteer, as well as an international socialite. Biography ...

(1875–1952), Scottish suffragist from

Dornoch Dornoch (; gd, Dòrnach ; sco, Dornach) is a town, seaside resort, parish and former royal burgh in the county of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. It lies on the north shore of the Dornoch Firth, near to where it opens into the M ...

, a

World War One World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

nursing volunteer, as well as an international socialite * Edith Halpert (1900–1970), American art dealer *

Edith Hamilton Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and internationally known author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era in the United States. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she also studied in German ...

(1867–1963) American classicist and educator * Edith Head (1897–1981), American costume designer *

Edith Heath Edith Kiertzner Heath (May 24, 1911 – December 27, 2005) was an American studio potter and founder of Heath Ceramics. The company, well known for its mid-century modern Ceramic art, ceramic tableware, including "Heathware," and architectura ...

(1911–2005), American studio potter * Edith Henderson (1911–2005), American landscape architect * Edith Heraud (died 1899), English actress * Edith Hermansen (1907–1988), Danish film actress * Edith Holden (1871–1920), British artist and teacher *

Edith Howes Edith Annie Howes (29 August 1872 – 9 July 1954) was a New Zealand teacher, educationalist, and writer of children's literature. She was a Member of the Order of the British Empire and received the King George VI Coronation Medal for her servi ...

(1872–1954), New Zealand writer *

Edith Jacobson Edith Jacobson (german: Edith Jacobssohn; September 10, 1897 – December 8, 1978) was a German psychoanalyst. Her major contributions to psychoanalytic thinking dealt with the development of the sense of identity and self-esteem and with an u ...

(1897–1978), German psychoanalyst * Edith Jones (born 1949), American judge *Edith Katiji, known professionally as

Edith WeUtonga Edith Katiji, known professionally as Edith WeUtonga (born 22 April 1979), is a Zimbabwean Afro-jazz and traditional music artist, bass guitarist, songwriter, actress and music teacher. She was born in Kadoma, which lies approximately 16 ...

, (born 1979), Zimbabwean musician * Edith Kellnhauser (1933–2019), nursing scientist, educator, and writer * Edith Balfour Lyttelton (1865–1948), British novelist *

Edith Hyde Robbins Macartney Edith Norman Hyde Robbins Macartney (1895 – April 1978) became the first-ever "Miss America" in 1919 in a contest held in New York City. She later became a fortune teller under the pseudonym Pandora. Family and marriages She was born Edith Norma ...

(1895–1978), first "Miss America" * Edith Massey (1918–1984), American actress and singer * Edith Master (1932–2013), American equestrian * Edith Mathis (born 1938), Swiss soprano * Edith May (pseudonym of Anne Drinker; 1827–1903), American poet * Edith McAlinden (born 1968), Scottish murderer * Edith Kawelohea McKinzie (1925–2014), Hawaiian author, genealogist, and traditional hula expert. * Edith Maryon (1872–1924), English sculptor * Edith Morley (1875–1964), British literary scholar * Edith Nesbit (1858–1924), British writer * Edith Northman (1893–1956), American architect * Edith Olivier (1872–1948), British writer *

Edith MacQueen Edith Edgar MacQueen (1900–1977) was a Scottish parliamentary historian and a historian of Scottish emigration to North America. She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in history from the University of St Andrews. Early life MacQueen was ...

(1900–1977), Scottish historian * Edith Marion Patch (1876–1954), American entomologist * Edith Pechey (1845–1908), British doctor and suffragette *

Edith Penrose Edith Elura Tilton Penrose (November 15, 1914 – October 11, 1996) was an American-born British economist whose best known work is ''The Theory of the Growth of the Firm'', which describes the ways which firms grow and how fast they do. Wr ...

(1914–1996), British economist * Edith Philips, American writer and educator * Édith Piaf (1915–1963), French singer *

Edith Pitt Dame Edith Maud Pitt, (14 October 1906 – 27 January 1966) was a British Conservative Party MP for the Birmingham Edgbaston seat. She had also sat on Birmingham City Council, and sought several Parliamentary seats before being placed in the ...

(1906–1966), British politician * Edith Quimby (1891–1982), American medical researcher *

Edith Ramirez Edith Ramirez (born May 28, 1968) is an American attorney who served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission from 2010 to 2017. Ramirez served as FTC Chair from 2013 to 2017, the first person of color to lead the agency. Early life and educa ...

(born 1967), American lawyer and chair of the Federal Trade Commission * Edith Roosevelt (1861–1948), American first lady and wife of Theodore Roosevelt *

Edith S. Sampson Edith Spurlock Sampson (October 13, 1901 – October 8, 1979) was an American lawyer and judge, and the first Black U.S. delegate appointed to the United Nations on 24 August 1950. She conceded that Black people did not have equal rights in Amer ...

(1898–1979), American judge and diplomat *

Edith Schippers Edith Ingeborg Schippers (born 25 August 1964) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businesswoman serving as President of the DSM Company since 1 February 2019. Schippers, a political consu ...

(born 1964), Dutch politician * Édith Scob (born 1937), French actress *

Edie Sedgwick Edith Minturn Sedgwick Post (April 20, 1943 – November 16, 1971) was an American actress and fashion model, known for being one of Andy Warhol's superstars.Watson, Steven (2003), "Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties" Pantheon Books, pp. 210& ...

(1943–1971), born Edith Minturn Sedgwick, American model and actress *

Edith Sitwell Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess ...

(1887–1964), British poet and critic * Edith Södergran (1892–1923), Finnish poet * Edith Somerville (1858–1949), Irish novelist *

Edith Stein Edith Stein (religious name Saint Teresia Benedicta a Cruce ; also known as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross or Saint Edith Stein; 12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942) was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Christianity and became a ...

(1891–1942), German philosopher and nun * Edith Summerskill (1901–1980), British politician * Edith Sutton (1862–1957), first woman councillor in England, Mayor of Reading and suffragist * Edith Unnerstad (1900–1982), Swedish author * Edith Wall (1904–2012), New Zealand/Australian artist *

Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and interior designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portra ...

(1862–1937), American writer *

Edith Wilson Edith Wilson ( Bolling, formerly Galt; October 15, 1872 – December 28, 1961) was the first lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 and the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. She married the widower Wilson in December 1915, during his ...

(1872–1961), American first lady and wife of Woodrow Wilson

Édith

* Édith Audibert (born 1948), French politician *

(born 1934), French politician *

Édith Girard Édith Girard (1949 – 6 September 2014) was a French architect who in particular designed a number of apartment buildings in the Paris area. Biography Girard was born and lived in Paris. Girard's main developments include apartment buildings in ...

(1949–2014), French architect * Édith Piaf (1915–1963), French singer-songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress * Édith Scob (1937–2019), French film and theatre actress *

Édith Thomas Édith Thomas (23 January 1909, Montrouge – 7 December 1970, Paris) was a French novelist, archivist, historian, and journalist. A bisexual pioneer of women's history, she reputedly inspired a character of the erotic novel ''Story of O''.D ...

(1909–1970), French novelist, archivist, historian and journalist

Translations

* Old English: Eadgyth (Also spelled "Ædgyth") * Albanian: Edita * Czech: Edita * Finnish: Eedit *

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

: Edith/Edyth * Hawaiian: Ekika *

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

: Idit/ עידית * Hungarian: Edit * Italian: Editta * Latvian: Edīte *

Lithuanian Lithuanian may refer to: * Lithuanians * Lithuanian language * The country of Lithuania * Grand Duchy of Lithuania * Culture of Lithuania * Lithuanian cuisine * Lithuanian Jews as often called "Lithuanians" (''Lita'im'' or ''Litvaks'') by other Jew ...

: Edita * Polish: Edyta * Portuguese: Edith/Edite *

Serbian Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people * Serbian language * Serbian names See also

* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

: Edita/Едита * Slovak: Edita *

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: ** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...

: Edit *

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

: Edith/Edit * Tongan: Iteti

References

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