Eddie (given Name)

Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for given names such as Edward, Edmund, Edgar, Edison, 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

*Eddie Aikau (1946–1978), American surfer
*Eddie Alvarez, American mixed martial artist
*Eddie Charlton (1929–2004), Australian snooker and billiards player
*Eddie Charlton (born 1988), English squash player
*Eddie Cheever, American race car driver
*Eddy Curry, American professional basketball player
*Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, British ski jumper
* Eddie Elder, 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, American baseball closer
*Eddie Guerrero (1967–2005), Mexican-American professional wrestler
*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, Northern Irish Formula One driver
*Eddie Jackson (safety) (born 1993), American football player
*Eddie Jones (basketball), American basketball player
*Eddie Jones (rugby union), Australian rugby coach and former player
* Eddy Koaz (born 1959), Israeli Olympic judoka
*Eddy Merckx (born 1945), Belgian professional cyclist
*Eddie Miles, American football player
*Eddie Murray, American baseball player
*Eddie O'Sullivan, head coach of Irish rugby team
*Eddy Piñeiro (born 1995), American football player
*Eddie Price, Tulane University Green Wave and NFL running back
*Eddie Robinson (Basketball) (born 1976), American basketball player
* 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, 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, Australian television presenter and businessman
* Eddy Mitchell, 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 Rabbitt (1941–1998), American country music singer and songwriter
* Eddie Van Halen (1955–2020), American guitarist and songwriter
*Eddie Vedder, American singer, musician and songwriter, frontman of Pearl Jam
*Eddie (Iron Maiden), mascot of the band Iron Maiden

Acting

*Eddie Cahill, American actor
*Eddie Cibrian, Cuban-American actor
*Eddie Garcia (1929–2019), Filipino actor, television personality, and producer
*Eddie Izzard, English actor, comedian, writer and political activist.
*Eddie Murphy, African-American actor, comedian and singer.
* Eddie Paskey, American actor
*Eddie Redmayne, English actor
*Eddie Shin, Korean-American actor

Politics

* Eddie Hughes (Australian politician)
* Eddie Hughes (British politician)

* Eddie Lumsden (born 1952), American politician

Other professions

*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 Linden, British-Irish poet and magazine editor
* Eddie Mosley (1947–2020), American serial killer
* Eddie Price III, Louisiana elected official
*Eddie Rickenbacker, Filipino evangelist and president-founder of the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide
*Eddie Woo, Australian mathematician

Fictional characters

*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, 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, 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 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)
* Eddy (surname)
* Eddie (disambiguation)

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