Egbert is a name that derives from old Germanic words meaning "bright edge", such as that of a blade.

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons were a Cultural identity, cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. However, the ethnogenesis of the Anglo- ...

variant spellings include Ecgberht () and Ecgbert. German variant spellings include Ekbert and Ecbert.

People with the first name

Middle Ages

Ecgberht of Kent Ecgberht I (also spelled Egbert) (died 4 July 673) was a King of Kent (664-673), succeeding his father Eorcenberht. He may have still been a child when he became king following his father's death on 14 July 664, because his mother Seaxburh was ...

, king of Kent (ruled 664–673) * Egbert or

Ecgberht of Ripon Saint Ecgberht (or Egbert, and sometimes referred to as Egbert of Rath Melsigi) (died 729) was an Anglo-Saxon monk of Northumbria. After studying at Lindisfarne and Rath Melsigi, he spent his life travelling among monasteries in northern Britain ...

(died 729), Anglo-Saxon saint, monk and Bishop of Lindisfarne * Egbert or

Ecgbert of York Ecgbert (died 19 November 766) was an 8th-century cleric who established the archdiocese of York in 735. In 737, Ecgbert's brother became king of Northumbria and the two siblings worked together on ecclesiastical issues. Ecgbert was a correspond ...

(died 766), Archbishop of York *

Ecgberht II of Kent Ecgberht II was King of Kent jointly with Heaberht. Ecgberht II is known from his coins and charters, ranging from 765 to 779, two of which were witnessed or confirmed by Heaberht. Ecgberht II acceded by 765, when he issued his earliest surviv ...

(died c. 784), king of Kent *

Egbert of Lindisfarne Egbert of Lindisfarne (or Ecgberht) was Bishop of Lindisfarne from his consecration on 11 June 803 until his death in 821.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 219 He is often confused with Saint Egbert who served as a monk A ...

(died 821), Bishop of Lindisfarne *

Egbert of Wessex Ecgberht (770/775 – 839), also spelled Egbert, Ecgbert, Ecgbriht, Ecgbeorht, and Ecbert, was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839. His father was King Ealhmund of Kent. In the 780s, Ecgberht was forced into exile to Charlema ...

, king of Wessex (ruled 802–839) *

Ecgberht I of Northumbria Ecgberht (died 873) was king of Northumbria in the middle of the 9th century. This period of Northumbrian history is poorly recorded, and very little is known of Ecgberht. He first appears following the death of kings Ælla and Osberht in batt ...

, king of Northumbria (deposed 872; died 873) *

Ecgberht II of Northumbria Ecgberht was a king in Northumbria in the late Ninth Century. Very little is known of his reign. Unlike his predecessor King Ricsige, who may have ruled most of the kingdom of Northumbria following the expulsion of the first King Ecgberht in 87 ...

, king of Northumbria (ruled c. 876–883) *

Egbert (archbishop of Trier) Egbert (c. 950 – 9 December 993) was the Archbishop of Trier from 977 until his death. Egbert was a son of Dirk II, Count of Holland. After being trained in Egmond Abbey, founded and controlled by his family, and at the court of Bruno I, Archb ...

(c. 950–993) * Egbert of Liège (), educator and author *

Egbert I, Margrave of Meissen Egbert I (german: Ekbert) (died 11 January 1068) was the Margrave of Meissen from 1067 until his early death the next year. Egbert was the Count of Brunswick from about 1038, when his father, Liudolf, Margrave of Frisia, died. His mother was Ger ...

(d. 1068) *

Egbert II, Margrave of Meissen Egbert II () (c. 1060 – 3 July 1090) was Count of Brunswick and Margrave of Meissen. He was the eldest son of the Margrave Egbert I of the Brunonen family. Still a minor, he succeeded his father on the latter's death 11 January 1068 in Brunsw ...

(c. 1060–1090)

Later times

Egbert Bakker Egbert Jan Bakker (born 12 November 1958) is a Dutch classical scholar specializing in Greek language, literature and linguistics. He currently is a professor of Classics at Yale University. Career Bakker was born in 1958 in Amsterdam. He obtained ...

(born 1958), Dutch classical scholar *

Egbert Baqué Egbert Baqué (born 1952, in Saarbrücken) is a German gallerist, author and translator. Life & Work Egbert Baqué grew up in Saarbrücken and now lives in Berlin, Germany where he studied Sinology. In the beginning of the 1990s he worked as a ...

(born 1952), German gallerist, author and translator *

Egbert Benson Egbert Benson (June 21, 1746 – August 24, 1833) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician, who represented New York State in the Continental Congress, Annapolis Convention, and United States House of Representatives. He served as a membe ...

(1746–1833), New York jurist and politician, a founding father of the United States *

Egbert Brieskorn Egbert Valentin Brieskorn (7 July 1936, in Rostock – 11 July 2013, in Bonn) was a German mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Education Brieskorn was born in 1936 as the son of a mill const ...

(1936–2013), German mathematician *

Egbert B. Brown Egbert Benson Brown (October 4, 1816 – February 11, 1902) was a Union Army, Union General officer, general in the Trans-Mississippi Department, Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. Early life and education Egbert Brown was bo ...

(1816-1902), Union general in the American Civil War * (1745–1806), Frisian nobility and politician *

Egbert Cadbury Major (Honorary Air Commodore) Sir Egbert "Bertie" Cadbury (20 April 1893 – 12 January 1967) was a British businessman, a member of the Cadbury family, who as a First World War pilot shot down two Zeppelins over the North Sea: ''LZ 61 (L 21), ...

(1893-1967), British Royal Navy First World War pilot and businessman * Egbert Cleave (fl. 1870s), American author * Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III (born 1979), American musician known as ''Aloe Blacc'' *

Egbert van Drielst Egbert van Drielst (Groningen, 12 March 1745 – Amsterdam, 4 June 1818) began his study of the painting in a factory in Groningen which produced mainly lacquered objects. He soon went to Haarlem, where he became an apprentice in the wallpa ...

(1745-1818), Dutch painter * (1909-2000), East German military leader and politician * Egbert B. Groen (1915-2012), American politician and lawyer *

Egbert Hambley Egbert Barry Cornwall Hambley (2 May 1862 – 13 August 1906) was a Cornish-born mining engineer and power company executive, who worked for much of his career in North Carolina. Early life and education Egbert Hambley was born in Penzance, Cor ...

(1862–1906), British-born American mining engineer *

Egbert Hayessen Egbert Hayessen (28 December 1913 – 15 August 1944) was a German resistance fighter in the struggle against Adolf Hitler, and a major in the army. Born in Eisleben, Hayessen grew up on the Hessian state domain of Mittelhof near Felsberg-Gens ...

(1913–1944), German World War II resistance fighter *

Egbert van Heemskerk Egbert van Heemskerck, or Egbert Jaspersz van Heemskerk (1634–1704) was a Haarlem Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works who died in London in 1704. He is often confused with another genre painter also called Egbert van Heemskerk III who l ...

(1634–1704), Dutch Golden Age painter *

Egbert Hirschfelder Egbert Hirschfelder (13 July 1942 – 31 May 2022) was a German rower. In 1963–1964 he won a European title and Olympic gold medal in the coxed four A coxed four, also known as a 4+, is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing ...

(born 1942), German rower *

Egbert Ho Egbert Ho (born March 20, 1978) is a former field hockey midfielder from the Netherlands, who earned a total number of sixteen caps for the Dutch national team in 2004 under coach Terry Walsh. Ho played club hockey for HC Klein Zwitserland in The ...

(born 1978), Dutch field hockey player * Egbert C.N. van Hoepen (1884–1966), Dutch paleontologist *

Egbert Jahn Egbert Kurt Jahn (born 26 May 1941 in Berlin) is a German political scientist, contemporary historian and peace researcher and is emeritus professor at the University of Mannheim. Life After his Abitur in Wiesbaden, Jahn studied history – ...

(born 1941), German political scientist *

Egbert Kankeleit Egbert Kankeleit (16 April 1929 in Hamburg, Germany – 23 December 2022 in Darmstadt) was a German nuclear physicist. He was the son of Otto Kankeleit and Margarete Kankeleit (née Holl). Education Egbert Kankeleit studied nuclear physics in ...

(born 1929), German nuclear physicist *

Egbert Xavier Kelly Brother Egbert Xavier Kelly, F.S.C., was an Irish De La Salle Brother who was last assigned to the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines and was kidnapped and then murdered by the retreating Japanese Imperial Forces at the De La Salle Col ...

(1894–1945), Irish De La Salle Brother *

Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer Egbert Bartholomeuszoon Kortenaer or Egbert Meussen Cortenaer (1604 – 13 June 1665) was an admiral of the Dutch Republic, United Provinces of the Netherlands who was killed in the Battle of Lowestoft.His second name is also given as ''Bartolomeu ...

(1604-1665), Dutch admiral of the United Provinces of the Netherlands *

Egbert Adriaan Kreiken Egbert Adriaan Kreiken (1 November 1896, Barneveld, Gelderland – 16 August 1964) was a Dutch teacher and astronomer. He was born at Barneveld in the Netherlands, to a family of teachers. After being awarded his Ph.D. in 1923, he would b ...

(1896–1964), Dutch teacher and astronomer * (1608–1674), Dutch clockmaker * Egbert Lucas (1878–1958), British Anglican Archdeacon *

Egbert van 't Oever Egbert van 't Oever (15 July 1927 – 5 October 2001) was a Dutch speed skater. He competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics and the 1956 Winter Olympics. Biography Van 't Oever coached Yvonne van Gennip at the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary wher ...

(1927–2001), Dutch speed skater and speed skating coach *

Egbert van der Poel Egbert van der Poel (9 March 1621, in Delft – 19 July 1664, in Rotterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age genre and landscape painter, son of a Delft goldsmith. Life Van der Poel may have been a student of Esaias van de Velde and of Aert van der ...

(1621–1664), Dutch Golden Age painter *

Egbert Rimkus Egbert is a name that derives from old Germanic words meaning "bright edge", such as that of a blade. Anglo-Saxon variant spellings include Ecgberht () and Ecgbert. German variant spellings include Ekbert and Ecbert. People with the first name Mi ...

(died 1996), German tourist famous for disappearing in

Death Valley Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. During summer, it is the Highest temperature recorded on Earth, hottest place on Earth. Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the ...

Egbert Schuurman Egbert Schuurman (born 23 July 1937) is a Dutch engineer, philosopher, politician for the Christian Union, and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the Netherlands. Biography Born in Borger, Schuurman attended the Protestant primary school i ...

(born 1937), Dutch engineer, philosopher, and politician * Egbert Stephens (born 1952), Guyanese cricketer *

Egbert Streuer Egbert Streuer (born 1 February 1954) is a Dutch former professional sidecar driver and arguably the most successful Dutch motorcycle racer of all time. Assisted by passenger Bernard Schnieders he became world champion in 1984, 1985 and 1986. In ...

(born 1954), Dutch sidecar driver * Egbert Don Taylor (1937–2014), Jamaican Episcopelian bishop *

Egbert Ten Eyck Egbert Ten Eyck (April 18, 1779 in Schodack, Rensselaer County, New York – April 11, 1844 in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. In the mid-1820s, he served parts of two terms in t ...

(1779–1844), American lawyer and politician, US congressman from New York *

Egbert Van Alstyne Egbert Anson Van Alstyne (March 4, 1878 – July 9, 1951) was an American songwriter and pianist. Van Alstyne was the composer of a number of popular and ragtime tunes of the early 20th century. Biography Van Alstyne was born in Marengo, Il ...

(1878–1951), American songwriter and pianist *

Egbert van Kampen Egbert Rudolf van Kampen (28 May 1908 – 11 February 1942) was a Dutch mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Life Van Kampen was born to Dutch parents in Belgium, wher ...

(1908-1942), Belgian mathematician *

Egbert Ludovicus Viele Egbert Ludovicus Viele () (June 17, 1825 – April 22, 1902) was a civil engineer and United States Representative from New York from 1885 to 1887, as well as an officer in the Union army during the American Civil War. Biography Viele was born ...

(1825-1902), American engineer, politician and Civil War brigadier general * (1866–1943), Dutch shipowner and builder *

Egbert White During World War II, Egbert White (1894–1976) had a major role in establishing newspapers for US soldiers that were written and edited by enlisted men, not by the Army top command. He had served with the Stars and Stripes newspaper during World ...

(1894–1976), American war correspondent * Egbert Austin Williams (1874–1922), Bahamian American Vaudeville comedian

People with the surname

* Albert Gallatin Egbert (1828–1896), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania *

Harry C. Egbert Harry Clay Egbert (January 3, 1839 – March 26, 1899) was an officer in the United States Army who served in the American Civil War, the Spanish–American War, and the Philippine–American War. He commanded the 6th Infantry Regiment during the ...

(1839–1899), US Army brigadier general * James Chidester Egbert, Jr. (1859–1948), American classical scholar and educator *

James Dallas Egbert III James Dallas Egbert III (October 29, 1962 – August 16, 1980) was a student at Michigan State University who disappeared from his dormitory room on August 15, 1979. The disappearance was widely reported in the press, and his participation in t ...

(1962–1980), American college student involved in a widely covered disappearance * Joseph Egbert (1807–1888), U.S. Representative from New York * Rae L. Egbert (1891–1964), New York politician *

Sherwood Egbert Sherwood Harry Egbert (July 24, 1920 – 1969)''Seattle Daily Times'', July 31, 1969, Page 38. was an American businessman and marine. He served as president of the Studebaker-Packard Corporation and Studebaker Corporation from February 1, 1961'' ...

(1920–1969), president of Studebaker-Packard Corporation *

William Egbert William Egbert (February 25, 1857 – October 15, 1936) was a Canadian physician and politician. He served as the third Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from 1925 to 1931. Egbert was born in 1857 to a farming family in what is today the province ...

(1857–1936), Canadian physician and politician

Fictional characters

* John Egbert, in the webcomic ''Homestuck'' *

Egbert B. Gebstadter Egbert B. Gebstadter is a fictional author who appears in the indices (and sometimes in the text) of books by Douglas Hofstadter, Douglas R. Hofstadter. For each Hofstadter book, there is a corresponding Gebstadter book. His name is derived from ...

, fictional author who appears in the works of Douglas Hofstadter {{given name, type=both, cat=Germanic masculine given names Dutch masculine given names German masculine given names Surnames of German origin nl:Egbert (voornaam) pl:Egbert (imię)