HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for given names such as Edward,
Edmund Edmund is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ''ēad'', meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and ''mund'', meaning "protector". Persons named Edmund include: People Kings and nobles *Ed ...
,
Edgar Edgar is a commonly used masculine English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Edgar'' (composed of ''wikt:en:ead, ead'' "rich, prosperous" and ''Gar (spear), gar'' "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the Late Midd ...
, 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 Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, indi ...
* 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 Edmond Montague Grant (born 5 March 1948) is a Guyanese in the United Kingdom, Guyanese-British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known for his genre-blending sound and socially conscious lyrics; his music has blended elements of p ...
(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 (1890–1973), American World War I flying ace, credited with shooting down more enemy planes than any other American pilot during that conflict * Eddie Villanueva (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 ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. It is loosely based on the 1981 novel ''Who Censored Roger Rabbit?'' by Gary K. Wol ...
'' * 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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Eddie (Given Name) English masculine given names Given names Hypocorisms Masculine given names