Edgar is a commonly used masculine

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, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Edgar'' (composed of '' ead'' "rich, prosperous" and '' gar'' "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the

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; it was, however, revived in the 18th century, and was popularised by its use for a character in Sir

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's '' The Bride of Lammermoor'' (1819). The name was more common in the United States than elsewhere in the

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during the 19th century. It has been a particularly fashionable name in

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n countries since the 20th century.

People with the given name

Edgar the Peaceful Edgar (or Eadgar; 8 July 975), known sometimes as Edgar the Peacemaker or the Peaceable, was King of the English from 959 until his death in 975. He became king of all England on his brother Eadwig's death. He was the younger son of King Edm ...

(942–975), king of England * Edgar the Ætheling (c. 1051 – c. 1126), last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England * Edgar of Scotland (1074–1107), king of Scotland * Edgar Alaffita (born 1996), Mexican footballer * Edgar Allan (disambiguation), multiple people * Edgar Allen (disambiguation), multiple people * Edgar Angara (1934–2018), Filipino lawyer *

Edgar Bacon (disambiguation) Edgar Bacon (1887–1963), was a British wrestler. Edgar Bacon may also refer to: * Edgar Mayhew Bacon (1855–1935), Bahamian-American writer * Edgar Bacon (baseball) (Edgar Suter Bacon, 1895–1963), American baseball player See also * Ed Ba ...

, multiple people *

Edgar Barrier Edgar Barrier (March 4, 1907 – June 20, 1964) was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre and was one of several actors who played Simon Templar on ''The Saint (r ...

(1907–1964), American actor * Edgar Baumann (born 1970), Paraguayan javelin thrower * Edgar Bergen (1903–1978), American actor, radio performer, ventriloquist *

Edgar Berlanga Edgar Luis Berlanga Jr. (born May 18, 1997) is an American professional boxer who challenged for the unified super middleweight championship in 2024. Early life Berlanga was born to the large Nuyorican community of Brooklyn, to parents from P ...

(born 1997), American boxer *

Edgar Bogardus Edgar Collins Bogardus (26 July 1927 – 11 May 1958) was an American poet. His work appeared in '' The Kenyon Review'' , '' Shenandoah'', '' Virginia Quarterly Review'', ''Yale Literary Magazine''. Biography He was born on 26 July 1927 in Mount ...

(1927–1958), American poet * Edgar Bronfman Sr. (1929–2013), American-Canadian businessman * Edgar H. Brown (1926–2021), American mathematician *

Edgar Buchanan William Edgar Buchanan II (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television. He is most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the '' Petticoat Junction'', '' Green Acres'', and '' The Bever ...

(1903–1979), American actor *

Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best known for creating the characters Tarzan (who appeared in ...

(1875–1950), American author, creator of ''Tarzan'' *

Edgar Cantero Edgar Cantero (born 27 May 1981 in Barcelona) is a Spanish writer and cartoonist working in Catalan, Spanish, and English. He is best known in Catalonia for his award-winning debut ''Dormir amb Winona Ryder'', and abroad for the ''New York Tim ...

(born 1981), Spanish author in Catalan, Spanish, and English languages, author of ''The Supernatural Enhancements'' *

Edgar Cayce Edgar Cayce (; March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) was an American clairvoyant who claimed to diagnose diseases and recommend treatments for ailments while asleep. During thousands of transcribed sessions, Cayce would answer questions on ...

(1877–1945), American psychic and healer *

Edgar Chadwick Edgar Wallace Chadwick (14 June 1869 – 14 February 1942) was a left-sided association football, footballer who had a long and distinguished career with Everton F.C., Everton during the 1890s. He was also the national coach for the Netherlan ...

(1869–1942), English footballer and manager * Edgar Cheung, Hong Kong foil fencer and Olympic champion *

Edgar F. Codd Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd (19 August 1923 – 18 April 2003) was a British computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational databases and relational database ...

, British computer scientist * Edgar Contreras (disambiguation), several people * Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer * Edgar Degas, French painter * Edgar Durazo (born 1991), Mexican bull rider * Edgar Eather (1886–1968), American judge, Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada * Édgar Fonseca, Colombian road cyclist *

Edgar Froese Edgar Willmar Froese (; 6 June 1944 – 20 January 2015) was a German musical artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group Tangerine Dream in 1967. Froese was the only continuous member of the gro ...

, German musician * Edgar Fuller, American mathematician * Édgar González (disambiguation), multiple people * Edgar Grospiron, French freestyle skier and Olympic champion * Edgar A. Guest, American poet * Edgar N. Harwood (1854–1936), American judge, Justice of the Montana Supreme Court * Edgar P. Jacobs, Belgian comic book creator * Edgar Johan Kuusik (1888–1974), Estonian architect and interior designer * Edgar Lacy (1944–2011), American basketball player * Edgar M. Louton (born 1933), American evangelist and missionary * Edgar Lungu (1956–2025), 6th Republican President of Zambia (2015–2021) * Edgar Maalouf (1934–2018), Lebanese politician * Edgar Martínez, Puerto Rican baseball player in American Major League Baseball * Edgar Meddings (1923–2020), British bobsledder * Edgar Meyer, American bassist * Edgar Middleton (1894–1939), British playwright and author *

Edgar Mitchell Edgar Dean "Ed" Mitchell (September 17, 1930 – February 4, 2016) was a United States Navy officer and United States Naval Aviator, aviator, test pilot, Aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineer, Ufology, ufologist, and NASA astronaut. ...

(1930–2016), American astronaut * Edgar Mittelholzer, Guyanese novelist *

Edgar Morais Edgar Morais (born 25 June 1989) is a Portuguese actor, film director, screenwriter, and film editor. Edgar won the award for Best Actor at Prishtina International Film Festival for his performance in Albania's 95th Academy Awards submission ''A ...

, Portuguese actor and director * Edgar Norton, English-American actor * Edgar Wilson Nye, American humorist * Edgar Oliver, American performance artist and playwright *

Edgar Pêra Edgar Henrique Clemente Pêra (born 19 November 1960) is a Portugal, Portuguese filmmaker. Pêra is also a fine artist and a graphic comics artist . and writes fiction and cinema essays (PhD). Edgar Pêra studied Psychology, but switched to Fi ...

, Portuguese cinematographer * Édgar Ponce (1974–2005), Mexican actor and dancer *

Edgar Prado Edgar S. Prado (born June 12, 1967) is a retired Peruvian jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. Prado's big break came in 1997 when he won 536 races, making him the fourth rider in history to win 500 races in one year. Much of that success was ga ...

, Peruvian-born American jockey * Edgar Puusepp (1911–1982), Estonian wrestler * Edgar Rădulescu (1890–1977), Romanian general * Édgar Ramírez, Venezuelan actor * Edgar E. Rand (c. 1905–1955), American business executive * Edgar Nelson Rhodes, Canadian politician *

Édgar Humberto Ruiz Édgar Humberto Ruiz Sierra (born January 22, 1971, in Bogotá) is a retired male road cyclist from Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia ...

, Colombian road cyclist * Edgar V. Saks (1910–1984), Estonian historian and author *

Edgar Savisaar Edgar Savisaar (31 May 1950 – 29 December 2022) was an Estonian politician, one of the founding members of Popular Front of Estonia and the Estonian Centre Party, Centre Party. He served as the Prime Minister of Estonia, acting Prime Minister ...

, Estonian politician (Keskerakond) * Edgar Seligman (1867–1958), American-born British fencer * Edgar Sengier, Belgium director of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga during World War II * Edgar Varèse, French composer * Édgar Velásquez, Venezuelan boxer * Edgar Veytia, Mexican state attorney general * Édgar Vivar, Mexican actor and comedian * Edgar Wachenheim III, American investor *

Edgar Wallace Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer of crime and adventure fiction. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was ...

, English writer *

Edgar Winter Edgar Holland Winter (born December 28, 1946) is an American multi-instrumentalist, working as a vocalist along with playing keyboards, saxophone, and percussion. His success peaked in the 1970s with his band the Edgar Winter Group and their pop ...

, American musician * Edgar Wright, British film director * Edgar Yaeger, American artist

Fictional characters with the given name

* Edgar, a leading character in Shakespeare's ''

King Lear ''The Tragedy of King Lear'', often shortened to ''King Lear'', is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his ...

'' * Edgar, a character in '' The Zimmer Twins'' * Edgar, the computer in the 1984 film '' Electric Dreams'' * Edgar, a farmer and alien in the 1997 science-fiction film ''

Men in Black In popular culture and UFO conspiracy theories, men in black (MIB) are government agents dressed in dark suits, who question, interrogate, harass, and threaten unidentified flying object (UFO) witnesses to keep them silent about what they have ...

'' * Edgar, from the YouTube video '' Édgar's fall'' * Edgar, an epic brawler from the mobile game ''

Brawl Stars ''Brawl Stars'' is a multiplayer online battle arena and third-person hero shooter video game developed and published by Finnish video game company Supercell (company), Supercell. The game was released worldwide on 12 December 2018, on iOS an ...

'' * Edgar Balthazar, the butler from the 1970 Disney animated film '' The Aristocats'' * Edgar Bones, in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling * Edgar Brodie, in the 1936 film ''

Secret Agent Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering, as a subfield of the intelligence field, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence). A person who commits espionage on a mission-specific contract is called an ''e ...

'' * Edgar "Egg" Cooke, a leading character in the TV series '' This Life'' * Edgar Deems, in the 1990 film '' Tremors'' * Edgar Diaz, in the 1983 film '' Scarface'' * Edgar Evernever, a character in '' Riverdale'' * Edgar Friendly, an underground rebel leader in the 1993 film ''Demolition Man'' * Edgar Frog, in the 1987 fim '' The Lost Boys'' * Edgar "E" Gore, in the 2012 film '' Frankenweenie'' * Edgar Linton, a leading character from ''

Wuthering Heights ''Wuthering Heights'' is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the ...

'' by

Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë (, commonly ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel, ''Wuthering Heights''. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte and Anne Bront� ...

* Edgar Roni Figaro, in the video game ''Final Fantasy VI'' * Edgar Ross, a leading character in 2010 game '' Red Dead Redemption'' and a supporting character in ''

Red Dead Redemption 2 ''Red Dead Redemption 2'' is a 2018 action-adventure game developed and published by Rockstar Games. The game is the third entry in the ''Red Dead'' series and a prequel to the 2010 game ''Red Dead Redemption''. The story is set in a fictiona ...

'' * Edgar Stiles, in the television series ''24'' * Edgar Valden, a playable survivor in the Chinese horror game '' Identity V'' * Edgar Poe "Snotty" Wong, in the 1987 American comedy film '' Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise''

People with the surname

* Barrie Edgar (1919–2012), English television producer * Bruce Edgar, New Zealand cricketer * Campbell Cowan Edgar (1870–1938), Scottish Egyptologist and Secretary-General of the

Egyptian Museum The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum (, Egyptian Arabic: ) (also called the Cairo Museum), located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Ancient Egypt, Egyptian antiquities in the world. It hou ...

at Cairo * Dave Edgar (footballer, born 1902), Scottish footballer * David Edgar (soccer, born 1987) (born 1987), Canadian soccer player * David Edgar (playwright) (born 1948), English playwright * David Edgar (swimmer) (born 1950), American swimmer * Don Edgar (born 1936), Australian sociologist * Elizabeth Edgar (1929–2019), New Zealand botanist * Fiona Edgar, New Zealand professor of management * Frankie Edgar (born 1981), American mixed martial arts fighter * George Edgar (academic) (1837–1913), American university president * Irene Edgar (born 1957), Scottish lawn bowler * James David Edgar (1841–1899), Canadian politician * James Edgar (entrepreneur) (1843–1909), Scottish-American founder of Edgar Department Stores and the first department store Santa Claus * James Douglas Edgar (1884–1921), English professional golfer *

Jim Edgar James Robert Edgar (born July 22, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 38th governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1999. A Moderate Republican (modern United States), moderate Republican Party (United States), Republican, he previously s ...

(born 1946), American politician and Governor of Illinois * Jimmy Edgar (born 1983), American electronic music artist * John Edgar (disambiguation), several people *

Jon Edgar Jon Edgar is a British sculptor of the Frink School. Improvisation is an important part of his reductive working process and developed from the additive working process of Alan Thornhill. Final works are often autobiographical, perhaps referenc ...

(born 1968), British sculptor * Jonny Edgar (born 2004), British racing driver * Kika Edgar (born 1985), Mexican actress and singer * Marjorie Edgar (1889–1960), American folklorist, Girl Scout leader * Marriott Edgar (1880–1951), British poet * Matt Edgar (born 1986), English darts player * Robert Allan Edgar (born 1940), U.S. federal judge * Robert W. Edgar (1943–2013), American politician *

Ross Edgar Ross Edgar (born 3 January 1983) is a Scottish track cyclist who represented Scotland at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Scotland at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games, where he won a gold medal in the team sprint riding ...

(born 1983), British track cyclist * Scott Edgar (basketball) (born 1955), American basketball coach * Thomas Edgar (MP) (by 1508–1547), English politician * Thomas Edgar (volleyball) (born 1989), Australian volleyball player * Thomas F. Edgar, American chemical engineer * Troy Edgar, American security official * William Edgar (disambiguation), several people

Fictional characters with the surname

* Judge Edgar, in the Judge Dredd comic strip * Jerome "Jerry" Edgar, in the ''Bosch'' book series as well as its television series adaptation * Stan Edgar, in the television series '' The Boys'' and '' The Boys Presents: Diabolical'' * Nadia Edgar / Victoria "Vic the Veep" Neuman, in the television series ''The Boys'' and ''Gen V''

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