Eddie (given name)

Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for Edward, Edmund, Edgar, Edsel or Edwin. It is also occasionally used as a given name on its own and may refer to:

Sports

• Eddie Aikau (1946-1978), American surfer
• Eddie Charlton (1929-2004), Australian snooker and billiards player
• Eddie Charlton (1988-), English squash player
• Eddie Cheever, American race car driver
• Eddy Curry, American professional basketballer
• 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 Guardado, American baseball closer
• Eddie Guerrero (1967-2005), Mexican-American professional wrestler
• Eddy Hamel (1902–1943), Jewish-American soccer player for Dutch club AFC Ajax who was killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp
• Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish Formula One driver
• Eddie Jackson (safety) (born 1993), American football player
• Eddie Jones (basketball), basketball player
• Eddie Jones (rugby union), Australian rugby coach and former player
• Eddy Koaz (born 1959), Israeli Olympic judoka
• Eddy Merckx, retired Belgian professional cyclist
• Eddie Miles, American football player
• Eddie O'Sullivan, head coach of Irish rugby team
• Eddy Pineiro (born 1995), American football player
• Eddie Price, Tulane University Green Wave and NFL running back
• Eddie Vanderdoes (born 1994), American football player

Music

• Eddy Arnold, American singer and musician
• Eddie Cochran, American rockabilly musician
• Eddy Grant, reggae musician
• Eddie "Evil Eddie" Jacobson, frontman for Australian band Butterfingers
• Eddie McGuire, Australian television presenter and businessman
• Eddie Money, American rock musician
• Eddie Morton, rag-time singer
• Eddie Van Halen, guitarist and songwriter
• Eddie Vedder, frontman of the band Pearl Jam
• Eddie the Head, mascot of the band Iron Maiden

Acting

• Eddie Cahill, American actor
• Eddie Cibrian, Cuban-American actor
• Eddie Izzard, British stand-up comedian and actor
• Eddie Murphy, African-American comedian and actor
• Eddie Paskey, U.S. actor primarily known for his mostly uncredited role as "Lieutenant Leslie" in Star Trek
• Eddie Redmayne, English actor

Fictional characters

• 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.
• 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
• Eddie Elizabeth Hitler, from the 1990s British comedy show Bottom, played by Adrian Edmondson
• Eddie Menuek, from the sitcom Friends
• Eddie Morra, in the 2011 film Limitless
• Eddie Valiant, from Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Eddy Steve Jeeves, a character played by Nico Jouavel in the web-series Corner Shop Show.

Other

• Eddie Price III, Louisiana elected official
• Eddie Rickenbacker, Allied World War I flying ace, credited with shooting down more enemy planes than any other American pilot during that conflict
• Eddie Woo, Renowned mathematician