Edwina

The name Edwina is the female version of the male name Edwin, which derives from Old English and means "rich friend." Edwin was a popular name until the time of the Norman Conquest, then fell out of favor until Victorian times.

People

• Edwina Booth (1909–1991), American actress
• Edwina Brown (born 1978), American former basketball player and current college assistant coach
• Edwina Brudenell (born 1961), granddaughter of Admiral Louis Mountbatten
• Edwina Currie (born 1946), former Conservative Member of Parliament
• Edwina Dumm (1910–2007), comic strip artist
• Edwina Hume Fallis (1876–1957), American educator, writer, toy designer
• Edwina Hart (born 1957), Welsh Assembly Minister for Social Justice
• Edwina Mountbatten (1901–1960), English heiress and wife of Admiral Louis Mountbatten
• Edwina Noone, pseudonym used by author Michael Avallone (1924–1999)
• Edwina Sandys (born 1938), sculptor and granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill
• Edwina Tops-Alexander (born 1974), Australian equestrian rider

Fictional characters

• Edwina "Ed" McDunnough, in the movie Raising Arizona, played by Holly Hunter
• Edwina Brown, in the film National Velvet (1944), played by Angela Lansbury
• Edwina Chicken, a minor character in the film Chicken Run (2000)
• Edwina Cutwater, in the film All of Me (1984), played by Lily Tomlin
• Edwina Dunn, on the soap opera EastEnders
• Edwina Ferguson, in the M*A*S*H episode "Edwina"
• Edwina Lewis, on the soap opera One Life to Live
• Edwina Lionheart, played by Diana Rigg in the film Theatre of Blood
• Edwina Moira, in the Thief computer game series
• Edwina Monsoon, though changed to Edina, the main character of the BBC television series Absolutely Fabulous played by Jennifer Saunders
• Edwina Richese, in the novel Dune: House Atreides
• Edwina Spoonapple, in the musical Dear Edwina
• Edwina Winston, on The Simpsons (former lover of Abraham Simpson)
• Edwina Fulton, in the movie Monkey Business played by Ginger Rogers (1952)