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Edwin
Gender Male
Name day
Poland : 11 March, France, Germany, United States: 12 October Meaning rich/blessed friend Region of origin
England Related names Audun,
Edvin ,
Edwina
The name Edwin means "wealth-friend". It comes from
Old English : ēad (wealth, good fortune) and
Old English : wine (friend).
[1] Thus the Old English form is Ēadwine , a name widely attested in early medieval England.
Edwina is the feminine form of the name.
People
Edwin of Northumbria (died 632 or 633), King of Northumbria and Christian saint
Edwin (son of Edward the Elder) (died 933)
Eadwine of Sussex (died 982), Ealdorman of Sussex
Eadwine of Abingdon (died 990), Abbot of Abingdon
Edwin, Earl of Mercia (died 1071), brother-in-law of Harold Godwinson (Harold II)
E. W. Abeygunasekera , Sri Lankan Sinhala politician
Edwin Ariyadasa (1922–2021), Sri Lankan Sinhala journalist
Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911) British artist
Edwin Eugene Aldrin (born 1930), birth name of
Buzz Aldrin , American astronaut
Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890–1954), American inventor
Edwin Batdorf (1853–1927), American colonel
Edwin L. Bauer (1905–
c. 1989 ), American
tropical modernist architect in Hawai'i
Edwin Bennett (potter) (1818–1908), English American pioneer of the pottery industry and art in the United States
Edwin Bennett (cricketer) (1893–1929), English cricketer
Edwin Keppel Bennett (1887–1958), English writer, poet, Germanist and academic
Edwin Biedermann (1877–1929), British real tennis player
Edwin Birdsong (1941–2019), American keyboardist and organist
Edwin Booth (1833–1893), Shakespearean actor
Edwin H. Brainard (1882–1957), American Marine aviation pioneer
Edwin Bramall (1923–2019), Chief of the Defence Staff of the
British Armed Forces
Edwin Cassiani (born 1972), Colombian boxer
Edwin Centeno (1981–2010), Peruvian race walker
Edwin Chadwick (1800–1890) British social reformer
Edwin Clarke (1919–1996), British neurologist and medical historian
Edwin L. Cox , American oilman and philanthropist from Dallas, Texas
Edwin M. Cronk (1918–2020), American diplomat
Edwin Davies (1946–2018), British businessman and philanthropist
Edwin L. Elwood (1847–1907), American soldier
Edwin Encarnación (born 1983), Dominican baseball player
Edwin Escobar (born 1992), Venezuelan baseball player
Edwin L. Felter (1917–2004), justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
Edwin Henry Fitler (1825–1896), American businessman and politician
Edwin E. Floyd (1924–1990), American mathematician
Edwin M. Gardner (1845–1935), American painter
Edwin Ghazal (born 1968), also known as
Edwin (musician) , Canadian musician
Edwin Goedhart (born 1962), American politician
Edwin Norman Hartshorn (1835–1901), American politician and educator
Edwin Haslam (1932–2013), physical organic chemist
E. L. B. Hurulle (1919-2009), Sri Lankan Sinhala diplomat, provincial governor
Edwin N. Hubbell (1815–1897), American politician
Edwin Hubble (1889–1953), American astronomer
Edwin Jackson (baseball) (born 1983), American baseball player
Edwin R. Keedy (1880–1958), American Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), British architect
Edwin McCain (born 1970), American musician
Edwin Meese (born 1931), American attorney general
Edwin Moses (born 1955), American hurdler
Edwin Mosquera (footballer) (born 2001), Canadian footballer
Edwin Mosquera (weightlifter) (1985–2017), Colombian weightlifter
Edwin Newman (1919–2010), American newscaster and journalist
Edwin Olivarez (born 1963), Filipino politician
Edwin Orozco (born 1982), Colombian road cyclist
Edwin Alfred Rickards (1872–1920), British architect
Edwin Sandys (bishop) (1519–1588), Archbishop of York
Edwin Spanier (1921–1996), American mathematician
Edwin Starr (1942–2003), American soul music singer
Edwin Thomas (disambiguation) , multiple people
Edwin Tsitsi (1925–1997), Nauruan politician
Edwin van der Sar (born 1970), Dutch football player
Edwin Vurens (born 1968), Dutch football player
Edwin Walker (disambiguation) , multiple people
Ed. Weinberger (born 1945), American screenwriter and television producer
Edwin Wijeyeratne (1889–1968), Sri Lankan cabinet minister
Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964), American mathematician
Edwin (director) (born 1978), Indonesian filmmaker
Fictional and mythical characters
Edwin Drood , main character in The Mystery of Edwin Drood , an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens
Deputy Edwin Durland, in
Gravity Falls , an animated television series
Edwin Jarvis , a Marvel Comics supporting character
Aun (known as Edwin the Old in English), mythical Swedish king
Edwin, a puppet character in
Pajanimals , a children's television series
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