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Eddie
Pronunciation/ˈɛdi/
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameEnglish
MeaningWealth defender
Other names
Alternative spellingEddy
Related namesEdward, Edmund, Edgar, Edwin, Edsel, Eduardo, Edmundo, Ed

Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for given names such as Edward, Edmund, Edgar, 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

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 (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

Politics

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), British-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

See also

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