Eddie (given name)
| Pronunciation | /ˈɛdi/ | 
|---|---|
| Gender | Male | 
| Origin | |
| Word/name | English | 
| Meaning | Wealth defender | 
| Other names | |
| Alternative spelling | Eddy | 
| Related names | Edward, 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
- Eddie Aikau (1946–1978), American surfer
 - Eddie Alvarez (born 1984), American mixed martial artist
 - Eddie Charlton (1929–2004), Australian snooker and billiards player
 - Eddie Charlton (born 1988), English squash player
 - Eddie Cheever (born 1958), American race car driver
 - Eddy Curry (born 1982), American professional basketball player
 - Eddy Edigin (born 1995), German professional basketball player
 - Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards (born 1963), British ski jumper
 - Eddie Elder (born 1989), American football player
 - Eddie Fatu (1973–2009), Samoan-American wrestler
 - Eddie Foster (born 1954), American football player
 - Eddie Genborg (born 2007), Swedish ice hockey player
 - Eddie Griffin (basketball) (1982–2007), American basketball player
 - Eddie Guardado (born 1970), American baseball closer
 - Eddie Guerrero (1967–2005), Mexican-American professional wrestler
 - Eddie Gutierrez (soccer) (born 1983), American soccer player
 - Eddie Hall (born 1988), English professional strongman, winner of the 2017 World's Strongest Man Competition
 - Eddy Hamel (1902–1943), American soccer player for Dutch club AFC Ajax who was killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp
 - Eddie House (born 1978), American basketball player
 - Eddie Irvine (born 1965), Northern Irish Formula One driver
 - Eddie Jackson (safety) (born 1993), American football player
 - Eddie Jones (basketball) (born 1971), American basketball player
 - Eddie Jones (rugby union) (born 1960), Australian rugby coach and former player
 - Eddy Koaz (born 1959), Israeli Olympic judoka
 - Eddy W M Lai (born 1973), horse racing jockey
 - Eddie Melai (1941–2004), Australian rules footballer
 - Eddy Merckx (born 1945), Belgian professional cyclist
 - Eddie Miles (born 1968), American football player
 - Eddie Murray (born 1956), American baseball player
 - Eddie O'Sullivan (born 1958), head coach of Irish rugby team
 - Eddy Piñeiro (born 1995), American football player
 - Eddie Price (1925–1979), Tulane University Green Wave and NFL running back
 - Eddie Robinson (Basketball) (born 1976), American basketball player
 - Eddie Salcedo (born 2001), Italian footballer
 - Eddie Vanderdoes (born 1994), American football player
 - Eddy Wilson (American football) (born 1997), American football player
 
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
- Eddie Cahill (born 1978), American actor
 - Eddie Cibrian (born 1973), Cuban-American actor
 - Eddie Garcia (1929–2019), Filipino actor, television personality, and producer
 - Eddie Gutierrez (actor) (born 1942), Filipino actor and former matinee idol
 - Eddie Izzard (born 1962), English actor, comedian, writer and political activist.
 - Eddie Mercado (1938–2006), Filipino film actor, television actor, film director, television director, and television presenter
 - Eddie Mesa (born 1940), Filipino retired actor and singer
 - Eddie Murphy (born 1961), African-American actor, comedian and singer.
 - Eddie Paskey (1939–2021), American actor
 - Eddie Redmayne (born 1982), English actor
 - Eddie Rodriguez (1932–2001), Filipino film actor and director
 - Eddie Shin, Korean-American actor
 - Eddie Spears, (born 1982), Indigenous-American actor
 
Politics
- Eddy Baldewijns (born 1945), Belgian politician
 - Eddie Hughes (Australian politician)
 - Eddie Hughes (British politician) (born 1968)
 - Eddie Lumsden (born 1952), American politician
 - Eddie Settle, North Carolinan senator
 
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), Scottish-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
- Eddy Stone, a main character in the 1961 British drama film Victim, played by Donald Churchill
 - Eddie, a character played by Meat Loaf in the 1975 musical Rocky Horror Picture Show
 - Eddie, a character in 1998 American comedy movie My Giant
 - Eddie, a character in the movie 2009 American comedy film The Hangover
 - Eddie, one of the police officers in the American sitcom The Simpsons
 - 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
 - Eddie, one of the main characters in the Ice Age film franchise
 - Eddie, the antagonist of the racing video game Need for Speed: Underground, also appears in Need for Speed (2015 video game)
 - Eddy (Tony Sampson in the entire Ed, Edd n Eddy franchise; James Arnold Taylor in FusionFall) is the self-appointed leader of the Eds
 - 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, a fictional character on the Leave It to Beaver television sitcom
 - Eddie Elizabeth Hitler, from the 1990s British comedy show Bottom, played by Adrian Edmondson
 - Eddie Kaspbrak, from Stephen King's It
 - Eddie Lindstrom, a character in a 2001 American independent comedy-drama movie Little Secrets
 - Eddie Menuek, from the sitcom Friends
 - Eddie Morra, in the 2011 film Limitless
 - Eddie "The Freak" Munson, a character in season 4 of Stranger Things
 - Eddie Redcliffe, one of the main characters in the Australian series Deadloch
 - Eddie Russett, the protagonist in the novel Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde.
 - Eddie Valiant, from Who Framed Roger Rabbit
 - Eddie Windass, in the British soap-opera Coronation Street
 - Eddie Winslow, from Family Matters
 
See also
- Eddy Rodríguez (disambiguation)
 - Eddie the Eagle (disambiguation)
 - Edie (name), given name and surname
 - Eddy (surname)