Edgar facts for kids

King Edgar seated between St. Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester, and St. Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. From an eleventh-century manuscript of the Regularis Concordia. British Library MS Cotton Tiberius A iii.

Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name Edgar (composed of ead "rich, prosperous" and gar "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, revived in the 18th century, and was popularised by its use for a character in Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819).

People with the given name

• Edgar the Peaceful (942–975), king of England
• Edgar the Ætheling (c. 1051 – c. 1126), last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England
• Edgar of Scotland (1074–1107), king of Scotland
• Edgar Alaffita (born 1996), Mexican footballer
• Edgar Angara (1934–2018), Filipino lawyer
• Edgar Barrier (1907–1964), American actor
• Edgar Baumann (born 1970), Paraguayan javelin thrower
• Edgar Bergen (1903–1978), American actor, radio performer, ventriloquist
• Edgar Berlanga (born 1997), American boxer
• Edgar Bogardus (1927–1958), American poet
• Edgar Bronfman Sr. (1929–2013), American-Canadian businessman
• Edgar H. Brown (1926–2021), American mathematician
• Edgar Buchanan (1903–1979), American actor
• Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), American author, creator of Tarzan
• Edgar Cantero (born 1981), Spanish author in Catalan, Spanish, and English languages, author of The Supernatural Enhancements
• Edgar Cayce (1877–1945), American psychic and healer
• Edgar Chadwick (1869–1942), English footballer and manager
• Edgar Cheung, Hong Kong foil fencer and Olympic champion
• Edgar F. Codd, British computer scientist
• Edgar Contreras (disambiguation), several people
• Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
• Edgar Degas, French painter
• Edgar Eather (1886–1968), Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada
• Edgar Fonseca, Colombian road cyclist
• Edgar Froese, German musician
• Edgar Fuller, American mathematician
• Édgar González (disambiguation), multiple people
• Edgar Grospiron, French freestyle skier and Olympic champion
• Edgar A. Guest, American poet
• Edgar N. Harwood (1854–1936), Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
• Edgar P. Jacobs, Belgian comic book creator
• Edgar Johan Kuusik (1888–1974), Estonian architect and interior designer
• Edgar Lacy (1944–2011), American basketball player
• Edgar Lungu, 6th Republican President of Zambia
• Edgar Maalouf (1934–2018), Lebanese politician
• Edgar Martínez, American Major League Baseball player who played for the Seattle Mariners
• Edgar Meddings (1923–2020), British bobsledder
• Edgar Meyer, American bassist
• Edgar Middleton (1894–1939), British playwright and author
• Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
• Edgar Mittelholzer, Guyanese novelist
• Edgar Morais, Portuguese actor
• Edgar Norton, English-American actor
• Edgar Wilson Nye, American humorist
• Edgar Oliver, American performance artist and playwright
• Edgar Pêra, Portuguese cinematographer
• Edgar Allan Poe, American author
• Édgar Ponce (1974–2005), Mexican actor and dancer
• Edgar Prado, Peruvian-born American jockey
• Edgar Puusepp (1911–1982), Estonian wrestler
• Édgar Ramírez, Venezuelan actor
• Edgar E. Rand (c. 1905-1955), American business executive.
• Edgar Nelson Rhodes, Canadian politician
• Édgar Humberto Ruiz, Colombian road cyclist
• Edgar V. Saks (1910–1984), Estonian historian and author
• Edgar Savisaar, Estonian politician (Keskerakond)
• Edgar Seligman (1867–1958), American-born British 6-time champion and 2-time Olympic fencing medalist
• Edgar Sengier, Belgium director of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga during World War II
• Edgar Varèse, French composer
• Édgar Velásquez, Venezuelan boxer
• Edgar Veytia, Mexican state attorney general
• Édgar Vivar, Mexican actor and comedian
• Edgar Wachenheim III, American investor
• Edgar Wallace, English writer
• Edgar Winter, American musician
• Edgar Wright, British film director
• Edgar Yaeger, American artist

Fictional characters with the given name

• Edgar, a leading character in Shakespeare's King Lear
• Edgar, a character in The Zimmer Twins
• Edgar, the computer in the 1984 film Electric Dreams
• Edgar, a farmer and alien in the 1997 science-fiction film Men in Black
• Edgar, from the YouTube video Édgar's fall
• Edgar Balthazar, the butler from the 1970 Disney animated film The Aristocats
• Edgar Bones, in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling
• Edgar Brodie, in the 1936 film Secret Agent
• Edgar "Egg" Cooke, a leading character in the TV series This Life
• Edgar Deems, in the 1990 film Tremors
• Edgar Diaz, in the 1983 film Scarface
• Edgar Friendly, an underground rebel leader in the 1993 film Demolition Man
• Edgar "E" Gore, in the 2012 film Frankenweenie
• Edgar Linton, a leading character from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• Edgar Roni Figaro, in the video game Final Fantasy VI
• Edgar Ross, a leading character in 2010 game Red Dead Redemption and a supporting character in Red Dead Redemption 2
• Edgar Stiles, in the television series 24
• Edgar Valden, a playable survivor in the Chinese horror game Identity V
• Edgar Poe "Snotty" Wong, in the 1987 American comedy film Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise

People with the surname

• Barrie Edgar (1919–2012), English television producer
• Bruce Edgar, a former cricketer who represented New Zealand
• Campbell Cowan Edgar (1870–1938), Scottish Egyptologist and Secretary-General of the Egyptian Museum at Cairo
• Dave Edgar (footballer, born 1902), Scottish footballer
• David Edgar (soccer, born 1987) (born 1987), Canadian soccer player
• David Edgar (playwright) (born 1948), English playwright
• David Edgar (swimmer) (born 1950), American swimmer
• Don Edgar (born 1936), Australian sociologist
• Elizabeth Edgar (1929–2019), New Zealand botanist
• Frankie Edgar (born 1981), American mixed martial arts fighter
• George Edgar (academic) (1837–1913), American university president
• Irene Edgar (born 1957), Scottish lawn bowler
• James David Edgar (1841–1899), Canadian politician
• James Edgar (entrepreneur) (1843–1909), Scottish-American founder of Edgar Department Stores and the first department store Santa Claus
• James Douglas Edgar (1884–1921), English professional golfer
• Jim Edgar (born 1946), American politician and Governor of Illinois
• Jimmy Edgar (born 1983), American electronic music artist
• John Edgar (disambiguation), several people
• Jon Edgar (born 1968), British sculptor
• Jonny Edgar (born 2004), British racing driver
• Kika Edgar (born 1985), Mexican actress and singer
• Marriott Edgar (1880–1951), British poet
• Matt Edgar (born 1986), English darts player
• Robert Allan Edgar (born 1940), U.S. federal judge
• Robert W. Edgar (1943–2013), American politician
• Ross Edgar (born 1983), British track cyclist
• Scott Edgar (basketball) (born 1955), American basketball coach
• Thomas Edgar (MP) (by 1508–1547), English politician
• Thomas Edgar (volleyball) (born 1989), Australian volleyball player
• Thomas F. Edgar, American chemical engineer
• William Edgar (disambiguation), several people

Fictional characters with the surname

• Judge Edgar, in the Judge Dredd comic strip
• Jerome "Jerry" Edgar, in the Bosch book series as well as its TV adaptation
• Earving Edgar, in the television series The Boys
• Stan Edgar, in the 2019 television series The Boys
• Edgar Frog, a character in the film The Lost Boys

See also

• J. Edgar Hoover, former head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Edgar, standard botanical author abbreviation for Elizabeth Edgar
• Edgars (name), the Latvian language cognate of the English name
• Edgaras, the Lithuanian language cognate of the English name
• Edgardo, the Italian language cognate of Edgar

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