Edgar (name)
Edgar (also Edhar) is a male given name and family name .
Origin and meaning
Edgar, also Edhar, is a name of Anglo-Saxon origin. It is composed of ead (= possession or wealth) and even (= spear). "Who defends his property with a spear ..."
name day
variants
Eadgar (Old English, original name form), Edgardo (Italian), Edhar (French), Edhai (Sansk.), Ede, Edi / Eddi (short forms), Edie / Eddie (American short form), Edy / Eddy ( English short form)
Name bearer
Ruler
- Edgar (England) (939–975), King of England
- Edgar Ætheling (1051–1125), English heir to the throne
- Edgar (Scotland) (1074–1107), King of Scotland
First name
- Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (1889–1977), British physiologist
- Edgar Behr (1910–1985), German regatta sailor
- Edgar Bessen (1933–2012), German actor
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), American writer
- Edgar Çani (* 1989), Albanian football player
- Edgar Cayce (1877–1945), American medium
- Edgar F. Codd (1923-2003), English mathematician and scientist
- Edgar Davids (* 1973), Dutch football player
- Edgar Degas (1834-1917), French painter
- Edgar Drefenstedt (1921–2009), German didactician at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in the GDR
- Edgar Ende (1901–1965), German painter
- Edgar Forster (entrepreneur) (* 1944), German entrepreneur, author and politician
- Edgar Froese (1944–2015), German musician and composer
- Edgar Gärtner (* 1949), German ecologist and non-fiction author
- Edgar Haßmann (1884–1919), Latvian pastor and evangelical martyr
- Edgar Hilsenrath (1926–2018), German writer
- J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972), American FBI chief
- Edgar Hoppe (* 1937), German actor
- Edgar Krausen (1912–1988), German archivist and historian
- Edgar M. Marcus (* 1945), German actor
- Edgar Ott (1929–1994), German actor and voice actor
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), American writer
- Edgar Reitz (* 1932), German director
- Edgar Selge (* 1948), German actor
- Edgar G. Ulmer (1904–1972), American director
- Edgar Valdez Villarreal (* 1973), alleged US-Mexican drug dealer
- Edgar Varèse (1883–1965), French composer
- Edgar Wallace (1875-1932), English writer
- Edgar Zilsel (1891–1944), Austrian philosopher and sociologist
family name
- Boy Edgar (actually George Willem Fred Edgar ; 1915–1980) Dutch jazz musician and doctor
- Daisy Edgar-Jones (* 1998), British actress
- David Edgar (playwright) (born 1948), British playwright
- David Edgar (swimmer) (born 1950), American swimmer
- David Edgar (soccer player) (* 1987), Canadian soccer player
- Frankie Edgar (* 1981), American martial artist
- Jan Edgar (1847–1900), Austrian theater actor
- Jim Edgar (* 1946), American politician
- Joseph T. Edgar (1910–1990), American politician
- Liz Edgar (1943-2020), British show jumper
- Owen Thomas Edgar (1831-1929), American soldier
- Robert Stuart Edgar (1930–2016), American geneticist
- Robert W. Edgar (1943–2013), American politician
- Ross Edgar (* 1983), British track cyclist
- Tyrone Edgar (* 1982), British athlete
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edgar on behindthename.com (Engl.)