Eddie (given name) explained
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
- 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 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 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
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
- 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 , 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
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