Edgar

Male given name and family name
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). The name was more common in the United States than elsewhere in the Anglosphere during the 1800s. It has been a particularly fashionable name in Latin American countries since the 20th century.[1]

People with the given name

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 Frog, in the 1987 fim The Lost Boys
  • 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, New Zealand cricketer
  • 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
  • Fiona Edgar, New Zealand professor of management
  • 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
  • Marjorie Edgar (1889–1960), American folklorist, Girl Scout leader
  • 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

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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References

  1. ^ Evans, Cleveland Kent (1 January 2023). "Cleveland Evans: Why Edgar Was Once the King of Baby Names". omaha.com. Omaha World Herald. Retrieved 20 January 2024.