Edwin
The name Edwin means "wealth-friend". It comes from and . Thus the Old English form is Ēadwine, a name widely attested in early medieval England. Edwina is the feminine form of the name.
Notable people and characters with the name include:
Historical figures
- Edwin of Northumbria, King of Northumbria and Christian saint
- Edwin (son of Edward the Elder)
- Eadwine of Sussex, Ealdorman of Sussex
- Eadwine of Abingdon, Abbot of Abingdon
- Edwin, Earl of Mercia, brother-in-law of Harold Godwinson
- Edwin Sandys (bishop), Archbishop of York
Modern era
- E. W. Abeygunasekera, Sri Lankan Sinhala politician
- Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest
- Edwin Ariyadasa, Sri Lankan Sinhala journalist
- Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, Colombian murder victim
- Edwin Austin Abbey, British artist
- Edwin Eugene Aldrin, birth name of Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
- Edwin Anderson, several people
- Edwin Howard Armstrong, American inventor
- Edwin Bailey (politician), English-American businessman and politician
- Edwin Batdorf, American colonel
- Edwin L. Bauer, American tropical modernist architect in Hawai'i
- Edwin Bennett (potter), English American pioneer of the pottery industry and art in the United States
- Edwin Bennett (cricketer), English cricketer
- Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer, poet, Germanist and academic
- Edwin Biedermann, British real tennis player
- Edwin Birdsong, American keyboardist and organist
- Edwin Booth, American Shakespearean actor
- Edwin H. Brainard, American Marine aviation pioneer
- Edwin Bramall, Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces
- Edwin Cardona, Colombian professional footballer
- Edwin Cassiani, Colombian boxer
- Edwin Catmull, American computer scientist, animator, and co-founder of Pixar
- Edwin Centeno, Peruvian race walker
- Edwin Cerrillo, American professional soccer player
- Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer
- Edwin Cheney, American electrical engineer
- Edwin Clarke, British neurologist and medical historian
- Edwin Cole, multiple people
- Edwin L. Cox, American oilman and philanthropist from Dallas, Texas
- Edwin M. Cronk, American diplomat
- Edwin Davies, British businessman and philanthropist
- Edwin Denby, American poet, novelist, dance critic
- Edwin Denby, American lawyer and politician
- Edwin Díaz, Puerto Rican professional baseball player
- Edwin Edwards, multiple people
- Edwin L. Elwood, American soldier
- Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
- Edwin Engelhart, Dutch basketball player
- Edwin Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
- Edwin L. Felter, justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
- Edwin Feulner, American political scientist
- Edwin Henry Fitler, American businessman and politician
- Edwin E. Floyd, American mathematician
- Edwin M. Gardner, American painter
- Edwin Ghazal, also known as Edwin (musician), Canadian musician
- Edwin Goedhart, American politician
- Edwin Norman Hartshorn, American politician and educator
- Edwin Haslam, British physical organic chemist
- Edwin Hawkins, American musician and singer
- E. L. B. Hurulle, Sri Lankan Sinhala diplomat, provincial governor
- Edwin N. Hubbell, American politician
- Edwin Hubble, American astronomer
- Edwin Jackson (baseball), American baseball player
- Edwin Joseph, American football player
- Edwin R. Keedy, American Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Edwin Lefèvre, American journalist, writer, and diplomat
- Edwin Lutyens, British architect
- Edwin H. May Jr., American politician
- Edwin C. May, American parapsychologist
- Edwin May, American architect in Indiana
- Edwin McCain, American musician
- Edwin McMillan, American chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Edwin Meese, American attorney general
- Edwin Moses, American hurdler
- Edwin Mosquera (footballer), Colombian footballer
- Edwin Mosquera (weightlifter), Colombian weightlifter
- Edwin Newman, American newscaster and journalist
- Edwin Olivarez, Filipino politician
- Edwin Orozco, Colombian road cyclist
- Edwin Poots, British politician
- Edwin Portillo, Salvadoran footballer and manager
- Edwin Quilagury, Venezuelan football manager
- Edwin Alfred Rickards, British architect
- Edwin Rist, American flautist and fly-tyer
- Edwin Schlossberg, American designer, author, and artist
- Edwin Spanier, American mathematician
- Edwin Spillman, Sierra Leonean-American football player
- Edwin Stanton, American lawyer and politician
- Edwin Starr, American soul music singer
- Edwin Sutherland, American sociologist and criminologist
- Edwin Thomas, multiple people
- Edwin Torres, multiple people
- Edwin Tsai, Hong Kong former tennis player
- Edwin Tsitsi, Nauruan politician
- Edwin van der Sar, Dutch football player
- Edwin Vurens, Dutch football player
- Edwin Walker, multiple people
- Ed. Weinberger, American screenwriter and television producer
- Edwin Wijeyeratne, Sri Lankan cabinet minister
- Edwin Bidwell Wilson, American mathematician
- Edwin (director), Indonesian filmmaker
Fictional and mythical characters
- Edwin Drood, main character in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens.
- Deputy Edwin Durland, in Gravity Falls, an animated television series.
- Edwin Jarvis, a Marvel Comics supporting character.
- Edwin Kingston, a character in the television series Matlock, played by Sam Anderson.
- Edwin Murray, the maker of the Mimic in Five Nights at Freddy's, a horror video game series.
- Edwin Payne, one of the Ghost detectives in Dead Boy Detectives a comic book written by Neil Gaiman also adapted as a Netflix TV series.
- Aun, mythical Swedish king.
- Edwin, a puppet character in Pajanimals, a children's television series.
- Edwin, a character from the horror comic series Witch Creek Road.
- Edwin Odesseiron, an evil conjurer in the Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn video games.