Eddie (given name)
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, American surfer
- Eddie Alvarez, American mixed martial artist
- Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker and billiards player
- Eddie Charlton, English squash player
- Eddie Cheever, American race car driver
- Eddy Curry, American professional basketball player
- Eddy Edigin, German professional basketball player
- Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, British ski jumper
- Eddie Elder, American football player
- Eddie Fatu, Samoan-American wrestler
- Eddie Foster, American football player
- Eddie Genborg, Swedish ice hockey player
- Eddie Griffin (basketball), American basketball player
- Eddie Guardado, American baseball closer
- Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler
- Eddie Hall, English professional strongman, winner of the 2017 World's Strongest Man Competition
- Eddy Hamel, American soccer player for Dutch club AFC Ajax who was killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp
- Eddie House, American basketball player
- Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish Formula One driver
- Eddie Jackson (safety), American football player
- Eddie Jones (basketball), American basketball player
- Eddie Jones (rugby union), Australian rugby coach and former player
- Eddy Koaz, Israeli Olympic judoka
- Eddy W M Lai, horse racing jockey
- Eddie McCreadie, Scottish footballer and manager
- Eddie Melai, Australian rules footballer
- Eddy Merckx, Belgian professional cyclist
- Eddie Miles, American football player
- Eddie Murray, American baseball player
- Eddie O'Sullivan, head coach of Irish rugby team
- Eddy Piñeiro, American football player
- Eddie Price, Tulane University Green Wave and NFL running back
- Eddie Robinson (basketball), American basketball player
- Eddie Salcedo, Italian footballer
- Eddie Vanderdoes, American football player
- Eddie "E.J." Williams Jr., American football player
- Eddy Wilson (American football), American football player
Music
- Eddy Arnold, American country music singer and musician
- Eddie Brock (singer), Italian singer-songwriter
- Eddie Clarke (musician), British guitarist, member of the band Motörhead
- Eddy Chen, Australian born-Taiwanese violinist, performing on the TwoSet Violin YouTube channel
- Eddie Cochran, American rockabilly musician
- Eddie Fisher (singer), American singer
- Eddy Grant, Guyana-born British reggae musician
- Eddie Harsch, Canadian keyboardist, member of The Black Crowes
- Eddie "Evil Eddie" Jacobson, frontman for Australian band Butterfingers
- Eddie McGuire, Australian television presenter and businessman
- Eddy Mitchell, French rock singer and actor
- Eddie Money, stage name of Edward Mahoney, American rock musician
- Eddie Morton, American rag-time singer and comedian
- Eddie Peregrina, Filipino singer and matinee idol
- Eddie Rabbitt, American country music singer and songwriter
- Eddie Van Halen, American guitarist and songwriter
- Eddie Vedder, American singer, musician and songwriter, frontman of Pearl Jam
- Eddy Zervigon, Cuban flautist and bandleader
- Eddie (Iron Maiden), mascot of the band Iron Maiden
- Eddy de Pretto, French singer
Acting
- Eddie Cahill, American actor
- Eddie Cibrian, Cuban-American actor
- Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor, television personality, and producer
- Eddie Gutierrez (actor), Filipino actor and former matinee idol
- Eddie Izzard, English actor, comedian, writer and political activist.
- Eddie Mercado, Filipino film actor, television actor, film director, television director, and television presenter
- Eddie Mesa, Filipino retired actor and singer
- Eddie Murphy, African-American actor, comedian and singer.
- Eddie Paskey, American actor
- Eddie Redmayne, English actor
- Eddie Rodriguez, Filipino film actor and director
- Eddie Shin, Korean-American actor
- Eddie Spears,, Indigenous-American actor
Politics
- Eddy Baldewijns, Belgian politician
- Eddie Hughes (Australian politician)
- Eddie Hughes (British politician)
- Eddie Lumsden, American politician
- Eddie Settle, North Carolinan senator
Other professions
- Eddie Bauer, American outdoorsman, inventor, author, and businessman
- Eddie Carmel, Israeli-born entertainer with gigantism and acromegaly, popularly known as "The Jewish Giant"
- Eddy de Jongh, Dutch art historian
- Eddie Fitte, Argentinian journalist, writer
- Eddie Gossage, American businessman, race promoter
- Eddie Linden, Scottish-Irish poet and magazine editor
- Eddie Mosley, American serial killer
- Eddie Price III, Louisiana elected official
- Eddie Rickenbacker, American World War I flying ace, credited with shooting down more enemy planes than any other American pilot during that conflict
- Eddie Villanueva, Filipino evangelist and president-founder of the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide
- Eddie Woo, Australian mathematician
Fictional characters
- Eddy Stone, a main character in the 1961 British drama film Victim, played by Donald Churchill
- 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 Need for Speed: Underground, also appears in Need for Speed (2015 video game)
- Eddy 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''