Edmund (Tiruchendur MLA), Indian politician, elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly in 1971 In other fields Sir Edmund Andros (1637–1714), English colonial administrator under the Royal House of Stuart Edmund Anscombe (1874–1948), New Zealand architect Edmund Cobb (1892–1974), American actor Edmund Collein (1906–1992), East German architect and Bauhaus photographer Edmund Crispin, pseudonym of English crime fiction writer Bruce Montgomery (1921–1978) Edmund Davy (1785–1857), English chemist Edmund Fritz (before 1918after 1932), Austrian actor, film director, and music manager Edmund H. Garrett (1853–1929), American artist Edmund Gettier (1927–2021), American philosopher Edmund Goulding (1891–1959), British film writer and director Edmund Gunter (1581–1626), British mathematician Edmund Gwenn (1877–1959), British actor Edmund Hashim (1933–1974), American actor Edmund Hewavitarne (1873–1915), Sri Lankan businessman and army reservist Sir Edmund Hillary (1919–2008), New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), philosopher and mathematician Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Sir William Edmund Ironside (1880–1951), field marshal and chief of the British Imperial General Staff Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside (1924–2020), British politician and engineer, son of William Edmund Ironside Edmund Kemper (born 1948), American serial killer and necrophile Edmund Blair Leighton (1852–1922), British artist Edmund Lenihan (born 1950), Irish author and storyteller Edmund Lowe (1890–1971), American actor Edmund P. Murray (1930–2007), American novelist and journalist Edmund Rack (c. 1735–1787), English writer Edmund Reid (1846–1917), head of the Metropolitan Police's CID during the time of the Jack the Ripper Ed Skoronski (1910–1996), American football player Edmund Kirby Smith (1824–1893), American general, telegraph president, and professor of mathematics and botany. Edmund Sonnenblick (1932–2007), American cardiologist Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), English poet Edmund Wilson (1895–1972), American writer and literary critic Surname Kyle Edmund (born 1995), British tennis player Fictional characters Edmund, an antagonist in the play King Lear by William Shakespeare Edmund Bertram, character in the novel Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Edmund Blackadder, the protagonist of the BBC historical comedy series Blackadder Edmund Pevensie, main character in several of The Chronicles of Narnia book series by C. S. Lewis, in which he is/was "King Edmund the Just" King Edmund, supporting character in the animated show of Tangled in which he had ruled the uninhabitable Dark Kingdom twenty-five years prior. He is also the long-lost father of Eugene Fitzherbert, making the reformed thief a prince by birth See also Edmund (disambiguation) Edmunds (disambiguation) Edmond (disambiguation) Edmund Ironside (disambiguation) Edmunds Edward References English masculine given names English-language masculine given names Old English given names German