Edgar
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Edgar is a common name from Old English words ead (meaning "rich, happy, prosperous") + gar (meaning "spear
"). Literally meaning "prosperity-spear" or "prosperous spearman." It may refer to:
Spear
A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with bamboo spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as flint, obsidian, iron, steel or...
"). Literally meaning "prosperity-spear" or "prosperous spearman." It may refer to:
Historical
- Edgar the Peaceable (942–975), king of England
- Edgar of ScotlandEdgar of ScotlandEdgar or Étgar mac Maíl Choluim , nicknamed Probus, "the Valiant" , was king of Alba from 1097 to 1107...
(1074–1107), king of Scotland - Edgar the Ætheling (c.1051–c.1126), last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England
Given name
- Edgar Angara, Filipino lawyer
- Edgar BaumannEdgar BaumannEdgar Baumann Duran is a retired male javelin thrower from Paraguay, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He set his personal best on October 10, 1999 at a meet in San Marcos, Texas, setting a South American record...
, Paraguayan javelin thrower - Edgar John Bergen, American actor, radio performer, ventriloquist
- Edgar BuchananEdgar BuchananEdgar Buchanan was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s...
, American actor - Edgar Rice BurroughsEdgar Rice BurroughsEdgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.-Biography:...
, U.S. writer, creator of Tarzan - Edgar F. CoddEdgar F. CoddEdgar Frank "Ted" Codd was an English computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational databases...
, British computer scientist - Edgar DavidsEdgar DavidsEdgar Steven Davids is a retired Dutch footballer and current member of the supervisory board of Ajax. After beginning his career with the Amsterdam club, he subsequently played in Italy for Milan and Juventus before a loan spell with Barcelona. He went on to play for Internazionale and Tottenham...
, Dutch footballer - Edgar DegasEdgar DegasEdgar Degas[p] , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist...
, French painter - Edgar FonsecaEdgar FonsecaCarlos Edgar Fonseca is a male professional road cyclist from Colombia.-Career:200520072008-References:...
, Colombian road cyclist - Edgar Gonzalez (disambiguation), multiple people
- Edgar GrospironEdgar GrospironEdgar Grospiron is a French freestyle skier and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. He received a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.-References:...
, French freestyle skier and Olympic champion - Edgar GuestEdgar GuestEdgar Albert Guest was a prolific English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet.In 1891, Guest came with his family to the United States from England...
, American poet - J. Edgar HooverJ. Edgar HooverJohn Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972...
, former head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation - Edgar MartínezEdgar MartinezEdgar Martínez , nicknamed "Gar" and "Papi", is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and designated hitter. He spent his entire 18-year Major League career with the Seattle Mariners. He is the cousin of Carmelo Martínez.-Seattle Mariners:On December 19, 1982, the Seattle Mariners signed...
, Major League Baseball player who played for the Seattle Mariners - Edgar MeyerEdgar MeyerEdgar Meyer is a prominent contemporary bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger...
, American bassist - Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
- Edgar MoraisEdgar MoraisEdgar Morais is an actor. He began acting at the age of 14, and he studied at the Professional Theater School of Cascais, Lisbon.-Theater career:...
, Portuguese actor - Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
, American author - Edgar PêraEdgar PêraEdgar Henrique Clemente Pêra is a Portuguese cinematographer.He enrolled in the Escola de Cinema do Conservatório Nacional in 1980, with a concentration in film editing...
, a PortuguesePortugalPortugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
cinematographer. - Edgar PonceEdgar PonceEdgar Ponce Garcia was a Mexican actor and dancer. Ponce was a member of the male dance troupe Sólo Para Mujeres and appeared in a number of soap operas which were popular in both Mexico and the United States.On May 5, 2005, while filming a commercial with his troupe in Mexico City, an...
(1974–2005), Mexican actor and dancer - Edgar Prado, Peruvian jockey
- Edgar RamirezEdgar RamirezÉdgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellano is a Venezuelan actor. He played Carlos in the 2010 French-German biopic series Carlos, a role for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor at the César Awards 2011. He also played "Paz", a CIA assassin in the movie The Bourne Ultimatum.Ramírez...
, Venezuelan actor - Edgar Nelson RhodesEdgar Nelson RhodesEdgar Nelson Rhodes, was a Canadian parliamentarian from Nova Scotia.Rhodes was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1908 as a member of the Conservative Party...
, Canadian politician - Edgar Humberto RuizEdgar Humberto RuizEdgar Humberto Ruiz Sierra is a retired male road cyclist from Colombia, who was a professional from 1994 to 1995.-Career:199019921993-References:...
, Colombian road cyclist - Edgar SavisaarEdgar SavisaarEdgar Savisaar , is an Estonian politician, one of the founding members of Popular Front of Estonia and the leader of the Centre Party. He has served as the acting Prime Minister of Estonia, Minister of Internal affairs and Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications...
, Estonian politician (Keskerakond) - Edgar SeligmanEdgar Seligman-External links:****...
, British 2-time Olympic champion fencer - Edgar SengierEdgar SengierEdgar Sengier was the director of the Belgian Union Minière du Haut Katanga during World War II. Sengier is credited with giving the American government access to much of the uranium necessary for the Manhattan Project...
, director of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga during World War II - Edgar VarèseEdgard VarèseEdgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse, , whose name was also spelled Edgar Varèse , was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States....
, French composer - Edgar VelasquezEdgar VelasquezEdgar Velasquez is a retired boxer from Venezuela. He competed in the men's light flyweight division during the early 1990s....
, Venezuelan boxer - Edgar WinterEdgar WinterEdgar Holland Winter is an American musician. He is famous for being a multi-instrumentalist. He is a highly skilled keyboardist, saxophonist and percussionist. He often plays an instrument while singing. He was most successful in the 1970s with his band, The Edgar Winter Group, notably with their...
, American musician - Edgar WrightEdgar WrightEdgar Howard Wright is an English film and television director and writer. He is most famous for his work with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on the films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, the TV series Spaced, and for directing the film Scott Pilgrim vs...
, British director - Edgar YaegerEdgar YaegerEdgar Louis Yaeger was an American modernist painter from Detroit, Michigan.Yaeger studied under Robert A. Herzberg at the Detroit School of Fine and Applied Arts, by which he was awarded the Founder's Society Purchase Prize...
, American artist
Surnames
- David Edgar (academic)David Edgar (academic)David Edgar is Professor of Strategy and Business Transformation and member of the Department of Management at the Caledonian Business School, part of Glasgow Caledonian University, one of the three full professors in the department. He holds a PhD in Business. His main area of research interest...
, professor at Caledonian Business School - David Edgar (footballer)David Edgar (footballer)David Edward Edgar is a Canadian football player who currently plays for Championship side Burnley. He can play as a centre back, right back, left back or defensive midfielder.-Early life:Edgar was born to Eddie Edgar and Christine Edgar...
, Canadian footballer - David Edgar (playwright)David Edgar (playwright)David Edgar is a British playwright and author who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain.He was resident playwright at the Birmingham...
, British playwright - David Edgar (swimmer)David Edgar (swimmer)David Edgar is an American swimmer and Olympic champion. Edgar won seven NCAA championships while competing for the University of Tennessee and was named "Fastest Man Afloat" by Sports Illustrated magazine .He competed at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where he received a gold medal in 4...
, American swimmer - Don EdgarDon EdgarDr. Donald E. Edgar was the Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Under his leadership the Institute had a profound influence on the Government of Australia regarding family policy, family and work, welfare policy and family law...
, Australian sociologist - Frank EdgarFrank EdgarFrank James Edgar is an American mixed martial artist, who competes as a lightweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and is the current UFC Lightweight Champion. His first and only career loss came against Gray Maynard in 2008, which marked the beginning of a noted rivalry...
, American mixed martial arts fighter - James Edgar (entrepreneur)James Edgar (entrepreneur)James Edgar was a businessman who has been credited with being the one who first came up with the idea of dressing up as Santa Claus for Christmas. He started the tradition in 1890 in his Brockton, Massachusetts, department store.-Biography:...
, British businessman who dressed up as Santa Claus for Christmas - Jim EdgarJim EdgarJames Edgar is an American politician who was the 38th Governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1999 and Illinois Secretary of State from 1981 to 1991. As a moderate Republican in a largely blue-leaning state, Edgar was a popular and successful governor, leaving office with high approval ratings...
, American politician - Jimmy EdgarJimmy EdgarJimmy Edgar is a Detroit-based electronic music artist, signed to K7 Records. Influenced mostly by Jazz, funk, street beat and r&b in these early years, he began his musical pursuit by playing the drums in experimental bands and by making tape recordings...
, Detroit-based electronic music artist - John EdgarJohn EdgarJohn Edgar was an Illinois pioneer and politician. He was born in Ireland. In 1776, he was the commander of a British ship in the Great Lakes. He resigned from the British Navy rather than fight against the Americans....
, Illinois pioneer and politician - Jon EdgarJon EdgarJon Edgar is a British artist born in Rustington, West Sussex in 1968, the grandson of British cartoonist Brian White. He direct-carves in wood and stone using methods of improvisation, and works in clay.-Biography:...
, British artist - Kika EdgarKika EdgarKika Edgar , is a Mexican actress and singer.- Biography :Starting her career primarily in theater and musicals, she has become well known in Mexico, starring in telenovelas such as Amor Real and Contra Viento y Marea...
, Mexican actress and singer - Marriott EdgarMarriott EdgarMarriott Edgar , born George Marriot Edgar in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, was a poet, scriptwriter and comedian best known for writing many of the monologues performed by Stanley Holloway, particularly the 'Albert' series....
, Scottish poet - Richard J. Edgar, Chair of the New Jersey Libertarian PartyNew Jersey Libertarian PartyThe New Jersey Libertarian Party is the state affiliate of the national Libertarian Party in New Jersey. As of June 3rd 2011, there were 1,451 registered Libertarians in New Jersey ....
- Robert Allan EdgarRobert Allan EdgarRobert Allan Edgar is a United States federal judge.Born in Munising, Michigan, Edgar received a B.A. from Davidson College in 1962 and an LL.B. from Duke University School of Law in 1965. He was in the United States Army from 1965 to 1967. He was in private practice in Chattanooga, Tennessee from...
, United States federal judge - Robert W. EdgarRobert W. EdgarRev. Dr. Robert William Edgar is president and CEO of Common Cause, a nonpartisan government watchdog organization, effective May 2007. He served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1987, representing the 7th district of Pennsylvania...
, American politician - Ross EdgarRoss EdgarRoss Edgar is a Scottish track cyclist who represented Scotland at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games, where he won a gold medal in the team sprint riding with Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean...
, Scottish track cyclist - Scott Edgar (basketball coach)Scott Edgar (basketball coach)Scott Edgar is an American college basketball coach. A graduate of Penn Hills Senior High School, in Penn Hills Township, Pennsylvania, he is the men's basketball head coach at Eastern Oklahoma State College. He was formerly head coach at Duquesne University, Murray State University and Southeast...
, American basketball coach - William EdgarWilliam EdgarWilliam Edgar is a British mechanical engineer, who was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2004.He is graduate from Strathclyde University and Birmingham University with an MSc in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics....
, British mechanical engineer
Fictional characters
- Edgar, a leading character in Shakespeare's King LearKing LearKing Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
- Edgar Bones, fictional character from the Harry Potter series of novels by J.K. Rowling
- Edgar Friendly, an underground rebel leader in the 1990s movie Demolition Man
- Edgar Roni Figaro, character in the Final Fantasy VI video game
- Edgar McGraw, character in several films by by Robert RodriguezRobert RodriguezRobert Anthony Rodríguez is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Sin City, Planet...
and Quentin TarantinoQuentin TarantinoQuentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...
, including Kill Bill Vol. 1 - Edgar StilesEdgar StilesEdgar Stiles was a fictional character played by Louis Lombardi in the American television series 24.-Characteristics:Edgar had experience as an Intelligence Analyst at CTU as well as being a protocol manager...
, character in the television series 24 - Edgar, a character in The Zimmer Twins
- Edgar, from the video Edgar's fallEdgar's fallEdgar's fall is a video that was uploaded to YouTube in March 2006 from Mexico. This internet meme has been one of the most popular videos in YouTube, with 21,872,668 viewings as of December 24, 2010.- History :...
on YouTube - Judge EdgarJudge EdgarJudge Jura Edgar is a fictional character in the Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD. Although in most of her stories she is not evil or a murderer in the manner of most villains in the Judge Dredd series , she is nevertheless one of Dredd's adversaries...
, character in the Judge Dredd comic strip - Edgar, the computer in the 1984 film: Electric Dreams