Eddie (given name)

Eddie (given name)

Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for Edward, Edmund, Edgar, or Edwin and may refer to:

In sports:

*Eddie Black, Recently named best goalie ever to play the sport of soccer by ESPN
*Eddie Cheever, American race car driver
*Eddy Curry American professional basketballer
*Eddie Guardado, American baseball closer
*Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (d. 2005).
*Eddie Irvine, British Formula One driver
*Eddie Jones, Basketball player
*Eddy Merckx, retired Belgian professional cyclist
*Eddie O'Sullivan, head coach of Irish rugby team

In music:
*Eddy Arnold, American singer and musician
*Eddie Cochran, American rockabilly musician
*Eddie Dee, Puerto Rican rap/reggaeton artist
*Eddie "Evil Eddie" Jacobson, frontman for Australian band Butterfingers
*Eddie Money, an American rock musician
*Eddie Van Halen, guitarist and songwriter
*Eddie Vedder, frontman of the band Pearl Jam

In television:
*Eddie Izzard, British stand-up comedian and actor
*Eddie McGuire, CEO of Nine Network, Australia
*Eddie Murphy, African-American comedian and actor
*Eddie Paskey, U.S. actor primarily known for his mostly uncredited role as "Lieutenant Leslie" in Star Trek
*Eddie Cibrian, Cuban-American actor
*Eddie Thomas, from That's So Raven
*Eddie Crane, canine character in the American sitcom "Frasier"
*Eddie Verrilli, from NBC's "The Eddie Show" in the late 1960s
*Eddy Cologna, video producer, founder of Edison Television Network

In fiction:
*Eddie Brock, the anti-hero also known as Venom
*Eddie Dean, character from The Dark Tower
*Eddy Gordo, character in the video game series "Tekken"
*Eddie Menuek, Character from the sitcom Friends
*Eddie Valiant, from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
*Eddie Carr, a field researcher from the The Lost World by Michael Crichton

Other:
*Eddie Rickenbacker, Allied WWI flying ace, credited with shooting down more enemy planes than any other American pilot during that conflict.


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