Edgar is a commonly used masculine English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name Edgar (composed of ead "rich, prosperous" and gar "spear").
Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the Late Middle Ages; it was, however, revived in the 18th century, and was popularised by its use for a character in Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819). The name was more common in the United States than elsewhere in the Anglosphere during the 19th century. It has been a particularly fashionable name in Latin American countries since the 20th century.
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People with the given name
Edgar, King of England (942–975)
Edgar the Ætheling (c. 1051 – c. 1126), last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England
Edgar, King of Scotland (1074–1107)
Edgar Alaffita (born 1996), Mexican footballer
Edgar Allan (disambiguation), multiple people
Edgar Allen (disambiguation), multiple people
Edgar Bacon (disambiguation), multiple people
Edgar Barrier (1907–1964), American actor
Edgar Baumann (born 1970), Paraguayan javelin thrower
Edgar Bergen (1903–1978), American actor, radio performer, ventriloquist
Edgar Berlanga (born 1997), American boxer
Edgar Bogardus (1927–1958), American poet
Edgar Bronfman Sr. (1929–2013), American-Canadian businessman
Edgar H. Brown (1926–2021), American mathematician
Edgar Buchanan (1903–1979), American actor
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), American author, creator of Tarzan
Edgar Cantero (born 1981), Spanish author in Catalan, Spanish, and English languages, author of The Supernatural Enhancements
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945), American psychic and healer
Edgar Chadwick (1869–1942), English footballer and manager
Edgar Cheung (born 1997), Hong Kong foil fencer and Olympic champion
Edgar F. Codd (1923–2003), British computer scientist
Edgar A. Cohen (1859–1939), American photographer
Edgar Contreras (disambiguation), several people
Edgar Davids (born 1973), Dutch footballer
Edgar Degas (1834–1917), French painter
Edgar Durazo (born 1991), Mexican bull rider
Edgar Eather (1886–1968), American judge, Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada
Edgar Endress (born 1970), Chilean artist
Edgar Feuchtwanger (1924–2025), German-British historian
Édgar Fonseca (born 1981), Colombian road cyclist
Edgar Froese (1944–2015), German musician
Edgar Fuller, American mathematician
Édgar González (disambiguation), multiple people
Edgar J. Goodrich (1896–1969), judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
Edgar Grospiron (born 1969), French freestyle skier and Olympic champion
Edgar A. Guest (1881–1959), American poet
Edgar Hartung (born 1956), West German sprint canoer
Edgar N. Harwood (1854–1936), American judge, Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
Edgar Haynes (1866–1923), American Christian evangelist
Edgar Hilsenrath (1926–2018), German Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor
Edgar Ilarde (1934–2020), Filipino politician and host
Edgar P. Jacobs (1904–1987), Belgian comic book creator
Edgar Johan Kuusik (1888–1974), Estonian architect and interior designer
Edgar Lacy (1944–2011), American basketball player
Edgar Lungu (1956–2025), 6th Republican President of Zambia (2015–2021)
Edgar Maalouf (1934–2018), Lebanese politician
Edgar Martínez (born 1963), Puerto Rican baseball player in American Major League Baseball
Edgar Meddings (1923–2020), British bobsledder
Edgar Meyer (born 1960), American bassist
Edgar Middleton (1894–1939), British playwright and author
Edgar Mitchell (1930–2016), American astronaut
Edgar Mittelholzer (1909–1965), Guyanese novelist
Edgar Morais (born 1989), Portuguese actor and director
Edgar Morin (1921–2026), French philosopher and sociologist
Midwxst (born 2003, Edgar Nathaniel Sarratt III), American musician
Edgar Norton (1868–1953), English-American actor
Edgar Wilson Nye (1850–1896), American humorist
Edgar Oliver (born 1956), American performance artist and playwright
Edgar Pêra (born 1960), Portuguese cinematographer
Édgar Ponce (1974–2005), Mexican actor and dancer
Edgar Prado (born 1967), Peruvian-born American jockey
Edgar Puusepp (1911–1982), Estonian wrestler
Edgar Rădulescu (1890–1977), Romanian general
Édgar Ramírez (born 1977), Venezuelan actor
Edgar E. Rand (c. 1905–1955), American business executive
Edgar Nelson Rhodes (1877–1942), Canadian politician
Édgar Humberto Ruiz (born 1971), Colombian road cyclist
Edgar V. Saks (1910–1984), Estonian historian and author
Edgar Savisaar (1950–2022), Estonian politician (Keskerakond)
Edgar Selge (born 1948), German actor and writer
Edgar Seligman (1867–1958), American-born British fencer
Edgar Sengier (1879–1963), Belgium director of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga during World War II
Edgar A. Stubenrauch (1894–1988), American architect
Edgar Varèse (1883–1965), French composer
Édgar Velásquez (born 1974), Venezuelan boxer
Edgar Veytia, Mexican state attorney general
Édgar Vivar (born 1948), Mexican actor and comedian
Edgar Wachenheim III, American investor
Edgar Wallace (1875–1932), English writer
Edgar Wells (1908–1995), Methodist missionary in northern Australia
Edgar W. Wells, 19th century American designer and architect for Klieves, Kraft & Company
Edgar Winter (born 1946), American musician
Edgar Wright (born 1974), British film director
Edgar Yaeger (1904–1997), American artist
Fictional characters with the given name
Edgar Balthazar, the butler from the 1970 Disney animated film The Aristocats
Edgar Bones, in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling
Edgar Friendly, an underground rebel leader in the 1993 film Demolition Man
Edgar Linton, a leading character from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Edgar Roni Figaro, in the video game Final Fantasy VI
Edgar Stiles, in the television series 24
People with the surname
Barrie Edgar (1919–2012), English television producer
Bruce Edgar (born 1956), New Zealand cricketer
Campbell Cowan Edgar (1870–1938), Scottish Egyptologist and Secretary-General of the Egyptian Museum at Cairo
Dave Edgar (footballer, born 1902), Scottish footballer
David Edgar (soccer, born 1987) (born 1987), Canadian soccer player
David Edgar (playwright) (born 1948), English playwright
David Edgar (swimmer) (born 1950), American swimmer
Don Edgar (born 1936), Australian sociologist
Elizabeth Edgar (1929–2019), New Zealand botanist
Fiona Edgar, New Zealand professor of management
Frankie Edgar (born 1981), American mixed martial arts fighter
George Edgar (academic) (1837–1913), American university president
Irene Edgar (born 1957), Scottish lawn bowler
James David Edgar (1841–1899), Canadian politician
James Edgar (entrepreneur) (1843–1909), Scottish-American founder of Edgar Department Stores and the first department store Santa Claus
James Douglas Edgar (1884–1921), English professional golfer
Fictional characters with the surname
Judge Edgar, in the Judge Dredd comic strip
Stan Edgar, in the television series The Boys and The Boys Presents: Diabolical
Nadia Edgar / Victoria "Vic the Veep" Neuman, in the television series The Boys and Gen V
