Eddie or Eddy is a diminutive for given names such as Edward, Edmund, Edgar, Edison, Edsel, Edwin, Eduardo or Edmundo. It is also occasionally used as a given name on its own. Notable people known as Eddie or Eddy include:

Sports

• Eddie Aikau (1946–1978), American surfer
• Eddie Alvarez, American mixed martial artist
• Eddie Charlton (1929–2004), Australian snooker and billiards player
• Eddie Charlton (born 1988), English squash player
• Eddie Cheever, American race car driver
• Eddy Curry, American professional basketball player
• Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, British ski jumper
• Eddie Elder, American football player
• Eddie Fatu (1973–2009), Samoan-American wrestler
• Eddie Foster (born 1954), American football player
• Eddie Griffin (basketball) (1982–2007), American basketball player
• Eddie Guardado, American baseball closer
• Eddie Guerrero (1967–2005), Mexican-American professional wrestler
• Eddie Hall (born 1988), English professional strongman, winner of the 2017 World's Strongest Man Competition
• Eddy Hamel (1902–1943), American soccer player for Dutch club AFC Ajax who was killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp
• Eddie House (born 1978), American basketball player
• Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish Formula One driver
• Eddie Jackson (safety) (born 1993), American football player
• Eddie Jones (basketball), American basketball player
• Eddie Jones (rugby union), Australian rugby coach and former player
• Eddy Koaz (born 1959), Israeli Olympic judoka
• Eddy Merckx (born 1945), Belgian professional cyclist
• Eddie Miles, American football player
• Eddie Murray, American baseball player
• Eddie O'Sullivan, head coach of Irish rugby team
• Eddy Piñeiro (born 1995), American football player
• Eddie Price, Tulane University Green Wave and NFL running back
• Eddie Robinson (Basketball) (born 1976), American basketball player
• Eddie Vanderdoes (born 1994), American football player
• Eddy Wilson (American football) (born 1997), American football player

Music

• Eddy Arnold (1918–2008), American country music singer and musician
• Eddie Clarke (musician) (1950–2018), British guitarist, member of the band Motörhead
• Eddy Chen (born 1993), Australian born-Taiwanese violinist, performing on the TwoSet Violin YouTube channel
• Eddie Cochran (1938–1960), American rockabilly musician
• Eddie Fisher (singer) (1928–2010), American singer
• Eddy Grant, Guyana-born British reggae musician
• Eddie Harsch (1957–2016), 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 (1949–2019), stage name of Edward Mahoney, American rock musician
• Eddie Morton (1870–1938), American rag-time singer and comedian
• Eddie Rabbitt (1941–1998), American country music singer and songwriter
• Eddie Van Halen (1955–2020), American guitarist and songwriter
• Eddie Vedder, American singer, musician and songwriter, frontman of Pearl Jam
• Eddie (Iron Maiden), mascot of the band Iron Maiden

Acting

• Eddie Cahill, American actor
• Eddie Cibrian, Cuban-American actor
• Eddie Garcia (1929–2019), Filipino actor, television personality, and producer
• Eddie Izzard, English actor, comedian, writer and political activist.
• Eddie Murphy, African-American actor, comedian and singer.
• Eddie Paskey, American actor
• Eddie Redmayne, English actor
• Eddie Shin, Korean-American actor

Politics

• Eddie Hughes (Australian politician)
• Eddie Hughes (British politician)
• Eddie Lumsden (born 1952), American politician
• Eddie Settle, North Carolinan senator

Other professions

• Eddie Bauer (1899-1986), American outdoorsman, inventor, author, and businessman
• Eddie Carmel (born Oded Ha-Carmeili; 1936–1972), Israeli-born entertainer with gigantism and acromegaly, popularly known as "The Jewish Giant"
• Eddy de Jongh (born 1931), Dutch art historian
• Eddie Fitte (born 1987), Argentinian journalist, writer
• Eddie Gossage (born 1958), American businessman, race promoter
• Eddie Linden, British-Irish poet and magazine editor
• Eddie Mosley (1947–2020), 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

• 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 (Tony Sampson in the entire Ed, Edd n Eddy franchise; James Arnold Taylor in FusionFall) 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

See also

• Eddy Rodríguez (disambiguation)
• Eddie the Eagle (disambiguation)
• Edie (name), given name and surname
• Eddy (surname)