The name Edwin means "wealth-friend". It comes from (wealth, good fortune) and (friend). Thus the Old English form is Ēadwine, a name widely attested in early medieval England. Edwina is the feminine form of the name.

Notable people and characters with the name include:

Historical figures

  • Edwin of Northumbria (died 632 or 633), King of Northumbria and Christian saint
  • Edwin (son of Edward the Elder) (died 933)
  • Eadwine of Sussex (died 982), Ealdorman of Sussex
  • Eadwine of Abingdon (died 990), Abbot of Abingdon
  • Edwin, Earl of Mercia (died 1071), brother-in-law of Harold Godwinson (Harold II)
  • Edwin Sandys (bishop) (1519–1588), Archbishop of York

Modern era

  • E. W. Abeygunasekera, Sri Lankan Sinhala politician
  • Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926), English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest
  • Edwin Ariyadasa (1922–2021), Sri Lankan Sinhala journalist
  • Edwin Arrieta Arteaga (died 2023), Colombian murder victim
  • Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), British artist
  • Edwin Eugene Aldrin (born 1930), birth name of Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
  • Edwin Anderson, several people
  • Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890–1954), American inventor
  • Edwin Bailey (politician) (1836–1908), English-American businessman and politician
  • Edwin Batdorf (1853–1927), American colonel
  • Edwin L. Bauer (1905–), American tropical modernist architect in Hawai'i
  • Edwin Bennett (potter) (1818–1908), English American pioneer of the pottery industry and art in the United States
  • Edwin Bennett (cricketer) (1893–1929), English cricketer
  • Edwin Keppel Bennett (1887–1958), English writer, poet, Germanist and academic
  • Edwin Biedermann (1877–1929), British real tennis player
  • Edwin Birdsong (1941–2019), American keyboardist and organist
  • Edwin Booth (1833–1893), American Shakespearean actor
  • Edwin H. Brainard (1882–1957), American Marine aviation pioneer
  • Edwin Bramall (1923–2019), Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces
  • Edwin Cardona (born 1992), Colombian professional footballer
  • Edwin Cassiani (born 1972), Colombian boxer
  • Edwin Catmull (born 1945), American computer scientist, animator, and co-founder of Pixar
  • Edwin Centeno (1981–2010), Peruvian race walker
  • Edwin Cerrillo (born 2000), American professional soccer player
  • Edwin Chadwick (1800–1890), British social reformer
  • Edwin Cheney (1869—1942), American electrical engineer
  • Edwin Clarke (1919–1996), British neurologist and medical historian
  • Edwin Cole, multiple people
  • Edwin L. Cox, American oilman and philanthropist from Dallas, Texas
  • Edwin M. Cronk (1918–2020), American diplomat
  • Edwin Davies (1946–2018), British businessman and philanthropist
  • Edwin Denby (1903–1983), American poet, novelist, dance critic
  • Edwin Denby (1870–1929), American lawyer and politician
  • Edwin Díaz (born 1994), Puerto Rican professional baseball player
  • Edwin Edwards, multiple people
  • Edwin L. Elwood (1847–1907), American soldier
  • Edwin Encarnación (born 1983), Dominican baseball player
  • Edwin Engelhart (born 1976), Dutch basketball player
  • Edwin Escobar (born 1992), Venezuelan baseball player
  • Edwin L. Felter (1917–2004), justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
  • Edwin Feulner (1941–2025), American political scientist
  • Edwin Henry Fitler (1825–1896), American businessman and politician
  • Edwin E. Floyd (1924–1990), American mathematician
  • Edwin M. Gardner (1845–1935), American painter
  • Edwin Ghazal, also known as Edwin (musician), Canadian musician
  • Edwin Goedhart (born 1962), American politician
  • Edwin Norman Hartshorn (1835–1901), American politician and educator
  • Edwin Haslam (1932–2013), British physical organic chemist
  • Edwin Hawkins (1943–2018), American musician and singer
  • E. L. B. Hurulle (1919–2009), Sri Lankan Sinhala diplomat, provincial governor
  • Edwin N. Hubbell (1815–1897), American politician
  • Edwin Hubble (1889–1953), American astronomer
  • Edwin Jackson (baseball) (born 1983), American baseball player
  • Edwin Joseph (born 2005), American football player
  • Edwin R. Keedy (1880–1958), American Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
  • Edwin Lefèvre (1871–1943), American journalist, writer, and diplomat
  • Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), British architect
  • Edwin H. May Jr. (1924–2002), American politician
  • Edwin C. May, American parapsychologist
  • Edwin May (1823–1880), American architect in Indiana
  • Edwin McCain (born 1970), American musician
  • Edwin McMillan (1907-1991), American chemist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Edwin Meese (born 1931), American attorney general
  • Edwin Moses (born 1955), American hurdler
  • Edwin Mosquera (footballer) (born 2001), Colombian footballer
  • Edwin Mosquera (weightlifter) (1985–2017), Colombian weightlifter
  • Edwin Newman (1919–2010), American newscaster and journalist
  • Edwin Olivarez (born 1963), Filipino politician
  • Edwin Orozco (born 1982), Colombian road cyclist
  • Edwin Poots (born 1965), British politician
  • Edwin Portillo (born 1962), Salvadoran footballer and manager
  • Edwin Quilagury (born 1977), Venezuelan football manager
  • Edwin Alfred Rickards (1872–1920), British architect
  • Edwin Rist, American flautist and fly-tyer
  • Edwin Schlossberg (born 1945), American designer, author, and artist
  • Edwin Siu (born 1977), Hong Kong actor and singer
  • Edwin Spanier (1921–1996), American mathematician
  • Edwin Spillman (born 2005), Sierra Leonean-American football player
  • Edwin Stanton (1814–1869), American lawyer and politician
  • Edwin Starr (1942–2003), American soul music singer
  • Edwin Sutherland (1883–1950), American sociologist and criminologist
  • Edwin Thomas, multiple people
  • Edwin Warren Toole (1893–1972), American lawyer and public official
  • Edwin Torres, multiple people
  • Edwin Tsai, Hong Kong former tennis player
  • Edwin Tsitsi (1925–1997), Nauruan politician
  • Edwin van der Sar (born 1970), Dutch football player
  • Edwin Vurens (born 1968), Dutch football player
  • Edwin Walker, multiple people
  • Ed. Weinberger (born 1945), American screenwriter and television producer
  • Edwin Wijeyeratne (1889–1968), Sri Lankan cabinet minister
  • Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964), American mathematician
  • Edwin (director) (born 1978), Indonesian filmmaker

Fictional and mythical characters

  • Edwin Drood, main character in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens.
  • Deputy Edwin Durland, in Gravity Falls, an animated television series
  • Edwin Jarvis, a Marvel Comics supporting character
  • Edwin Kingston, a character in the television series Matlock, played by Sam Anderson
  • Edwin Murray, the maker of the Mimic in Five Nights at Freddy's, a horror video game series
  • Edwin Payne, one of the Ghost detectives in Dead Boy Detectives a comic book written by Neil Gaiman also adapted as a Netflix TV series
  • Aun (known as Edwin the Old in English), mythical Swedish king
  • Edwin, a puppet character in Pajanimals, a children's television series
  • Edwin, a character from the horror comic series Witch Creek Road
  • Edwin Odesseiron, an evil conjurer in the Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn video games

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