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Eddie Cantor
Eddie Cantor (Edward Israel Iskowitz, 1892-1964), American comedian, singer, and dancer nicknamed Banjo Eyes; Ziegfeld Follies star, 1930s Chase and Sanborn radio giant, Colgate Comedy Hour host, March of Dimes co-founder.
Eddie Chapman
Eddie Chapman (1914–1997), English safecracker turned WWII double agent, codenamed ZIGZAG by MI5 and Fritzchen by the Abwehr; faked the De Havilland factory bombing and won the Iron Cross.
Eddie Charlton
Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker and billiards professional (1929-2004), world number three 1976-81, three-time Pot Black winner, world runner-up in both snooker and billiards.
Eddie Cheever
Eddie Cheever Jr. (born 1958, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American former racing driver and team owner; record 132 F1 starts by an American, nine podiums, and 1998 Indianapolis 500 winner as driver and owner.
Eddie Cibrian
Eddie Cibrian (Edward Carl Cibrian, born 1973) is an American actor known for Cole Deschanel on Sunset Beach, Jimmy Doherty on Third Watch, Jesse Cardoza on CSI: Miami, and Eddie Valetik in Take Two; married to LeAnn Rimes since 2011.
Eddie Cochran
Eddie Cochran (Ray Edward Cochran, 1938-1960), American rockabilly and rock and roll guitarist-singer of "Summertime Blues" and "Twenty Flight Rock"; died in a 1960 English car crash; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee 1987, distinct from Hank and Wayne Cochran.
Eddie Crook
Eddie Crook (Edward Crook, Jr., 1929-2005), American Army middleweight boxer who won gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics, beating Tadeusz Walasek in the final; no pro career; Silver Star, Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts from two Vietnam tours.
Eddie Deezen
Eddie Deezen (Edward Harry Deezen, born 1957), American character actor and comedian from Cumberland, Maryland, known for nerd roles in Grease, WarGames, and 1941, and as the voice of Mandark in Dexter's Laboratory.
Eddie Dekel
Eddie Dekel, born 1958, is an economic theorist who is a professor at Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University and served as president of the Econometric Society in 2016.
Eddie Eagan
Eddie Eagan (Edward Patrick Francis Eagan, 1898-1967) was an American Olympian, the only athlete to win gold at both the Summer Games (light-heavyweight boxing, Antwerp 1920) and Winter Games (four-man bobsled, Lake Placid 1932), later a lawyer and colonel.
Eddie Edwards
Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards (Michael Thomas Edwards, born 1963) is a British former ski jumper, the first Briton in Olympic ski jumping, last in both Calgary 1988 events, namesake of the IOC qualification rule that ended his Olympic career.
Eddie Edwards (wrestler)
Eddie Edwards (Eric Maher, born 1983) is an American pro wrestler, "Die Hard" Eddie Edwards of TNA/Impact, ROH's American Wolves with Davey Richards, two-time Impact World Champion and first foreign GHC Heavyweight Champion in Pro Wrestling Noah.
Eddie Farrell
Eddie Farrell (Edward Leo Farrell, 1885–1953), American long jumper and triple jumper for Boston AA and Harvard; placed 13th in both events at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, later Harvard head track coach 1923–1936.
Eddie Feigner
Eddie Feigner (Myrle Vernon King, 1925-2007), American fast-pitch softball pitcher called The King, led the four-man barnstorming team The King and His Court from 1946; claimed 9,743 wins, 141,517 strikeouts, 238 perfect games, and a 104 mph fastball.
Eddie Fisher
Eddie Fisher names two mid-century American figures: Edwin Jack Fisher (1928–2010), the Philadelphia-born traditional pop vocalist with 22 Top Ten hits who married Debbie Reynolds then Elizabeth Taylor, and Eddie Gene Fisher (1936–2025), a knuckleball MLB reliever and 1965 All-Star.
Eddie Flynn
Eddie Flynn (Edward Loring Flynn, 1909-1976) was an American boxer who won welterweight gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, beating Erich Campe 60-59; undefeated amateur (144-0), later a Tampa dentist.
Eddie Foy
Eddie Foy (Edwin Fitzgerald, 1856–1928), American vaudeville comedian and song-and-dance man, star of New York musical comedies and, with his seven surviving children, Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys; known for staying to calm the crowd in the deadly 1903 Iroquois Theater fire.
Eddie Gaedel
Eddie Gaedel (Edward Carl Gaedel, 1925-1961), Chicago-born little person, shortest MLB player ever at 3'7" and 65 lbs; walked on four pitches in his only 1951 St. Louis Browns plate appearance staged by Bill Veeck, contract voided two days later.
Eddie Gallagher (Navy SEAL)
Eddie Gallagher is a retired US Navy SEAL chief whose 2019 court-martial over the death of an Islamic State prisoner in Mosul ended in acquittal of murder but conviction for posing with the corpse, followed by Trump's intervention restoring his rank and Trident.
Eddie Garcia
Eddie Garcia (Eduardo Verchez Garcia, 1929-2019), Filipino actor-director nicknamed Manoy; seven-decade career, 600+ film and TV credits, FAMAS Hall of Famer; his 2019 on-set death led to the Philippine Eddie Garcia Law (RA 11996). Distinct from the Green Bay Packers kicker of the same name.
Eddie George
Eddie George (born 1973, Philadelphia) is a retired NFL running back, 1995 Heisman winner at Ohio State, drafted 14th overall in 1996 by Houston/Tennessee; 10,441 rushing yards, four Pro Bowls, Super Bowl XXXIV; now Bowling Green head coach.
Eddie Gibbs (New York politician)
Eddie Gibbs is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly from East Harlem's 68th district, elected in 2022 and the first formerly incarcerated person to serve in the New York State Legislature.
Eddie Gilbert
Eddie Gilbert: name shared by Edwin Fisher Gilbert (1929-2020), American Olympic swimmer in the 1948 4x200 freestyle relay, and Edward Gilbert (1905-1978), Aboriginal Australian fast bowler; also a college sprinter and a boxer.
Eddie Gilbert (wrestler)
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert (Thomas Edward Gilbert Jr., 1961–1995) was an American wrestler and booker from Lexington, Tennessee who held the UWF, NWA, USWA, and ECW tag titles and shaped early ECW before Paul Heyman.
Eddie Gray (footballer, born 1948)
Eddie Gray (born 1948), Scottish left winger and one-club man for Leeds United (579 apps, 69 goals), two-time First Division champion under Don Revie, 12-cap Scotland international, later Leeds manager and Hall of Fame inductee.
Eddie Griffin
Eddie Griffin (born 1968, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, star of Malcolm & Eddie and Undercover Brother, a Def Comedy Jam alum with a Las Vegas residency.
Eddie Griffin (basketball)
Eddie Jamaal Griffin (1982-2007), American NBA power forward from Philadelphia; Seton Hall star, 2001 first-round pick (7th, Nets); played five seasons for Houston and Minnesota, averaging 7.2 points and 5.8 rebounds.
Eddie Guerrero
Eddie Guerrero was an American professional wrestler, born in El Paso, Texas, who won the WWE Championship in 2004 and died in 2005 at age 38.
Eddie Gutierrez (actor)
Eddie Gutierrez (Eduardo Gutierrez, born 1942, Manila) is a Filipino actor and producer, a 1960s Sampaguita Pictures matinee idol, award-winning character actor from 1991, husband of Annabelle Rama, father of Ruffa, Richard, Raymond, and Tonton Gutierrez, and patriarch of a prominent showbiz clan.
Eddie Hall
Eddie Hall (Edward Stephen Hall, "The Beast"), British strongman from Stoke-on-Trent; World's Strongest Man 2017 and first man to deadlift 500 kg (2016, Leeds); retired 2017, later TV and boxing.