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词条 Edwina
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  1. People

  2. Fictional characters

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The name Edwina is the female version of the male name Edwin, which derives from Old English and means "rich friend." Edwin was a popular name until the time of the Norman Conquest, then fell out of favor until Victorian times.

People

  • Edwina Booth (1909–1991), American actress
  • Edwina Brown (born 1978), American former basketball player and current college assistant coach
  • Edwina Brudenell (born 1961), granddaughter of Admiral Louis Mountbatten
  • Edwina Currie (born 1946), former Conservative Member of Parliament
  • Edwina Dumm (1910–2007), comic strip artist
  • Edwina Hume Fallis (1876–1957), American educator, writer, toy designer
  • Lady Edwina Louise Grosvenor (1981), British prison reformer
  • Edwina Hart (born 1957), Welsh Assembly Minister for Social Justice
  • Edwina Mountbatten (1901–1960), English heiress and wife of Admiral Louis Mountbatten
  • Edwina Noone, pseudonym used by author Michael Avallone (1924–1999)
  • Edwina Sandys (born 1938), sculptor and granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill
  • Edwina Tops-Alexander (born 1974), Australian equestrian rider

Fictional characters

  • Edwina "Ed" McDunnough, in the movie Raising Arizona, played by Holly Hunter
  • Edwina Brown, in the film National Velvet (1944), played by Angela Lansbury
  • Edwina Chicken, a minor character in the film Chicken Run (2000)
  • Edwina Cutwater, in the film All of Me (1984), played by Lily Tomlin
  • Edwina Dunn, on the soap opera EastEnders
  • Edwina Ferguson, in the MASH episode "Edwina"
  • Edwina Lewis, on the soap opera One Life to Live
  • Edwina Lionheart, played by Diana Rigg in the film Theatre of Blood
  • Edwina Moira, in the Thief computer game series
  • Edwina Monsoon, though changed to Edina, the main character of the BBC television series Absolutely Fabulous played by Jennifer Saunders
  • Edwina Richese, in the novel Dune: House Atreides
  • Edwina Spoonapple, in the musical Dear Edwina
  • Edwina Winston, on The Simpsons (former lover of Abraham Simpson)
  • Edwina Fulton, in the movie Monkey Business played by Ginger Rogers (1952)
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