The name Edwina is a feminine form 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 favour until Victorian times.

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• Edwina Bartholomew (born 1983), Australian journalist
• Edwina Benner (1885–1955), American politician
• Edwina Bone (born 1988), Australian field hockey player
• Edwina Booth (1909–1991), American actress
• Edwina Brown (born 1978), American former basketball player and current college assistant coach
• Edwina Chamier (1890–1981), Canadian Alpine skiing Olympic champion
• Edwina Cornish, Australian biologist
• Edwina Currie (born 1946), British writer, broadcaster and former Member of Parliament
• Edwina P. Dalton (born 1936), American politician
• Edwina Eustis Dick (1908–1997), American contralto
• Edwina Dumm (1910–2007), American comic strip artist
• Edwina Dunn (born 1958), English entrepreneur
• Edwina Hume Fallis (1876–1957), American educator, writer, toy designer
• Edwina Findley (born 1980), American actress
• Edwina Garcia (born 1944), American politician
• Edwina Grima (born 1969), Maltese judge
• Lady Edwina Grosvenor (born 1981), British prison reformer
• Edwina Hart (born 1957), Welsh Assembly Minister for Social Justice
• Edwina Hayes (born 1973), English singer-songwriter
• Edwina Keane (born 1990), Irish camogie player
• Edwina Kennedy (born 1959), Australian golfer
• Edwina Kruse (1848–1930), American educator
• Edwina Lau (born 1965), Hong Kong police officer
• Edwina McGrail (born 1950), Welsh artist
• Edwina Donnelly Mitchell (1894–1968), American lawyer and prison superintendent
• Edwina Mountbatten (1901–1960), English heiress and wife of Admiral Louis Mountbatten
• Edwina Palmer (born 1955), Japanese associate professor
• Edwina Pettway (born 1950), American artist
• Edwina Pio, New Zealand academic
• Edwina Rogers (born 1964), American Lobbyist
• Edwina Sandys (born 1938), British artist
• Edwina Spicer (born 1948), Zimbabwean journalist
• Edwina Stewart (1934–2020), Northern Irish communist and civil-rights activist
• Edwina Tops-Alexander (born 1974), Australian equestrian rider
• Edwina von Gal, American landscaper
• Edwina Whitney (1868–1970), American librarian
• Edwina Florence Wills (1915–2002), American artist
• Edwina Starr, (Born 1986), Native American

• 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 Ferguson, in the M*A*S*H episode “Edwina“
• Edwina Fulton, in the movie Monkey Business played by Ginger Rogers (1952)
• Edwina Lewis, on the soap opera One Life to Live
• Edwina Lionheart, played by Diana Rigg in the film Theatre of Blood
• Edwina “Ed” McDunnough, in the movie Raising Arizona, played by Holly Hunter
• Edwina Moira, in the Thief computer game series
• Edina Monsoon, born Edwina, the main character of the BBC television series Absolutely Fabulous, played by Jennifer Saunders
• Edwina Richese, in the novel Dune: House Atreides
• Edwina Sharma, on the streaming television series Bridgerton played by Charithra Chandran
• Edwina Spoonapple, in the musical Dear Edwina
• Edwina Winston, on The Simpsons (former lover of Abraham Simpson)
• Edwina, an animated character in the television series My Friend Rabbit

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