Edson

Edson can refer to:

Places

Canada

• Edson, Alberta

United States

• Edson, Kansas, an unincorporated community in Sherman County
• Edson, South Dakota, a ghost town
• Edson, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, a town
  • Edson (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

Surname

• Allan Edson (1846-1888), Canadian painter
• Billy Edson (1874-1965), football player, lawyer, and politician in Iowa
• C. L. Edson (1881-1975), American newspaper columnist, humorist, and poet
• Carroll A. Edson (1891-1986), early leader in the Boy Scouts of America; co-founder of the Order of the Arrow scouting honor society
• Franklin Edson (1832-1904), 85th Mayor of New York
• Gary Edson, president of Conservation International
• Gus Edson (1901-1966), American cartoonist (originally "Edelstein")
• Hilary Edson (born 1965), American soap opera actress
• Hiram Edson (1806-1882), pioneer of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• J. T. Edson (born 1928), English author of American Westerns
• Jerrod Edson (born 1974), Canadian novelist
• Job A. Edson (1854-1928), president of the Kansas City Southern Railway
• John Joy Edson, American banker
• Katherine Philips Edson (1870-1933), American labor and women's rights activist
• Lewis Edson (1748-1820), early American composer
• Marcellus Gilmore Edson (1849-1940), Canadian pharmacist who was the first person to patent peanut butter
• Margaret Edson (born 1961), American playwright
• Merritt A. Edson (1897-1955), U.S. Marine Corps General
• Norman Edson (1904-1970), New Zealander biochemist
• Richard Edson (born 1954), American actor
• Russell Edson (1935-2014), American poet, novelist, writer and illustrator
• William Alden Edson (1912-2012), American scientist and engineer

First name

• Édson, Brazilian given name, often written Edson

Most notably:

• Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer, better known as "Pelé"
• Edson Barboza (born 1986), Brazilian mixed martial artist
• Édson Boaro, known as "Édson" (born 1959), Brazilian footballer from 1986 World Cup Squad
• Edson Buddle (born 1981), United States soccer player for Los Angeles Galaxy

• Edson A. Putnam (1832-1917), American politician

Other

• The destroyer USS Edson (DD-946), named after General Edson