List of Famous people named Edith

Edith Prescott Luckett Davis was a film and Broadway stage actress in the 1910s and 1920s. She was the mother of Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, and mother-in-law of US president Ronald Reagan.

Edith Baumann was an East German politician. She was a co-founder and official of the FDJ, the youth organisation that after 1946 became the youth wing of East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party . Between 1946 and her death she was a member of the country's powerful Party Central Committee.

Edith Lagos was a Peruvian terrorist who was a member of the party Shining Path, one of the Terrorist Communist Parties of Peru. Lagos was a bloody prominent promoter of the group's agenda.

Edith Márquez Landa is a Mexican singer and actress. She is a dramatic mezzo-soprano. She was born in Puebla City.

Edith Campbell, was a Canadian nurse. She was one of the first Canadian nurses to arrive in England to assist in the establishment of the Duchess of Connaught Canadian Red Cross Hospital, a field hospital in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and serve during the First World War in both England and France, earning a number of medals including the Royal Red Cross, first class, and the Military Medal. She was also twice mentioned in dispatches.

Edith Mae Savage-Jennings was an American civil rights leader from New Jersey. She was known for her association with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Edith Flagg was an American fashion designer, fashion industry executive, and philanthropist. She was the first designer to import polyester as a fashion textile to America. In her later life, Flagg became known for her re-occurring role on the Bravo television program Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles with her grandson Josh Flagg.

Edith Frank was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, and her older sister Margot. She was a prisoner during the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where she died from starvation.

Edith Hahn Beer was an Austrian Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by hiding her Jewish identity and marrying a Nazi officer.

Édith Butler is a Canadian singer-songwriter and folklorist of Acadian descent. Her career began in the early 1960s with performances in Moncton, followed by national appearances on CBC Television's Singalong Jubilee.