Fast Eddie is a fictional character in the 1959 novel The Hustler by Walter Tevis, played by Paul Newman in the 1961 film The Hustler and the 1986 sequel The Color of Money . The character's full name in the novel and both movies was Edward or Eddie "Fast Eddie" Felson.

Fast Eddie or Fast Eddy is also the nickname of:

People

• Fast Eddie (producer) (Edwin A. Smith, fl. from 1987), American hip hop musician
• "Fast" Eddie Clarke (1950–2018), English guitarist and former member of Motörhead
• Edward Davenport (born 1966), English fraudster and socialite
• Edward Dostaler (born 1988), Canadian charity runner
• Paul Edmondson (motorcyclist) (born 1969), British enduro rider
• Eddie Hoh (1944–2015), American rock drummer
• Eddie Johnson (basketball, born 1955) (1955–2020), American basketball player
• Eddie Parker (pool player) (c. 1932 – 2001), American pool player, said to be inspiration for The Hustler character
• Eddie Rickenbacker (1890–1973), American World War I fighter ace and Medal of Honor recipient
• Ed Savitz (1942–1993), American criminal, businessman, and sexual predator
• Eddie Valentine (born 1978), American professional wrestler
• Edward Vrdolyak (born 1937), American politician
• Fast Eddie, pseudonym of the founder of the TV Tropes website

Fictional characters

• Fast Eddie Costigan, in Spider Robinson's "Callahan's" stories such as Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

List of people with the same nickname

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