爱德华·克里斯托弗·希兰（Edward Christopher Sheeran，MBE，1991年2月17日-）是一位英国歌手、词曲作者、吉他手、唱片制作人和演员。2009年，他18岁起就读于吉尔福德当代音乐学院。2011年初，Sheeran独立发行了扩展剧《No. 5 Collaborations Project》。与Asylum Records签约后，他的首张专辑+（发音为“plus”）于2011年9月发行。它在英国和澳大利亚排行榜上名列前茅，在美国排名第五，此后在英国获得了八次白金认证。这张专辑收录了单曲“The A Team”，这为他赢得了 Ivor Novello 音乐和抒情最佳歌曲奖。2012 年，Sheeran 获得了全英最佳英国男独唱艺术家奖和英国突破表演奖。 “The A Team”在 2013 年格莱美奖上被提名为年度歌曲，在那里他与 Elton John 一起演唱了这首歌。

他的第二张录音室专辑《x》（发音为“multiply”）于2014年6月发行。它在英国和美国排名第一，并被评为 2015 年全球第二畅销专辑。2015 年，x 获得了全英音乐年度专辑奖，并获得了英国词曲作者、作曲家和作家学院颁发的 Ivor Novello 年度词曲作者奖。他在 x 的单曲“Thinking Out Loud”在 2016 年的颁奖典礼上为他赢得了两项格莱美奖：年度歌曲和最佳流行独唱表演。

Sheeran的第三张专辑《÷》（发音为“divide”）于2017年3月发行。这张专辑在英国、美国和其他主要市场首次亮相，是 2017 年全球最畅销的专辑。专辑中的前两首单曲“Shape of You”和“Castle on the Hill”于 2017 年 1 月发行，并在包括英国、澳大利亚和德国在内的多个国家/地区打破了记录，首次登上排行榜前两名。他也成为第一位在同一周内有两首歌曲在美国前 10 名中首次亮相的艺术家。截至 2017 年 3 月，Sheeran 在英国单曲排行榜上累积了 ÷ 首前 10 名单曲的十首单曲，打破了一张专辑中最多前 10 名英国单曲的记录。他在÷的第四首单曲“Perfect”在美国、澳大利亚和英国排名第一，并在 2017 年成为圣诞节第一名。他的第四张录音室专辑《No.6 Collaborations Project》于 2019 年发行，首次登上英国和美国排行榜榜首。

Sheeran 在全球售出超过 1.5 亿张唱片，使他成为世界上最畅销的音乐艺术家之一。他的两张专辑在英国排行榜历史上最畅销的专辑名单中：x 排在第 20 位，÷ 排在第 34 位。从 2017 年 3 月开始，他的÷巡回演唱会成为 2019 年 8 月有史以来票房最高的巡回演唱会。作为伦敦国家青年剧院的校友，希兰在《混蛋刽子手》中扮演了一个反复出现的角色，并于 2019 年出演了理查德·柯蒂斯/丹尼·博伊尔的电影《昨天》。

Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (/ˈʃɪərən/; born 17 February 1991) is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actor. He attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford as an undergraduate from the age of 18 in 2009. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011. It topped the UK and Australian charts, reached number five in the US, and has since been certified eight-times platinum in the UK. The album contains the single "The A Team", which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John.

His second studio album, x (pronounced "multiply"), was released in June 2014. It peaked at number one in the UK and the US, and was named the second-best-selling album worldwide of 2015. In 2015, x won the Brit Award for Album of the Year, and he received the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. His single from x, "Thinking Out Loud", earned him two Grammy Awards at the 2016 ceremony: Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

Sheeran's third album, ÷ (pronounced "divide"), was released in March 2017. The album debuted at number one in the UK, the US and other major markets, and was the best-selling album worldwide of 2017. The first two singles from the album, "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill", were released in January 2017 and broke records in a number of countries, including the UK, Australia and Germany, by debuting in the top two positions of the charts. He also became the first artist to have two songs debut in the US top 10 in the same week. By March 2017, Sheeran had accumulated ten top 10 singles from ÷ on the UK Singles Chart, breaking the record for most top 10 UK singles from one album. His fourth single from ÷, "Perfect", reached number one in the US, Australia and the UK, where it became the Christmas number one in 2017. Released in 2019, his fourth studio album, No.6 Collaborations Project, debuted atop the UK and US charts.

Sheeran has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling music artists. Two of his albums are in the list of the best-selling albums in UK chart history: x at number 20, and ÷ at number 34. Beginning in March 2017, his ÷ Tour became the highest-grossing of all time in August 2019. An alumnus of the National Youth Theatre in London, as an actor Sheeran has portrayed a recurring role on The Bastard Executioner, and in 2019, he appeared in the Richard Curtis/Danny Boyle film Yesterday.