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Édouard Geffray
Édouard Geffray (born 1978) is France's Minister of National Education since October 2025 under Lecornu, succeeding Élisabeth Borne; former DGESCO school-education director (2019–2024) and conseiller d'État.
Édouard Glissant
Édouard Glissant (1928–2011) was a Martinican writer, poet, and philosopher whose concepts of creolization, Relation, and opacity reshaped thinking about Caribbean identity; he won the Prix Renaudot in 1958.
Édouard Goursat
Édouard Goursat (1858–1936) was a French mathematician, professor at the Sorbonne, remembered for proving Cauchy's integral theorem without assuming continuity and for his three-volume Cours d'analyze mathématique.
Édouard Hannezo
Édouard Hannezo is a French theoretical biophysicist and professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria since 2022, known for a unifying theory of branching morphogenesis.
Édouard Herriot
Édouard Herriot was a French Radical politician who served three times as prime minister, led the Radical Party, and was mayor of Lyon for over five decades.
Édouard Laguesse
Édouard Laguesse (1861–1927) was a French histologist and pathologist who named the islets of Langerhans in 1893 and proposed they produce an internal secretion, opening the path to insulin.
Édouard Leclerc
Édouard Leclerc (1926–2012) was a French retailer who founded the E.Leclerc movement of independent discount grocery stores, opening his first shop in Landerneau, Brittany, in December 1949.
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (1832–1883), French painter of Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe and Olympia, whose flat technique and contemporary subjects scandalized the Salon and pioneered modern painting without joining the Impressionist exhibitions.
Édouard Maunick
Édouard Maunick (1931–2021) was a Mauritian French-language poet whose work centers on exile and métissage; he won the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 1977 and the Académie française's Grand Prix de la Francophonie in 2003.
Édouard Mendy
Édouard Mendy, Senegalese goalkeeper for Al Ahli and formerly Chelsea and Rennes; 2021 Champions League winner, first African to win The Best FIFA Men's Goalkeeper, two-time AFCON champion, retired internationally in 2026.
Édouard Michelin (French industrialist)
Édouard Michelin (1859–1940) was a French industrialist who, working with his brother André, ran Michelin from 1889 and patented the detachable pneumatic tire in 1891.
Édouard Philippe
Édouard Philippe, French statesman, Prime Minister 2017–2020 under Emmanuel Macron, mayor of Le Havre since 2010, leader of the Horizons party, and candidate in the 2027 presidential election.
Édouard Rod
Édouard Rod (Louis-Édouard Rod) was a French-Swiss novelist and critic, born at Nyon in 1857, who wrote psychological novels, championed comparative literary study, and died in 1910.
Edouard Van Beneden
Edouard Van Beneden (1846–1910) was a Belgian embryologist and cytologist at the University of Liège who discovered chromosome reduction in germ cells, the basis of meiosis.
Édouard Vuillard
Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940) was a French painter and printmaker, a member of the Nabis, known for small, densely patterned paintings of domestic interiors with family and friends.
Edouard Zeckendorf
Edouard Zeckendorf (1901–1983) was a Belgian physician, army officer, and amateur number theorist from Liège known for Zeckendorf's theorem, which gives every positive integer a unique representation as a sum of distinct, non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers.
Édouard-Alfred Martel
Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859–1938), French lawyer and geographer, founder of modern speleology; explored Padirac (1889), Gaping Gill, founded the Société de spéléologie, and secured the 1902 Martel law on groundwater pollution.
Édouard-Henri Avril
Édouard-Henri Avril (Paul Avril), French painter-illustrator, 1849-1928, born Algiers, died Le Raincy; trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and known for about 46 erotic and galante book illustrations including De Figuris Veneris.
Edoxaban
Edoxaban is a direct oral factor Xa inhibitor anticoagulant developed by Daiichi Sankyo, marketed as Lixiana and Savaysa, used to prevent stroke in atrial fibrillation.
EDP (Portuguese company)
EDP, formally EDP – Energias de Portugal, is a Portuguese electric utility headquartered in Lisbon that generates and supplies electricity, with networks in Portugal, Spain, and Brazil and renewables through EDP Renewables.
EDP Renewables
EDP Renewables (EDPR), formally EDP Renováveis, S.A., is a renewable energy developer headquartered in Madrid and majority owned by Portugal's EDP, with 20.4 GW of installed capacity.
Edp-energias De Portugal
EDP – Energias de Portugal is a Portuguese multinational electricity utility, created in 1976 and privatized by 2013; China Three Gorges has been its largest shareholder since 2011.
Edrecolomab
Edrecolomab (Panorex, 17-1A) is a murine IgG2a monoclonal antibody against EpCAM, the first monoclonal antibody approved for cancer therapy (Germany, 1995), later withdrawn after phase III trials showed no adjuvant benefit in colorectal cancer.
Edred John Henry Corner
Edred John Henry Corner (1906–1996) was an English botanist and mycologist, Assistant Director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens from 1929 to 1946 and later Cambridge's Professor of Tropical Botany.
Edrington
Edrington is a privately owned international spirits company headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland, best known for The Macallan single malt Scotch whisky and owned principally by the charitable Robertson Trust.
Edrioasteroidea
Edrioasteroidea is an extinct class of sessile, discoidal to globular Paleozoic echinoderms, Cambrian to Permian, with five recumbent ambulacra, no arms or stalk, feeding by suspension; orders include Isorophida and Edrioasterida.
Edrophonium
Edrophonium is a short-acting acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, acting within 30 to 60 seconds, that raises acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction, the basis of the Tensilon test for myasthenia gravis, discontinued in the United States in 2018.
EDSAC
EDSAC, the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, was an early stored-program computer built at the University of Cambridge under Maurice Wilkes, first run in May 1949.
EDSea 2027
EDSea 2027 is the fourth edition of EDSea, a five-night electronic dance music festival at sea organized by Insomniac, sailing from Miami to Harvest Caye, Belize, January 26 to 31, 2027.
Edsel
The Edsel, also called the Ford Edsel, was a car marque made by Ford Motor Company for the 1958 to 1960 model years and named for Edsel B. Ford.