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Edsel D. Dunford
Edsel Delano (Ed) Dunford (1935–2008) was an American aerospace engineer and executive who led TRW's satellite programs, including Pioneer 10 and Milstar, and became TRW's president in 1991.
Edsel Ford
Edsel Ford, full name Edsel Bryant Ford, was the only child of Henry Ford and president of the Ford Motor Company from 1919 until his death in 1943.
Edsel Ford II
Edsel Ford II, born 1948 in Detroit, is an American executive and great-grandson of Henry Ford who spent 33 years as a Ford Motor Company director.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Edsger W. Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist who devised Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm, built the first ALGOL 60 compiler, and won the 1972 Turing Award.
Edson Álvarez
Edson Álvarez (Edson Omar Álvarez Velázquez), Mexican defensive midfielder and centre-back born 1997; Club América, Ajax, West Ham United, Fenerbahçe loan; Mexico captain with 100+ caps, three Gold Cups, 2025 Nations League title.
Edson Barboza
Edson Barboza (Edson Mendes Barboza Jr.) is a retired Brazilian mixed martial artist who fought in the UFC's lightweight and featherweight divisions from 2010 to 2026.
Edson Chagas
Edson Chagas, born in 1977 in Luanda, is an Angolan photographer whose Found Not Taken series won the Golden Lion at the 2013 Venice Biennale.
Edson de Castro
Edson de Castro, known as Ed de Castro, was an American computer engineer who designed DEC's PDP-8 minicomputer and co-founded Data General in 1968, leading it for 22 years.
Edson Lobato
Edson Lobato is a Brazilian agronomist and soil fertility researcher who spent three decades at Embrapa Cerrados and shared the 2006 World Food Prize for opening the Cerrado to farming.
Edson Oil and Gas Field
The Edson Oil and Gas Field is a natural gas field in west-central Alberta, Canada, discovered in the early 1960s around the town of Edson.
Edson, Alberta
Edson, Alberta: a town of about 8,400 in Yellowhead County on Highway 16, founded 1911-1912 as a Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad supply depot named for Edson J. Chamberlain, with a resource economy in oil and gas, forestry, and coal.
EDTA and its salts
EDTA (edetic acid, CAS 60-00-4) and its sodium, calcium, and iron salts are hexadentate chelating agents used in detergents, food, medicine, and oilfield work, valued for strong metal binding but scrutinized for persistence and poor biodegradability.
EDtv
EDtv is a 1999 American comedy directed by Ron Howard and starring Matthew McConaughey, about a cable channel broadcasting a video-store clerk's life around the clock.
Edu (footballer, born 1978)
Edu (Eduardo César Daud Gaspar, born 1978, São Paulo) is a Brazilian former midfielder who played for Corinthians, Arsenal (Invincibles, 2000–2005), and Valencia, won Copa América 2004 with Brazil, and later served as Arsenal sporting director and Nottingham Forest Global Head of Football.
Edu Manzano
Edu Manzano (Eduardo Luis Barrios Manzano), born 1955 in San Francisco, is a Filipino actor, game show host, and politician. Known for Captain Barbell (1986) and KAPP presidency; Makati vice mayor 1998–2001, Optical Media Board chair 2004–2009, twice disqualified by Comelec over citizenship.
Eduard Azaryan
Eduard Azaryan (Էդուարդ Ազարյան), born 1958 in Yerevan, Soviet Armenian artistic gymnast, son of rings champion Albert Azaryan; 1980 Moscow Olympic team gold, 1978 World team silver, later coach in Aliso Viejo, California.
Eduard Batlle
Eduard Batlle is a Spanish cancer biologist and ICREA Research Professor who heads the Colorectal Cancer Laboratory at IRB Barcelona, studying intestinal stem cells and metastasis.
Eduard Bernstein
Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), German SPD politician and Engels's literary executor, father of revisionism: his 1899 Evolutionary Socialism argued socialism comes through parliamentary reform, not revolution.
Eduard Bloch
Eduard Bloch (1872–1945), Austrian Jewish physician and Hitler's family doctor in Linz; treated Klara Hitler's breast cancer, was protected by Hitler as his 'Edeljude', and emigrated to New York in 1941.
Eduard Boehmer
Eduard Boehmer (Carl Eduard Böhmer, 1827–1906) was a German Protestant theologian who turned Romance philologist, teaching at Halle and Strasbourg and editing Spanish Reformation texts.
Eduard Bratke
Eduard Bratke (1861–1906) was a German Protestant church historian who taught at Breslau and Bonn, edited early Christian texts, and wrote a guide to church-history sources.
Eduard Buchner
Eduard Buchner (1860–1917) was a German chemist who showed in 1897 that cell-free yeast extract ferments sugar to alcohol, disproving vitalism and winning the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Eduard C. Hurt
Eduard C. Hurt, born 1955, is a German molecular biologist and professor at Heidelberg University's Biochemistry Center, known for his 1990s Cell papers on fibrillarin, nucleoporins, and mRNA export.
Eduard Casas Alvero
Eduard Casas Alvero is a mathematician and professor at the Universitat de Barcelona who works in algebraic geometry and is known for the Casas-Alvero conjecture, an open problem about polynomials.
Eduard Čech
Eduard Čech (1893–1960) was a Czech mathematician at Brno and Prague known for Čech cohomology, the Čech–Stone compactification, and his 1936 topology seminar, which continued secretly during the Nazi closure of Czech universities.
Eduard Fränckel
Eduard Fränckel (1836–1912) was a Swedish railway engineer who founded AB Atlas in Stockholm in 1873 and led it until 1887; the company later became Atlas Copco.
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829–1910) was a German physiologist who held the chair of physiology at Bonn from 1859 and founded the journal Pflügers Archiv in 1868.
Eduard Glanzmann
Eduard Glanzmann (1887–1959) was a Swiss pediatrician at the University of Bern who in 1918 described hereditary hemorrhagic thrombasthenia, the platelet disorder now known as Glanzmann thrombasthenia.
Eduard Grüneisen
Eduard Grüneisen (1877–1949) was a German physicist known for the Grüneisen parameter and the Mie–Grüneisen equation of state for solids, still used in shock physics and planetary science.
Eduard Guillaume Eugène Reuss
Eduard Guillaume Eugène Reuss (1804–1891) was a Lutheran biblical scholar and professor of theology at Strasbourg who applied the historico-critical method to the Old and New Testaments.