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Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer

Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850–1935) was an English physiologist who, with George Oliver, discovered the pressor action of adrenal extract in 1894 and proposed the name "insuline".

Edward Amoore

Edward John Amoore (Peepo, 1877–1955), British sport shooter of Southfields Rifle Club; at the 1908 London Olympics won small-bore rifle team gold and disappearing target bronze, placed fifth prone and last in moving target.

Edward Anders

Edward Anders (1926–2025) was a Latvian-born American cosmochemist at the University of Chicago who determined the solar system's chemical composition from meteorites and isolated presolar stardust grains.

Edward Andrade

Edward Neville da Costa Andrade (1887–1971) was an English physicist who measured radium gamma rays with Rutherford, founded the study of metal creep, and led the Royal Institution.

Edward Andrews

Edward Andrews (Edward Bryan Andrews Jr., 1914–1985), American character actor of stage, film, and TV; Broadway from 1935, films from 1955; known for The Phenix City Story, Elmer Gantry, Sixteen Candles, and Gremlins.

Edward Arnett

Edward Arnett was an American physical organic chemist at the University of Pittsburgh and Duke University, known for measuring the energy changes of organic reaction mechanisms through solution calorimetry.

Edward Arnold (actor)

Edward Arnold, born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider (1890–1956), American character actor in over 100 films, star of Diamond Jim and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Screen Actors Guild president 1940–1942.

Edward Arthur Milne

Edward Arthur Milne (1896–1950) was a British astrophysicist and mathematician, the first Rouse Ball Professor at Oxford, known for stellar atmosphere theory and his kinematic relativity cosmology.

Edward Arthur Steinhaus

Edward Arthur Steinhaus (1914–1969) was an American insect pathologist and microbiologist who founded modern insect pathology, establishing its first laboratory, journal, and society, and becoming the first dean at UC Irvine.

Edward B Ziff

Edward B Ziff, also known as Edward Benjamin Ziff, is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at NYU, known for work on cancer genes and AMPA receptor trafficking.

Edward B. Benedict

Edward B. Benedict (c. 1896/1897–1974) was an American surgeon and endoscopist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, known for his reviews of endoscopy and studies of benign esophageal disease.

Edward B. Curtis

Edward B. Curtis (1933–2024) was a University of Washington mathematician who won the 1972 Steele Prize for Simplicial Homotopy Theory and later studied inverse problems for electrical networks.

Edward B. Garon

Edward B. Garon is an American medical oncologist at UCLA, where he directs the Thoracic Oncology Program and led the pivotal pembrolizumab trials in non-small-cell lung cancer.

Edward B. Hayes

Edward B. Hayes was an American medical epidemiologist and pediatrician who spent twenty years at the CDC studying vector-borne diseases before moving to Barcelona in 2008.

Edward B. Lewis

Edward B. Lewis (Edward Butts Lewis) was an American geneticist at Caltech who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the genetic control of embryonic development.

Edward B. Perrin

Edward B. Perrin is an American biostatistician, first chair of the University of Washington's Department of Biostatistics and a former director of the National Center for Health Statistics.

Edward B. Stinson

Edward B. Stinson, born 1938, is an American cardiothoracic surgeon at Stanford University who assisted in the first adult heart transplant in the United States in 1968.

Edward Bagnall Poulton

Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856–1943) was an English entomologist and evolutionary zoologist who held Oxford's Hope Professorship for fifty years and championed natural selection when most biologists had abandoned it.

Edward Baker (entomologist)

Edward Baker, known professionally as Ed Baker, is an entomologist and bioacoustics researcher at the Natural History Museum, London, studying insect sounds, especially grasshoppers, crickets, and stick insects.

Edward Baker Lincoln

Edward Baker Lincoln (1846-1850), called Eddie, was Abraham and Mary Lincoln's second son, born and died in their Springfield home after a 52-day illness, probably tuberculosis, at age three years ten months.

Edward Bates

Edward Bates (1793-1869), Missouri lawyer, judge, and one-term Adams congressman, was Abraham Lincoln's U.S. attorney general from 1861 to 1864, a failed 1860 Republican presidential contender, and author of the 1862 citizenship opinion.

Edward Battersby Bailey

Edward Battersby Bailey (1881–1965) was a British geologist, Professor of Geology at Glasgow and Director of the Geological Survey, known for his work on Highland tectonics.

Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) was an American author and reformer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, whose utopian novel Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) became a 19th-century bestseller and launched the Nationalist clubs and movement.

Edward Bennett Rosa

Edward Bennett Rosa (1861–1921) was an American physicist who led electrical measurements at the National Bureau of Standards and set the international ohm, volt, and ampere in 1911.

Edward Berger

Edward Berger (born 1970, Wolfsburg) is a German director and producer, Oscar winner for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) and director of Conclave (2024) and Ballad of a Small Player (2025).

Edward Bernays

Edward L. Bernays (1891–1995), Vienna-born nephew of Freud and CPI veteran, founded the 'counsel on public relations' profession in 1919, wrote Propaganda (1928), staged the 1929 Torches of Freedom campaign, and ran United Fruit's Guatemala publicity.

Edward Bevan

Edward Vaughan Bevan (1907-1988), British rower and doctor, won gold in the men's coxless fours at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics at bow, then practiced medicine in Cambridge with Rex Woods.

Edward Bluemel

Edward Bluemel, born 1993 in Somerset, is a British actor known for Killing Eve, Sex Education, My Lady Jane, and as Hercule Poirot in the BBC's Hercule, and for stage roles including Born With Teeth.

Edward Bouverie Pusey

Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882) was an Anglican theologian, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford, and canon of Christ Church who led the Oxford Movement after Newman's 1845 conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Edward Boyden

Edward Boyden, born 1979 in Plano, Texas, is an American neuroscientist at MIT who pioneered optogenetics, controlling neurons with light, and led the team that invented expansion microscopy, magnifying tissue for nanoscale imaging.