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Edward Brooke
Edward William Brooke III (1919-2015), Massachusetts Republican senator 1967-1979, first African American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote and first Black state attorney general; Fair Housing Act co-sponsor.
Edward Bullard
Sir Edward Bullard (1907–1980) was a British geophysicist whose work on the Earth's magnetic field, heat flow, and the 1965 computer fit of Atlantic continents helped establish plate tectonics.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), English novelist and politician; author of The Last Days of Pompeii, Paul Clifford, and The Coming Race; Colonial Secretary 1858–59; namesake of the bad-prose fiction contest.
Edward Bunker
Edward Bunker (1933–2005), American ex-con crime novelist, screenwriter, and actor; wrote No Beast So Fierce and Education of a Felon, played Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs.
Edward Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–1898), English Pre-Raphaelite painter and decorative artist, Morris & Co.'s foremost stained-glass designer, famed for Arthurian paintings, the Grosvenor Gallery, and the Adoration of the Magi tapestry.
Edward Burnett Tylor
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917), English founder of cultural anthropology, author of Primitive Culture (1871) with its classic definition of culture, first Oxford Professor of Anthropology, theorist of survivals and animism.
Edward Burns
Edward Burns (born 1968) is an American actor-writer-director whose debut, The Brothers McMullen, won the 1995 Sundance Grand Jury Prize; known for low-budget Irish-American New York films and Saving Private Ryan.
Edward Burr Van Vleck
Edward Burr Van Vleck (1863–1943) was an American mathematician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who worked on continued fractions and the Van Vleck polynomials, and led the American Mathematical Society.
Edward Byers
Edward C. Byers Jr. (born 1979), Toledo, Ohio-born retired Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor recipient, rescued hostage Dr. Dilip Joseph in Afghanistan on 8 December 2012; sixth SEAL and 11th living Afghanistan recipient, decorated February 29, 2016.
Edward C. Cox
Edward C. Cox, known as Ted Cox, is an American geneticist and Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at Princeton, known for work on mutator genes and single-molecule methods in living bacteria.
Edward C. Franklin
Edward C. Franklin (1928–1982), German-born American immunologist at NYU, discovered heavy chain disease, defined essential mixed cryoglobulinemia as immune-complex vasculitis, and advanced amyloid and immunoglobulin structure research.
Edward C. Holmes
Edward C. Holmes is an evolutionary virologist and Professor at the University of Sydney who studies virus emergence and evolution, and first publicly released the SARS-CoV-2 genome.
Edward C. Johnson II
Edward C. Johnson II was a Boston lawyer who took over the Fidelity Fund in 1943 and founded Fidelity Management and Research, the firm behind Fidelity Investments.
Edward C. Jordan
Edward C. Jordan was an electrical engineer who led antenna and radio direction finding research at the University of Illinois and headed its electrical engineering department for twenty-five years.
Edward C. Kendall
Edward Calvin Kendall was an American biochemist at the Mayo Clinic who isolated thyroxine and the adrenal cortex hormone cortisone, sharing the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott was an American macroeconomist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics with Finn Kydland for work on business cycles and economic policy.
Edward C. Stone
Edward C. Stone (1936–2024) was an American space physicist who served as NASA's Voyager project scientist for 50 years and directed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Edward C. Tolman
Edward Chace Tolman (1886–1959) was an American psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley who developed purposive, or molar, behaviorism, explaining whole goal-directed actions, and the cognitive map concept.
Edward Capehart O'Kelley
Edward Capehart O'Kelley (1857-1904), also Ed O'Kelly, killed Robert Ford, Jesse James's assassin, in Creede, Colorado, on June 8, 1892; he served about ten years and died in a 1904 gunfight with police.
Edward Carson
Edward Carson (1854–1935), Baron Carson of Duncairn, Dublin-born barrister and Irish unionist leader; Wilde's 1895 examiner, UVF founder, First Lord of the Admiralty 1916–17, and law lord.
Edward Caswall
Edward Caswall (1814–1878) was an English hymn translator and Catholic priest of the Birmingham Oratory, second only to John Mason Neale among Victorian translators of Latin hymns.
Edward Charles Pickering
Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist who directed the Harvard College Observatory from 1877 until his death in 1919, pioneering stellar photometry.
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899–1963) was a British mathematician who worked entirely in analysis, held Oxford's Savilian chair of geometry from 1931, and proved the Titchmarsh convolution theorem.
Edward Codrington
Sir Edward Codrington (1770–1851), British admiral of the Dodington family; fought at the Glorious First of June and Trafalgar in HMS Orion, and commanded the allied fleet that destroyed the Turco-Egyptian fleet at Navarino in 1827.
Edward Coke
Edward Coke (1552–1634), English jurist, Chief Justice of Common Pleas and King's Bench, attorney general under Elizabeth I; author of the Reports and Institutes, known for Bonham's Case and Magna Carta revival.
Edward Colston
Edward Colston (1636–1721) was a Bristol merchant, MP, and philanthropist who served as deputy governor of the Royal African Company. His 1895 statue was toppled by Black Lives Matter protesters on 7 June 2020 and is now displayed at Bristol's M Shed museum.
Edward Condon
Edward Condon (1902–1974) was an American theoretical physicist, born in Alamogordo, New Mexico, known for the Franck–Condon principle, the Slater–Condon rules, and directing the 1968 Air Force UFO study.
Edward Coristine
Edward Coristine, known online as "Big Balls", was a 19-year-old DOGE staffer under Elon Musk with access to sensitive federal systems at SBA, NFC, State Department, DHS, and FEMA; he resigned in June 2025 and later joined the National Design Studio.
Edward Creutz
Edward Creutz (1913–2009) was an American nuclear physicist who led metallurgical work on the Manhattan Project, headed physics at Carnegie Tech, and directed the Bishop Museum.
Edward Cullen
Edward Cullen, born Edward Anthony Masen, is the telepathic vampire hero of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga, beginning in 2005, and the love interest of Bella Swan.