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Edward Elgar
Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934), English composer of the 'Enigma' Variations, two symphonies, Violin and Cello Concertos, and The Dream of Gerontius; self-taught, knighted 1904, LSO principal conductor 1911–12.
Edward Elihu Whitfield
Edward Elihu Whitfield (1848–1911) was a Plymouth Brother, biblical scholar, and schoolmaster who taught modern languages in English schools and edited J. N. Darby's English Old Testament.
Edward Elric (エドワード・エルリック)
Edward Elric (エドワード・エルリック), the Fullmetal Alchemist, is the protagonist of Hiromu Arakawa's manga Fullmetal Alchemist: a State Alchemist certified at 12 who lost a leg and an arm to human transmutation and seeks to restore his brother Alphonse's body.
Edward Emerson Barnard
Edward Emerson Barnard, known as E. E. Barnard, was an American observational astronomer who discovered Jupiter's moon Amalthea in 1892 and Barnard's Star in 1916.
Edward Enninful
Edward Kobina Enninful (born 1972, Ghana) is a British fashion editor and stylist, editor-in-chief of British Vogue 2017–2023, later Vogue's European editorial director and founder of EE72.
Edward Evarts
Edward Evarts (1926–1985) was an American neurophysiologist who spent his career at the National Institute of Mental Health, pioneering single-neuron recording in awake, behaving monkeys to study voluntary movement.
Edward Everett Horton
Edward Everett Horton (1886-1970), American character actor of stage, silent and sound film, radio, and TV; known for Astaire-Rogers musicals, Fractured Fairy Tales narration, and F Troop's Roaring Chicken.
Edward Exum Hood Jr.
Edward Exum Hood Jr. is an aerospace engineer elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1989 and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Edward F. Chang
Edward F. Chang is a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for mapping the human speech cortex and creating the first speech-decoding brain-computer interface for a paralyzed person.
Edward F. Cox
Edward F. Cox (Edward Finch Cox), American corporate lawyer and Chairman of the New York Republican Party 2009-2019; son-in-law of Richard Nixon, married Patricia Nixon in 1971; Princeton 1968, Harvard Law 1972, Reagan's Synthetic Fuels Corporation general counsel. Not the Texas attorney Ed Cox.
Edward F. Crawley
Edward F. Crawley is an American aerospace engineer and Ford Professor at MIT known for structural dynamics and for leading the international CDIO engineering education reform.
Edward F. DeLong
Edward F. DeLong is an American microbial oceanographer, now Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaiʻi, whose work established that Archaea are abundant plankton in the open ocean.
Edward F. Knipling
Edward F. Knipling (1909–2000) was an American entomologist with the USDA who conceived the sterile insect technique, eradicating the screwworm fly from the United States.
Edward F. Plow
Edward F. Plow is an American vascular biologist who holds an endowed chair at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute and studies integrins and the plasminogen system in thrombosis and inflammation.
Edward F. Shea
Edward F. Shea (born 1942) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Washington since 2012.
Edward Feigenbaum
Edward Feigenbaum, born in 1936, is an American artificial intelligence researcher and Stanford professor emeritus, called the father of expert systems, who won the 1994 Turing Award.
Edward Felten
Edward Felten is an American computer scientist at Princeton University, the first FTC Chief Technologist and a Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama White House.
Edward Feser
Edward Feser is an American philosopher and professor at Pasadena City College known for defending classical theism, natural law ethics, and teleology against scientism and the New Atheism.
Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk
Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk (born 1956), Earl Marshal of England since 2002; organised Elizabeth II's state funeral and Charles III's 2023 coronation; senior Catholic layman, crossbench peer, seat Arundel Castle.
Edward FitzGerald
Edward FitzGerald, born Edward Purcell, was a British writer and translator whose 1859 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a free rendering of the Persian poet's quatrains, deeply influenced Victorian poetry.
Edward Fitzgerald Beale
Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822–1893), American naval officer, explorer, and diplomat; Mexican War courier with Kit Carson, first Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California and Nevada, leader of the 1857 camel wagon-road survey on the 35th parallel, and U.S. minister to Austria-Hungary.
Edward Forst
Edward C. Forst, American businessman and 24th Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration since December 24, 2025; former Goldman Sachs, Cushman & Wakefield, and Harvard executive; also Acting Archivist of the United States.
Edward Fox (actor)
Edward Fox (Edward Charles Morrice Fox, born 1937) is an English actor, OBE, famous as the assassin in The Day of the Jackal; brother of James Fox, husband of Joanna David, father of Emilia and Freddie Fox.
Edward Francis Blewitt
Edward Francis Blewitt (1859-1926), Scranton civil and mining engineer, Guadalajara water-system engineer, and Pennsylvania State Senator (D, 22nd district, 1907-1910), co-founded Scranton's Friendly Sons of St Patrick and is Joe Biden's matrilineal great-grandfather.
Edward Frankland
Edward Frankland, known as Sir Edward Frankland, was an English chemist who founded organometallic chemistry, introduced valency, and led the analysis of London's water supplies.
Edward Fredkin
Edward Fredkin (1934–2023) was an American computer scientist who designed the reversible Fredkin gate, used in quantum computing, and pioneered digital physics, the idea that the universe is a computer.
Edward Fulton Denison
Edward Fulton Denison (1915–1992) was an American economist who helped build the US national income accounts and founded growth accounting, the method of splitting economic growth into the contributions of labor, capital, and other factors.
Edward Furlong
Edward Walter Furlong (born 1977) is an American actor discovered at a Pasadena youth club to play John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), later known for American History X and Pecker, with addiction troubles in the 2000s and a reported seven years sober by 2026.
Edward G. Biglieri
Edward G. Biglieri (1925–2005) was an American endocrinologist at UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital who discovered 17-hydroxylase deficiency and developed diagnostic protocols for primary aldosteronism.
Edward G. Bowen
Edward George "Ted" Bowen (1911-1991) was a Welsh-born Australian radiophysicist who helped develop radar in World War II and led CSIRO's Division of Radiophysics from 1946 to 1971.