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Edward Kenway
Edward Kenway (Edward James Kenway) is the fictional Welsh pirate protagonist of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013), grandfather of Connor, voiced by Matt Ryan, and lead of the 2026 remake Black Flag Resynced.
Edward Kienholz
Edward Kienholz (1927–1994) was a self-taught American assemblage artist and installation pioneer who built life-size tableaux from junk, co-founded the Ferus Gallery, and collaborated with his wife Nancy from 1972.
Edward Kimbark
Edward Kimbark was an American electrical power engineer known for his work on power system stability and HVDC transmission, and for standard textbooks in both fields.
Edward Kohler
Edward Kohler, often published as Eddie Kohler, is an American computer scientist known for operating systems and file systems research, who received a 2006 PECASE award.
Edward Kolb
Edward W. "Rocky" Kolb (born 1951) is an American cosmologist at the University of Chicago who helped found particle astrophysics and co-wrote The Early Universe.
Edward Korn
Edward Korn was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who discovered actin filaments and myosin I. His work is foundational to understanding how eukaryotic cells move.
Edward Kravitz
Edward Kravitz (1932–2025) was an American neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School known for showing that GABA inhibits neurons and that amines bias aggression in lobsters.
Edward L. Artau
Edward L. Artau (born 1964) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida since 2025, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Edward L. Cochrane
Edward L. Cochrane (1892–1959) was an American naval architect and Vice-Admiral credited with the designs of modern American submarines and new battleships, cruisers, carriers, and destroyers, and later Dean of Engineering at MIT.
Edward L. Doheny
Edward Laurence Doheny was an American oil prospector and executive who drilled the first commercial oil well in Los Angeles and built the largest oil enterprise in Mexico.
Edward L. Filippine
Edward Louis Filippine (born 1930) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri since 1995.
Edward L. Giovannucci
Edward L. Giovannucci is an American physician and nutritional cancer epidemiologist, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard, known for research on diet and cancer.
Edward L. Glaser
Edward L. Glaser (1929–1990) was an American computer systems designer who helped build one of the world's first time-shared computer systems at MIT, then led computing at Case Western Reserve University.
Edward L. Hannan
Edward L. Hannan is an American health services researcher and Distinguished Professor at the University at Albany, SUNY, known for outcomes research on cardiac surgery and stenting.
Edward L. Kaplan
Edward L. Kaplan was an American pediatrician and streptococcal researcher, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and head of the WHO Collaborating Center for Streptococci in Minneapolis.
Edward L. Kaplan (American mathematician)
Edward L. Kaplan, also known as Edward Lynn Kaplan, was an American mathematician (1920–2006) whose 1958 paper with Paul Meier introduced the Kaplan–Meier estimator, the most-cited statistics publication.
Edward L. Kuff
Edward L. Kuff was an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for showing that intracisternal A particles are repeated, mobile mouse genome elements.
Edward L. Masry
Edward L. Masry (1932-2005), California attorney and Thousand Oaks councilman whose firm, with legal assistant Erin Brockovich, won a $333 million groundwater contamination settlement from PG&E, later portrayed by Albert Finney in the 2000 film Erin Brockovich.
Edward L. Miles
Edward L. Miles (1939–2016) was a Trinidad-born American social scientist at the University of Washington who founded its Climate Impacts Group and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.
Edward L. Schneider
Edward L. Schneider is an American gerontologist and physician, Dean Emeritus of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and former Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging.
Edward L. Wilson
Edward L. Wilson is an American structural engineer and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for developing the finite element method and creating the SAP and ETABS structural analysis software.
Edward L. Wright
Edward L. (Ned) Wright is an American infrared astronomer and observational cosmologist at UCLA, a COBE and WMAP team member and principal investigator of WISE.
Edward Laurens Mark
Edward Laurens Mark (1847–1946) was an American zoologist and embryologist at Harvard who built its Zoological Laboratories, co-founded the Bermuda Biological Station, and trained many biologists.
Edward Lawry Norton
Edward Lawry Norton (1898–1983) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories known for Norton's theorem, which he stated in a 1926 internal memorandum and never published.
Edward Lazear
Edward Paul Lazear (1948–2020) was an American labor economist who founded personnel economics, showed piece-rate pay raised Safelite's productivity 44 percent, and chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush.
Edward Leamington Nichols
Edward Leamington Nichols was an American physicist who headed Cornell's physics department from 1887, founded the journal Physical Review in 1893, and won the first Frederic Ives Medal.
Edward Lear
Edward Lear (1812–1888), English artist, travel writer, and poet, popularized the limerick with A Book of Nonsense (1846), pseudonym Derry Down Derry, and wrote The Owl and the Pussycat; also a landscape painter.
Edward Lee (chef)
Edward Lee (Lee Kyun), Korean-American chef from Brooklyn, chef-owner of 610 Magnolia in Louisville; author of Smoke & Pickles; 2019 James Beard writing winner; Culinary Class Wars runner-up.
Edward Leedskalnin
Edward Leedskalnin, also known as Edvards Lēdskalniņš, was a Latvian-American stonemason who single-handedly built Coral Castle, over 1,100 tons of quarried limestone, near Homestead, Florida, between 1923 and 1951.
Edward Lessimore
Edward John Lessimore (1881-1960), British sport shooter from Bristol, won team gold in 50m small-bore rifle prone at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics (team 762, his score 195) and placed fourth individually with 192.