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Edward Lindsay Ince

Edward Lindsay Ince (1891–1941) was a British mathematician who worked on ordinary differential equations, the Mathieu and Lamé functions, and published the 1932 tables of Mathieu's equation.

Edward Linfoot

Edward Hubert Linfoot was a British mathematician and astronomer known for a 1934 paper with Hans Heilbronn on imaginary quadratic fields and for applying information theory to optics.

Edward Lloyd (coffee house owner)

Edward Lloyd (c. 1648 to 1713) was a London coffee house keeper whose Lombard Street shop gave its name to Lloyd's of London, the marine insurance market.

Edward Long

Edward Long (1734–1813) was a British colonial administrator, slave owner, and judge who spent twelve years in Jamaica and wrote The History of Jamaica, published in 1774.

Edward Low

Edward "Ned" Low (c. 1690 Westminster – fate unknown) was an English pirate active 1721–1724 in the Caribbean and eastern Atlantic, notorious for documented torture of captives, defeated by HMS Greyhound in 1723, and marooned by his own crew in 1724.

Edward M. Brown

Edward M. Brown, fully Edward Meigs Brown, is an American endocrinologist and emeritus Harvard professor whose laboratory identified and cloned the calcium-sensing receptor, earning the Endocrine Society's highest award in 2019.

Edward M. Callaway

Edward M. Callaway is an American systems neuroscientist at the Salk Institute, known for developing monosynaptic rabies virus tracing and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Edward M. Chen

Edward Milton Chen (born 1953) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of California since 2022.

Edward M. De Robertis

Edward M. De Robertis is a Uruguayan-born developmental biologist, professor at UCLA since 1985, known for the first vertebrate Hox gene and the Chordin/BMP gradient.

Edward M. Hedgecock

Edward M. Hedgecock is a biologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University who studies the developmental genetics of the nematode worm C. elegans, identifying nearly 30 genes affecting cell migrations or axon outgrowth.

Edward M. Johnson

Edward M. Johnson is a molecular biologist who studied nuclear acidic protein phosphorylation in lymphocytes and mapped the termini of Physarum ribosomal DNA in Cell papers from 1980 and 1983.

Edward M. Kennedy Jr.

Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy Jr. (born 1961) is an American health care attorney, disability rights advocate, AAPD board chair, and former Connecticut State Senator (12th District, 2015-2019), eldest son of Senator Ted Kennedy; distinct from Massachusetts Senator Edward J. Kennedy of Lowell.

Edward M. Rogers

Edward M. Rogers is an American neuroscientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who studies how fruit flies compute visual motion and detect approaching objects, with publications spanning 2017 to 2025.

Edward M. Rubin

Edward M. Rubin, known as Eddy Rubin, is an American geneticist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who directed the Joint Genome Institute from 2002 to 2016.

Edward M. Scolnick

Edward M. Scolnick is an American scientist known for discovering the RAS oncogenes, leading Merck Research Laboratories, and building psychiatric genetics research at the Broad Institute.

Edward M. Sellers

Edward M. Sellers is a Canadian internist and clinical pharmacologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, known for work on drug interactions and psychoactive drug abuse liability.

Edward M. Sion

Edward M. Sion, born 1946 in Wichita, Kansas, is an American astrophysicist at Villanova University known for the 1983 white dwarf spectral classification system and the McCook-Sion catalog.

Edward M. Stolper

Edward M. Stolper, born 1952, is an American igneous petrologist and geochemist at Caltech, provost from 2007 to 2017, known for recognizing shergottite meteorites as martian basalts.

Edward M. Stricker

Edward M. Stricker (1941–2024) was an American behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburgh who studied how the brain controls feeding, drinking, and salt appetite.

Edward Macartney

Sir Edward Henry Macartney was an Irish-born Queensland solicitor and politician who sat in the Legislative Assembly from 1900 to 1920 and led the Opposition.

Edward MacDowell

Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860–1908), American Romantic composer and pianist, first American composer with international recognition; Piano Concerto no. 2 in D minor, Woodland Sketches ('To a Wild Rose'), Indian Suite; namesake and inspiration of the MacDowell Colony artists' retreat.

Edward Manibusan

Edward Manibusan is an American politician who has served as Attorney General of the Northern Mariana Islands since 2015, the Commonwealth's first elected Attorney General.

Edward Marcotte

Edward M. Marcotte is a computational biologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for genome-wide protein function prediction and large-scale protein complex maps.

Edward Maya

Edward Maya, stage name of Eduard Marian Ilie, is a Romanian DJ, producer, and songwriter born in Bucharest in 1986, best known for the 2009 hit "Stereo Love", which won a Billboard dance award.

Edward McCabe

Edward McCabe (1816–1885) was an Irish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Dublin from 1879, became a cardinal in 1882, and opposed the Land League.

Edward McMillan-Scott

Edward McMillan-Scott, British politician and human-rights campaigner; MEP for Yorkshire & Humber 1984–2014, four-term European Parliament Vice-President for democracy and human rights, founder of the EIDHR, expelled by the Conservatives in 2009, later Liberal Democrat.

Edward Mellanby

Sir Edward Mellanby (1884–1955) was a British medical scientist who showed that rickets results from dietary deficiency and is cured by cod-liver oil, and led the Medical Research Council from 1933 to 1949.

Edward Meyrick Goulburn

Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818–1897) was a Church of England clergyman who served as headmaster of Rugby School and Dean of Norwich, and wrote the devotional classic Thoughts on Personal Religion.

Edward Mezvinsky

Edward Mezvinsky (born 1937) is an American lawyer and former Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 1st District, 1973-1977, a House Judiciary member in the Nixon impeachment inquiry, later convicted of fraud.

Edward Miguel

Edward Miguel is a development economist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for research on African development, climate change, and conflict.