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Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich (1625–1672), English admiral and statesman; Parliamentarian colonel, General-at-Sea under Cromwell, restorer of Charles II, Portuguese ambassador, killed at Solebay; cousin and patron of Samuel Pepys.
Edward Mordake
Edward Mordake, also spelled Mordrake, is the apocryphal subject of an urban legend about a 19th-century English nobleman said to have had a second face on the back of his head.
Edward Mulé
Edward Mulé, also known as Ed Mulé, is an investor who co-founded credit firm Silver Point Capital in 2002 with Robert J. O'Shea and serves as its portfolio manager.
Edward Mulhare
Edward Mulhare (1923–1997), Irish-born actor from Cork; Broadway's Henry Higgins after Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady; TV's Captain Daniel Gregg in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Devon Miles in Knight Rider.
Edward Murphy (businessman)
Edward Murphy was an American businessman, one of the seven founders of Carrier Engineering Corporation in 1915, after working on the first air-conditioner installation in 1902.
Edward Murray East
Edward Murray East (1879–1938) was an American plant geneticist at Harvard's Bussey Institution who showed continuous variation follows Mendelian inheritance and helped found hybrid corn.
Edward Nelson
Edward Nelson (1932–2014) was an American mathematician on the Princeton University faculty from 1959 to 2013, known for stochastic quantum mechanics, constructive quantum field theory, and internal set theory.
Edward Norton
Edward Norton, or Edward Harrison Norton, is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter born in Boston in 1969, recognized for intense dramatic roles like in Fight Club.
Edward Norton filmography
Edward Norton filmography: the actor-director's screen credits from Primal Fear (1996) to The Invite (2026), including four Oscar nominations, Keeping the Faith, and Motherless Brooklyn.
Edward Norton Lorenz
Edward Norton Lorenz (1917–2008) was an American meteorologist at MIT, widely regarded as the founder of modern chaos theory and known for the butterfly effect.
Edward O. Thorp
Edward Oakley Thorp, American mathematician, author of Beat the Dealer (1962), proved blackjack is beatable by card counting, built the first wearable computer with Claude Shannon, and ran Princeton Newport Partners hedge fund 1969-1988.
Edward O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021) was an American biologist and entomologist at Harvard University, a leading authority on ants whose Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975) founded a controversial field.
Edward O'Brien (chemist)
Edward O'Brien, also known as Edward P. O'Brien, is an American computational molecular biophysicist and Penn State chemistry professor known for work on protein folding.
Edward O'Hare
Edward "Butch" O'Hare was a United States Navy fighter pilot who became the Navy's first World War II ace by shooting down five Japanese bombers in 1942.
Edward Ochab
Edward Ochab, full name Edward Mieczysław Ochab, was a Polish communist politician who served as First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party from March to October 1956.
Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales
Edward of Middleham (c. 1476–April 1484), only legitimate child of Richard III and Anne Neville, was created Prince of Wales in 1483, installed at York Minster, declared heir apparent in 1484, and died at Middleham Castle aged about seven.
Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales
Edward of Westminster (Edward of Lancaster), 1453-1471, only son of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou, Prince of Wales, disinherited by the Act of Accord, husband of Anne Neville, killed at Tewkesbury 4 May 1471.
Edward Oscar Ulrich
Edward Oscar Ulrich (1857–1944) was an American invertebrate paleontologist with the US Geological Survey from 1897, whose classification of Paleozoic Bryozoa remained standard long after his death.
Edward Ott
Edward Ott is an American physicist and engineer at the University of Maryland known for chaos theory, complex systems, and the OGY method of controlling chaos.
Edward Oxford
Edward Oxford (1822–1900) fired two pistols at Queen Victoria on Constitution Hill, 10 June 1840; tried for high treason, acquitted as insane, detained at Bedlam, later emigrated to Australia.
Edward P. Richardson
Edward P. Richardson, also known as E. P. Richardson, was an American neuropathologist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's neuropathology laboratory from 1951 to 1989 and named PML.
Edward Paisnel
Edward John Louis Paisnel (1925–1994), the Beast of Jersey, was a Jersey building contractor and masked sex offender who attacked women and children in night raids; convicted of 13 counts in 1971 and sentenced to 30 years.
Edward Payson
Edward Payson (1783–1827) was an American Congregational minister who served one church in Portland, Maine, for twenty years, known as "Praying Payson" for his devotion to prayer.
Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth
Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757–1833), British admiral and foremost frigate captain of the French Revolutionary Wars; captured the Cleopatre in Nymphe, destroyed the Droits de l'Homme in Indefatigable, and bombarded Algiers in 1816 to free Christian slaves.
Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick
Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475-1499), son of George, Duke of Clarence, last legitimate male Plantagenet; imprisoned in the Tower by Henry VII from 1485 and beheaded in 1499 after the Perkin Warbeck escape plot.
Edward Platt
Edward Platt (Edward Cuthbert Platt, 1916–1974), American character actor and trained bass-baritone, best known as the Chief of CONTROL opposite Don Adams on Get Smart (1965–1970); distinct from the English travel writer Edward Platt born 1968.
Edward Price Bell
Edward Price Bell (1869–1943) was an American journalist who spent twenty-two years in London as overseas manager of the Chicago Daily News foreign news service.
Edward Purdy Ney
Edward Purdy Ney (1920–1996) was an American physicist and astronomer at the University of Minnesota, noted for co-discovering heavy cosmic rays and the source of zodiacal light.
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook is a climate scientist and dendrochronologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, known for tree-ring drought atlases covering North America and monsoon Asia.
Edward R. Grant
Edward R. Grant, also published as E. R. Grant, is a physical chemist known for ZEKE spectroscopy, a professor at the University of British Columbia since 2005.