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Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden, born 1983, is an American former intelligence contractor who in 2013 leaked classified NSA documents revealing secret US surveillance programs and was granted asylum in Russia.
Edward Sorin
Edward Sorin (1814–1893) was a French Catholic priest and member of the Congregation of Holy Cross who founded the University of Notre Dame in northern Indiana in 1842.
Edward St Aubyn
Edward St Aubyn (born 1960, London) is a British novelist, author of the semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose quintet including Mother's Milk, shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478–1521), English magnate, son of an executed traitor, heir to the richest noble estate under Henry VII and VIII; descended from Edward III, executed for treason in 1521.
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby (1865-1948), Conservative politician, soldier, and Ambassador to France. Ran the 1915 Derby Scheme recruiting, raised the Liverpool Pals battalions, was Secretary of State for War 1916-18 and 1922-24, and his horses won the Derby in 1924 and 1933.
Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen (Eduard Jean Steichen; 1879–1973) was a Luxembourgish-American photographer, painter, and curator, the highest-paid commercial photographer of his era and first MoMA director of photography.
Edward Stillingfleet
Edward Stillingfleet (1635–1699) was an Anglican theologian and bishop of Worcester, known for Origines Sacrae, his work on church comprehension, and his debate with Locke.
Edward Stratemeyer
Edward Stratemeyer (1862–1930), American author and publisher, founded the Stratemeyer Syndicate book-packaging firm in 1905, creator of the Rover Boys, Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew series written by paid ghostwriters under house pseudonyms.
Edward T. Baker
Edward T. Baker is an American marine geophysicist who spent 37 years in NOAA's hydrothermal research program in Seattle, developing plume-based methods for finding seafloor vents.
Edward T. Bullmore
Edward T. Bullmore, known as Ed Bullmore, is a British psychiatrist and neuroscientist who became Regius Professor of Psychiatry at King's College London in 2025.
Edward T. Ryan
Edward T. Ryan is an American infectious diseases physician-researcher who directs Global Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and studies cholera, typhoid, and Shigella vaccines.
Edward T. Samulski
Edward T. Samulski is an American chemist and materials scientist known for research on liquid crystals and polymers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Edward T.H. Yeh
Edward T.H. Yeh (叶笃行) is a Taiwanese-born American molecular cardiologist who discovered SUMO and NEDD8 and is a professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Edward Tatum
Edward Lawrie Tatum (1909–1975) was an American biochemical geneticist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that genes act by regulating chemical events.
Edward Ted Allsopp
Edward James 'Ted' Allsopp (1926-2024), Australian race walker with Williamstown Harriers; Olympian at Melbourne 1956 and Tokyo 1964; 1956 world 2 Hour walk record; 11 Australian and 32 Victorian titles.
Edward Teller
Edward Teller (Teller Ede) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist who played the central role in developing the hydrogen bomb and co-created the Teller–Ulam design.
Edward the Black Prince
Edward the Black Prince (Edward of Woodstock, 1330–1376), eldest son of Edward III, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine; victor at Crécy, Poitiers and Nájera; father of Richard II.
Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor (c. 1003–1066), Anglo-Saxon king of England 1042–1066, son of Æthelred II and Emma of Normandy; childless husband of Edith, builder of Westminster Abbey, canonized 1161, whose death triggered the 1066 succession crisis.
Edward the Elder
Edward the Elder, also known as Eadweard I, was a King of the West Saxons who reigned from 899 to 924. He successfully fought the Vikings and expanded English control.
Edward the Martyr
Edward the Martyr (Eadweard), king of the English 975–978, son of Edgar by Æthelflæd; murdered at Corfe on 18 March 978 in a succession dispute with half-brother Æthelred II, then venerated as a saint with a 18 March feast.
Edward Thomas (locomotive)
Edward Thomas is a narrow-gauge saddle tank steam locomotive built in 1921 for the Corris Railway and running since 1952 on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales.
Edward Thorndike
Edward Lee Thorndike (1874-1949), American psychologist and founder of educational psychology, known for the puzzle box experiments, the law of effect from Animal Intelligence (1911), classical test theory, and a documented eugenicist legacy.
Edward Tingatinga
Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932–1972) was a Tanzanian self-taught painter who founded the Tingatinga style, painting animals in bright enamel on board from 1968 to 1972.
Edward Tuckerman
Edward Tuckerman (1817–1886) was an American botanist and lichen expert, professor of botany at Amherst College, so dominant that 1847–1888 is called the Tuckermanian Period; Tuckerman's Ravine on Mount Washington is named for him.
Edward Tudor-Pole
Edward Tudor-Pole (Eddie Tenpole), English punk musician, actor and TV presenter born 1954; fronted Tenpole Tudor (Stiff Records, "Swords of a Thousand Men", UK No. 6), sang "Who Killed Bambi?" for the Sex Pistols, and hosted The Crystal Maze 1993-1995.
Edward V
Edward V (1470–1483) was the uncrowned king of England, eldest son of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. Deposed by his uncle Richard III and one of the Princes in the Tower, he disappeared in 1483; murder and survival claims remain contested.
Edward V. Appleton
Edward V. Appleton, also known as Sir Edward Victor Appleton, was a British physicist who proved the ionosphere's existence and won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Edward V. Prochownik
Edward V. Prochownik is an American physician-scientist and molecular biologist who directs oncology research at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, known for showing that deregulated c-myc blocks blood-cell differentiation.
Edward Vermilye Huntington
Edward Vermilye Huntington (1874–1952) was an American Harvard mathematician, a central figure in American postulate theory, whose Huntington–Hill method has apportioned US House seats since 1941.
Edward Vernon
Edward Vernon (1684–1757), 'Old Grog,' Royal Navy admiral who captured Porto Bello in 1739, failed at Cartagena de Indias in 1741, and gave his nickname to grog by ordering the sailors' rum ration diluted with water.