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Edwin Catmull

Edwin Catmull, known as Ed Catmull, is an American computer scientist who co-founded Pixar, led Pixar and Disney Animation, and shared the 2019 Turing Award.

Edwin Chan

Edwin Chan, also known as Edwin Pak-Nin Chan, is an American materials scientist at NIST who received the 2019 PECASE for measuring soft polymer films.

Edwin Charles Dargan (1852–1930) was a Southern Baptist pastor, homiletics professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and author of A History of Preaching.

Edwin Chen

Edwin Chen is an American entrepreneur and data scientist who founded the data labeling company Surge AI in 2020 without venture funding, reaching $1.2 billion in 2024 revenue.

Edwin Claybrook

Edwin Claybrook, also known as Edwin B. Claybrook, was an American surgeon (1871–1931) remembered for Claybrook sign, heard in rupture of an abdominal organ after blunt trauma.

Edwin Cone Bissell

Edwin Cone Bissell (1832–1894) was an American Congregational minister and Old Testament scholar who taught Hebrew at Hartford Theological Seminary and defended traditional Pentateuchal authorship against the Graf-Wellhausen school.

Edwin Cuppen

Edwin Cuppen is a Dutch molecular geneticist in cancer genomics, professor of Human Genetics at UMC Utrecht and scientific director of the Hartwig Medical Foundation since 2017.

Edwin D. Kilbourne

Edwin D. Kilbourne (1920–2011) was an American physician and influenza virologist who developed the first genetically engineered influenza vaccines and led Mount Sinai's microbiology department.

Edwin D. Mead

Edwin D. Mead (1849–1937) was an American writer and Boston lecturer on social and historical topics, and editor of the New England Magazine from 1889 to 1901.

Edwin D. Morgan

Edwin Denison Morgan (1811–1883), New York merchant and Republican politician, was the state's Civil War-era governor (1859–1863), U.S. senator (1863–1869), and twice chairman of the Republican National Committee; distinct from the poet Edwin Morgan.

Edwin Dun

Edwin Dun (エドウィン・ダン, 1848–1931), American rancher from Ohio, father of Hokkaido dairy farming; Kaitakushi adviser 1873–1882, built Makomanai ranch and irrigation channel, later U.S. Minister to Japan 1893–1897.

Edwin E. Kintner

Edwin E. Kintner (1920–2010) was an American nuclear engineer and Navy captain who helped develop the USS Nautilus reactor and led the US magnetic fusion program.

Edwin E. Salpeter

Edwin E. Salpeter (1924–2008) was an Austrian-born Australian-American astrophysicist at Cornell University who explained how stars make carbon, proposed black-hole accretion as quasars' power source, and derived the Salpeter initial mass function.

Edwin E. Witte

Edwin E. Witte (1887–1960) was an American economist at the University of Wisconsin who developed the original plan for Social Security as executive director of Roosevelt's Committee on Economic Security.

Edwin Edwards

Edwin Washington Edwards (1927-2021), Louisiana's only four-term governor (1972-80, 1984-88, 1992-96), Democratic populist and 'Cajun King,' defeated David Duke in 1991 and was later convicted of racketeering over riverboat casino licenses.

Edwin Encarnación

Edwin Encarnación (Edwin Elpidio Encarnación, born 1983, La Romana, Dominican Republic), Dominican MLB first baseman and designated hitter; 424 career home runs, 1,261 RBI, .846 OPS; three-time All-Star with Blue Jays and Indians; 2026 Hall of Fame ballot.

Edwin F. Gay

Edwin F. Gay, also known as Edwin Francis Gay, was an American economic historian (1867–1946) who served as first dean of Harvard Business School and first president of the NBER.

Edwin F. Taylor

Edwin F. Taylor, or Edwin Floriman Taylor, was an American physicist and physics educator who coauthored Spacetime Physics with John Archibald Wheeler and won the 1998 Oersted Medal.

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Edwin Feller

Edwin Feller is an American Republican politician and the party's 2026 nominee for the U.S. House in Washington's 2nd Congressional District, challenging incumbent Rick Larsen.

Edwin Francis Hatfield

Edwin Francis Hatfield (1807–1883) was an American Presbyterian pastor in St. Louis and New York City who served about four decades as stated clerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly.

Edwin Furshpan

Edwin Furshpan, known as Ed Furshpan, was an American neurobiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who discovered electrical synaptic transmission and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982.

Edwin G. Abel

Edwin G. Abel, known as Ted Abel, is an American neuroscientist studying the molecular mechanisms of memory storage; he directs the Iowa Neuroscience Institute and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

Edwin G. Krebs

Edwin G. Krebs (1918–2009) was an American biochemist who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that cells regulate proteins by phosphorylation.

Edwin G. Nourse

Edwin G. Nourse (Edwin Griswold Nourse) was an American agricultural economist who became the first Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Truman, 1946 to 1949.

Edwin Gale

Edwin A.M. Gale is a British diabetologist, Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Bristol from 1997, known for the ENDIT type 1 diabetes prevention trial.

Edwin Grant Conklin

Edwin Grant Conklin was an American embryologist known for tracing cell lineages in marine eggs and arguing that the egg's cytoplasm, not only its nucleus, directs early development.

Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin H. Colbert (1905–2001) was an American vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History who wrote the popular books that introduced mid-century America to dinosaurs.

Edwin H. Land

Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) was an American physicist and inventor who founded Polaroid, invented instant photography and the synthetic sheet polarizer, and held 537 patents, second only to Edison.

Edwin Hall

Edwin Hall (1855–1938) was an American physicist who discovered the Hall effect in 1879 as a Johns Hopkins graduate student, then taught physics at Harvard until 1921.