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Edwin Moses
Edwin Moses (born 1955, Dayton, Ohio), American 400m hurdler, two-time Olympic gold medalist (1976, 1984), four-time world record setter to 47.02, and winner of 122 consecutive races 1977-1987; later first USADA chairman and WADA founding board member.
Edwin Muir
Edwin Muir (1887–1959) was a Scottish poet, critic, and translator, born in Orkney, who with his wife Willa produced the first English translations of Kafka.
Edwin N. Lightfoot
Edwin N. Lightfoot was an American chemical and biochemical engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who co-authored Transport Phenomena and received the 2004 National Medal of Science.
Edwin Newman
Edwin Newman (1919–2010), American NBC News correspondent 1952–1984, anchor and Meet the Press moderator, announced Kennedy's death on radio, and author of the language best sellers Strictly Speaking and A Civil Tongue.
Edwin O. Jordan
Edwin O. Jordan (1866–1936) was an American bacteriologist who built the University of Chicago's bacteriology program, led the Society of American Bacteriologists, and analyzed the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Edwin P. Przybylowicz
Edwin P. Przybylowicz is an American analytical chemist who retired in 1991 as senior vice president and director of research at Eastman Kodak, directing about 10,000 people.
Edwin Poston
Edwin Poston is an American venture investor who co-founded TrueBridge Capital Partners, a venture fund-of-funds firm in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with Mel Williams in 2007.
Edwin Quintero
Edwin Quintero (Edwin Josué Quintero Preciado), born 2009 in Esmeraldas, is an Ecuadorian right winger at Independiente del Valle, twin of Hólger Quintero, signed by Arsenal to join in August 2027.
Edwin R. A. Seligman
Edwin R. A. Seligman, or Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1861–1939), was an American economist at Columbia University who championed the ability-to-pay principle behind the progressive income tax.
Edwin R. Chapman
Edwin R. Chapman is a neuroscientist and HHMI investigator at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose lab identified synaptotagmin-1 as the calcium sensor triggering rapid synaptic vesicle release.
Edwin R. Gilliland
Edwin R. Gilliland (1909–1973) was an American chemical engineer and MIT professor known for the Gilliland correlation in distillation design and for fluid catalytic cracking.
Edwin Rist
Edwin Rist, also known as Edwin Reinhard, is an American flautist who stole 299 rare bird skins from the Natural History Museum at Tring in 2009.
Edwin Rivera
Edwin Rivera Jr. is an American politician, U.S. Army combat veteran, and former police officer running as the Republican nominee against incumbent Bobby Scott in Virginia's 3rd Congressional District in 2026.
Edwin Roberts
Edwin Roberts, born 1941, is a Trinidadian sprinter who won bronze in the 200 meters and the 4 × 400 meters relay at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, his country's first Olympic athletics medal.
Edwin Roedder
Edwin Woods Roedder (1919–2006) was an American geochemist at the U.S. Geological Survey who pioneered fluid inclusion research on ore deposits, winning the Roebling and Penrose medals.
Edwin S. Levitan
Edwin S. Levitan is a neuroscientist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh who studies how neuropeptides are delivered to and released from synapses.
Edwin S. Porter
Edwin Stanton Porter (1870–1941), American film exhibitor, producer, and director for the Edison Company; directed Life of an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery (1903), pioneering continuity editing; fired by Edison in 1909.
Edwin Schlossberg
Edwin Schlossberg (born 1945) is an American artist, designer, and author, founder of ESI Design and husband of Caroline Kennedy. He pioneered interactive museum design with the 1977 Brooklyn Children's Museum and holds Columbia's first combined doctorate in physics and literature.
Edwin Smith Papyrus
The Edwin Smith Papyrus, also called the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, is an ancient Egyptian surgical trauma treatise with 48 injury cases, copied around 1600 BC.
Edwin Southern
Edwin Southern, born in 1938, is a British molecular biologist and Fellow of the Royal Society best known for inventing the Southern blot and pioneering DNA microarrays.
Edwin Spanier
Edwin Henry Spanier (1921–1996) was an American algebraic topologist known for Spanier–Whitehead duality and his 1966 textbook Algebraic Topology, and a professor at Berkeley from 1959 to 1991.
Edwin Stanton
Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814–1869), American lawyer, Buchanan's attorney general, and Lincoln's Secretary of War from January 1862; his 1868 removal by Andrew Johnson under the Tenure of Office Act triggered the first presidential impeachment trial.
Edwin Starr
Edwin Starr (Charles Edwin Hatcher, 1942-2003), American soul singer of "Agent Double-O Soul," "25 Miles," and the 1970 #1 anti-Vietnam War anthem "War"; later disco hits and UK northern soul career.
Edwin Stephen Goodrich
Edwin Stephen Goodrich (1868–1946) was a British zoologist who held the Linacre chair of zoology at Oxford and proposed the segmental theory of the vertebrate head.
Edwin Stevens Lines
Edwin Stevens Lines (1845–1927) was an American Episcopal bishop who served as rector of St. Paul's Church in New Haven, Connecticut, before becoming Bishop of Newark in 1903.
Edwin T. Layton
Edwin T. Layton (1903–1984) was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and Fleet Intelligence Officer under Kimmel and Nimitz whose Japanese-language expertise produced the Midway attack forecast and the memoir And I Was There.
Edwin T. Mertz
Edwin T. Mertz (1909–1999) was an American biochemist at Purdue University best known for co-discovering high-lysine maize, the opaque-2 corn rich in the essential amino acid lysine.
Edwin Thompson Jaynes
Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998) was an American physicist at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1957 maximum-entropy papers recast statistical mechanics as inference, and who co-created the Jaynes–Cummings model.
Edwin Traisman
Edwin Traisman (1915–2007) was an American food scientist who directed food research at Kraft Foods, helping create Cheez Whiz, and later co-developed McDonald's frozen French fries.
Edwin Valero
Edwin Valero (El Inca, Edwin Antonio Valero Vivas), Venezuelan southpaw boxer, 27-0 with 27 knockouts, WBA super featherweight and WBC lightweight champion; killed his wife in 2010 and died by suicide in custody.