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Ed Turkington

Ed Turkington (Edward Laurence Turkington, 1899-1996), American rugby union player and San Francisco official; won gold with the USA in the 1924 Paris Olympics rugby final, beating France 17-3, his only international cap.

Ed van der Elsken

Ed van der Elsken (Eduard van der Elsken, 1925–1990) was a Dutch photographer and filmmaker, a street photography pioneer famous for his 1956 photobook Love on the Left Bank.

Ed Viesturs

Ed Viesturs (born 1959), American high-altitude mountaineer; first American to climb all fourteen 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen (Endeavor 8000, 1989-2005, finished on Annapurna), seven Everest summits, IMAX Everest 1996 team member.

Ed Walsh

Ed Walsh (Edward Augustine Walsh, 1881–1959), "Big Ed", Chicago White Sox spitballer 1904–1916; lowest career ERA in MLB history (1.82), last 40-game winner (1908), Hall of Fame 1946.

Ed Weeks

Ed Weeks, full name Edward Charles Egerton Weeks, is an English actor and writer known for playing Dr. Jeremy Reed on The Mindy Project (2012–2017).

Ed Westwick

Ed Westwick (Edward William Westwick) is an English actor born 1987 in Stevenage, best known as Chuck Bass in Gossip Girl (2007-13); later roles include White Gold, Wicked City, and Sandokan's Lord James Brooke.

Ed White

Ed White (Edgar Pardee Earle White, 1929-2014), American Olympic sailor; with twin brother Sumner won 1952 Helsinki gold in the 5.5 metre class aboard Complex II, skippered by Britton Chance; Harvard 1952 graduate.

Ed White (astronaut)

Ed White, also known as Edward Higgins White II, was an American NASA astronaut who became the first American to walk in space, on Gemini 4 in 1965.

Ed Wood

Ed Wood (Edward Davis Wood Jr., 1924–1978) was an American low-budget filmmaker, director of Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 from Outer Space, named worst director of all time in 1980 and later celebrated as a cult auteur.

Ed Wood (film)

Ed Wood (1994) is Tim Burton's black-and-white biographical comedy-drama about the "worst director of all time" Edward D. Wood, Jr., starring Johnny Depp and Oscar-winning Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi, a Touchstone Pictures release.

Ed Woodward

Ed Woodward (Edward Gareth Woodward, born 1973, Chelmsford), British chartered accountant and former J.P. Morgan banker; Manchester United executive vice-chairman 2013-2022, record Adidas and Chevrolet deals, resigned amid Super League fallout.

Ed Wynn

Ed Wynn (1886-1966), born Isaiah Edwin Leopold, was an American comedian-actor billed as the Perfect Fool; vaudeville and Broadway headliner, Texaco Fire Chief radio star (1932-35), Emmy-winning 1949 TV variety pioneer, Oscar-nominated for The Diary of Anne Frank, and Disney's Mad Hatter and Uncle Albert.

Ed Yardeni

Ed Yardeni is an American Wall Street economist and investment strategist, president and founder of Yardeni Research (2007), known for his 1988 Dow 5,000 call, "New Wave" economics, the Roaring 2020s thesis, and S&P 500 targets.

Ed Zitron

Ed Zitron (Edward Benjamin Zitron) is a British writer and public relations executive, founder of EZPR, who argues that generative AI companies like OpenAI cannot cover their costs.

Ed-Dur

Ed-Dur (ad-Dur) is an ancient coastal archaeological site in Umm Al Quwain, UAE, the largest settlement on the Arabian Gulf coast in the 1st century CE, with a temple of the sun god Shamash.

Ed, Edd n Eddy

Ed, Edd n Eddy is a Canadian-American animated series created by Danny Antonucci for Cartoon Network (1999-2009, ending with Big Picture Show). Three boys scam neighborhood kids for jawbreaker money; the last major series to use painted cel animation.

Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show

Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show is a 2009 animated TV movie, the series finale of Ed, Edd n Eddy, directed by Danny Antonucci, in which the Eds flee a ruined scam and search for Eddy's older brother.

ED: Extra Decent

ED: Extra Decent (ഇ ഡി - എക്സ്ട്രാ ഡീസന്റ്) is a 2024 Malayalam dark comedy directed by Aamir Pallikkal, starring Suraj Venjaramoodu as amnesiac son Binu; released 20 December 2024, streamed from 26 April 2025.

EDA

EDA (ectodysplasin A, HGNC:3157) is an Xq13.1 gene encoding a TNF-family ligand; its furin-cleaved isoform EDA-A1 binds EDAR, and mutations cause X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia and nonsyndromic tooth agenesis.

Eda Reiss Merin

Eda Reiss Merin (1913–1998), American character actress and AFTRA founding member; Group Theater alumna, Broadway performer, voice of Orddu in The Black Cauldron, and namesake of AWFJ's EDA Awards.

EDAG

EDAG, formally EDAG Engineering Group AG, is a German engineering company founded in 1969 and headquartered in Fulda that develops vehicles and production plants for the automotive industry.

Edam cheese

Edam cheese: Dutch semi-hard sweet-curd cow's-milk cheese from Edam, North Holland; part-skim (unlike whole-milk Gouda), spherical red-wax export form, about 40% milk fat in solids, PGI as Edam Holland.

Edamame (枝豆)

Edamame (枝豆, maodou) is immature vegetable soybean harvested at R6-R7 when beans fill 80-90% of the pod; boiled and salted, rich in protein, with a 7-10 day harvest window and 3-10 hour postharvest sugar decline.

Edan

The edan is a pair of chained brass staffs, one male and one female figure, worn as the primary emblem of the Yoruba Ògbóni society of Nigeria.

Edan Alexander

Edan Alexander (עידן אלכסנדר), Israeli-American Golani Brigade soldier from Tenafly, New Jersey, seized October 7, 2023 and Hamas's last living American hostage, freed May 12, 2025 after 584 days via US-Hamas backchannel talks.

EDAP TMS

EDAP TMS is a French medical technology company headquartered in Vaulx-en-Velin near Lyon, best known for the Focal One robotic HIFU platform for focal treatment of prostate cancer.

Edappadi K. Palaniswami (எடப்பாடி க. பழனிசாமி)

Edappadi K. Palaniswami (எடப்பாடி க. பழனிசாமி, EPS), AIADMK general secretary from Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister 2017 to 2021, MLA from Edappadi with wins in 1989, 1991, 2011, 2016, and 2026, formerly interim general secretary 2022 to 2023.

Edappally Raghavan Pillai

Edappally Raghavan Pillai (ഇടപ്പള്ളി രാഘവൻ പിള്ള, 1909–1936) was an Indian poet who, with his close friend Changampuzha, brought the romantic revolution to Malayalam poetry in the 1930s.

Edaravone (エダラボン)

Edaravone (エダラボン; Radicut/Radicava) is a free-radical scavenging drug approved in Japan (2001) for acute ischemic stroke and in the US (2017 IV, 2022 oral) to slow decline in ALS, one of three FDA-approved ALS drugs.

Edaravone and dexborneol concentrated solution for injection

Edaravone dexborneol concentrated solution for injection (依达拉奉右莰醇注射用浓溶液, Xianbixin) is a Simcere 4:1 edaravone/(+)-dexborneol neuroprotectant, 37.5 mg twice daily for 10-14 days, approved in China for acute ischemic stroke; TASTE and TASTE-2 trials support functional benefit.