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Edgar A. Starke Jr.
Edgar A. Starke Jr. is an American metallurgist and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, known for research on the physical metallurgy of aerospace aluminum alloys.
Edgar Aabye
Edgar Aabye (Edgar Lindenau Aabye, 1865-1941), Danish journalist and tug-of-war player; Denmark's first sports journalist at Politiken; won 1900 Paris Olympic gold in the mixed Danish-Swedish tug-of-war team after replacing an injured puller.
Edgar Adrian
Edgar Adrian, also Edgar Douglas Adrian, was a British electrophysiologist who showed that nerves encode stimulus strength by firing frequency, sharing the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Edgar Ætheling
Edgar Ætheling, also known as Edgar the Atheling or Edgar II, was an Anglo-Saxon prince proclaimed king of England in October 1066 after Harold II died at Hastings, but he was never crowned.
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), American poet, critic, and short-story writer; inventor of detective fiction through the Dupin tales and author of "The Raven"; born Boston, died Baltimore.
Edgar Allan Poe bibliography
The Edgar Allan Poe bibliography covers Poe's published books, beginning with Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827, the posthumous collections, and the reference bibliographies cataloging them.
Edgar Allen
Edgar Allen (1892–1943) was a reproductive physiologist at Washington University School of Medicine who, with Edward A. Doisy, isolated estrogen in 1923.
Edgar Amador Zamora
Edgar Amador Zamora is a Mexican economist and public official who serves as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, appointed in March 2025 under President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Edgar Anderson
Edgar Anderson (1897–1969) was an American botanist and geneticist at the Missouri Botanical Garden, best known for naming introgressive hybridization, the transfer of genes between species.
Edgar Awards
The Edgar Awards, formally the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, are annual prizes from Mystery Writers of America honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television.
Edgar B. Jackson Jr.
Edgar B. Jackson Jr. was an American internist who became the first African American chief of staff at a major academic medical center, at Cleveland's University Hospitals in 1997.
Edgar B. Saavedra
Edgar B. Saavedra is a Filipino civil engineer and construction tycoon who cofounded Megawide Construction with Michael Cosiquien in 1997 and serves as its chairman, president, and CEO.
Edgar Bain
Edgar Collins Bain (1891–1971) was an American physical metallurgist who pioneered X-ray diffraction studies of steel and gave his name to bainite, the microstructure named for him in 1934.
Edgar Bergen
Edgar Bergen (Edgar John Berggren, 1903-1978), American ventriloquist whose dummy Charlie McCarthy made him a radio superstar on The Chase and Sanborn Hour from 1937; honorary wooden Oscar 1938, three Walk of Fame stars.
Edgar Berlanga
Edgar Luis Berlanga Jr., "El Elegido" (born 1997), Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican super middleweight boxer who opened his pro career with 16 first-round knockouts, won the WBO NABO title, lost to Canelo Alvarez in 2024 and to Hamzah Sheeraz in 2025.
Edgar Brandt
Edgar Brandt (1880–1960) was a French wrought-iron craftsman and designer, a defining figure of Art Deco ironwork, known for the Louvre's Escalier Mollien railing and the Arc de Triomphe's Eternal Flame vessel.
Edgar Brenchley
Edgar 'Chirp' Brenchley (1912-1975), British ice hockey right winger; 1936 Olympic gold medallist who scored the winning goal against Canada, 1937 World silver, later EAHL player, coach, and NHL scout.
Edgar Bright Wilson
Edgar Bright Wilson Jr., known professionally as E. Bright Wilson, was an American physical chemist at Harvard whose theoretical work shaped molecular spectroscopy from the late 1930s.
Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Edgar Bronfman Jr. (born 1955), American media executive and Seagram heir; led Seagram into entertainment, sold it to Vivendi for $24 billion in 2000, led Warner Music Group 2004–2012, co-founded Waverley Capital, and made a withdrawn 2024 Paramount bid.
Edgar Bronfman Sr.
Edgar Bronfman Sr. (1929-2013), Montreal-born Canadian-American executive, led Seagram and was World Jewish Congress president 1971-2007, securing $1.25 billion in Swiss bank Holocaust restitution.
Edgar Broughton Band
Edgar Broughton Band, also The Broughtons, English rock band formed in Warwick in 1968; signed to Harvest, debut single "Evil" (1969), albums Wasa Wasa and Sing Brother Sing, politicized proto-punk sound.
Edgar Bruun
Edgar Bruun (Edgar Helge Bruun, 1905-1985), Norwegian race walker specializing in the 50 km walk; three Olympian (5th 1936, 4th 1948, 17th 1952), 1938 European bronze medallist, and 50 km world record holder 1936-1946.
Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan (William Edgar Buchanan, 1903–1979), American character actor and former dentist, known as Uncle Joe Carson in Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and The Beverly Hillbillies and for over 100 films.
Edgar Buckingham
Edgar Buckingham (1867–1940) was an American physicist at the National Bureau of Standards whose 1914 paper set out the Buckingham pi theorem, and whose soil-water work founded soil physics.
Edgar Burgess
Edgar Richard Burgess (1891-1952), British rower, not the swimmer Bill Burgess; won gold at bow in the Leander eight at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, stroked Oxford's 1913 Boat Race crew, later Sudan Political Service.
Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce, called the Sleeping Prophet, was an American mystic who gave some 22,000 trance readings on illness, past lives, and Atlantis between 1901 and 1944.
Édgar Cháirez
Édgar Cháirez (Édgar José Cháirez Ayala, born 1996), nicknamed "Puro Chicali", is a Mexican mixed martial artist fighting out of Mexicali who competes in the UFC flyweight division.
Edgar Dale
Edgar Dale (1900–1985) was an American education professor at Ohio State University, known for the Cone of Experience in his 1946 Audiovisual Methods in Teaching.
Edgar Davids
Edgar Davids, Dutch midfielder born 1973 in Paramaribo, nicknamed the Pitbull; 1995 European Cup with Ajax, three Serie A titles with Juventus, 74 Netherlands caps, and trademark goggles worn after a 1999 glaucoma diagnosis.
Edgar de Wahl
Edgar de Wahl (Edgar von Wahl, 1867–1948), Baltic German teacher in Tallinn, created the auxiliary language Occidental, renamed Interlingue in 1949, and formulated de Wahl's rule for verb derivation.