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Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas (Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, 1834–1917), French realist painter and founding impressionist exhibitor, famed for about 1,500 dancer works, pastels, monotypes, photography, and Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.

Edgar F. Codd

Edgar F. Codd, known as Ted Codd, was an IBM computer scientist whose 1970 relational model became the foundation of most modern databases, earning the 1981 Turing Award.

Edgar Fahs Smith

Edgar Fahs Smith (1854–1928) was an American chemist, a pioneer of electrochemistry, and provost of the University of Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1920 who collected chemical memorabilia.

Sep 27, 2026

Edgar Flores

Edgar Flores is an American politician and immigration attorney, a Democratic member of the Nevada Senate from District 2, first elected in 2022 after serving in the Nevada Assembly from 2015 to 2021.

Sep 20, 2026

Edgar G. Engleman

Edgar G. Engleman is an American immunologist and Stanford professor of pathology and medicine who founded the Stanford Blood Center and pioneered human dendritic-cell cancer immunotherapy.

Edgar G. Hertwich

Edgar G. Hertwich is an Austrian-born environmental engineer and industrial ecologist, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology known for his 2009 trade-linked national carbon footprint analysis.

Edgar Gilbert

Edgar Nelson Gilbert (1923–2013) was an American mathematician and coding theorist who spent 48 years at Bell Laboratories, publishing 85 papers on coding theory, random graphs, percolation, and shuffling.

Sep 27, 2026

Edgar González

Edgar González is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 23rd district, covering Little Village, Brighton Park, and Cicero; the son of Mexican immigrants, he worked for Congressman Chuy Garcia.

Edgar Grospiron

Edgar Grospiron, French freestyle moguls skier born 1969, first Olympic moguls champion (Albertville 1992), bronze 1994, three world titles, 38 World Cup wins; later headed the French Alps 2030 organizing committee until his 2026 resignation.

Edgar H. Brown

Edgar H. Brown, born Edgar Henry Brown, Jr. (1926–2021), was an American algebraic topologist at Brandeis University known for the Brown representability theorem and Brown–Peterson spectrum.

Sep 20, 2026

Edgar Haber

Edgar Haber (1932–1997) was a German-born research physician who led the Cardiac Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1964 to 1988 and developed a worldwide digoxin diagnostic test.

Edgar Huff

Edgar Huff was a United States Marine Corps sergeant major, one of the first African Americans to enlist in 1942 and the first promoted to sergeant major.

Sep 19, 2026

Edgar J. Sia II

Edgar "Injap" Sia II, born in 1977, is a Filipino businessman who founded the Mang Inasal grilled-chicken chain in Iloilo City and chairs DoubleDragon Corporation.

Edgar Jung

Edgar Julius Jung, born 1894, was a German lawyer and leading theorist of the Conservative Revolution who wrote Papen's 1934 Marburg speech and was murdered in the Night of the Long Knives.

Edgar Lederer

Edgar Lederer (1908–1988) was a French biochemist of Austrian origin who revived chromatography in 1931 and spent decades studying carotenoids and mycobacterial lipids, including mycolic acids.

Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950) was an American poet and Chicago lawyer, partner of Clarence Darrow, whose Spoon River Anthology (1915) became the best-selling book of American poetry to that date.

Edgar Leonard

Edgar Leonard (Edgar Welch Leonard, 1881–1948), American tennis player; won 1904 St. Louis Olympic doubles gold with Beals Wright and singles bronze; later a New York broker.

Edgar Lungu

Edgar Chagwa Lungu, Zambian lawyer and Patriotic Front politician, sixth president of Zambia (2015-2021); won the 2015 by-election with 48.3%, re-elected 2016, lost 2021 to Hichilema, barred from 2026, died 2025.

Edgar M. Cortright

Edgar M. Cortright (1923–2014) was an American aerospace engineer and NASA manager who established the first U.S. meteorological satellite and space probe programs and supervised Viking 1's landing on Mars.

Edgar Martínez

Edgar Martínez, Puerto Rican-born Mariners third baseman turned designated hitter, two-time AL batting champion (.343 in 1992, .356 in 1995), hitter of "The Double" in the 1995 ALDS, and 2019 Baseball Hall of Fame electee at 85.4 percent.

Edgar Meyhöfer

Edgar Meyhöfer is a German mechanical and biomedical engineer and professor at the University of Michigan who measured the force of a single kinesin motor protein and nanoscale heat flow.

Edgar Mitchell

Edgar Mitchell, also known as Edgar Dean Mitchell, was an American NASA astronaut who became the sixth person to walk on the Moon, on Apollo 14 in 1971.

Oct 22, 2026

Edgar Mittelholzer

Edgar Mittelholzer (1909–1965) was a Guyanese novelist, born in New Amsterdam, British Guiana, the first Caribbean writer to earn his living from writing and author of 23 novels.

Edgar Mountain

Edgar Donald Mountain (1901-1985), British 800 m runner, fourth at Antwerp 1920 Olympics and 500 m world best holder 1921, later Rhodes University geologist with mineral mountainite named for him.

Edgar P. Jacobs

Edgar P. Jacobs (Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, 1904–1987), Belgian comic author and former opera singer, creator of Blake and Mortimer; worked with Hergé recoloring Tintin albums before launching Le Secret de l'Espadon in Tintin in 1946.

Edgar Page

Edgar Wells Page was an English field hockey center-half who won a gold medal at the 1908 London Olympics and represented England 15 times from 1907 to 1920.

Edgar Prince

Edgar Dale Prince (1931–1995) was an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded the Prince Corporation in Holland, Michigan, sold to Johnson Controls for $1.35 billion in 1996.

Édgar Ramírez

Édgar Ramírez (Édgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellano), Venezuelan actor and producer born 1977 in San Cristóbal, known for Carlos (César winner), Versace, The Undoing, and Emilia Pérez.

Edgar Ray Killen

Edgar Ray Killen, Mississippi Baptist preacher and Ku Klux Klan organizer (Kleagle) who organized the 1964 Mississippi Burning killings of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner; convicted of manslaughter in 2005, sentenced to 60 years, died in prison in 2018.