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Edith B. Clement
Edith B. Clement, born Edith Brown Clement in 1948, is an American judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001.
Edith Bouvier Beale
Edith Bouvier Beale ("Little Edie", 1917–2002), American socialite, model, and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, lived in seclusion with her mother "Big Edie" in the decaying East Hampton mansion Grey Gardens, subject of the 1975 Maysles documentary and later a fashion icon.
Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman (born 1974) is a Scottish broadcaster from Anstruther, Fife, known for MTV UK, BBC Radio 1's Colin and Edith, Virgin Radio, the Soundtracking podcast, and BBC's Coast to Coast Food Festival.
Edith Bunker
Edith Bunker is the fictional wife of Archie Bunker on All in the Family (CBS 1971-1979), played by Jean Stapleton, a three-Emmy 'dingbat' homemaker whose character died offscreen in Archie Bunker's Place.
Édith Butler
Édith Butler is an Acadian singer-songwriter and folklorist born in Paquetville, New Brunswick, in 1942, who has recorded about 300 songs and sold more than two million records.
Edith Cavell
Edith Cavell (1865-1915), British nurse and matron of Belgium's first nursing school in Brussels; helped over 200 Allied soldiers escape occupied Belgium, was court-martialled and executed by German firing squad on 12 October 1915.
Edith Cowan University
Edith Cowan University (ECU) is a public Western Australian university, teaching since 1991 under the 1984 Act and named after Edith Dircksey Cowan, the first woman elected to an Australian parliament, with 31,000+ students and campuses including Joondalup, Bunbury, Colombo, and the new ECU City opening 2026.
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale
"Big Edie" Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale was an American socialite and amateur singer, aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who lived in seclusion at Grey Gardens in East Hampton.
Edith Flagg
Edith Flagg (born Edith Feuerstein, 1919-2014) was a Romanian-born American fashion designer and Holocaust survivor who founded Edith Flagg, Inc. in Los Angeles, pioneered polyester (Crimplene) fashion imports, and later appeared as "Granny Edith" on Million Dollar Listing.
Edith Frank
Edith Frank (Edith Holländer, 1900-1945), mother of Anne and Margot Frank, German-born Jewish woman who emigrated to Amsterdam in 1933, hid in the Secret Annex from 1942, and died in Auschwitz-Birkenau on 6 January 1945.
Edith González
Edith González (Edith González Fuentes, 1964–2019), Mexican actress from Monterrey, Nuevo León, star of the telenovelas Los ricos también lloran, Corazón salvaje, Salomé, and Doña Bárbara; worked at Televisa over 30 years, then TV Azteca; died of ovarian cancer on 13 June 2019, aged 54.
Edith H. Jones
Edith Hollan Jones, born 1949, is an American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1985.
Edith Hannam
Edith Hannam (1878–1951), British tennis player, won two gold medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics in covered court women's singles and mixed doubles with Charles Dixon.
Edith Head
Edith Head, born Edith Claire Posener (1897–1981), was an American costume designer who worked on more than 1,000 films and won a record eight Academy Awards.
Edith Heard
Edith Heard, born 1965 in London, is a geneticist known for her work on X-chromosome inactivation, formerly EMBL Director General and now Director of the Francis Crick Institute.
Edith Howes
Edith Howes was a New Zealand teacher and children's writer who wrote about 30 books, pioneered Montessori-influenced infant teaching at Gore, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928.
Edith Louise Potter
Edith Louise Potter (1901–1993) was an American pathologist who founded perinatal pathology at the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, performing over 10,000 perinatal autopsies and describing Potter sequence in 1946.
Edith M. Flanigen
Edith M. Flanigen (1929–2026) was an American industrial chemist who pioneered molecular sieves, invented zeolite Y manufacture, and was the first woman to win the Perkin Medal.
Edith Mayne
Edith Mayne (Edith May Mayne-Peacock, 1905-1953), English freestyle swimmer for Torquay Leander; 1928 Olympic 400 m finalist-stage swimmer and 1,500 m world record holder (24:00.2, 1926).
Édith Mourier
Édith Mourier (1920–2017) was a French probabilist whose work on random elements in Banach spaces shaped probability in metric spaces; her name survives in the Fortet–Mourier distance.
Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf (Édith Giovanna Gassion, 1915–1963), French chanson réaliste singer known as the Little Sparrow; wrote La Vie en rose, famous for Hymne à l'amour and Non, je ne regrette rien, died at 47, buried at Père-Lachaise.
Edith Pretty
Edith Pretty (née Dempster, 1883–1942), Sutton Hoo landowner, instigated the 1938–1939 excavations that uncovered the Anglo-Saxon Great Ship Burial, then donated the entire treasure trove to the British Museum and declined a CBE.
Edith Roosevelt
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (1861-1948), second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt, was First Lady 1901-1909; she directed the 1902 White House renovation, hired the first salaried social secretary, and displayed former first ladies' portraits.
Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (1887–1964) was a British poet, eldest of the literary Sitwell siblings, best known for Façade (1922) and her flamboyant public persona.
Edith Södergran
Edith Irene Södergran (1892–1923) was a Finland-Swedish poet, born in St. Petersburg, who introduced modernist free verse in Swedish and became one of Finland's foremost poets.
Edith Stein
Edith Stein, later Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was a German phenomenologist known for her work on empathy who became a Carmelite nun and died at Auschwitz in 1942.
Edith Tiempo
Edith Tiempo was a Filipino poet, fiction writer, and teacher who in 1962 co-founded Asia's first creative writing workshop and became National Artist for Literature in 1999.
Edith Tolkien
Edith Mary Tolkien, née Bratt (1889–1971), English pianist and wife of J.R.R. Tolkien; met him at a Birmingham boarding house, married him in 1916, inspired Lúthien, and is buried as Lúthien at Wolvercote Cemetery.
EdiTh trial
EdiTh (Ed.iTh, NCT05098444) is a randomized controlled trial at Philipps University Marburg testing an eight-module therapist-guided internet-based CBT program against a waiting list to improve quality of life in women with endometriosis; distinct from the UK EDITH breast screening AI trial.
Edith Tudor-Hart
Edith Tudor-Hart, born Edith Suschitzky in Vienna (1908–1973), was an Austrian-British documentary photographer of working-class life who also spied for the Soviet Union, helping recruit Kim Philby.