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Edmond Brun

Edmond Brun (1898–1979) was a French physicist specializing in fluid mechanics and aerothermics, professor at the Faculté des sciences de Paris and a member of the Académie des sciences.

Edmond Dantès, protagonist of Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo (serialized 1844-1846): a Marseille sailor imprisoned 14 years in the Château d'If who escapes, finds a treasure, and returns as the Count of Monte Cristo.

Oct 15, 2026

Edmond de Belamy

Edmond de Belamy is a 2018 portrait generated by a GAN and printed on canvas by the Paris collective Obvious, sold at Christie's New York for $432,500.

Edmond de Pressensé

Edmond de Pressensé (1824–1891) was a French Protestant pastor, theologian, historian of the early church, and parliamentarian, pastor of Paris's chapelle Taitbout and a leader of the evangelical party.

Oct 21, 2026

Edmond Decottignies

Edmond Decottignies (Edmond Albert Décottignies, 1893-1963), French weightlifter of Travailleurs de Comines; won 1924 Paris Olympic lightweight gold with 440.0 kg and three French titles.

Sep 27, 2026

Edmond E. Chang

Edmond E. Chang, also known as Edmond E-Min Chang, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois since 2010.

Edmond H. Fischer

Edmond H. Fischer was a Swiss-American biochemist who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edwin G. Krebs for discovering reversible protein phosphorylation.

Edmond Halley

Edmond Halley, also known as Sir Edmund Halley, was an English astronomer and mathematician (1656–1742) who predicted the return of Halley's Comet and financed the first edition of Newton's Principia.

Edmond Hoyle

Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769) was an English writer and barrister whose 1742 whist treatise made him the first systematizer of the game's laws, inspiring the phrase "according to Hoyle."

Edmond J. Yunis

Edmond J. Yunis (1929–2023) was a Colombian-born immunologist and immunogeneticist who led immunogenetics at Harvard and Dana-Farber, known for MHC extended haplotypes, vaccine response genetics, and tetragametic chimerism.

Edmond Kelly

Canon Edmond (Edmund) Kelly (1874–1955) was an Irish Catholic priest and British Army chaplain with the 8th Royal Irish Fusiliers awarded the Military Cross for tending the wounded under shell fire east of Ypres on 16 August 1917.

Edmond Locard

Edmond Locard (1877–1966) was a French forensic scientist who founded the first French police laboratory in Lyon in 1910 and formulated the exchange principle, "every contact leaves a trace."

Edmond Louis Stapfer

Edmond Louis Stapfer (1844–1908) was a French Reformed pastor and theologian, professor of New Testament exegesis and dean at the Protestant theology faculty of Paris.

Edmond Malinvaud

Edmond Malinvaud (1923–2015) was a French economist and statistician who directed INSEE from 1974 to 1987, held the economic analysis chair at the Collège de France, and was a principal figure of disequilibrium macroeconomics.

Edmond Martène

Edmond Martène (1654–1739) was a French Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur who compiled ancient liturgical books and manuscript collections, traveling some 800 monasteries with Ursin Durand.

Edmond Nocard

Edmond Nocard (1850-1903), French veterinarian and Pasteur disciple, founder of veterinary microbiology; discovered Nocardia farcinica (1888), first mycoplasma (1898), and advanced tuberculosis and glanders control.

Edmond O'Brien

Edmond O'Brien (1915–1985), also Eamon Joseph O'Brien, American actor who won the 1954/1955 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Barefoot Contessa and starred in noirs D.O.A., White Heat, and The Hitch-Hiker.

Edmond Picard

Edmond Picard (1836–1924) was a Belgian jurist, legal publisher, and socialist senator who founded the 136-volume Pandectes belges and mentored young writers including Emile Verhaeren and Maurice Maeterlinck.

Edmond post office shooting

Edmond post office shooting: 20 August 1986 massacre in Edmond, Oklahoma, where USPS letter carrier Patrick Henry Sherrill killed 14 coworkers and wounded six before suicide, origin of the phrase "going postal".

Edmond Rostand

Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) was a French poet and dramatist whose verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, premiered in 1897, became one of the most successful French plays ever staged.

Edmond Safra

Edmond J. Safra (1932–1999) was a Lebanese-born Sephardic Jewish banker who built private banks in Brazil, Geneva, and New York, selling them to HSBC in 1999.

Oct 21, 2026

Edmond Van Moer

Edmond Van Moer, Belgian archer, won three gold medals in pole archery (individual and team, small and large birds) at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; his only Games, birth and death dates unrecorded.

Edmond, Oklahoma

Edmond, Oklahoma: a city in northern Oklahoma County founded in 1887 as a Santa Fe Railway coal and water stop at Mile Marker 103, named for agent Edmond Burdick, settled in the 1889 Land Run, home of the University of Central Oklahoma.

Edmondiidae

Edmondiidae (W. King, 1850) is an extinct family of shallow-burrowing Paleozoic marine bivalves, type genus Edmondia, defined by a furrowed hinge plate, ranging from Late Devonian to latest Permian.

Edmondo De Amicis

Edmondo De Amicis (1846–1908) was an Italian writer, soldier, and journalist whose schoolboy novel Cuore (1886) became the first best-seller of unified Italy, translated into more than 25 languages.

Edmonds–Karp algorithm

The Edmonds–Karp algorithm is a polynomial-time method for computing maximum flow, published by Jack Edmonds and Richard M. Karp in 1972, with O(m²n) running time independent of capacities.

Edmonia Lewis

Edmonia Lewis (Wildfire; ca. 1844-1907) was an American neoclassical sculptor of African American and Mississauga Ojibwe descent, the first of her heritage to win international fame, known for Forever Free and The Death of Cleopatra.

Edmonton

Edmonton, capital of Alberta, Canada, on the North Saskatchewan River in Treaty Six territory. Grew from a 1778 fur trade post; 1,010,899 residents in 2021, about 1.24 million by 2025; opened Canada's pioneering 1978 LRT.

Edmonton Elks

Edmonton Elks, formerly Edmonton Eskimos (1949-2021), CFL West Division team from Edmonton, Alberta. 14 Grey Cups including five straight 1978-82; renamed Elks June 1, 2021; play at Commonwealth Stadium.