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Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Oilers, NHL team in Edmonton, Alberta (Pacific Division). Five Stanley Cups 1984-1990; lost the 2024 and 2025 finals to Florida; 2025-26 first-round exit to Anaheim; McDavid and Draisaitl lead the core.
Edmonton, London
Edmonton, London: district in the east of the London Borough of Enfield, historic Middlesex settlement, wards Edmonton Green, Lower and Upper Edmonton, home to the 10,000-home Meridian Water regeneration.
Edmontosaurus
Edmontosaurus, a large duck-billed hadrosaurid dinosaur of Late Cretaceous North America (76–66 Ma), with species E. regalis and E. annectens; famous for mummified fossils preserving skin, hooves, and soft-tissue crests.
Edmund A. Sargus, Jr.
Edmund A. Sargus, Jr. (born 1953) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Ohio since 1996.
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe (1861–1936), British field marshal known as 'the Bull'; EEF commander who took Beersheba, Jerusalem and won Megiddo (76,000 prisoners), then High Commissioner for Egypt 1919–1925.
Edmund Bacon (architect)
Edmund Norwood Bacon (1910–2005) was an American architect and city planner who, as head of Philadelphia's planning commission from 1949 to 1970, directed the city's postwar redevelopment and wrote Design of Cities.
Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund Barton (1849-1920), Australian federationist, first prime minister 1901-1903, and High Court justice 1903-1920; led the 1897-98 Constitution drafting convention.
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (c.1406–1455), English magnate and lieutenant of France under Henry VI; lost Normandy in 1449–50, rivaled Richard of York, and died at the First Battle of St Albans.
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856–1939) was an American zoologist and cytologist at Columbia University whose 1905 studies of insect chromosomes established the chromosomal mechanism of sex determination.
Edmund Berry Godfrey
Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1621–1678), Westminster magistrate who took Titus Oates's Popish Plot deposition; found dead near Primrose Hill, 17 October 1678; his death fueled anti-Catholic panic; three men hanged on perjured evidence.
Edmund Blunden
Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) was an English poet, memoirist, and Oxford Professor of Poetry who fought on the Western Front and wrote Undertones of War (1928), in print ever since.
Edmund Bonner
Edmund Bonner (c. 1500–1569) was Bishop of London under Henry VIII and Mary I who condemned most of the Protestants burned at Smithfield, earning the name "Bloody Bonner".
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Anglo-Irish Whig statesman and author of Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790); led economical reform and the Hastings impeachment; canonized, anachronistically, as founder of modern conservatism.
Edmund Campion
Edmund Campion (1540–1581) was an English Jesuit priest and former Oxford scholar who secretly ministered to Catholics in Elizabethan England and was executed in 1581.
Edmund Castell
Edmund Castell (1606–1685 or 1686) was an English clergyman and Orientalist, compiler of the Lexicon Heptaglotton (1669) and chief paid assistant on Brian Walton's London Polyglot Bible.
Edmund Clifton Stoner
Edmund Clifton Stoner (1899–1968) was a British theoretical physicist and Cavendish Professor at Leeds, known for the Stoner criterion for ferromagnetism and the Stoner rule for electron shells.
Edmund Copeland
Edmund J. Copeland is a professor of physics at the University of Nottingham who works in particle cosmology, studying inflation, cosmic strings, string theory, and dark energy.
Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal (b. 1964, Nottingham) is a British ceramic artist and writer known for porcelain vessel installations, library of exile, and the memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010); CBE 2021, Windham-Campbell Prize 2015.
Edmund Dulac
Edmund Dulac, born Edmond Dulac (1882–1953), was a French-born book illustrator and designer in London, a leading figure of the gift book golden age who later designed British stamps.
Edmund G. LaCour, Jr.
Edmund G. LaCour, Jr. is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Alabama since 2025, appointed by President Trump.
Edmund G. Lowrie
Edmund G. Lowrie is an American nephrology researcher at Harvard and Fresenius Medical Care known for landmark studies on dialysis survival and quality of life.
Edmund Gettier
Edmund Gettier, American philosopher, author of the 1963 Analysis paper "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" whose two Smith cases (Jones's job, Brown in Barcelona) launched the Gettier problem against justified true belief.
Edmund Gosse
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) was an English poet, critic, and biographer who championed Ibsen and is now remembered chiefly for Father and Son (1907), his memoir of leaving the Plymouth Brethren.
Edmund Grindal
Edmund Grindal (c. 1516x20–1583) was an English churchman who served as archbishop of Canterbury from 1576 and was suspended in 1577 for refusing Elizabeth I's order to suppress the prophesyings.
Edmund Gwenn
Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway, 1877–1959) was an English stage and film actor who won the 1947 Best Supporting Actor Oscar as Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street and worked with Hitchcock in four films.
Edmund H. Sonnenblick
Edmund H. Sonnenblick (1932–2007) was an American cardiologist and researcher who defined the mechanics of heart muscle contraction, laying the basis for modern heart-failure treatment.
Edmund Herring
Sir Edmund Francis (Ned) Herring (1892–1982), Australian soldier, barrister, and judge; Chief Justice of Victoria 1944–1964, lieutenant-governor 1945–1972, and wartime commander of New Guinea Force and I Corps.
Edmund Hess
Edmund Hess (Edmund Adolf Hess) was a German mathematician known for rediscovering the regular four-dimensional polytopes while Schläfli's earlier discovery remained unpublished, publishing in Cassel from 1876.
Edmund Hillary
Edmund Hillary (1919–2008), New Zealand beekeeper and mountaineer, with Tenzing Norgay made the first confirmed ascent of Everest on 29 May 1953; later reached the South Pole by tractor and built schools and hospitals in Nepal.
Edmund Hirst
Sir Edmund Langley Hirst (1898–1975) was a British carbohydrate chemist who established the ring structures of simple sugars and co-determined the structure of vitamin C.