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Edmund Hlawka
Edmund Hlawka (1916–2009) was an Austrian mathematician, professor at the University of Vienna, known for the Minkowski–Hlawka theorem, the Koksma–Hlawka inequality, and over 130 doctoral students.
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician, founder of phenomenology; developed intentionality, the epoché, and transcendental reduction in Logical Investigations, Ideas I, and Crisis, and influenced Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty.
Edmund I
Edmund I (Edmund the Magnificent), king of the English 939–946, son of Edward the Elder and half-brother of Æthelstan; recovered York and the Five Boroughs from the Vikings, was murdered at Pucklechurch in 946, and is distinct from Edmund II Ironside and St Edmund the Martyr.
Edmund Ignatius Rice
Edmund Ignatius Rice (1762–1844), Irish merchant and educator, founded the Irish Christian Brothers, opening his first free school in Waterford in 1802; beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1996.
Edmund Ironside
Edmund Ironside (died 30 November 1016), also Edmund II, son of Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English for seven months in 1016, fighting Cnut's Danish invasion before the partition treaty at Deerhurst and his death made Cnut sole ruler.
Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880–1959), British Army officer, Royal Artillery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1939–40, Archangel commander, Persia 1920–21, C-in-C Home Forces 1940.
Edmund J. James
Edmund J. James (Edmund Janes James, 1855–1925) was an American economist who served as president of the University of Illinois from 1904 to 1920, transforming it into a major research university.
Edmund J. Lewis
Edmund J. Lewis (1936–2023) was an American nephrologist who directed nephrology at Rush in Chicago and led the Collaborative Study Group's defining diabetic kidney disease trials.
Edmund Kemper
Edmund Kemper (born 1948), known as the "Co-Ed Killer," is an American serial killer who murdered six women in the Santa Cruz area and was sentenced to life in 1973.
Edmund Klein
Edmund Klein (1922–1999) was an American dermatologist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo who pioneered topical chemotherapy of skin tumors with 5-fluorouracil, winning the 1975 Lasker Award.
Edmund Landau
Edmund Landau (1877–1938) was a German Jewish mathematician at Göttingen who made analytic number theory a systematic science, proved the prime number theorem anew in 1903, and posed four still-open prime problems.
Edmund Lindmark
Edmund Lindmark (Karl Edmund Lindmark, 1894–1968), Swedish gymnast and springboard diver from Umeå. Won team gymnastics gold (Swedish system) at Antwerp 1920, was fourth in springboard diving at Paris 1924, and took 1927 European 3 m springboard silver.
Edmund M. Clarke
Edmund M. Clarke was an American computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who co-founded model checking, an automated method for finding design errors, and shared the 2007 Turing Award.
Edmund McMillen
Edmund Charles McMillen (born 1980, Santa Cruz) is an American indie game designer and artist behind Gish, Super Meat Boy, and The Binding of Isaac; Team Meat co-founder, no-publisher model, Isaac around 11 million copies sold.
Edmund Muskie
Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1914-1996), Maine governor, U.S. senator 1959-1980, 1968 Democratic vice presidential nominee, and Carter's 58th secretary of state; principal author of the Clean Air Act of 1970 and Clean Water Act of 1972.
Edmund O'Donnell
Edmund O'Donnell, recorded in Jesuit archives as Edmundus Daniell, was an Irish Jesuit scholastic from Limerick, hanged, drawn, and quartered at Cork in 1572 and called the Jesuit protomartyr of Europe.
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402), fifth son of Edward III, founder of the House of York, lord of Conisbrough, custodian of the realm in 1399, ancestor of Yorkist kings.
Edmund Orme Harriss
Edmund Orme Harriss is a British mathematician and artist at the University of Arkansas, known for the Harriss spiral, the Curvahedra toy, and mathematical coloring books.
Edmund Oscar von Lippmann
Edmund Oscar von Lippmann (1857–1940) was a German sugar chemist and historian of chemistry, author of the standard works Chemie der Zuckerarten and Entstehung und Ausbreitung der Alchemie.
Edmund Pettus
Edmund Winston Pettus (1821-1907), Alabama lawyer, Confederate brigadier general, 1877 Alabama Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, and U.S. Senator 1897-1907; the Selma bridge named for him hosted Bloody Sunday in 1965.
Edmund Pettus Bridge
The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a 1940 bridge across the Alabama River at Selma, Alabama, where the 1965 Bloody Sunday march attack spurred the Voting Rights Act.
Edmund Pevensie
Edmund Pevensie, King Edmund the Just, is the third Pevensie child in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia; he betrays his siblings to the White Witch for enchanted Turkish Delight, is redeemed by Aslan's sacrifice, and reigns as a just king.
Edmund Piatkowski
Edmund Piatkowski (Edmund Piątkowski), Polish discus thrower (1936–2016), 1958 European champion, world record holder at 59.91 m in 1959, three-time Olympian, 13-time Polish champion.
Edmund Rich
Edmund Rich, also known as St Edmund of Abingdon, was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1233 until 1240, clashed with Henry III over church rights, and was canonized soon after his death.
Edmund S. Phelps
Edmund S. Phelps, known as Ned Phelps, was an American economist at Columbia University who won the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of macroeconomic policy tradeoffs.
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599) was an English Elizabethan poet whose allegorical epic The Faerie Queene is a major work of the English Renaissance; he invented the Spenserian stanza.
Edmund Stoiber
Edmund Stoiber (born 1941, Oberaudorf) is a German CSU politician, Bavarian Minister-President 1993–2007, CSU chairman 1999–2007, and the CDU/CSU chancellor candidate who lost to Gerhard Schröder in 2002.
Edmund Sun
Edmund Sun is an American semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded C-Cube Microsystems in California in 1988, serving as its first president and CEO; he also founded Weitek.
Edmund the Martyr
Edmund the Martyr (Saint Edmund), king of East Anglia killed by the Danish Viking army in 869, became one of England's most venerated saints. His shrine at Bury St Edmunds drew royal devotion until the 1539 Dissolution; he was England's patron saint before St George.
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (Edmund of Hadham, c. 1430–1456), son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, half-brother of Henry VI, husband of Margaret Beaufort, and posthumous father of Henry VII; died of plague at Carmarthen Castle.