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Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller (1606–1687) was an English poet and long-serving member of Parliament whose closed heroic couplets shaped the neoclassical style later perfected by Dryden and Pope.

Edmund Ware Sinnott

Edmund Ware Sinnott (1888–1968) was an American botanist and geneticist at Yale University who studied how genes control plant shape and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) was an American writer and literary and social critic, the premier critic in America from the mid-1920s to the early 1960s, whose books include Axel's Castle and To the Finland Station.

Edmund Y.S. Chao

Edmund Y.S. Chao is an orthopedic bioengineer and Lee Riley, Jr. Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 for limb biomechanics models.

Edmundo González

Edmundo González Urrutia, Venezuelan career diplomat and ambassador to Algeria and Argentina, was the Unitary Platform's 2024 presidential candidate; widely credited with winning before going into exile in Spain.

Edmundo Warnke

Edmundo Warnke is a Chilean long-distance runner, born in 1951, who competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won the 1976 São Silvestre road race.

Edna Cintrón

Edna Troche Cintrón (1954–2001), the Waving Woman, a Marsh McLennan administrative assistant killed on the North Tower's 97th floor on 9/11, known from images of a woman waving at the impact gash.

Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber (1887–1968), American novelist and playwright, Pulitzer winner for So Big (1925); wrote Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant, and Broadway hits Dinner at Eight and Stage Door with George S. Kaufman.

Edna Krabappel

Edna Krabappel is Bart Simpson's cynical fourth-grade teacher at Springfield Elementary in The Simpsons, voiced by Marcia Wallace from 1990 until Wallace's 2013 death, after which the character was retired, killed off in canon, and later replaced by a teacher voiced by Kerry Washington.

Edna Mode

Edna "E" Mode is Pixar's fictional superhero costume designer in The Incredibles (2004) and Incredibles 2 (2018), voiced by director Brad Bird; half-Japanese, half-German, famous for "No capes!" and inspired by Edith Head among others.

Edna Mozes

Edna Mozes is an Israeli immunologist, emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for work on T-cell immunology and lupus treatment.

Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien (1930–2024), Irish novelist and short-story writer from Tuamgraney, County Clare. Her debut The Country Girls (1960) was banned in Ireland; later honors included the Saoi of Aosdána (2015) and the novel Girl (2019).

Edna Purviance

Edna Purviance (Olga Edna Purviance, 1895-1958) was an American silent-film actress, Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in 34 films from 1915 to 1923, star of A Woman of Paris, later married pilot Jack Squire.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay, known to her family as Vincent, was an American poet and playwright who won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver.

Edna Stillwell

Edna Marie Stillwell (1915–1982), American comedy writer and manager, first wife and business partner of Red Skelton; wrote Avalon Time and Ziegfeld Follies material; died Los Angeles 1982.

Edo (江戸)

Edo (江戸), the former name of Tokyo, was the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate from 1603 to 1868 and Japan's de facto capital, growing to about one million people before its 1868 renaming as Tokyo.

Edo Berger

Edo Berger is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, there since 2008, known for work on short gamma-ray bursts and for leading the identification of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave event.

Edo Castle (江戸城)

Edo Castle (江戸城), also called Chiyoda Castle, was the Tokyo residence of the Tokugawa shoguns, the largest castle in Japanese history, now the Imperial Palace grounds.

Edo Fimmen

Edo Fimmen (Eduard Carl Fimmen, 1881–1942) was a Dutch trade unionist who led the International Transport Workers' Federation from 1919 and organized resistance to fascism.

Edo kaidan

Edo kaidan (江戸怪談) are the ghost stories and tales of the strange that circulated in Japan during the Edo period (1600–1867), told orally, on stage, and in woodblock-printed collections.

Edo machibugyō

The Edo machibugyō (江戸町奉行) was the Tokugawa shogunate's town magistracy for Edo's commoner districts, handling administration, justice, policing, and firefighting from about 1601 to 1868.

Edo people

Edo people (also Bini), an ethnic group of Edo State, southern Nigeria, founders of the Benin Kingdom (c. 900 CE) ruled by the Oba; Edoid language, Benin Bronzes court art, 1897 British sack, ongoing bronze restitutions.

Edo period

Edo period (江戸時代), also Tokugawa period: Japan's 1603-1868 era of Tokugawa shogunal rule from Edo (Tokyo), defined by the bakuhan system, sankin kotai, sakoku seclusion, and the 1868 Meiji Restoration.

Edo rakugo

Edo rakugo (江戸落語) is the Tokyo branch of rakugo, Japanese comic solo storytelling, developed from the late seventeenth century and performed today without desk, knee screen, or musical accompaniment.

Edo society

Edo society, also called the feudal Japan hierarchy, was Japan's class order under Tokugawa rule from 1603 to 1868, ranked as samurai, farmers, artisans, and merchants.

Edo State

Edo State, a South-South Nigerian state with capital Benin City, created August 27, 1991 from Bendel State; 18 LGAs, 17,802 km², non-oil economy of N2.4 trillion GDP, largest Nigerian oil palm producer, IGR over N100 billion in 2025.

EDO study

The EDO study (End Diagnostic Overshadowing) is a NIH-funded research program at Rush University Medical Center studying and reducing diagnostic overshadowing in patients with disabilities.

Edo Waks

Edo Waks is a quantum photonics researcher and Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, known for spin-photon interfaces and topological quantum optics.

Edoardo Agnelli

Edoardo Agnelli names two Agnelli family figures: the elder (1892–1935), son of Fiat's founder and Juventus president during the Quinquennio, and the younger (1954–2000), Gianni Agnelli's son who lived outside the family business.

Edoardo Amaldi

Edoardo Amaldi (1908–1989) was an Italian experimental physicist who worked under Enrico Fermi, rebuilt Italian physics after World War II, and helped found CERN, the INFN, and ESA.