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E. Nesbit
E. Nesbit (Edith Nesbit Bland, 1858–1924), English author of The Railway Children, Five Children and It, and the Bastable books; Fabian socialist who modernized children's fantasy.
E. Newton Harvey
E. Newton Harvey (1887–1959) was an American biologist at Princeton University, known as the Dean of Bioluminescence for his study of light emission by living organisms.
E. Norval Fortson
E. Norval Fortson, born 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American atomic physicist at the University of Washington known for precision measurements with lasers and atoms.
E. O. Hoppé
E. O. Hoppé, born Emil Otto Hoppé, was a German-born British photographer known for portraits of the famous and street photographs of ordinary British people.
E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson, known as E. O. Wilson (1929–2021), was an American Harvard biologist, the world's leading authority on ants, founder of sociobiology, and advocate for biodiversity conservation.
E. P. J. van den Heuvel
E. P. J. van den Heuvel, born 1940, is a Dutch astronomer known for his work on the formation and evolution of neutron stars and black holes in binary systems.
E. Pauline Johnson
E. Pauline Johnson, known by her Mohawk name Tekahionwake, was a Mohawk and English-Canadian poet and stage performer who toured North America and England reciting her own work from 1892.
E. Peter Geiduschek
E. Peter Geiduschek (1928–2022) was an Austrian-born American molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego, known for work on DNA structure and transcription.
E. Peter Greenberg
E. Peter Greenberg is an American microbiologist at the University of Washington, widely credited with founding quorum sensing, the study of how bacteria coordinate gene expression by population density.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866–1946), English novelist also published as Anthony Partridge, called "the prince of storytellers"; wrote roughly 116–160 spy and crime novels including The Great Impersonation (1920), a founding figure of the British spy thriller.
E. Pierce Marshall
E. Pierce Marshall was an American heir and businessman who served on the Koch Industries board and won the estate litigation against Anna Nicole Smith.
E. Premkumar Reddy
E. Premkumar Reddy is a molecular oncologist who cloned viral oncogenes, showed that point mutations activate the ras oncogene, and developed the anticancer drug rigosertib at Mount Sinai.
E. R. Ejercito
E. R. Ejercito, born Emilio Ramon Pelayo Ejercito III and filmed as Jeorge Estregan Jr., is a Filipino actor and politician who won consecutive FAMAS Best Actor awards and served as Governor of Laguna.
E. R. Piore
E. R. Piore, born Emanuel Ruben Piore (1908–2000), was a Lithuanian-born American physicist, first civilian chief of the Office of Naval Research, and IBM's first Director of Research from 1956.
E. R. Webber
E. Richard Webber, born in 1942, is an American jurist who served as a federal district judge in Missouri from 1995 until his retirement in 2022.
E. Randol Schoenberg
E. Randol Schoenberg (born 1966) is a Los Angeles litigator, co-founder of Burris, Schoenberg & Walden, who won Republic of Austria v. Altmann and recovered five Nazi-looted Klimt paintings worth over $325 million.
E. Richard Moxon
E. Richard Moxon, Edward Richard Moxon, born 1941, is a British microbiologist and pediatrician, Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics at Oxford, known for Hib meningitis vaccine research.
E. Robert Greenberg
E. Robert Greenberg is an American physician-scientist in cancer prevention epidemiology, an emeritus Dartmouth professor who led randomized trials testing whether beta carotene, antioxidant vitamins, and calcium prevent cancer.
E. Roy John
E. Roy John (Erwin Roy John, 1924–2009) was an American neuroscientist who pioneered neurometrics, a quantitative EEG method, co-discovered the P300 evoked potential, and founded NYU's Brain Research Laboratories.
E. Russell Alexander
E. Russell Alexander is an American physician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington whose 1975 and 1978 New England Journal of Medicine studies helped define chlamydial disease.
E. S. L. Narasimhan
E. S. L. Narasimhan, born Ekkadu Srinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan, is a retired Indian Police Service officer and former Intelligence Bureau director who served as Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
E. Sreedharan
E. Sreedharan, born Elattuvalapil Sreedharan in 1932, is an Indian civil engineer known as the "Metro Man" who delivered the Konkan Railway and Delhi Metro on schedule.
E. Stanley Jones
E. Stanley Jones (Eli Stanley Jones, 1884–1973) was an American Methodist missionary to India and author of the best seller The Christ of the Indian Road.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, 1776–1822), German Romantic writer, composer, and Prussian judge from Königsberg; author of Der Sandmann, Der goldne Topf, and The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, nicknamed Gespenster-Hoffmann.
E. T. Mohammed Basheer
E. T. Mohammed Basheer, born 1946, is an Indian Union Muslim League politician who has represented Malappuram, Kerala, in the Lok Sabha since 2009.
E. T. Whittaker
E. T. Whittaker, fully Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, was a British mathematician who held the University of Edinburgh mathematics chair for thirty-four years and co-authored A Course of Modern Analysis.
E. Tessa Hedley‐Whyte
E. Tessa Hedley-Whyte, also known as E. T. Hedley-Whyte, is a British-born American neuropathologist and Harvard Medical School professor of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
E. Toby Kiers
E. Toby Kiers, also published as Toby Kiers, is an American-born evolutionary biologist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam known for showing that legumes sanction cheating rhizobia.
E. Tory Higgins
Edward Tory Higgins, born 1946 in Montreal, is a Canadian-born American social psychologist at Columbia University, best known for self-discrepancy theory and regulatory focus theory.
E. Tukaram
E. Tukaram, born 1967, is an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress who has represented the Bellary constituency in Karnataka in the Lok Sabha since 2024.