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Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1900-1979): British admiral, great-grandson of Queen Victoria, Supreme Allied Commander SE Asia 1943-46, last Viceroy and first Governor-General of India 1947-48, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Defence Staff; assassinated by the IRA in 1979.
Earl Muetterties
Earl Muetterties (1927–1984) was an American inorganic chemist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for boron hydrides, fluxional molecules, and metal clusters as catalysis models.
Earl Nightingale
Earl Nightingale (1921–1989), American radio broadcaster and motivational author; voice of Sky King, creator of Our Changing World; his 1956 recording The Strangest Secret was the first spoken-word Gold Record, and he co-founded Nightingale-Conant with Lloyd Conant.
Earl of Carnarvon
Earl of Carnarvon: British peerage title created 1628 for Robert Dormer, revived 1793 for Henry Herbert; holders include the 5th Earl who funded Tutankhamun's tomb discovery; seat Highclere Castle, Downton Abbey location.
Earl of Hereford
Earl of Hereford: English noble title tied to Herefordshire, held by Godwin and Harold before 1066, by William fitz Osbern from 1069, and by the de Bohun family 1199–1373.
Earl of Lennox
The Earl of Lennox, successor to the ancient Mormaer of Lennox, held a powerful Scottish earldom around Loch Lomond that passed to the Stewarts in 1488.
Earl of Richmond
Earl of Richmond, an English peerage title tied to the Honour of Richmond granted to Alan Rufus in 1071; first used by Alan Niger by 1136, long united with the dukedom of Brittany, held by John of Gaunt and Edmund Tudor, ended with Henry VII, with later Stuart creations.
Earl of Sandwich
Earl of Sandwich: English peerage title created 12 July 1660 for Edward Montagu; its 4th holder, John Montagu (1718–1792), First Lord of the Admiralty, gave his name to the sandwich food.
Earl of Sunderland
Earl of Sunderland: Spencer family peerage created June 1643 for Henry Spencer, killed at Newbury. Most notable holder, Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl (1674-1722), Whig statesman, South Sea scheme, Sunderland Library.
Earl of Sussex
Earl of Sussex: English peerage title held successively by the d'Aubigny, Warenne, Radcliffe, Savile, Lennard, and Yelverton families, extinct 1799, revived 1874 for Prince Albert; distinct from the dukedom of Sussex.
Earl of Ulster
Earl of Ulster: Irish peerage title created 29 May 1205 by King John for Hugh de Lacy, the first English-created Irish honour; held by the de Burgh earls, merged in the Crown in 1461, later held only by royals.
Earl P. Benditt
Earl P. Benditt (1916–1996) was an American experimental pathologist who chaired pathology at the University of Washington from 1957 to 1981, known for the monoclonal hypothesis of atherosclerosis.
Earl P. Steinberg
Earl P. Steinberg is an American physician and health services researcher who spent twelve years on the Johns Hopkins faculty and later led Geisinger's startup xG Health Solutions.
Earl Pomeroy
Earl Pomeroy (Earl Ralph Pomeroy III, born 1952) is a North Dakota Democratic-NPL lawyer and politician, state insurance commissioner 1985–1992, at-large U.S. Representative 1993–2011, defeated by Rick Berg in 2010, later an Alston & Bird lobbyist.
Earl R. Stadtman
Earl R. Stadtman (1919–2008) was an American biochemist who spent 57 years at the National Institutes of Health, known for work on coenzyme A, glutamine synthetase regulation, and protein oxidation in aging.
Earl Randall Parker
Earl Randall Parker (1912–1998) was an American metallurgist and UC Berkeley professor who studied the flow and fracture of metals, developed TRIP steels, and received the National Medal of Science.
Earl Ray Tomblin
Earl Ray Tomblin (born 1952) is a Democratic politician, 35th governor of West Virginia 2010–2017, previously the state's longest-serving Senate President and first Lieutenant Governor; won the 2011 special election after Joe Manchin's Senate seat.
Earl S. Ford
Earl S. Ford is an American epidemiologist at the CDC known for landmark metabolic syndrome estimates and a 2007 analysis explaining the decline in US coronary heart disease deaths.
Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs (1924-2012), North Carolina five-string banjo player, perfected the three-finger 'Scruggs style'; joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in 1945, co-led Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, and recorded 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown' and 'The Ballad of Jed Clampett'.
Earl Slick
Earl Slick (Frank Madeloni, born 1952), American rock guitarist, David Bowie's lead guitarist on Diamond Dogs tour, David Live, Young Americans, Station to Station, Heathen, Reality, The Next Day; also John Lennon's Double Fantasy and Yoko Ono's Season of Glass.
Earl Sweatshirt
Earl Sweatshirt, born Thebe Neruda Kgositsile in 1994, is an American rapper and producer from Los Angeles who rose to fame as a teenager in the rap collective Odd Future.
Earl Thomas
Earl Thomas III (born 1989) is a former NFL free safety, Legion of Boom original, Seahawks' only Super Bowl champion, 7-time Pro Bowler, and 2010s All-Decade selection.
Earl Thomas Conley
Earl Thomas Conley (1941-2019), American country singer-songwriter known as ETC, scored 18 Billboard country No. 1 hits in the 1980s and was the first artist in any genre with four No. 1 singles from one album, Don't Make It Easy for Me.
Earl W. Davie
Earl W. Davie (1927–2020) was an American biochemist at the University of Washington who proposed the 1964 waterfall sequence model of blood coagulation and co-founded ZymoGenetics.
Earl W. Sutherland
Earl W. Sutherland Jr. (1915–1974) was an American pharmacologist who discovered cyclic AMP, the second messenger of hormone action, winning the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Earl Warren
Earl Warren (1891–1974), 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953–1969) and three-term Republican Governor of California, led the Warren Court's rights revolution: Brown, Miranda, Baker v. Carr, Loving.
Earl Watson
Earl Watson (Earl Joseph Watson, born 1979, Kansas City, Kansas), UCLA point guard, 13-season NBA veteran (878 games), and Phoenix Suns head coach 2016-2017 with a 33-85 record; later Raptors assistant and 2026 Kansas Sports Hall of Fame inductee.
Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver (1930-2013), the Earl of Baltimore, Hall of Fame manager of the Orioles 1968-82 and 1985-86; 1,480 wins, .583, four pennants, 1970 World Series title, 96 ejections.
Earl Winfield Spencer Jr.
Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. was a United States Navy aviator, first commanding officer of Naval Air Station San Diego, and the first husband of Wallis Warfield, later the Duchess of Windsor.
Earl Woods
Earl Dennison Woods (1932-2006), retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and Green Beret, father and first coach of golfer Tiger Woods, whom he nicknamed after a Vietnamese officer friend; author of Training a Tiger.