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EDAG

EDAG, formally EDAG Engineering Group AG, is a German engineering company founded in 1969 and headquartered in Fulda that develops vehicles and production plants for the automotive industry.

Edam cheese

Edam cheese: Dutch semi-hard sweet-curd cow's-milk cheese from Edam, North Holland; part-skim (unlike whole-milk Gouda), spherical red-wax export form, about 40% milk fat in solids, PGI as Edam Holland.

Edamame (枝豆)

Edamame (枝豆, maodou) is immature vegetable soybean harvested at R6-R7 when beans fill 80-90% of the pod; boiled and salted, rich in protein, with a 7-10 day harvest window and 3-10 hour postharvest sugar decline.

Edan

The edan is a pair of chained brass staffs, one male and one female figure, worn as the primary emblem of the Yoruba Ògbóni society of Nigeria.

Edan Alexander

Edan Alexander (עידן אלכסנדר), Israeli-American Golani Brigade soldier from Tenafly, New Jersey, seized October 7, 2023 and Hamas's last living American hostage, freed May 12, 2025 after 584 days via US-Hamas backchannel talks.

EDAP TMS

EDAP TMS is a French medical technology company headquartered in Vaulx-en-Velin near Lyon, best known for the Focal One robotic HIFU platform for focal treatment of prostate cancer.

Edappadi K. Palaniswami (எடப்பாடி க. பழனிசாமி)

Edappadi K. Palaniswami (எடப்பாடி க. பழனிசாமி, EPS), AIADMK general secretary from Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister 2017 to 2021, MLA from Edappadi with wins in 1989, 1991, 2011, 2016, and 2026, formerly interim general secretary 2022 to 2023.

Edappally Raghavan Pillai

Edappally Raghavan Pillai (ഇടപ്പള്ളി രാഘവൻ പിള്ള, 1909–1936) was an Indian poet who, with his close friend Changampuzha, brought the romantic revolution to Malayalam poetry in the 1930s.

Edaravone (エダラボン)

Edaravone (エダラボン; Radicut/Radicava) is a free-radical scavenging drug approved in Japan (2001) for acute ischemic stroke and in the US (2017 IV, 2022 oral) to slow decline in ALS, one of three FDA-approved ALS drugs.

Edaravone and dexborneol concentrated solution for injection

Edaravone dexborneol concentrated solution for injection (依达拉奉右莰醇注射用浓溶液, Xianbixin) is a Simcere 4:1 edaravone/(+)-dexborneol neuroprotectant, 37.5 mg twice daily for 10-14 days, approved in China for acute ischemic stroke; TASTE and TASTE-2 trials support functional benefit.

Edasalonexent

Edasalonexent (CAT-1004), an oral NF-κB inhibitor conjugating salicylic acid and DHA, was Catabasis Pharmaceuticals' experimental therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy; development ended in 2020 after the phase 3 PolarisDMD trial missed its endpoints.

Edasseri Govindan Nair

Edasseri Govindan Nair (ഇടശ്ശേരി ഗോവിന്ദൻ നായർ; 1906–1974) was an Indian poet and playwright who wrote in Malayalam, remembered as a leading figure of modern Malayalam poetry who won the 1969 Sahitya Akademi Award for Kavile Pattu.

EDC China

EDC China (雏菊电音嘉年华), or Electric Daisy Carnival China, is the Chinese edition of Insomniac's Electric Daisy Carnival festival, first held in Shanghai in 2018 and later in Zhuhai and Suzhou.

EDC Japan

EDC Japan, or Electric Daisy Carnival Japan, is a dance-music festival held at ZOZO Marine Stadium in Chiba from 2017 to 2019, drawing about 80,000 per edition.

EDC Orlando 2019

EDC Orlando 2019 was the ninth edition of the Electric Daisy Carnival Orlando EDM festival at Tinker Field in Orlando, Florida, its first three-day edition, drawing roughly 225,000 attendees.

EDC Week

EDC Week, or Electric Daisy Carnival Week, is a week-long series of pool parties and nightclub shows across Las Vegas staged by Insomniac around its EDC festival.

Edd Byrnes

Edd Byrnes (Edward Byrne Breitenberger, 1932–2020), American actor and singer, teen idol as Kookie on ABC's 77 Sunset Strip (1958–64); gold record "Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)" with Connie Stevens, No. 4 Billboard 1959; later Vince Fontaine in Grease.

Edd China

Edd China (born 1971) is a British mechanic, inventor, and TV presenter, co-host of Wheeler Dealers with Mike Brewer for 13 seasons until March 2017, holder of Guinness records for drivable oddities, now running Workshop Diaries on YouTube.

Edd Gould

Edd Gould (Edward Duncan Ernest Gould, 1988–2012) was a British animator and creator of the Eddsworld web series, its original voice of Edd; he died of leukemia at 23, and friends continued the show as Eddsworld Legacy and Beyond.

Edda

Edda (Eddur) names two medieval Icelandic books: the anonymous Poetic Edda of mythological and heroic poems (Codex Regius, c. 1270) and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (c. 1220–1230), the fullest source for Norse mythology.

Edda Göring

Edda Göring (Edda Carin Wilhelmine Göring, 1938–2018), only child of Hermann Göring and Emmy Sonnemann and Hitler's goddaughter, lived at Carinhall, then reclusively in Munich, and lost decades of claims, including a 2014 Landtag petition, to her father's confiscated estate.

EDDA Healthcare and Technology Holding (科技)

EDDA Healthcare and Technology Holding (EDDA科技, 医达健康) is a surgical robotics and precision-medicine imaging company in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 2003, known for its IQQA surgical navigation platform.

Edda Mussolini

Edda Mussolini (1910-1995), also Edda Ciano, eldest child of Benito Mussolini; wife of foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano, executed in 1944 after voting against the Duce; she smuggled his diaries to the Allies and died in Rome in 1995.

EDDA Technology (医软信息科技)

EDDA Technology (医软信息科技) is a medical-imaging and surgical-navigation company founded by Dr. Jianzhong Qian, headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, known for its IQQA quantitative 3D surgical planning platform.

Eddi Reader

Eddi Reader (Sadenia Reader, born 1959, Glasgow) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, frontwoman of Fairground Attraction ("Perfect," 1988 UK number one) and a solo artist whose 1994 album won a BRIT Award; MBE 2006; Burns interpreter; band reunited 2024.

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (Edmund Lincoln Anderson, 1905-1977), American comic actor born in Oakland, played valet Rochester Van Jones on The Jack Benny Program 1937-1965, the first black actor with a recurring network radio role, also known for Cabin in the Sky and Gone With the Wind.

Eddie (Martian crater)

Eddie, a large impact crater on Mars, 89 km diameter, centered at 12.26°N, 142.10°E, IAU-recognized as USGS Gazetteer feature ID 1718; distinct from Endeavour and other Martian craters.

Eddie Adams

Eddie Adams (Edward Thomas Adams, 1933–2004) was an American Associated Press photojournalist who won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of a Saigon execution during the Vietnam War.

Eddie Aikau

Eddie Aikau (Edward Ryon Makuahanai Aikau, 1946-1978), Hawaiian surfer and first Waimea Bay lifeguard, over 500 rescues, lost at sea after the Hokule'a capsized in 1978; namesake of the Eddie Would Go slogan and the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational.

Eddie Albert

Eddie Albert (Edward Albert Heimberger, 1906–2005), American stage, film, and TV actor; two-time Oscar nominee for Roman Holiday and The Heartbreak Kid; starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in Green Acres (1965–71); Navy Bronze Star at Tarawa.