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Edgar Broughton Band
Edgar Broughton Band, also The Broughtons, English rock band formed in Warwick in 1968; signed to Harvest, debut single "Evil" (1969), albums Wasa Wasa and Sing Brother Sing, politicized proto-punk sound.
Edgar Bruun
Edgar Bruun (Edgar Helge Bruun, 1905-1985), Norwegian race walker specializing in the 50 km walk; three Olympian (5th 1936, 4th 1948, 17th 1952), 1938 European bronze medallist, and 50 km world record holder 1936-1946.
Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan (William Edgar Buchanan, 1903–1979), American character actor and former dentist, known as Uncle Joe Carson in Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and The Beverly Hillbillies and for over 100 films.
Edgar Buckingham
Edgar Buckingham (1867–1940) was an American physicist at the National Bureau of Standards whose 1914 paper set out the Buckingham pi theorem, and whose soil-water work founded soil physics.
Edgar Burgess
Edgar Richard Burgess (1891-1952), British rower, not the swimmer Bill Burgess; won gold at bow in the Leander eight at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, stroked Oxford's 1913 Boat Race crew, later Sudan Political Service.
Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce, called the Sleeping Prophet, was an American mystic who gave some 22,000 trance readings on illness, past lives, and Atlantis between 1901 and 1944.
Édgar Cháirez
Édgar Cháirez (Édgar José Cháirez Ayala, born 1996), nicknamed "Puro Chicali", is a Mexican mixed martial artist fighting out of Mexicali who competes in the UFC flyweight division.
Edgar Dale
Edgar Dale (1900–1985) was an American education professor at Ohio State University, known for the Cone of Experience in his 1946 Audiovisual Methods in Teaching.
Edgar Davids
Edgar Davids, Dutch midfielder born 1973 in Paramaribo, nicknamed the Pitbull; 1995 European Cup with Ajax, three Serie A titles with Juventus, 74 Netherlands caps, and trademark goggles worn after a 1999 glaucoma diagnosis.
Edgar de Wahl
Edgar de Wahl (Edgar von Wahl, 1867–1948), Baltic German teacher in Tallinn, created the auxiliary language Occidental, renamed Interlingue in 1949, and formulated de Wahl's rule for verb derivation.
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, 1834–1917), French realist painter and founding impressionist exhibitor, famed for about 1,500 dancer works, pastels, monotypes, photography, and Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.
Edgar F. Codd
Edgar F. Codd, known as Ted Codd, was an IBM computer scientist whose 1970 relational model became the foundation of most modern databases, earning the 1981 Turing Award.
Edgar Fahs Smith
Edgar Fahs Smith (1854–1928) was an American chemist, a pioneer of electrochemistry, and provost of the University of Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1920 who collected chemical memorabilia.
Edgar Flores
Edgar Flores is an American politician and immigration attorney, a Democratic member of the Nevada Senate from District 2, first elected in 2022 after serving in the Nevada Assembly from 2015 to 2021.
Edgar G. Engleman
Edgar G. Engleman is an American immunologist and Stanford professor of pathology and medicine who founded the Stanford Blood Center and pioneered human dendritic-cell cancer immunotherapy.
Edgar G. Hertwich
Edgar G. Hertwich is an Austrian-born environmental engineer and industrial ecologist, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology known for his 2009 trade-linked national carbon footprint analysis.
Edgar Gilbert
Edgar Nelson Gilbert (1923–2013) was an American mathematician and coding theorist who spent 48 years at Bell Laboratories, publishing 85 papers on coding theory, random graphs, percolation, and shuffling.
Edgar González
Edgar González is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 23rd district, covering Little Village, Brighton Park, and Cicero; the son of Mexican immigrants, he worked for Congressman Chuy Garcia.
Edgar Grospiron
Edgar Grospiron, French freestyle moguls skier born 1969, first Olympic moguls champion (Albertville 1992), bronze 1994, three world titles, 38 World Cup wins; later headed the French Alps 2030 organizing committee until his 2026 resignation.
Edgar H. Brown
Edgar H. Brown, born Edgar Henry Brown, Jr. (1926–2021), was an American algebraic topologist at Brandeis University known for the Brown representability theorem and Brown–Peterson spectrum.
Edgar Haber
Edgar Haber (1932–1997) was a German-born research physician who led the Cardiac Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1964 to 1988 and developed a worldwide digoxin diagnostic test.
Edgar Huff
Edgar Huff was a United States Marine Corps sergeant major, one of the first African Americans to enlist in 1942 and the first promoted to sergeant major.
Edgar J. Sia II
Edgar "Injap" Sia II, born in 1977, is a Filipino businessman who founded the Mang Inasal grilled-chicken chain in Iloilo City and chairs DoubleDragon Corporation.
Edgar Jung
Edgar Julius Jung, born 1894, was a German lawyer and leading theorist of the Conservative Revolution who wrote Papen's 1934 Marburg speech and was murdered in the Night of the Long Knives.
Edgar Lederer
Edgar Lederer (1908–1988) was a French biochemist of Austrian origin who revived chromatography in 1931 and spent decades studying carotenoids and mycobacterial lipids, including mycolic acids.
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950) was an American poet and Chicago lawyer, partner of Clarence Darrow, whose Spoon River Anthology (1915) became the best-selling book of American poetry to that date.
Edgar Leonard
Edgar Leonard (Edgar Welch Leonard, 1881–1948), American tennis player; won 1904 St. Louis Olympic doubles gold with Beals Wright and singles bronze; later a New York broker.
Edgar Lungu
Edgar Chagwa Lungu, Zambian lawyer and Patriotic Front politician, sixth president of Zambia (2015-2021); won the 2015 by-election with 48.3%, re-elected 2016, lost 2021 to Hichilema, barred from 2026, died 2025.
Edgar M. Cortright
Edgar M. Cortright (1923–2014) was an American aerospace engineer and NASA manager who established the first U.S. meteorological satellite and space probe programs and supervised Viking 1's landing on Mars.
Edgar Martínez
Edgar Martínez, Puerto Rican-born Mariners third baseman turned designated hitter, two-time AL batting champion (.343 in 1992, .356 in 1995), hitter of "The Double" in the 1995 ALDS, and 2019 Baseball Hall of Fame electee at 85.4 percent.