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Edgar Meyhöfer
Edgar Meyhöfer is a German mechanical and biomedical engineer and professor at the University of Michigan who measured the force of a single kinesin motor protein and nanoscale heat flow.
Edgar Mitchell
Edgar Mitchell, also known as Edgar Dean Mitchell, was an American NASA astronaut who became the sixth person to walk on the Moon, on Apollo 14 in 1971.
Edgar Mittelholzer
Edgar Mittelholzer (1909–1965) was a Guyanese novelist, born in New Amsterdam, British Guiana, the first Caribbean writer to earn his living from writing and author of 23 novels.
Edgar Mountain
Edgar Donald Mountain (1901-1985), British 800 m runner, fourth at Antwerp 1920 Olympics and 500 m world best holder 1921, later Rhodes University geologist with mineral mountainite named for him.
Edgar P. Jacobs
Edgar P. Jacobs (Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, 1904–1987), Belgian comic author and former opera singer, creator of Blake and Mortimer; worked with Hergé recoloring Tintin albums before launching Le Secret de l'Espadon in Tintin in 1946.
Edgar Page
Edgar Wells Page was an English field hockey center-half who won a gold medal at the 1908 London Olympics and represented England 15 times from 1907 to 1920.
Edgar Prince
Edgar Dale Prince (1931–1995) was an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded the Prince Corporation in Holland, Michigan, sold to Johnson Controls for $1.35 billion in 1996.
Édgar Ramírez
Édgar Ramírez (Édgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellano), Venezuelan actor and producer born 1977 in San Cristóbal, known for Carlos (César winner), Versace, The Undoing, and Emilia Pérez.
Edgar Ray Killen
Edgar Ray Killen, Mississippi Baptist preacher and Ku Klux Klan organizer (Kleagle) who organized the 1964 Mississippi Burning killings of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner; convicted of manslaughter in 2005, sentenced to 60 years, died in prison in 2018.
Édgar Rentería
Édgar Rentería (Edgar Enrique Rentería), Colombian shortstop from Barranquilla, 1996–2011; two World Series-winning hits (1997 Marlins, 2010 Giants MVP), five All-Star, 2,327 hits, Cardinals Hall of Fame 2025.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (E. R. Burroughs) was an American novelist who created Tarzan of the Apes and John Carter of Mars. His works founded the planetary romance genre.
Edgar Rosenberg
Edgar Rosenberg (1925-1987), television and film producer, husband and manager of comedian Joan Rivers; producer of Omnibus, Rabbit Test, and The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, distinct from Cornell professor Edgar Rosenberg.
Edgar Rubin
Edgar Rubin (1886–1951) was a Danish psychologist and philosopher, professor at Copenhagen, whose 1915 dissertation gave the first systematic account of figure-ground perception and introduced Rubin's vase.
Edgar S. Cathcart
Edgar S. Cathcart (died 2008) was a rheumatologist known internationally for his amyloid protein research, and professor of medicine at Boston University from 1977 to 2003.
Edgar Snyder Sanders Jr.
Edgar Snyder Sanders Jr., known as Ed Sanders, is an American chemical engineer specializing in gas separation membranes, with over 50 patents and a role at Osmoses.
Edgar Solomonik
Edgar Solomonik is a computer scientist in numerical parallel computing, an associate professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Edgar Tekere
Edgar Zivanai "2-Boy" Tekere was a Zimbabwean nationalist politician who co-founded ZANU in 1963, served as its Secretary-General, and ran against Mugabe in the 1990 presidential election.
Edgar Valdez Villarreal
Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez Villarreal is an American-born drug trafficker from Laredo, Texas, who led Beltrán Leyva Organization forces until his 2010 arrest in Mexico.
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932), born Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace, English crime novelist, journalist, and playwright; author of The Four Just Men and The Ringer, King Kong screenwriter, and basis of Germany's 32-film Rialto series.
Edgar William Richard Steacie
Edgar William Richard Steacie (1900–1962) was a Canadian physical chemist known for free radical kinetics, who led the National Research Council of Canada as president from 1952 until his death.
Edgar Winter
Edgar Holland Winter (born 1946, Beaumont, Texas) is an American blues-rock-jazz multi-instrumentalist, Johnny Winter's younger brother, known for the No. 1 synthesizer instrumental "Frankenstein," the double-platinum They Only Come Out at Night, and the 2023 Grammy-winning Brother Johnny tribute.
Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright, British director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Baby Driver, Last Night in Soho, and The Running Man (2025), known for fast editing and music-driven, genre-blending filmmaking.
Edgar, King of England
Edgar the Peaceable (Eadgar, r. 959–975) was king of the English, after ruling Mercia from 957; crowned at Bath in 973, he oversaw monastic reform, uniform coinage, and claimed overlordship of Britain.
Edgard Corona
Edgard Corona, born 1956, is a Brazilian chemical engineer and fitness entrepreneur who founded Grupo Bio Ritmo in São Paulo in 1996 and, within it, the low-cost chain Smart Fit.
Edgard Leblanc Fils
Edgard Leblanc Fils (born 1955, Miragoâne) is a Haitian engineer-politician, OPL leader, Senator and National Assembly president 1995–2000, and first president of Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council, April–October 2024.
Edgard Varèse
Edgard Varèse (1883–1965), French-born American composer of "organized sound": Ionisation for 13 percussionists, Déserts with tape, and Poème électronique (1958), his only purely electronic work, premiered in the Philips Pavilion at Brussels Expo 58.
Edgardo Cozarinsky
Edgardo Cozarinsky (1939–2024) was an Argentine writer and filmmaker based between Buenos Aires and Paris who left more than 20 films and 25 books blending fiction, documentary, and essay.
Edgardo Rafael Baez
Edgardo Rafael Baez is an American politician and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Texas's 20th Congressional District, challenging incumbent Democrat Joaquin Castro.
Edgardo Ramos
Edgardo Ramos, born in 1960 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011.
Edgars Rinkēvičs
Edgars Rinkēvičs is a Latvian politician who has served as President of Latvia since 2023, after twelve years as Foreign Minister from 2011 to 2023, the longest tenure in Latvian history.