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Edmond Safra
Edmond J. Safra (1932–1999) was a Lebanese-born Sephardic Jewish banker who built private banks in Brazil, Geneva, and New York, selling them to HSBC in 1999.
Edmond Van Moer
Edmond Van Moer, Belgian archer, won three gold medals in pole archery (individual and team, small and large birds) at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; his only Games, birth and death dates unrecorded.
Edmond, Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma: a city in northern Oklahoma County founded in 1887 as a Santa Fe Railway coal and water stop at Mile Marker 103, named for agent Edmond Burdick, settled in the 1889 Land Run, home of the University of Central Oklahoma.
Edmondiidae
Edmondiidae (W. King, 1850) is an extinct family of shallow-burrowing Paleozoic marine bivalves, type genus Edmondia, defined by a furrowed hinge plate, ranging from Late Devonian to latest Permian.
Edmondo De Amicis
Edmondo De Amicis (1846–1908) was an Italian writer, soldier, and journalist whose schoolboy novel Cuore (1886) became the first best-seller of unified Italy, translated into more than 25 languages.
Edmonds–Karp algorithm
The Edmonds–Karp algorithm is a polynomial-time method for computing maximum flow, published by Jack Edmonds and Richard M. Karp in 1972, with O(m²n) running time independent of capacities.
Edmonia Lewis
Edmonia Lewis (Wildfire; ca. 1844-1907) was an American neoclassical sculptor of African American and Mississauga Ojibwe descent, the first of her heritage to win international fame, known for Forever Free and The Death of Cleopatra.
Edmonton
Edmonton, capital of Alberta, Canada, on the North Saskatchewan River in Treaty Six territory. Grew from a 1778 fur trade post; 1,010,899 residents in 2021, about 1.24 million by 2025; opened Canada's pioneering 1978 LRT.
Edmonton Elks
Edmonton Elks, formerly Edmonton Eskimos (1949-2021), CFL West Division team from Edmonton, Alberta. 14 Grey Cups including five straight 1978-82; renamed Elks June 1, 2021; play at Commonwealth Stadium.
Edmonton International Airport
Edmonton International Airport, also known as YEG, is the main airport serving Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Opened in 1960, it is Canada's fifth-busiest airport by passenger traffic.
Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Oilers, NHL team in Edmonton, Alberta (Pacific Division). Five Stanley Cups 1984-1990; lost the 2024 and 2025 finals to Florida; 2025-26 first-round exit to Anaheim; McDavid and Draisaitl lead the core.
Edmonton, London
Edmonton, London: district in the east of the London Borough of Enfield, historic Middlesex settlement, wards Edmonton Green, Lower and Upper Edmonton, home to the 10,000-home Meridian Water regeneration.
Edmontosaurus
Edmontosaurus, a large duck-billed hadrosaurid dinosaur of Late Cretaceous North America (76–66 Ma), with species E. regalis and E. annectens; famous for mummified fossils preserving skin, hooves, and soft-tissue crests.
Edmund A. Sargus, Jr.
Edmund A. Sargus, Jr. (born 1953) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Ohio since 1996.
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe (1861–1936), British field marshal known as 'the Bull'; EEF commander who took Beersheba, Jerusalem and won Megiddo (76,000 prisoners), then High Commissioner for Egypt 1919–1925.
Edmund Bacon (architect)
Edmund Norwood Bacon (1910–2005) was an American architect and city planner who, as head of Philadelphia's planning commission from 1949 to 1970, directed the city's postwar redevelopment and wrote Design of Cities.
Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund Barton (1849-1920), Australian federationist, first prime minister 1901-1903, and High Court justice 1903-1920; led the 1897-98 Constitution drafting convention.
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (c.1406–1455), English magnate and lieutenant of France under Henry VI; lost Normandy in 1449–50, rivaled Richard of York, and died at the First Battle of St Albans.
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856–1939) was an American zoologist and cytologist at Columbia University whose 1905 studies of insect chromosomes established the chromosomal mechanism of sex determination.
Edmund Berry Godfrey
Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1621–1678), Westminster magistrate who took Titus Oates's Popish Plot deposition; found dead near Primrose Hill, 17 October 1678; his death fueled anti-Catholic panic; three men hanged on perjured evidence.
Edmund Blunden
Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) was an English poet, memoirist, and Oxford Professor of Poetry who fought on the Western Front and wrote Undertones of War (1928), in print ever since.
Edmund Bonner
Edmund Bonner (c. 1500–1569) was Bishop of London under Henry VIII and Mary I who condemned most of the Protestants burned at Smithfield, earning the name "Bloody Bonner".
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Anglo-Irish Whig statesman and author of Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790); led economical reform and the Hastings impeachment; canonized, anachronistically, as founder of modern conservatism.
Edmund Campion
Edmund Campion (1540–1581) was an English Jesuit priest and former Oxford scholar who secretly ministered to Catholics in Elizabethan England and was executed in 1581.
Edmund Castell
Edmund Castell (1606–1685 or 1686) was an English clergyman and Orientalist, compiler of the Lexicon Heptaglotton (1669) and chief paid assistant on Brian Walton's London Polyglot Bible.
Edmund Clifton Stoner
Edmund Clifton Stoner (1899–1968) was a British theoretical physicist and Cavendish Professor at Leeds, known for the Stoner criterion for ferromagnetism and the Stoner rule for electron shells.
Edmund Copeland
Edmund J. Copeland is a professor of physics at the University of Nottingham who works in particle cosmology, studying inflation, cosmic strings, string theory, and dark energy.
Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal (b. 1964, Nottingham) is a British ceramic artist and writer known for porcelain vessel installations, library of exile, and the memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010); CBE 2021, Windham-Campbell Prize 2015.
Edmund Dulac
Edmund Dulac, born Edmond Dulac (1882–1953), was a French-born book illustrator and designer in London, a leading figure of the gift book golden age who later designed British stamps.
Edmund G. LaCour, Jr.
Edmund G. LaCour, Jr. is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Alabama since 2025, appointed by President Trump.