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Edmund G. Lowrie

Edmund G. Lowrie is an American nephrology researcher at Harvard and Fresenius Medical Care known for landmark studies on dialysis survival and quality of life.

Edmund Gettier, American philosopher, author of the 1963 Analysis paper "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" whose two Smith cases (Jones's job, Brown in Barcelona) launched the Gettier problem against justified true belief.

Oct 22, 2026

Edmund Gosse

Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) was an English poet, critic, and biographer who championed Ibsen and is now remembered chiefly for Father and Son (1907), his memoir of leaving the Plymouth Brethren.

Edmund Grindal

Edmund Grindal (c. 1516x20–1583) was an English churchman who served as archbishop of Canterbury from 1576 and was suspended in 1577 for refusing Elizabeth I's order to suppress the prophesyings.

Edmund Gwenn

Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway, 1877–1959) was an English stage and film actor who won the 1947 Best Supporting Actor Oscar as Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street and worked with Hitchcock in four films.

Edmund H. Sonnenblick

Edmund H. Sonnenblick (1932–2007) was an American cardiologist and researcher who defined the mechanics of heart muscle contraction, laying the basis for modern heart-failure treatment.

Edmund Herring

Sir Edmund Francis (Ned) Herring (1892–1982), Australian soldier, barrister, and judge; Chief Justice of Victoria 1944–1964, lieutenant-governor 1945–1972, and wartime commander of New Guinea Force and I Corps.

Edmund Hess

Edmund Hess (Edmund Adolf Hess) was a German mathematician known for rediscovering the regular four-dimensional polytopes while Schläfli's earlier discovery remained unpublished, publishing in Cassel from 1876.

Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary (1919–2008), New Zealand beekeeper and mountaineer, with Tenzing Norgay made the first confirmed ascent of Everest on 29 May 1953; later reached the South Pole by tractor and built schools and hospitals in Nepal.

Edmund Hirst

Sir Edmund Langley Hirst (1898–1975) was a British carbohydrate chemist who established the ring structures of simple sugars and co-determined the structure of vitamin C.

Edmund Hlawka

Edmund Hlawka (1916–2009) was an Austrian mathematician, professor at the University of Vienna, known for the Minkowski–Hlawka theorem, the Koksma–Hlawka inequality, and over 130 doctoral students.

Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician, founder of phenomenology; developed intentionality, the epoché, and transcendental reduction in Logical Investigations, Ideas I, and Crisis, and influenced Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty.

Edmund I

Edmund I (Edmund the Magnificent), king of the English 939–946, son of Edward the Elder and half-brother of Æthelstan; recovered York and the Five Boroughs from the Vikings, was murdered at Pucklechurch in 946, and is distinct from Edmund II Ironside and St Edmund the Martyr.

Edmund Ignatius Rice

Edmund Ignatius Rice (1762–1844), Irish merchant and educator, founded the Irish Christian Brothers, opening his first free school in Waterford in 1802; beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1996.

Edmund Ironside

Edmund Ironside (died 30 November 1016), also Edmund II, son of Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English for seven months in 1016, fighting Cnut's Danish invasion before the partition treaty at Deerhurst and his death made Cnut sole ruler.

Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside

Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880–1959), British Army officer, Royal Artillery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1939–40, Archangel commander, Persia 1920–21, C-in-C Home Forces 1940.

Edmund J. James

Edmund J. James (Edmund Janes James, 1855–1925) was an American economist who served as president of the University of Illinois from 1904 to 1920, transforming it into a major research university.

Edmund J. Lewis

Edmund J. Lewis (1936–2023) was an American nephrologist who directed nephrology at Rush in Chicago and led the Collaborative Study Group's defining diabetic kidney disease trials.

Edmund Kemper

Edmund Kemper (born 1948), known as the "Co-Ed Killer," is an American serial killer who murdered six women in the Santa Cruz area and was sentenced to life in 1973.

Edmund Klein

Edmund Klein (1922–1999) was an American dermatologist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo who pioneered topical chemotherapy of skin tumors with 5-fluorouracil, winning the 1975 Lasker Award.

Edmund Landau

Edmund Landau (1877–1938) was a German Jewish mathematician at Göttingen who made analytic number theory a systematic science, proved the prime number theorem anew in 1903, and posed four still-open prime problems.

Oct 21, 2026

Edmund Lindmark

Edmund Lindmark (Karl Edmund Lindmark, 1894–1968), Swedish gymnast and springboard diver from Umeå. Won team gymnastics gold (Swedish system) at Antwerp 1920, was fourth in springboard diving at Paris 1924, and took 1927 European 3 m springboard silver.