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Edmund Pettus Bridge
The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a 1940 bridge across the Alabama River at Selma, Alabama, where the 1965 Bloody Sunday march attack spurred the Voting Rights Act.
Edmund Pevensie
Edmund Pevensie, King Edmund the Just, is the third Pevensie child in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia; he betrays his siblings to the White Witch for enchanted Turkish Delight, is redeemed by Aslan's sacrifice, and reigns as a just king.
Edmund Piatkowski
Edmund Piatkowski (Edmund Piątkowski), Polish discus thrower (1936–2016), 1958 European champion, world record holder at 59.91 m in 1959, three-time Olympian, 13-time Polish champion.
Edmund Rich
Edmund Rich, also known as St Edmund of Abingdon, was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1233 until 1240, clashed with Henry III over church rights, and was canonized soon after his death.
Edmund S. Phelps
Edmund S. Phelps, known as Ned Phelps, was an American economist at Columbia University who won the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of macroeconomic policy tradeoffs.
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599) was an English Elizabethan poet whose allegorical epic The Faerie Queene is a major work of the English Renaissance; he invented the Spenserian stanza.
Edmund Stoiber
Edmund Stoiber (born 1941, Oberaudorf) is a German CSU politician, Bavarian Minister-President 1993–2007, CSU chairman 1999–2007, and the CDU/CSU chancellor candidate who lost to Gerhard Schröder in 2002.
Edmund Sun
Edmund Sun is an American semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded C-Cube Microsystems in California in 1988, serving as its first president and CEO; he also founded Weitek.
Edmund the Martyr
Edmund the Martyr (Saint Edmund), king of East Anglia killed by the Danish Viking army in 869, became one of England's most venerated saints. His shrine at Bury St Edmunds drew royal devotion until the 1539 Dissolution; he was England's patron saint before St George.
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (Edmund of Hadham, c. 1430–1456), son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, half-brother of Henry VI, husband of Margaret Beaufort, and posthumous father of Henry VII; died of plague at Carmarthen Castle.
Edmund Waller
Edmund Waller (1606–1687) was an English poet and long-serving member of Parliament whose closed heroic couplets shaped the neoclassical style later perfected by Dryden and Pope.
Edmund Ware Sinnott
Edmund Ware Sinnott (1888–1968) was an American botanist and geneticist at Yale University who studied how genes control plant shape and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) was an American writer and literary and social critic, the premier critic in America from the mid-1920s to the early 1960s, whose books include Axel's Castle and To the Finland Station.
Edmund Y.S. Chao
Edmund Y.S. Chao is an orthopedic bioengineer and Lee Riley, Jr. Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 for limb biomechanics models.
Edmundo González
Edmundo González Urrutia, Venezuelan career diplomat and ambassador to Algeria and Argentina, was the Unitary Platform's 2024 presidential candidate; widely credited with winning before going into exile in Spain.
Edmundo Warnke
Edmundo Warnke is a Chilean long-distance runner, born in 1951, who competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won the 1976 São Silvestre road race.
Edna Cintrón
Edna Troche Cintrón (1954–2001), the Waving Woman, a Marsh McLennan administrative assistant killed on the North Tower's 97th floor on 9/11, known from images of a woman waving at the impact gash.
Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber (1887–1968), American novelist and playwright, Pulitzer winner for So Big (1925); wrote Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant, and Broadway hits Dinner at Eight and Stage Door with George S. Kaufman.
Edna Krabappel
Edna Krabappel is Bart Simpson's cynical fourth-grade teacher at Springfield Elementary in The Simpsons, voiced by Marcia Wallace from 1990 until Wallace's 2013 death, after which the character was retired, killed off in canon, and later replaced by a teacher voiced by Kerry Washington.
Edna Mode
Edna "E" Mode is Pixar's fictional superhero costume designer in The Incredibles (2004) and Incredibles 2 (2018), voiced by director Brad Bird; half-Japanese, half-German, famous for "No capes!" and inspired by Edith Head among others.
Edna Mozes
Edna Mozes is an Israeli immunologist, emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for work on T-cell immunology and lupus treatment.
Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien (1930–2024), Irish novelist and short-story writer from Tuamgraney, County Clare. Her debut The Country Girls (1960) was banned in Ireland; later honors included the Saoi of Aosdána (2015) and the novel Girl (2019).
Edna Purviance
Edna Purviance (Olga Edna Purviance, 1895-1958) was an American silent-film actress, Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in 34 films from 1915 to 1923, star of A Woman of Paris, later married pilot Jack Squire.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay, known to her family as Vincent, was an American poet and playwright who won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver.
Edna Stillwell
Edna Marie Stillwell (1915–1982), American comedy writer and manager, first wife and business partner of Red Skelton; wrote Avalon Time and Ziegfeld Follies material; died Los Angeles 1982.
Edo (江戸)
Edo (江戸), the former name of Tokyo, was the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate from 1603 to 1868 and Japan's de facto capital, growing to about one million people before its 1868 renaming as Tokyo.
Edo Berger
Edo Berger is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, there since 2008, known for work on short gamma-ray bursts and for leading the identification of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave event.
Edo Castle (江戸城)
Edo Castle (江戸城), also called Chiyoda Castle, was the Tokyo residence of the Tokugawa shoguns, the largest castle in Japanese history, now the Imperial Palace grounds.
Edo Fimmen
Edo Fimmen (Eduard Carl Fimmen, 1881–1942) was a Dutch trade unionist who led the International Transport Workers' Federation from 1919 and organized resistance to fascism.
Edo kaidan
Edo kaidan (江戸怪談) are the ghost stories and tales of the strange that circulated in Japan during the Edo period (1600–1867), told orally, on stage, and in woodblock-printed collections.