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Edouard Artigas
Édouard José Artigas (1906–2001), French épée fencer of US Métro, Paris; 1948 London Olympic team épée gold medalist and 1947 Lisbon world champion in individual and team épée, with world team silvers in 1937, 1953, and 1955.
Edouard Bard
Édouard Bard (born 1962) is a French paleoclimatologist and geochemist, professor at the Collège de France who reconstructs past sea levels by dating fossil corals.
Édouard Branly
Édouard Branly was a French physicist and physician, professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris, whose 1890 discovery of radioconduction produced the detector that made wireless telegraphy possible.
Édouard Brézin
Édouard Brézin, born in 1938, is a French theoretical physicist known for statistical field theory, the renormalization group, and random matrix theory, with work important to string theory.
Édouard Brissaud
Édouard Brissaud (1852–1909) was a French neurologist, a pupil of Charcot at the Salpêtrière, who first proposed in 1894 that the substantia nigra is the anatomical seat of Parkinson's disease.
Edouard Candeveau
Édouard Candeveau (1898–1989), Swiss rower of SN Genève; Olympic gold in coxed pairs at Paris 1924 with Felber and Lachapelle, bronze at Antwerp 1920 with Piaget, and European titles 1922, 1923, 1929, 1931.
Édouard Daladier
Édouard Daladier (1884–1970) was a French Radical politician who served three times as head of government, signing the Munich Agreement of 1938 and declaring war on Germany.
Édouard Dermit
Édouard Dermit (Antoine Dhermitte, 1925-1995), French actor and painter, Jean Cocteau's companion and universal legatee; played Cégeste in Orphée and Paul in Les Enfants terribles.
Édouard Descamps
Édouard Descamps (1847–1933) was a Belgian jurist and senator who helped found the Permanent Court of Arbitration and chaired the committee drafting the PCIJ Statute.
Édouard Estaunié
Édouard Estaunié (1862–1942) was a French novelist and telecommunications engineer who rose to inspecteur général des Télégraphes, wrote twelve novels on the hidden inner life, and was elected to the Académie française in 1923.
Édouard Geffray
Édouard Geffray (born 1978) is France's Minister of National Education since October 2025 under Lecornu, succeeding Élisabeth Borne; former DGESCO school-education director (2019–2024) and conseiller d'État.
Édouard Glissant
Édouard Glissant (1928–2011) was a Martinican writer, poet, and philosopher whose concepts of creolization, Relation, and opacity reshaped thinking about Caribbean identity; he won the Prix Renaudot in 1958.
Édouard Goursat
Édouard Goursat (1858–1936) was a French mathematician, professor at the Sorbonne, remembered for proving Cauchy's integral theorem without assuming continuity and for his three-volume Cours d'analyze mathématique.
Édouard Hannezo
Édouard Hannezo is a French theoretical biophysicist and professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria since 2022, known for a unifying theory of branching morphogenesis.
Édouard Herriot
Édouard Herriot was a French Radical politician who served three times as prime minister, led the Radical Party, and was mayor of Lyon for over five decades.
Édouard Laguesse
Édouard Laguesse (1861–1927) was a French histologist and pathologist who named the islets of Langerhans in 1893 and proposed they produce an internal secretion, opening the path to insulin.
Édouard Leclerc
Édouard Leclerc (1926–2012) was a French retailer who founded the E.Leclerc movement of independent discount grocery stores, opening his first shop in Landerneau, Brittany, in December 1949.
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (1832–1883), French painter of Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe and Olympia, whose flat technique and contemporary subjects scandalized the Salon and pioneered modern painting without joining the Impressionist exhibitions.
Édouard Maunick
Édouard Maunick (1931–2021) was a Mauritian French-language poet whose work centers on exile and métissage; he won the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 1977 and the Académie française's Grand Prix de la Francophonie in 2003.
Édouard Mendy
Édouard Mendy, Senegalese goalkeeper for Al Ahli and formerly Chelsea and Rennes; 2021 Champions League winner, first African to win The Best FIFA Men's Goalkeeper, two-time AFCON champion, retired internationally in 2026.
Édouard Michelin (French industrialist)
Édouard Michelin (1859–1940) was a French industrialist who, working with his brother André, ran Michelin from 1889 and patented the detachable pneumatic tire in 1891.
Édouard Philippe
Édouard Philippe, French statesman, Prime Minister 2017–2020 under Emmanuel Macron, mayor of Le Havre since 2010, leader of the Horizons party, and candidate in the 2027 presidential election.
Édouard Rod
Édouard Rod (Louis-Édouard Rod) was a French-Swiss novelist and critic, born at Nyon in 1857, who wrote psychological novels, championed comparative literary study, and died in 1910.
Edouard Van Beneden
Edouard Van Beneden (1846–1910) was a Belgian embryologist and cytologist at the University of Liège who discovered chromosome reduction in germ cells, the basis of meiosis.
Édouard Vuillard
Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940) was a French painter and printmaker, a member of the Nabis, known for small, densely patterned paintings of domestic interiors with family and friends.
Edouard Zeckendorf
Edouard Zeckendorf (1901–1983) was a Belgian physician, army officer, and amateur number theorist from Liège known for Zeckendorf's theorem, which gives every positive integer a unique representation as a sum of distinct, non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers.
Édouard-Alfred Martel
Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859–1938), French lawyer and geographer, founder of modern speleology; explored Padirac (1889), Gaping Gill, founded the Société de spéléologie, and secured the 1902 Martel law on groundwater pollution.
Édouard-Henri Avril
Édouard-Henri Avril (Paul Avril), French painter-illustrator, 1849-1928, born Algiers, died Le Raincy; trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and known for about 46 erotic and galante book illustrations including De Figuris Veneris.
Edoxaban
Edoxaban is a direct oral factor Xa inhibitor anticoagulant developed by Daiichi Sankyo, marketed as Lixiana and Savaysa, used to prevent stroke in atrial fibrillation.
EDP (Portuguese company)
EDP, formally EDP – Energias de Portugal, is a Portuguese electric utility headquartered in Lisbon that generates and supplies electricity, with networks in Portugal, Spain, and Brazil and renewables through EDP Renewables.