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Edvard Hoem
Edvard Hoem, full name Edvard Arnt Hoem, is a Norwegian novelist, poet, dramatist, and hymn writer who writes in Nynorsk. His four-volume family saga sold more than 300,000 copies.
Edvard Ingjald Moser
Edvard Ingjald Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist at NTNU in Trondheim, known for discovering grid cells and sharing the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Edvard Kardelj
Edvard Kardelj (1910–1979) was a Slovenian communist politician and economist who served as Yugoslavia's foreign minister and vice president, and was the chief theorist of the workers' self-management system embodied in the 1974 Constitution.
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (1863–1944), Norwegian painter and printmaker of The Scream, Symbolist and precursor of Expressionism; four Scream versions on cardboard, experimental mixed-media technique, bequest forming Oslo's Munch Museum collection.
Edvard Munch (film)
Edvard Munch (1974) is Peter Watkins's Norwegian-Swedish NRK/SR docudrama on the painter's early life, using amateur actors, diary dialogue, and nonlinear editing; first aired 12-13 November 1974, praised by Bergman and Tynan.
Edvard Rusjan
Edvard Rusjan (1886–1911) was a Slovenian aircraft constructor and aviator who made the first powered flight in Slovenia, near Gorizia, in 1909, flying his biplane EDA I.
Edvard Wavrinsky
Edvard Wavrinsky (1848–1924) was a Swedish army officer turned insurance director, Riksdag member from 1890 to 1924, and leader of the peace and temperance movements.
Edvard Westerlund
Edvard Vilhelm Westerlund (1901–1982), Finnish Greco-Roman wrestler, won Olympic gold at 75 kg in Paris 1924, bronze at 67.5 kg in Amsterdam 1928, and the 1922 world title; brother of wrestlers Emil and Kalle Westerlund.
Edvard Westermarck
Edvard Westermarck (1862–1939) was a Finnish philosopher, sociologist, and anthropologist who founded social anthropology at the London School of Economics and gave his name to the Westermarck effect.
Edvarts Virza
Edvarts Virza, real name Jēkabs Eduards Liekna (1883–1940), was a Latvian poet and prose writer whose prose poem Straumēni (1933) made him the only interwar Latvian Nobel Prize candidate in literature.
Edvin Anger
Edvin Anger (born 2002, Hedemora, Sweden) is a Swedish cross-country sprint skier for Åsarna IK, 2020 Youth Olympic sprint champion, 2025 Les Rousses World Cup winner, and second in the 2024-25 World Cup overall behind Klæbo.
Edvin Hellgren
Edvin Erik Hellgren (1888–1919), Swedish cross-country runner for Djurgårdens IF; DNF in the individual 1912 Stockholm Olympic cross-country but shared Sweden's team gold, with Swedish Championship medals 1911–1915.
Edvin Wide
Edvin Wide (1896–1996), Swedish distance runner born in Finland; Olympic silver (10,000 m, 1924) and four bronzes across 1920–1928; world records at 2,000 m and 3,000 m.
Edvinas Grikšas
Edvinas Grikšas is a Lithuanian politician who serves as Minister of Economy and Innovation, holding the post in the preceding government and continuing when the 21st Government was sworn in.
Edwar al-Kharrat
Edwar al-Kharrat (إدوار الخراط) was an Egyptian novelist, critic, and translator best known for Rama and the Dragon and for formulating the 'New Sensibility' concept in Arabic literature.
Edward
Edward is a masculine given name of Old English origin, formed from ead ("wealth") and weard ("guard"). One of few Old English names used across Europe, it was borne by many kings of England.
Edward (musician)
Edward, real name Gilles Aiken, is a Berlin-based DJ and producer known for trippy, Krautrock-influenced deep house, releasing on the Giegling collective and his WHITE imprint since 2008.
Edward A. Adelberg
Edward A. Adelberg (1920–2009) was an American microbial geneticist at Berkeley and Yale, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1971, known for discovering F-duction in E. coli.
Edward A. Anderson
Edward A. Anderson is an organic chemist who is Professor and Head of Organic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, working on total synthesis and small strained rings.
Edward A. Botchwey III
Edward A. Botchwey III is an American biomedical engineer, associate professor at Georgia Tech and Emory, known for biomaterials that reprogram immune responses and for the 2009 PECASE award.
Edward A. Boyle
Edward A. Boyle is an American marine geochemist, professor emeritus at MIT, and National Academy of Sciences member known for tracing industrial lead through the ocean.
Edward A. Boyse
Edward A. Boyse (1923–2007) was a British-born American immunologist at Sloan-Kettering who discovered the TL and Ly lymphocyte antigen systems and championed umbilical cord blood as a stem-cell source.
Edward A. Clark
Edward A. Clark is an American immunologist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, known for work on B cells and helping characterize CD20, CD22, and CD40.
Edward A. Dennis
Edward A. Dennis is an American biochemist at the University of California San Diego who has studied phospholipase A2 for over five decades and led the LIPID MAPS lipidomics consortium.
Edward A. Doisy
Edward Adelbert Doisy was an American biochemist who isolated the estrogens estrone, estriol, and estradiol, and shared the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for vitamin K.
Edward A. Fisher
Edward A. Fisher is an American cardiovascular researcher who holds the Leon H. Charney Professorship at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for work on HDL and atherosclerosis regression.
Edward A. Frieman
Edward A. Frieman (1926–2013) was an American plasma physicist who led fusion theory at Princeton, served in the Department of Energy, and directed Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1986 to 1996.
Edward A. Gaensler
Edward A. Gaensler was an American thoracic surgeon and pulmonary physiologist in Boston who founded the forerunner of Boston University's Pulmonary Medicine Section and helped introduce lung function measurement into clinical medicine.
Edward A. Hiler
Edward A. Hiler is an American agricultural engineer and university administrator who led Texas A&M's agriculture program, researched irrigation scheduling, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Edward A. Irving
Edward A. Irving, known as Ted, was a Canadian geophysicist (1927–2014) who used paleomagnetism to prove continental drift, earning the Wollaston Medal and the Order of Canada.