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Edward Bates
Edward Bates (1793-1869), Missouri lawyer, judge, and one-term Adams congressman, was Abraham Lincoln's U.S. attorney general from 1861 to 1864, a failed 1860 Republican presidential contender, and author of the 1862 citizenship opinion.
Edward Battersby Bailey
Edward Battersby Bailey (1881–1965) was a British geologist, Professor of Geology at Glasgow and Director of the Geological Survey, known for his work on Highland tectonics.
Edward Bellamy
Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) was an American author and reformer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, whose utopian novel Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) became a 19th-century bestseller and launched the Nationalist clubs and movement.
Edward Bennett Rosa
Edward Bennett Rosa (1861–1921) was an American physicist who led electrical measurements at the National Bureau of Standards and set the international ohm, volt, and ampere in 1911.
Edward Berger
Edward Berger (born 1970, Wolfsburg) is a German director and producer, Oscar winner for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) and director of Conclave (2024) and Ballad of a Small Player (2025).
Edward Bernays
Edward L. Bernays (1891–1995), Vienna-born nephew of Freud and CPI veteran, founded the 'counsel on public relations' profession in 1919, wrote Propaganda (1928), staged the 1929 Torches of Freedom campaign, and ran United Fruit's Guatemala publicity.
Edward Bevan
Edward Vaughan Bevan (1907-1988), British rower and doctor, won gold in the men's coxless fours at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics at bow, then practiced medicine in Cambridge with Rex Woods.
Edward Bluemel
Edward Bluemel, born 1993 in Somerset, is a British actor known for Killing Eve, Sex Education, My Lady Jane, and as Hercule Poirot in the BBC's Hercule, and for stage roles including Born With Teeth.
Edward Bouverie Pusey
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882) was an Anglican theologian, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford, and canon of Christ Church who led the Oxford Movement after Newman's 1845 conversion to Roman Catholicism.
Edward Boyden
Edward Boyden, born 1979 in Plano, Texas, is an American neuroscientist at MIT who pioneered optogenetics, controlling neurons with light, and led the team that invented expansion microscopy, magnifying tissue for nanoscale imaging.
Edward Brooke
Edward William Brooke III (1919-2015), Massachusetts Republican senator 1967-1979, first African American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote and first Black state attorney general; Fair Housing Act co-sponsor.
Edward Bullard
Sir Edward Bullard (1907–1980) was a British geophysicist whose work on the Earth's magnetic field, heat flow, and the 1965 computer fit of Atlantic continents helped establish plate tectonics.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), English novelist and politician; author of The Last Days of Pompeii, Paul Clifford, and The Coming Race; Colonial Secretary 1858–59; namesake of the bad-prose fiction contest.
Edward Bunker
Edward Bunker (1933–2005), American ex-con crime novelist, screenwriter, and actor; wrote No Beast So Fierce and Education of a Felon, played Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs.
Edward Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–1898), English Pre-Raphaelite painter and decorative artist, Morris & Co.'s foremost stained-glass designer, famed for Arthurian paintings, the Grosvenor Gallery, and the Adoration of the Magi tapestry.
Edward Burnett Tylor
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917), English founder of cultural anthropology, author of Primitive Culture (1871) with its classic definition of culture, first Oxford Professor of Anthropology, theorist of survivals and animism.
Edward Burns
Edward Burns (born 1968) is an American actor-writer-director whose debut, The Brothers McMullen, won the 1995 Sundance Grand Jury Prize; known for low-budget Irish-American New York films and Saving Private Ryan.
Edward Burr Van Vleck
Edward Burr Van Vleck (1863–1943) was an American mathematician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who worked on continued fractions and the Van Vleck polynomials, and led the American Mathematical Society.
Edward Byers
Edward C. Byers Jr. (born 1979), Toledo, Ohio-born retired Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor recipient, rescued hostage Dr. Dilip Joseph in Afghanistan on 8 December 2012; sixth SEAL and 11th living Afghanistan recipient, decorated February 29, 2016.
Edward C. Cox
Edward C. Cox, known as Ted Cox, is an American geneticist and Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at Princeton, known for work on mutator genes and single-molecule methods in living bacteria.
Edward C. Franklin
Edward C. Franklin (1928–1982), German-born American immunologist at NYU, discovered heavy chain disease, defined essential mixed cryoglobulinemia as immune-complex vasculitis, and advanced amyloid and immunoglobulin structure research.
Edward C. Holmes
Edward C. Holmes is an evolutionary virologist and Professor at the University of Sydney who studies virus emergence and evolution, and first publicly released the SARS-CoV-2 genome.
Edward C. Johnson II
Edward C. Johnson II was a Boston lawyer who took over the Fidelity Fund in 1943 and founded Fidelity Management and Research, the firm behind Fidelity Investments.
Edward C. Jordan
Edward C. Jordan was an electrical engineer who led antenna and radio direction finding research at the University of Illinois and headed its electrical engineering department for twenty-five years.
Edward C. Kendall
Edward Calvin Kendall was an American biochemist at the Mayo Clinic who isolated thyroxine and the adrenal cortex hormone cortisone, sharing the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott was an American macroeconomist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics with Finn Kydland for work on business cycles and economic policy.
Edward C. Stone
Edward C. Stone (1936–2024) was an American space physicist who served as NASA's Voyager project scientist for 50 years and directed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Edward C. Tolman
Edward Chace Tolman (1886–1959) was an American psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley who developed purposive, or molar, behaviorism, explaining whole goal-directed actions, and the cognitive map concept.
Edward Capehart O'Kelley
Edward Capehart O'Kelley (1857-1904), also Ed O'Kelly, killed Robert Ford, Jesse James's assassin, in Creede, Colorado, on June 8, 1892; he served about ten years and died in a 1904 gunfight with police.
Edward Carson
Edward Carson (1854–1935), Baron Carson of Duncairn, Dublin-born barrister and Irish unionist leader; Wilde's 1895 examiner, UVF founder, First Lord of the Admiralty 1916–17, and law lord.