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Edward Caswall

Edward Caswall (1814–1878) was an English hymn translator and Catholic priest of the Birmingham Oratory, second only to John Mason Neale among Victorian translators of Latin hymns.

Edward Charles Pickering

Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist who directed the Harvard College Observatory from 1877 until his death in 1919, pioneering stellar photometry.

Edward Charles Titchmarsh

Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899–1963) was a British mathematician who worked entirely in analysis, held Oxford's Savilian chair of geometry from 1931, and proved the Titchmarsh convolution theorem.

Sir Edward Codrington (1770–1851), British admiral of the Dodington family; fought at the Glorious First of June and Trafalgar in HMS Orion, and commanded the allied fleet that destroyed the Turco-Egyptian fleet at Navarino in 1827.

Edward Coke

Edward Coke (1552–1634), English jurist, Chief Justice of Common Pleas and King's Bench, attorney general under Elizabeth I; author of the Reports and Institutes, known for Bonham's Case and Magna Carta revival.

Edward Colston

Edward Colston (1636–1721) was a Bristol merchant, MP, and philanthropist who served as deputy governor of the Royal African Company. His 1895 statue was toppled by Black Lives Matter protesters on 7 June 2020 and is now displayed at Bristol's M Shed museum.

Edward Condon

Edward Condon (1902–1974) was an American theoretical physicist, born in Alamogordo, New Mexico, known for the Franck–Condon principle, the Slater–Condon rules, and directing the 1968 Air Force UFO study.

Edward Coristine

Edward Coristine, known online as "Big Balls", was a 19-year-old DOGE staffer under Elon Musk with access to sensitive federal systems at SBA, NFC, State Department, DHS, and FEMA; he resigned in June 2025 and later joined the National Design Studio.

Edward Creutz

Edward Creutz (1913–2009) was an American nuclear physicist who led metallurgical work on the Manhattan Project, headed physics at Carnegie Tech, and directed the Bishop Museum.

Edward Cullen

Edward Cullen, born Edward Anthony Masen, is the telepathic vampire hero of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga, beginning in 2005, and the love interest of Bella Swan.

Edward Curtis Franklin

Edward Curtis Franklin (1862–1937) was an American chemist at Stanford University, a pioneer in liquid-ammonia solvent chemistry and president of the American Chemical Society in 1923.

Edward Curtis Wells

Edward Curtis Wells (1910–1986) was an American aeronautical engineer and Boeing executive, chief engineer and senior vice president, who helped design the B-17, B-29, B-47, 707, and 747 airliners and bombers.

Edward Cussler

Edward Cussler, born 1940, is an American chemical engineer at the University of Minnesota known for diffusion and membrane separations and for the textbook Diffusion: Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems.

Edward D. Freis

Edward D. Freis (1912–2005) was an American cardiologist at the Veterans Administration and Georgetown University who led the landmark VA trial proving antihypertensive drug treatment saves lives.

Edward D. Fröhlich

Edward D. Fröhlich (published as Edward D. Frohlich) was an American physician-scientist in hypertension who spent over 40 years at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans.

Edward D. Goldberg

Edward D. Goldberg (1921–2008) was an American marine chemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a founder of marine pollution science who initiated the Mussel Watch monitoring program.

Edward D. Harris

Edward D. Harris Jr., known as Ted Harris (1937–2010), was an American rheumatologist who established collagenase's role in rheumatoid arthritis joint destruction and led medicine at Stanford.

Edward D. Hess

Edward D. Hess is an American business academic, Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia's Darden School, known for research on organic growth and learning organizations.

Edward D. Lazowska

Edward D. Lazowska is an American computer scientist who joined the University of Washington in 1977, led its computer science school, and worked on high-performance computing and data science.

Edward D. Salmon

Edward D. Salmon, known as Ted Salmon, is an American cell biologist and microscopist who pioneered video microscopy of mitosis and spent 42 years at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Oct 22, 2026

Edward D'Oyley

Edward D'Oyley (1617–1675), also spelled Doyley or Doyly, was an English parliamentarian soldier who commanded Jamaica's forces after the 1655 conquest, defeating every Spanish attempt at reconquest in 1657 and 1658.

Edward de Bono

Edward de Bono (1933-2021), Maltese physician and author, coined "lateral thinking" and created the Six Thinking Hats parallel-thinking method; wrote over 60 books including The Use of Lateral Thinking (1967).

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604), Elizabethan courtier, poet, and playwright-patron; since 1920 the leading authorship candidate in the Oxfordian theory that he wrote the works attributed to William Shakespeare.

Edward Douglass White

Edward Douglass White (1845-1921), Louisiana Democrat, Confederate veteran, and U.S. senator, was the first Associate Justice elevated to Chief Justice, serving 1894-1921; known for the rule of reason, Guinn v. United States, and the Insular Cases.

Edward Dowden

Edward Dowden (1843–1913) was an Irish critic and poet who held the first chair of English literature at Trinity College Dublin and wrote the influential Shakspere (1875).

Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist who described more than 1,000 extinct vertebrate species and fought the Bone Wars rivalry with Othniel Marsh.

Edward Drummond

Edward Drummond (1792-1843), British Treasury civil servant and private secretary to Canning, Wellington, and Peel, shot in Whitehall by Daniel M'Naghten who mistook him for Robert Peel; trial created the M'Naghten Rules.

Sep 27, 2026

Edward E. Carnes

Edward E. Carnes, born 1950 in Albertville, Alabama, is a senior judge of the Eleventh Circuit who served as its chief judge from 2013 to 2020.

Edward E. David Jr.

Edward E. David Jr. was an American electrical engineer who served as President Nixon's Science Adviser from 1970 to 1973 and led Bell Labs research.