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Edward E. Hagenlocker

Edward E. Hagenlocker, born in 1939, is an American engineer who rose from Ford research physicist to vice chairman, leading development of the Explorer, Expedition, and F-Series trucks.

Edward E. Horton

Edward E. Horton (1927–2015) was an American offshore structures engineer who invented the tension leg platform and the spar, the dominant deepwater oil production platforms.

Edward E. Leamer

Edward E. Leamer (1944–2025) was an American economist at UCLA who argued that fragile econometric results are not believable, and directed the UCLA Anderson Forecast.

Edward E. Max

Edward E. Max is a molecular biologist who studied immunoglobulin gene recombination at NIH and later the FDA, known for his essay arguing shared pseudogenes are strong evidence for evolution.

Edward E. Morrisey

Edward E. Morrisey is an American molecular biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who directs the Penn Center for Pulmonary Biology and studies lung development and regeneration.

Edward E. Rieck

Edward E. Rieck (1864–1944) was an American dairy entrepreneur who founded the Edward E. Rieck Co. in Pittsburgh in 1886, later a founding component of National Dairy Products.

Edward E. Wallach

Edward E. Wallach, born 1933, is an American reproductive endocrinologist and Johns Hopkins professor emeritus who led research on the mechanism of ovulation and assisted reproduction.

Edward E. Walsh

Edward E. Walsh is an American infectious-diseases physician and Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester whose research since 1980 has centered on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

Edward Edwards (serial killer)

Edward Wayne Edwards (1933–2011), born Charles Wayne Murray, was an American serial killer who confessed to five murders in Ohio and Wisconsin (1977–1996) after once appearing on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list; unproven theories link him to the Zodiac, JonBenét Ramsey, and Teresa Halbach cases.

Edward Eisler

Edward Eisler is an Austrian-born former Goldman Sachs partner who founded the London-based hedge fund Eisler Capital in 2015, which grew to $4 billion before its 2025 wind-down.

Edward Elgar

Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934), English composer of the 'Enigma' Variations, two symphonies, Violin and Cello Concertos, and The Dream of Gerontius; self-taught, knighted 1904, LSO principal conductor 1911–12.

Edward Elihu Whitfield

Edward Elihu Whitfield (1848–1911) was a Plymouth Brother, biblical scholar, and schoolmaster who taught modern languages in English schools and edited J. N. Darby's English Old Testament.

Edward Elric (エドワード・エルリック)

Edward Elric (エドワード・エルリック), the Fullmetal Alchemist, is the protagonist of Hiromu Arakawa's manga Fullmetal Alchemist: a State Alchemist certified at 12 who lost a leg and an arm to human transmutation and seeks to restore his brother Alphonse's body.

Edward Emerson Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard, known as E. E. Barnard, was an American observational astronomer who discovered Jupiter's moon Amalthea in 1892 and Barnard's Star in 1916.

Edward Enninful

Edward Kobina Enninful (born 1972, Ghana) is a British fashion editor and stylist, editor-in-chief of British Vogue 2017–2023, later Vogue's European editorial director and founder of EE72.

Edward Evarts

Edward Evarts (1926–1985) was an American neurophysiologist who spent his career at the National Institute of Mental Health, pioneering single-neuron recording in awake, behaving monkeys to study voluntary movement.

Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton (1886-1970), American character actor of stage, silent and sound film, radio, and TV; known for Astaire-Rogers musicals, Fractured Fairy Tales narration, and F Troop's Roaring Chicken.

Edward Exum Hood Jr.

Edward Exum Hood Jr. is an aerospace engineer elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1989 and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Edward F. Chang

Edward F. Chang is a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for mapping the human speech cortex and creating the first speech-decoding brain-computer interface for a paralyzed person.

Edward F. Cox

Edward F. Cox (Edward Finch Cox), American corporate lawyer and Chairman of the New York Republican Party 2009-2019; son-in-law of Richard Nixon, married Patricia Nixon in 1971; Princeton 1968, Harvard Law 1972, Reagan's Synthetic Fuels Corporation general counsel. Not the Texas attorney Ed Cox.

Edward F. Crawley

Edward F. Crawley is an American aerospace engineer and Ford Professor at MIT known for structural dynamics and for leading the international CDIO engineering education reform.

Edward F. DeLong

Edward F. DeLong is an American microbial oceanographer, now Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaiʻi, whose work established that Archaea are abundant plankton in the open ocean.

Edward F. Knipling

Edward F. Knipling (1909–2000) was an American entomologist with the USDA who conceived the sterile insect technique, eradicating the screwworm fly from the United States.

Edward F. Plow

Edward F. Plow is an American vascular biologist who holds an endowed chair at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute and studies integrins and the plasminogen system in thrombosis and inflammation.

Edward F. Shea

Edward F. Shea (born 1942) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Washington since 2012.

Edward Feigenbaum

Edward Feigenbaum, born in 1936, is an American artificial intelligence researcher and Stanford professor emeritus, called the father of expert systems, who won the 1994 Turing Award.

Edward Felten

Edward Felten is an American computer scientist at Princeton University, the first FTC Chief Technologist and a Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama White House.

Edward Feser

Edward Feser is an American philosopher and professor at Pasadena City College known for defending classical theism, natural law ethics, and teleology against scientism and the New Atheism.

Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk

Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk (born 1956), Earl Marshal of England since 2002; organised Elizabeth II's state funeral and Charles III's 2023 coronation; senior Catholic layman, crossbench peer, seat Arundel Castle.

Edward FitzGerald

Edward FitzGerald, born Edward Purcell, was a British writer and translator whose 1859 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a free rendering of the Persian poet's quatrains, deeply influenced Victorian poetry.