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Edward Fitzgerald Beale
Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822–1893), American naval officer, explorer, and diplomat; Mexican War courier with Kit Carson, first Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California and Nevada, leader of the 1857 camel wagon-road survey on the 35th parallel, and U.S. minister to Austria-Hungary.
Edward Forst
Edward C. Forst, American businessman and 24th Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration since December 24, 2025; former Goldman Sachs, Cushman & Wakefield, and Harvard executive; also Acting Archivist of the United States.
Edward Fox (actor)
Edward Fox (Edward Charles Morrice Fox, born 1937) is an English actor, OBE, famous as the assassin in The Day of the Jackal; brother of James Fox, husband of Joanna David, father of Emilia and Freddie Fox.
Edward Francis Blewitt
Edward Francis Blewitt (1859-1926), Scranton civil and mining engineer, Guadalajara water-system engineer, and Pennsylvania State Senator (D, 22nd district, 1907-1910), co-founded Scranton's Friendly Sons of St Patrick and is Joe Biden's matrilineal great-grandfather.
Edward Frankland
Edward Frankland, known as Sir Edward Frankland, was an English chemist who founded organometallic chemistry, introduced valency, and led the analysis of London's water supplies.
Edward Fredkin
Edward Fredkin (1934–2023) was an American computer scientist who designed the reversible Fredkin gate, used in quantum computing, and pioneered digital physics, the idea that the universe is a computer.
Edward Fulton Denison
Edward Fulton Denison (1915–1992) was an American economist who helped build the US national income accounts and founded growth accounting, the method of splitting economic growth into the contributions of labor, capital, and other factors.
Edward Furlong
Edward Walter Furlong (born 1977) is an American actor discovered at a Pasadena youth club to play John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), later known for American History X and Pecker, with addiction troubles in the 2000s and a reported seven years sober by 2026.
Edward G. Biglieri
Edward G. Biglieri (1925–2005) was an American endocrinologist at UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital who discovered 17-hydroxylase deficiency and developed diagnostic protocols for primary aldosteronism.
Edward G. Bowen
Edward George "Ted" Bowen (1911-1991) was a Welsh-born Australian radiophysicist who helped develop radar in World War II and led CSIRO's Division of Radiophysics from 1946 to 1971.
Edward G. D. Tuddenham
Edward G. D. Tuddenham is a British haematologist and Emeritus Professor of Haemophilia at University College London, known for cloning factor VIII and hemophilia B gene therapy.
Edward G. Jones
Edward G. Jones, known as Ted Jones, was a New Zealand-born American neuroanatomist who established the modern account of thalamic structure and its relationship with the cerebral cortex.
Edward G. Lakatta
Edward G. Lakatta is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular aging, founder and longtime director of the National Institute on Aging's Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science in Baltimore.
Edward G. Robinson
Edward G. Robinson (Emanuel Goldenberg, 1893–1973), Romanian-born American actor; star of Little Caesar (1931), Double Indemnity, and Scarlet Street; blacklisted-era Hollywood tough-guy icon.
Edward G. Slingerland
Edward G. Slingerland is a scholar of early Chinese thought at the University of British Columbia, known for his work on wu-wei and the books Trying Not to Try and Drunk.
Edward Gaming
Edward Gaming (EDG) is a Shanghai-based Chinese esports organization founded in 2013 by Edward Chu's Super Gen. Its League of Legends team won Worlds 2021 (3-2 over DWG KIA) and its Valorant team won Champions 2024, China's first international Valorant title.
Edward Gane
Edward Gane, formally Edward John Gane, is a New Zealand hepatologist at Auckland City Hospital who led trials of the first oral, interferon-free cure for hepatitis C.
Edward Gardere
Edward Gardère (Edward Maurice Gardère, 1909–1997), French foil fencer from Gérardmer; Olympic team foil gold 1932, individual and team foil silver 1936, ten French individual foil titles 1930–1944, brother of André Gardère.
Edward Gardner (conductor)
Edward Gardner is a British conductor, Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since 2021 and Music Director of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet; former ENO music director (2007-15) and Bergen Philharmonic chief conductor (2015-24).
Edward Genton
Edward Genton is a physician in internal medicine known for platelet-survival studies in thrombotic disease and evaluations of platelet-inhibiting drugs, working at the University of Colorado and McMaster University.
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), English historian and MP, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (six volumes, 1776–1788), which blamed Rome's fall on Christianity and lost civic virtue.
Edward Gierek
Edward Gierek (1913–2001) was a Polish communist politician, First Secretary of the PZPR from 1970 to 1980, whose credit-funded modernization drive ended in economic crisis.
Edward Giniger
Edward Giniger is an American molecular neuroscientist who leads the Axon Guidance and Neural Connectivity Section at NINDS, studying how neurons connect during development and disconnect in disease.
Edward Ginzton
Edward Ginzton (1915–1998) was an American applied physicist who helped develop the klystron microwave tube, built the Stanford linear accelerators that grew into SLAC, and co-founded Varian Associates.
Edward Glaeser
Edward L. Glaeser, born 1967, is an American economist at Harvard who studies cities and urban policy, and author of Triumph of the City (2011).
Edward Glassmeyer
Edward Glassmeyer is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Oak Investment Partners in Connecticut in 1978, focusing on information technology, and received the NVCA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
Edward Gleason
Edward Francis Gleason (1869-1944), American trap shooter and Hyannis, Massachusetts surgeon; won team trap gold for the United States at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and placed 11th in the individual trap. Not the hurler, runner, or bullfighter named Gleason.
Edward Gold
Edward V. Gold, sometimes Eddie Gold, was an American restaurateur based in Chicago who founded the Wimpy hamburger chain in 1934, naming it after a Popeye character.
Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Gorey (1925–2000), American writer and pen-and-ink illustrator of macabre Victorian chapbooks like The Gashlycrumb Tinies and The Doubtful Guest; Harvard graduate, Doubleday Anchor cover artist, Tony-winning Dracula designer.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933) was a British Liberal statesman who served as Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916, the longest unbroken tenure in the office.