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Edward Guadagnoli

Edward Guadagnoli is an American health care policy researcher and emeritus professor at Harvard Medical School known for studies of regional variation in cardiac care.

Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh

Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927), was an Irish brewer and philanthropist who floated the Guinness brewery in 1886 and spent the proceeds on social housing in Dublin and London.

Edward H. Adelson

Edward H. Adelson, known as Ted Adelson, is an American vision scientist at MIT, a National Academy of Sciences member best known for the GelSight tactile sensor.

Edward H. Ahrens Jr.

Edward H. Ahrens Jr. (1915–2000) was an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University who showed saturated and unsaturated dietary fats have opposite effects on blood cholesterol and founded the Journal of Lipid Research.

Edward H. Egelman

Edward H. Egelman, born in 1952, is an American biophysicist at the University of Virginia known for cryo-electron microscopy of helical filaments and the IHRSR reconstruction algorithm.

Edward H. Frank

Edward H. Frank is an American electrical engineer and technology executive who co-founded Epigram, led Broadcom's early Wi-Fi business, and served as Apple's Vice President of Macintosh Hardware Systems Engineering.

Edward H. Kass

Edward H. Kass was an American epidemiologist who founded and directed the Channing Laboratory in Boston and set the quantitative urine-culture threshold for urinary-tract infection known as the Kass count.

Edward H. Koo

Edward H. Koo (1954–2025) was an American neurologist and neuroscientist, professor at UCSD and the National University of Singapore, known for work on amyloid precursor protein and gamma-secretase in Alzheimer's disease.

Edward H. Lambert

Edward H. Lambert (1915–2003) was an American neurologist and physiologist at the Mayo Clinic who founded the first US electromyography laboratory in 1947 and proved Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome is a presynaptic disorder.

Edward H. Levi

Edward H. Levi (1911-2000), American legal scholar, University of Chicago Law School dean, first provost and president, and 71st U.S. Attorney General (1975-1977) under Gerald Ford, known for restoring Justice Department integrity after Watergate and for An Introduction to Legal Reasoning.

Edward H. Sargent

Edward H. (Ted) Sargent is a scientist at Northwestern University working on colloidal quantum dots, perovskite solar cells, and CO2 electroreduction, after a long career at the University of Toronto.

Edward H. Simpson

Edward H. Simpson (1922–2019) was a British statistician and civil servant who gave his name to Simpson's index of diversity and Simpson's paradox, then worked in the UK Civil Service until 1982.

Edward H. Spicer

Edward H. Spicer was an American anthropologist at the University of Arizona whose Cycles of Conquest (1962) synthesized four centuries of conquest in the greater Southwest.

Edward H. Sussenguth

Edward H. Sussenguth was an American computer scientist and IBM researcher, a Harvard-trained National Academy of Engineering member who won the 1989 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal.

Edward H. Wagner

Edward H. Wagner is an American physician and health services researcher, emeritus professor at the University of Washington, best known for developing the Chronic Care Model for chronic illness care.

Edward Hamilton (veterinarian)

Edward (Eddie) Hamilton, DVM, is an American veterinarian and life-science investor who co-founded SAB Biotherapeutics of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and served as its executive chairman until its 2021 Nasdaq listing.

Edward Hardwicke

Edward Cedric Hardwicke (1932-2011), English actor, son of Sir Cedric Hardwicke; played Dr Watson opposite Jeremy Brett in Granada's Sherlock Holmes (1986-1994) and Captain Pat Grant in Colditz.

Edward Hayes Plumptre

Edward Hayes Plumptre (1821–1891) was an English Anglican theologian, biblical scholar, and hymn writer who taught at King's College London, served as Dean of Wells, and helped revise the Bible.

Edward Heath

Edward Heath (1916-2005), 'Ted' Heath, British Conservative Prime Minister 1970-74 who led the UK into the European Economic Community, signed the 1972 Treaty of Accession, and fell in the February 1974 'Who governs Britain?' election after the three-day week.

Edward Heffron

Edward James "Babe" Heffron (1923-2013) was a World War II paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, who fought at Market Garden and Bastogne, co-wrote Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends, and was portrayed in HBO's Band of Brothers by Robin Laing.

Edward Herbert (American biochemist)

Edward Herbert (1926–1987) was an American molecular biologist who discovered proopiomelanocortin, the precursor of ACTH and beta-endorphin, and founded the Vollum Institute in Portland, Oregon.

Edward Herrmann

Edward Herrmann (Edward Kirk Herrmann, 1943-2014), American stage, film, and television actor; Tony winner for Mrs. Warren's Profession, Emmy winner for The Practice, FDR in Eleanor and Franklin and Annie, and Richard Gilmore on Gilmore Girls.

Edward Hibbert

Edward Hibbert (born 1955) is an American-born English actor and literary agent, best known as food critic Gil Chesterton on Frasier (1994-2004, 29 episodes) and the 2024 revival, and an agent at Donadio & Olsen.

Edward Hicks

Edward Hicks (1780–1849) was an American Quaker minister and self-taught folk painter of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, known for his many Peaceable Kingdom paintings, which were rediscovered in the 1930s.

Edward Hinds

Edward Hinds is a British physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society, who pioneered ultracold-atom physics, made the first Casimir–Polder force measurement, and directed Imperial College London's Centre for Cold Matter.

Edward Hitchcock

Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and Congregational clergyman who served as third president of Amherst College and pioneered the study of fossil footprints.

Edward Hoover

Edward A. Hoover (1942–2023) was an American veterinarian and virologist at Colorado State University who developed the first successful feline leukemia virus vaccine and led chronic wasting disease research.

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper (1882–1967), American realist painter and printmaker of urban solitude and New England light; Nighthawks (1942), Early Sunday Morning (1930), House by the Railroad, first MoMA acquisition.

Edward Hore

Edward Hore (born 17 November 1849, Knightsbridge) was a British yachtsman of the Royal London Yacht Club who won 1900 Paris Olympic gold in the 3-10 ton class aboard Bona Fide and bronze in the 10-20 ton class aboard his yacht Laurea.

Edward I of England

Edward I of England, Longshanks or Hammer of the Scots (1239–1307), reigned 1272–1307: conquered Wales, reformed law, developed Parliament, expelled the Jews in 1290, and warred in Scotland.