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Edward John Eyre

Edward John Eyre (1815–1901), English explorer and colonial governor, crossed Australia from Adelaide to Albany in 1840–41 with his Aboriginal companion Wylie, then as Governor of Jamaica suppressed the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion, was recalled, and survived three failed prosecutions.

Sep 19, 2026

Edward John Noble

Edward John Noble (1882–1958) was an American advertising executive who bought the Life Savers candy business for $2,900 in 1913, built it into a national company, and founded ABC.

Oct 22, 2026

Edward Johnston

Edward Johnston was a British calligrapher and lettering designer whose 1906 textbook established the modern calligraphy movement, and whose 1916 sans-serif typeface for London's transport remains in use.

Edward Jones Investments

Edward Jones Investments, formally Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P., is a private brokerage firm founded in St. Louis in 1922, serving individual investors in the United States and Canada.

Edward Joseph Davison

Edward Joseph Davison is a Canadian control systems engineer at the University of Toronto known for decentralized and robust control, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2010.

Edward K. Conklin

Edward K. Conklin is a radio astronomer who, as a 27-year-old Stanford astronomer in 1969, reported the first claimed detection of the cosmic microwave background dipole.

Edward K. Wakeland

Edward K. Wakeland, born in 1949, is an immunologist and immunogeneticist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas known for work on MHC diversity and lupus genetics.

Edward Karl August Riehm

Edward Karl August Riehm (Eduard Riehm, 1830–1888) was a German Protestant Old Testament scholar and theologian who taught at the University of Halle from 1862 until his death.

Edward Kasner

Edward Kasner (1878–1955) was an American mathematician at Columbia University who worked in differential geometry, gave general relativity the Kasner metric, and popularized the word "googol" in his 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination.

Edward Kelley

Edward Kelley (Edward Talbot, 1555–1597), English scryer and alchemist, was John Dee's medium in the Enochian angelic conversations from 1582, then pursued alchemy under Rudolf II in Prague, was knighted in 1590, imprisoned for failing to make gold, and died probably 1 November 1597.

Edward Kenway

Edward Kenway (Edward James Kenway) is the fictional Welsh pirate protagonist of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013), grandfather of Connor, voiced by Matt Ryan, and lead of the 2026 remake Black Flag Resynced.

Oct 22, 2026

Edward Kienholz

Edward Kienholz (1927–1994) was a self-taught American assemblage artist and installation pioneer who built life-size tableaux from junk, co-founded the Ferus Gallery, and collaborated with his wife Nancy from 1972.

Edward Kimbark

Edward Kimbark was an American electrical power engineer known for his work on power system stability and HVDC transmission, and for standard textbooks in both fields.

Edward Kohler

Edward Kohler, often published as Eddie Kohler, is an American computer scientist known for operating systems and file systems research, who received a 2006 PECASE award.

Edward Kolb

Edward W. "Rocky" Kolb (born 1951) is an American cosmologist at the University of Chicago who helped found particle astrophysics and co-wrote The Early Universe.

Edward Korn

Edward Korn was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who discovered actin filaments and myosin I. His work is foundational to understanding how eukaryotic cells move.

Edward Kravitz

Edward Kravitz (1932–2025) was an American neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School known for showing that GABA inhibits neurons and that amines bias aggression in lobsters.

Sep 27, 2026

Edward L. Artau

Edward L. Artau (born 1964) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida since 2025, appointed by President Donald Trump.

Edward L. Cochrane

Edward L. Cochrane (1892–1959) was an American naval architect and Vice-Admiral credited with the designs of modern American submarines and new battleships, cruisers, carriers, and destroyers, and later Dean of Engineering at MIT.

Edward L. Doheny

Edward Laurence Doheny was an American oil prospector and executive who drilled the first commercial oil well in Los Angeles and built the largest oil enterprise in Mexico.

Sep 27, 2026

Edward L. Filippine

Edward Louis Filippine (born 1930) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri since 1995.

Sep 20, 2026

Edward L. Giovannucci

Edward L. Giovannucci is an American physician and nutritional cancer epidemiologist, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard, known for research on diet and cancer.

Edward L. Glaser

Edward L. Glaser (1929–1990) was an American computer systems designer who helped build one of the world's first time-shared computer systems at MIT, then led computing at Case Western Reserve University.

Edward L. Hannan

Edward L. Hannan is an American health services researcher and Distinguished Professor at the University at Albany, SUNY, known for outcomes research on cardiac surgery and stenting.

Edward L. Kaplan

Edward L. Kaplan was an American pediatrician and streptococcal researcher, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and head of the WHO Collaborating Center for Streptococci in Minneapolis.

Edward L. Kaplan (American mathematician)

Edward L. Kaplan, also known as Edward Lynn Kaplan, was an American mathematician (1920–2006) whose 1958 paper with Paul Meier introduced the Kaplan–Meier estimator, the most-cited statistics publication.

Edward L. Kuff

Edward L. Kuff was an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for showing that intracisternal A particles are repeated, mobile mouse genome elements.

Edward L. Masry

Edward L. Masry (1932-2005), California attorney and Thousand Oaks councilman whose firm, with legal assistant Erin Brockovich, won a $333 million groundwater contamination settlement from PG&E, later portrayed by Albert Finney in the 2000 film Erin Brockovich.

Edward L. Miles

Edward L. Miles (1939–2016) was a Trinidad-born American social scientist at the University of Washington who founded its Climate Impacts Group and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.