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Edward MacDowell
Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860–1908), American Romantic composer and pianist, first American composer with international recognition; Piano Concerto no. 2 in D minor, Woodland Sketches ('To a Wild Rose'), Indian Suite; namesake and inspiration of the MacDowell Colony artists' retreat.
Edward Manibusan
Edward Manibusan is an American politician who has served as Attorney General of the Northern Mariana Islands since 2015, the Commonwealth's first elected Attorney General.
Edward Marcotte
Edward M. Marcotte is a computational biologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for genome-wide protein function prediction and large-scale protein complex maps.
Edward Maya
Edward Maya, stage name of Eduard Marian Ilie, is a Romanian DJ, producer, and songwriter born in Bucharest in 1986, best known for the 2009 hit "Stereo Love", which won a Billboard dance award.
Edward McCabe
Edward McCabe (1816–1885) was an Irish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Dublin from 1879, became a cardinal in 1882, and opposed the Land League.
Edward McMillan-Scott
Edward McMillan-Scott, British politician and human-rights campaigner; MEP for Yorkshire & Humber 1984–2014, four-term European Parliament Vice-President for democracy and human rights, founder of the EIDHR, expelled by the Conservatives in 2009, later Liberal Democrat.
Edward Mellanby
Sir Edward Mellanby (1884–1955) was a British medical scientist who showed that rickets results from dietary deficiency and is cured by cod-liver oil, and led the Medical Research Council from 1933 to 1949.
Edward Meyrick Goulburn
Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818–1897) was a Church of England clergyman who served as headmaster of Rugby School and Dean of Norwich, and wrote the devotional classic Thoughts on Personal Religion.
Edward Mezvinsky
Edward Mezvinsky (born 1937) is an American lawyer and former Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 1st District, 1973-1977, a House Judiciary member in the Nixon impeachment inquiry, later convicted of fraud.
Edward Miguel
Edward Miguel is a development economist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for research on African development, climate change, and conflict.
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich (1625–1672), English admiral and statesman; Parliamentarian colonel, General-at-Sea under Cromwell, restorer of Charles II, Portuguese ambassador, killed at Solebay; cousin and patron of Samuel Pepys.
Edward Mordake
Edward Mordake, also spelled Mordrake, is the apocryphal subject of an urban legend about a 19th-century English nobleman said to have had a second face on the back of his head.
Edward Mulé
Edward Mulé, also known as Ed Mulé, is an investor who co-founded credit firm Silver Point Capital in 2002 with Robert J. O'Shea and serves as its portfolio manager.
Edward Mulhare
Edward Mulhare (1923–1997), Irish-born actor from Cork; Broadway's Henry Higgins after Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady; TV's Captain Daniel Gregg in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Devon Miles in Knight Rider.
Edward Murphy (businessman)
Edward Murphy was an American businessman, one of the seven founders of Carrier Engineering Corporation in 1915, after working on the first air-conditioner installation in 1902.
Edward Murray East
Edward Murray East (1879–1938) was an American plant geneticist at Harvard's Bussey Institution who showed continuous variation follows Mendelian inheritance and helped found hybrid corn.
Edward Nelson
Edward Nelson (1932–2014) was an American mathematician on the Princeton University faculty from 1959 to 2013, known for stochastic quantum mechanics, constructive quantum field theory, and internal set theory.
Edward Norton
Edward Norton, or Edward Harrison Norton, is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter born in Boston in 1969, recognized for intense dramatic roles like in Fight Club.
Edward Norton filmography
Edward Norton filmography: the actor-director's screen credits from Primal Fear (1996) to The Invite (2026), including four Oscar nominations, Keeping the Faith, and Motherless Brooklyn.
Edward Norton Lorenz
Edward Norton Lorenz (1917–2008) was an American meteorologist at MIT, widely regarded as the founder of modern chaos theory and known for the butterfly effect.
Edward O. Thorp
Edward Oakley Thorp, American mathematician, author of Beat the Dealer (1962), proved blackjack is beatable by card counting, built the first wearable computer with Claude Shannon, and ran Princeton Newport Partners hedge fund 1969-1988.
Edward O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021) was an American biologist and entomologist at Harvard University, a leading authority on ants whose Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975) founded a controversial field.
Edward O'Brien (chemist)
Edward O'Brien, also known as Edward P. O'Brien, is an American computational molecular biophysicist and Penn State chemistry professor known for work on protein folding.
Edward O'Hare
Edward "Butch" O'Hare was a United States Navy fighter pilot who became the Navy's first World War II ace by shooting down five Japanese bombers in 1942.
Edward Ochab
Edward Ochab, full name Edward Mieczysław Ochab, was a Polish communist politician who served as First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party from March to October 1956.
Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales
Edward of Middleham (c. 1476–April 1484), only legitimate child of Richard III and Anne Neville, was created Prince of Wales in 1483, installed at York Minster, declared heir apparent in 1484, and died at Middleham Castle aged about seven.
Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales
Edward of Westminster (Edward of Lancaster), 1453-1471, only son of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou, Prince of Wales, disinherited by the Act of Accord, husband of Anne Neville, killed at Tewkesbury 4 May 1471.
Edward Oscar Ulrich
Edward Oscar Ulrich (1857–1944) was an American invertebrate paleontologist with the US Geological Survey from 1897, whose classification of Paleozoic Bryozoa remained standard long after his death.
Edward Ott
Edward Ott is an American physicist and engineer at the University of Maryland known for chaos theory, complex systems, and the OGY method of controlling chaos.
Edward Oxford
Edward Oxford (1822–1900) fired two pistols at Queen Victoria on Constitution Hill, 10 June 1840; tried for high treason, acquitted as insane, detained at Bedlam, later emigrated to Australia.