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Edward P. Richardson

Edward P. Richardson, also known as E. P. Richardson, was an American neuropathologist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's neuropathology laboratory from 1951 to 1989 and named PML.

Edward Paisnel

Edward John Louis Paisnel (1925–1994), the Beast of Jersey, was a Jersey building contractor and masked sex offender who attacked women and children in night raids; convicted of 13 counts in 1971 and sentenced to 30 years.

Edward Payson

Edward Payson (1783–1827) was an American Congregational minister who served one church in Portland, Maine, for twenty years, known as "Praying Payson" for his devotion to prayer.

Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth

Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757–1833), British admiral and foremost frigate captain of the French Revolutionary Wars; captured the Cleopatre in Nymphe, destroyed the Droits de l'Homme in Indefatigable, and bombarded Algiers in 1816 to free Christian slaves.

Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick

Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475-1499), son of George, Duke of Clarence, last legitimate male Plantagenet; imprisoned in the Tower by Henry VII from 1485 and beheaded in 1499 after the Perkin Warbeck escape plot.

Edward Platt

Edward Platt (Edward Cuthbert Platt, 1916–1974), American character actor and trained bass-baritone, best known as the Chief of CONTROL opposite Don Adams on Get Smart (1965–1970); distinct from the English travel writer Edward Platt born 1968.

Edward Price Bell

Edward Price Bell (1869–1943) was an American journalist who spent twenty-two years in London as overseas manager of the Chicago Daily News foreign news service.

Edward Purdy Ney

Edward Purdy Ney (1920–1996) was an American physicist and astronomer at the University of Minnesota, noted for co-discovering heavy cosmic rays and the source of zodiacal light.

Edward R. Cook

Edward R. Cook is a climate scientist and dendrochronologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, known for tree-ring drought atlases covering North America and monsoon Asia.

Edward R. Grant

Edward R. Grant, also published as E. R. Grant, is a physical chemist known for ZEKE spectroscopy, a professor at the University of British Columbia since 2005.

Edward R. Korman

Edward R. Korman, born 1942, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York, appointed by President Reagan in 1985.

Edward R. Laws Jr

Edward R. Laws Jr is an American neurosurgeon and Harvard Medical School professor who directs the Pituitary/Neuroendocrine Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital and has operated on more than 8,000 brain tumors.

Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965), American CBS radio and TV journalist, born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; famous for "This is London" Blitz reports, See It Now, and the 1954 McCarthy broadcast; later USIA director.

Edward R. Sholkovitz

Edward R. Sholkovitz is an aquatic geochemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution known for research on trace elements, rare earth elements, and plutonium in natural waters.

Edward R.B. McCabe III

Edward R.B. McCabe III is an American pediatrician and molecular geneticist who discovered glycerol kinase deficiency, pioneered DNA extraction from newborn screening blood spots, and led national screening policy.

Edward Routh

Edward John Routh (1831–1907) was a Canadian-born mathematician who beat Maxwell as Senior Wrangler at Cambridge in 1854, became its greatest mathematical coach, and created the Routh–Hurwitz stability criterion.

Edward S. Boyden

Edward S. Boyden is an American neuroscientist and biological engineer at MIT known for co-inventing optogenetics and creating expansion microscopy, winning the 2016 Breakthrough Prize.

Edward S. Buckler

Edward S. Buckler is an American plant geneticist at the USDA-ARS and Cornell University known for statistical genetics of maize, the TASSEL software, and the maize NAM population.

Edward S. Holden

Edward Singleton Holden (1846–1914) was an American astronomer, first Director of the Lick Observatory, founder of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and President of the University of California.

Edward S. Kiel

Edward S. Kiel, born in 1965 in Daegu, South Korea, is New Jersey's first Korean American United States district judge, confirmed in 2024 after serving as a magistrate judge.

Edward S. Mason

Edward S. Mason, full name Edward Sagendorph Mason, was an American Harvard economist who helped found industrial organization, advised Pakistan's development planning, and led the American Economic Association in 1962.

Edward S. Mocarski

Edward S. Mocarski is an American virologist who led microbiology at Stanford from 1983 to 2006, then joined Emory's Vaccine Center, studying cytomegalovirus and cell death.

Edward S. Morse

Edward S. Morse was an American zoologist and brachiopod specialist who became the first professor of zoology in Japan and whose 1877 Omori shell mound excavation opened scientific archaeology there.

Edward S. Yeung

Edward S. Yeung (E.S. Yeung) is an analytical chemist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University and senior scientist at Ames Laboratory, known for single-molecule spectroscopy.

Edward Said (إدوارد سعيد)

Edward Said, full name Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد وديع سعيد), was a Palestinian American literary critic and Columbia professor whose 1978 book Orientalism is regarded as the founding text of postcolonial studies.

Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir (1884–1939) was a German-born American linguist and anthropologist, a student of Franz Boas, known for the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis and his book Language (1921).

Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American fantasy romance film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as a gentle artificial man with scissor blades for hands.

Edward Seaga

Edward Phillip George Seaga (1930–2019), Jamaican politician, fifth Prime Minister (1980–89) and JLP leader 1974–2005; MP for West Kingston 43 years, founder of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, HEART Trust, and JAMPRO.

Edward Seto

Edward Seto is a cancer epigenetics researcher who discovered and cloned the HDAC2 and HDAC3 enzymes and joined the GW Cancer Center as associate director for basic sciences in 2015.

Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset

Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1500–1552), called Protector Somerset, was Lord Protector of England for his nephew Edward VI from 1547, fell after the 1549 rebellions, and was executed on Tower Hill in 1552.