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Edwin B. Astwood

Edwin B. Astwood (1909–1976) was a Bermudian-born endocrinologist who showed that drug therapy could control Graves' disease without surgery, developing propylthiouracil and methimazole at Tufts.

Edwin Bryant Crocker (1818–1875), California Supreme Court associate justice 1863–64, abolitionist lawyer in Norris v. Crocker (1851), chief counsel of the Central Pacific Railroad, and founder of the Crocker Art Museum collection in Sacramento.

Edwin B. Hart

Edwin B. Hart (1874–1953) was an American biochemist who chaired agricultural chemistry at the University of Wisconsin from 1906 to 1944 and directed the single-grain experiment that helped establish the vitamin concept.

Edwin Bidwell Wilson

Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964) was an American mathematician and statistician at Yale, MIT, and Harvard who edited Gibbs's Vector Analysis and anticipated the confidence interval in 1927.

Edwin Booth

Edwin Booth, born Edwin Thomas Booth (1833–1893), was an American stage actor and theatrical manager, famed for his Hamlet and for founding the actors' club The Players in New York.

Edwin Boring

Edwin Garrigues Boring (1886–1968) was an American experimental psychologist and historian of psychology at Harvard, known for A History of Experimental Psychology and the "Boring figure".

Edwin Brant Frost

Edwin Brant Frost (1866–1935) was an American astronomer who directed Yerkes Observatory from 1905 to 1932, measured stellar radial velocities with the Bruce spectrograph, and edited the Astrophysical Journal.

Edwin C. Constable

Edwin C. Constable, born 1955, is a British chemist known as a pioneer of metallosupramolecular chemistry, professor at the University of Basel and its Vice-President for Research from 2011 to 2018.

Edwin C. Kan

Edwin C. Kan, also known as Edwin Chihchuan Kan, is an American electrical engineer and Cornell professor who won a PECASE award in 2000 and studies contactless RF biosensing.

Edwin C. Kemble

Edwin C. Kemble (1889–1984) was an American physicist at Harvard University who introduced the quantum study of molecular structure to the United States and wrote a 1937 quantum mechanics textbook.

Edwin Catmull

Edwin Catmull, known as Ed Catmull, is an American computer scientist who co-founded Pixar, led Pixar and Disney Animation, and shared the 2019 Turing Award.

Edwin Chan

Edwin Chan, also known as Edwin Pak-Nin Chan, is an American materials scientist at NIST who received the 2019 PECASE for measuring soft polymer films.

Edwin Charles Dargan

Edwin Charles Dargan (1852–1930) was a Southern Baptist pastor, homiletics professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and author of A History of Preaching.

Edwin Chen

Edwin Chen is an American entrepreneur and data scientist who founded the data labeling company Surge AI in 2020 without venture funding, reaching $1.2 billion in 2024 revenue.

Edwin Claybrook

Edwin Claybrook, also known as Edwin B. Claybrook, was an American surgeon (1871–1931) remembered for Claybrook sign, heard in rupture of an abdominal organ after blunt trauma.

Edwin Cone Bissell

Edwin Cone Bissell (1832–1894) was an American Congregational minister and Old Testament scholar who taught Hebrew at Hartford Theological Seminary and defended traditional Pentateuchal authorship against the Graf-Wellhausen school.

Edwin Cuppen

Edwin Cuppen is a Dutch molecular geneticist in cancer genomics, professor of Human Genetics at UMC Utrecht and scientific director of the Hartwig Medical Foundation since 2017.

Edwin D. Kilbourne

Edwin D. Kilbourne (1920–2011) was an American physician and influenza virologist who developed the first genetically engineered influenza vaccines and led Mount Sinai's microbiology department.

Edwin D. Mead

Edwin D. Mead (1849–1937) was an American writer and Boston lecturer on social and historical topics, and editor of the New England Magazine from 1889 to 1901.

Edwin D. Morgan

Edwin Denison Morgan (1811–1883), New York merchant and Republican politician, was the state's Civil War-era governor (1859–1863), U.S. senator (1863–1869), and twice chairman of the Republican National Committee; distinct from the poet Edwin Morgan.

Edwin Dun

Edwin Dun (エドウィン・ダン, 1848–1931), American rancher from Ohio, father of Hokkaido dairy farming; Kaitakushi adviser 1873–1882, built Makomanai ranch and irrigation channel, later U.S. Minister to Japan 1893–1897.

Edwin E. Kintner

Edwin E. Kintner (1920–2010) was an American nuclear engineer and Navy captain who helped develop the USS Nautilus reactor and led the US magnetic fusion program.

Edwin E. Salpeter

Edwin E. Salpeter (1924–2008) was an Austrian-born Australian-American astrophysicist at Cornell University who explained how stars make carbon, proposed black-hole accretion as quasars' power source, and derived the Salpeter initial mass function.

Edwin E. Witte

Edwin E. Witte (1887–1960) was an American economist at the University of Wisconsin who developed the original plan for Social Security as executive director of Roosevelt's Committee on Economic Security.

Edwin Edwards

Edwin Washington Edwards (1927-2021), Louisiana's only four-term governor (1972-80, 1984-88, 1992-96), Democratic populist and 'Cajun King,' defeated David Duke in 1991 and was later convicted of racketeering over riverboat casino licenses.

Edwin Encarnación

Edwin Encarnación (Edwin Elpidio Encarnación, born 1983, La Romana, Dominican Republic), Dominican MLB first baseman and designated hitter; 424 career home runs, 1,261 RBI, .846 OPS; three-time All-Star with Blue Jays and Indians; 2026 Hall of Fame ballot.