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Edwin Spanier

Edwin Henry Spanier (1921–1996) was an American algebraic topologist known for Spanier–Whitehead duality and his 1966 textbook Algebraic Topology, and a professor at Berkeley from 1959 to 1991.

Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814–1869), American lawyer, Buchanan's attorney general, and Lincoln's Secretary of War from January 1862; his 1868 removal by Andrew Johnson under the Tenure of Office Act triggered the first presidential impeachment trial.

Edwin Starr

Edwin Starr (Charles Edwin Hatcher, 1942-2003), American soul singer of "Agent Double-O Soul," "25 Miles," and the 1970 #1 anti-Vietnam War anthem "War"; later disco hits and UK northern soul career.

Edwin Stephen Goodrich

Edwin Stephen Goodrich (1868–1946) was a British zoologist who held the Linacre chair of zoology at Oxford and proposed the segmental theory of the vertebrate head.

Edwin Stevens Lines

Edwin Stevens Lines (1845–1927) was an American Episcopal bishop who served as rector of St. Paul's Church in New Haven, Connecticut, before becoming Bishop of Newark in 1903.

Edwin T. Layton

Edwin T. Layton (1903–1984) was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and Fleet Intelligence Officer under Kimmel and Nimitz whose Japanese-language expertise produced the Midway attack forecast and the memoir And I Was There.

Sep 21, 2026

Edwin T. Mertz

Edwin T. Mertz (1909–1999) was an American biochemist at Purdue University best known for co-discovering high-lysine maize, the opaque-2 corn rich in the essential amino acid lysine.

Edwin Thompson Jaynes

Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998) was an American physicist at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1957 maximum-entropy papers recast statistical mechanics as inference, and who co-created the Jaynes–Cummings model.

Sep 19, 2026

Edwin Traisman

Edwin Traisman (1915–2007) was an American food scientist who directed food research at Kraft Foods, helping create Cheez Whiz, and later co-developed McDonald's frozen French fries.

Edwin Valero

Edwin Valero (El Inca, Edwin Antonio Valero Vivas), Venezuelan southpaw boxer, 27-0 with 27 knockouts, WBA super featherweight and WBC lightweight champion; killed his wife in 2010 and died by suicide in custody.

Edwin van der Sar

Edwin van der Sar (born 1970, Voorhout) is a Dutch former goalkeeper and Ajax CEO. Won the Champions League with Ajax (1995) and Manchester United (2008); set a 1,311-minute Premier League clean-sheet record in 2008/09.

Edwin Vasquez

Edwin Vásquez Cam (Edwin Gonzalo Vásquez Cam), Peruvian sport shooter, 1948 London Olympic gold medalist in men's free pistol 50 m with 545/600, Peru's only Olympic champion, using a borrowed pistol.

Sep 21, 2026

Edwin Vedējs

Edwin Vedejs (Edvīns Vedējs, 1941–2017) was a Latvian-born American organic chemist at Wisconsin and Michigan known for synthetic methodology, total synthesis, and Wittig reaction studies.

Edwin W. Kemmerer

Edwin W. Kemmerer, also known as Edwin Walter Kemmerer, was an American Princeton economist, "The Money Doctor," who advised foreign governments on currency and central banking.

Sep 20, 2026

Edwin W. Salzman

Edwin W. Salzman was an American surgeon and Harvard professor who led clinical trials on preventing venous thromboembolism and served 13 years as deputy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Edwin Walker

Edwin Walker, also known as General Edwin Walker, was a United States Army major general from Texas who enforced school desegregation at Little Rock in 1957.

Edwin Wilkinson Miller

Edwin Wilkinson Miller was a mathematician who earned his doctorate at the University of Michigan in 1930 under Raymond Louis Wilder and published a 1937 paper on biconnected sets.

Edwina Currie

Edwina Currie, British Conservative MP for South Derbyshire 1983-1997 and junior health minister under Thatcher; resigned in December 1988 over her salmonella-in-eggs remark; later a novelist and diarist who revealed her affair with John Major.

Edwina Findley

Edwina Findley (Edwina Findley Dickerson), American actress born 1980 in Washington, D.C.; known for The Wire, If Loving You Is Wrong, Free In Deed, and as Sheila Cannon in Netflix's The Residence.

Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma

Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (Edwina Ashley, 1901–1960), British heiress, St John Ambulance Superintendent-in-Chief, and vicereine of India 1947–48; known for wartime POW relief and her close relationship with Nehru.

Edwyn Collins

Edwyn Collins (born 1959, Edinburgh) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, Orange Juice frontman and Postcard Records co-founder; solo hit "A Girl Like You" (1994); survived two 2005 strokes with aphasia; ten solo albums through Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation (2025).

EdX

edX is a massive open online course provider and learning platform founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, offering university-backed courses and certificates, and owned since 2021 by 2U.

Oct 20, 2026

Edy Hubacher

Edy Hubacher, full name Eduard Hubacher, is a Swiss athlete born in 1940 who won bobsled gold and bronze at the 1972 Winter Olympics after competing in track and field.

Edy Reinalter

Edy Reinalter (Romedi Peter Reinalter, 1920-1962), Swiss alpine skier of Guardia Grischa; won the first Olympic men's slalom at St. Moritz 1948 in 2:10.3, still the only Swiss male slalom Olympic champion.

Edy Tavares

Edy Tavares (Walter Samuel Tavares da Veiga), Cape Verdean 2.20 m center for Real Madrid since 2017; EuroLeague all-time leader in blocks (544) and rebounds (2,134), three-time Best Defender, 2023 Final Four MVP; injured left knee MCL April 2026.

Edyll Ismail

Edyll Ismail, Somali Australian actress from Melbourne raised in Perth, WAAPA 2023 graduate, plays Leyla in La Brea season 3 and Zuri in Sam Raimi's Send Help (2026).

Edziza

Edziza (Mount Edziza volcanic complex) is a 2,786 m stratovolcano in northern British Columbia, Canada, active over 7.5 million years in five magmatic cycles, with a 2-km ice-filled caldera, over 30 young cinder cones, and a High Canadian threat ranking.