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Edan Alexander
Edan Alexander (עידן אלכסנדר), Israeli-American Golani Brigade soldier from Tenafly, New Jersey, seized October 7, 2023 and Hamas's last living American hostage, freed May 12, 2025 after 584 days via US-Hamas backchannel talks.
Eddie Chapman
Eddie Chapman (1914–1997), English safecracker turned WWII double agent, codenamed ZIGZAG by MI5 and Fritzchen by the Abwehr; faked the De Havilland factory bombing and won the Iron Cross.
Eddie Gallagher (Navy SEAL)
Eddie Gallagher is a retired US Navy SEAL chief whose 2019 court-martial over the death of an Islamic State prisoner in Mosul ended in acquittal of murder but conviction for posing with the corpse, followed by Trump's intervention restoring his rank and Trident.
Eddie Slovik
Eddie Slovik (Edward Donald Slovik, 1920–1945), Detroit draftee in the 28th Infantry Division, was the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War, shot by firing squad in France on January 31, 1945 after Eisenhower confirmed his court-martial sentence.
Edmond Kelly
Canon Edmond (Edmund) Kelly (1874–1955) was an Irish Catholic priest and British Army chaplain with the 8th Royal Irish Fusiliers awarded the Military Cross for tending the wounded under shell fire east of Ypres on 16 August 1917.
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe (1861–1936), British field marshal known as 'the Bull'; EEF commander who took Beersheba, Jerusalem and won Megiddo (76,000 prisoners), then High Commissioner for Egypt 1919–1925.
Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880–1959), British Army officer, Royal Artillery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1939–40, Archangel commander, Persia 1920–21, C-in-C Home Forces 1940.
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, also known as Baron Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal who led the 2nd Army on the Eastern Front during World War I.
Edward Byers
Edward C. Byers Jr. (born 1979), Toledo, Ohio-born retired Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor recipient, rescued hostage Dr. Dilip Joseph in Afghanistan on 8 December 2012; sixth SEAL and 11th living Afghanistan recipient, decorated February 29, 2016.
Edward Capehart O'Kelley
Edward Capehart O'Kelley (1857-1904), also Ed O'Kelly, killed Robert Ford, Jesse James's assassin, in Creede, Colorado, on June 8, 1892; he served about ten years and died in a 1904 gunfight with police.
Edward Codrington
Sir Edward Codrington (1770–1851), British admiral of the Dodington family; fought at the Glorious First of June and Trafalgar in HMS Orion, and commanded the allied fleet that destroyed the Turco-Egyptian fleet at Navarino in 1827.
Edward Fitzgerald Beale
Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822–1893), American naval officer, explorer, and diplomat; Mexican War courier with Kit Carson, first Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California and Nevada, leader of the 1857 camel wagon-road survey on the 35th parallel, and U.S. minister to Austria-Hungary.
Edward Heffron
Edward James "Babe" Heffron (1923-2013) was a World War II paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, who fought at Market Garden and Bastogne, co-wrote Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends, and was portrayed in HBO's Band of Brothers by Robin Laing.
Edward Low
Edward "Ned" Low (c. 1690 Westminster – fate unknown) was an English pirate active 1721–1724 in the Caribbean and eastern Atlantic, notorious for documented torture of captives, defeated by HMS Greyhound in 1723, and marooned by his own crew in 1724.
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 Shames
Edward Shames was an American Army officer of Easy Company, 101st Airborne, who jumped into Normandy on D-Day and was the last surviving Band of Brothers officer.
Edward Śmigły-Rydz
Edward Śmigły-Rydz was a Polish military commander, Marshal of Poland from 1936, who led the Polish armed forces against Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939.
Edward the Black Prince
Edward the Black Prince (Edward of Woodstock, 1330–1376), eldest son of Edward III, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine; victor at Crécy, Poitiers and Nájera; father of Richard II.
Edward Vernon
Edward Vernon (1684–1757), 'Old Grog,' Royal Navy admiral who captured Porto Bello in 1739, failed at Cartagena de Indias in 1741, and gave his nickname to grog by ordering the sailors' rum ration diluted with water.
Edwin Stanton
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 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.
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.
Eli Cohen (אליהו בן שאול כהן)
Eli Cohen (אליהו בן שאול כהן, 1924–1965), Israeli spy who posed as Syrian businessman Kamel Amin Thaabet in Damascus 1962–1965, gathered Golan Heights intelligence credited in the 1967 war, was hanged May 18, 1965, and whose archive Israel recovered in 2025.
Eliot Ness
Eliot Ness (1903–1957), American Prohibition agent who led the Untouchables against Al Capone in Chicago and served as Cleveland's Director of Public Safety, 1935–1942; never an FBI agent.
Eliya Cohen (אלי-ה כהן) (hostage)
Eliya Cohen (אלי-ה כהן), Israeli Nova festival hostage abducted 7 October 2023, held chained in Gaza tunnels 505 days, starved and wounded, released 22 February 2025 in the ceasefire deal's first phase; husband of survivor and campaigner Ziv Abud.
Elizabeth Hanson (CIA officer)
Elizabeth Curry Hanson (1979-2009), American CIA targeting officer from Rockford, Illinois, Colby College class of 2002; joined CIA 2005, hunted al-Qaeda leaders including bin Laden, killed in the December 30, 2009 Camp Chapman suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan.
Ella van Heemstra
Ella van Heemstra, Baroness van Heemstra (1900, Velp – 1984, Tolochenaz), Dutch aristocrat; mother of Audrey Hepburn; married Quarles van Ufford then Joseph Ruston in 1926; did Resistance work in occupied Netherlands.
Ella Waweya
Ella Waweya (إيلا واوية), "Captain Ella," is a Muslim Arab IDF lieutenant colonel from Qalansawe who became the Israeli military's Arabic-language spokesperson in February 2026, replacing Avichay Adraee.
Elmo Zumwalt
Elmo R. "Bud" Zumwalt Jr. (1920–2000), 19th Chief of Naval Operations (1970–1974) and youngest ever, formerly Commander U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam and SEALORDS architect, known for Z-Gram personnel reforms, equal opportunity directives, and Trident, Perry-frigate, and F-14 programs.
Elwell Stephen Otis
Elwell Stephen Otis (1838–1909), American major general and lawyer, Harvard LL.B. and 140th New York Infantry veteran, was military governor of the Philippines August 1898–May 1900, issuing the 'benevolent assimilation' proclamation.