Top Celebrity Names Starting With Edward

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   Edward Norton

   Age 42 Male
   

   Actor

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   Edward Harrison Norton is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. In 1996, his supporting role in the courtroom drama Primal Fear garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Two years later, his lead role as a reformed white power skinhead in American History X earned a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actor.… read more

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   Edward Furlong

   Age 34 Male
   

   Actor, Musician, Singer

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   Edward Walter Furlong is an American actor whose best known film roles are John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Daniel Vinyard in American History X. He is a two-time Saturn Award nominee, winning the 1992 Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor for his performance in Terminator 2. He also won the 1992 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for his work in the film.… read more

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   Edward Burns

   Age 44 Male
   

   Actor, Producer, Writer

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   This article is about the actor-director born in 1968; for other people with the same name, see Edward Burns. En:Edward Burns File:Edward Burns cropped.

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   Edward Heath

   1916 - 2005 Male
   

   Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

   
   

   "Ted Heath" redirects here. For the bandleader, see Ted Heath Sir Edward Heath File:Sir Edward Heath Allan Warren.

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   Edward Asner

   Age 82 Male
   

   Actor

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   Edward Asner, commonly known as Ed Asner, is an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant. In 2009, he starred as the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's award-winning animated film, Up.… read more

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   Edward Elgar

   1857 - 1934 Male
   

   Composer

   
   

   Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs.… read more

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   Edward John Trelawny

   1792 - 1881 Male
   

   Adventurer and Writer

   
   

   Edward John Trelawny was a biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Trelawny was born in England to a family of modest income but extensive ancestral history. Though his father became wealthy while he was a child, Edward had an antagonistic relationship with him. After an unhappy childhood, he was sent away to a school.… read more

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   Edward Spears

   1886 - 1974 Male
   

   Major General, Baronet, Army Officer

   
   

   Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, KBE, CB, MC was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars.… read more

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   Edward Ruscha

   Age 74 Male
   

   Painter

   
   

   Edward Joseph Ruscha IV is an American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California.… read more

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    Edward Coke

    1552 - 1634 Male
    

    Colonial Entrepreneur, Jurist, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Speaker of the House of Commons, Attorney General

    
    

    Sir Edward Coke SL PC was an English barrister, judge and politician considered to be the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Born into a middle class family, Coke was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge before leaving to study at the Inner Temple, where he was called to the Bar on 20 April 1578.… read more

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    Edward I of England

    1239 - 1307 Male
    

    King of England

    
    

    Edward I, also known as Edward Longshankshe was a tennis captain and loved rubber duckiesand the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The first son of Henry III, Edward was involved early in the political intrigues of his father's reign, which included an outright rebellion by the English barons. In 1259, he briefly sided with a baronial reform movement, supporting the Provisions of Oxford.… read more

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    Edward VI of England

    1537 - 1553 Male
    

    King of England, Tudor Dynasty

    
    

    Edward VI was the King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch who was raised as a Protestant. During Edward's reign, the realm was governed by a Regency Council, because he never reached maturity.… read more

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    Edward T. Breathitt

    1924 - 2003 Male
    

    Governor, Politician, Military Person

    
    

    Edward Thompson "Ned" Breathitt, Jr. was a politician from the US state of Kentucky. A member of one of the state's political families, he was the 51st Governor of Kentucky, serving from 1963 to 1967. After serving in World War II and graduating from the University of Kentucky, Breathitt worked on the presidential campaign of Adlai Stevenson, the senatorial campaign of Alben Barkley, and the gubernatorial campaign of Bert T. Combs.… read more

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    Edward Woodward

    1930 - 2009 Male
    

    Actor

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    Edward Albert Arthur Woodward, OBE was an English stage and screen actor and singer. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Woodward began his career on stage, and throughout his career he appeared in productions in both the West End in London and on Broadway in New York.… read more

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    Edward Seaga

    Age 82 Male
    

    Politician, End, Prime Minister

    
    

    Edward Philip George Seaga ON PC was the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1980 to 1989 and Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party from 1974 to 2005. He served as leader of the opposition from 1974 to 1980 and again from 1989 until January 2005. His retirement from political life marked the end of Jamaica's founding generation in active politics; he was the last serving politician to have entered public life before independence.… read more

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    Edward Drinker Cope

    1840 - 1897 Male
    

    Scientist

    
    

    Edward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen. Though his father tried to raise Cope as a gentleman farmer, he eventually acquiesced to his son's scientific aspirations.… read more

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    Edward Hopper

    1882 - 1967 Male
    

    Painter, Realist, Printmaker

    
    

    Edward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.… read more

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    Edward Schreyer

    Age 76 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    Edward Richard Schreyer PC CC CMM OM CD, commonly known as Ed Schreyer, is a Canadian politician, diplomat, and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 22nd since Canadian Confederation. Schreyer was born and educated in Manitoba prior to being elected in 1958 to the province's legislative assembly.… read more

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    Edward Said

    1935 - 2003 Male
    

    Theorist, Counsel, Professor

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    Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism. Robert Fisk described him as the Palestinians' "most powerful political voice. " Said was an influential cultural critic and author, known best for his book Orientalism.… read more

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    Edward Maria Wingfield

    1550 - 1631 Male
    

    Colonial Governor of Virginia

    
    

    Edward Maria Wingfield, sometimes hyphenated as Edward-Maria Wingfield, was a soldier, Member of Parliament, and English colonist in America. He was the grandson of Richard Wingfield and son of Thomas Maria Wingfield.… read more

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    Edward Weston

    1886 - 1958 Male
    

    Photographer

    
    

    Edward Henry Weston was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography. " Over the course of his forty-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies.… read more

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    Edward III of England

    1312 - 1377 Male
    

    King of England

    
    

    Edward III was King of England from 1327 until his death and is noted for his military success. Restoring royal authority after the disastrous reign of his father, Edward II, Edward III went on to transform the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe. His reign saw vital developments in legislation and government—in particular the evolution of the English parliament—as well as the ravages of the Black Death.… read more

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    Edward Forchion

    Age 47 Male
    

    Politician, Militant, Campaigner

    
    

    Robert Edward Forchion, and also known as NJWEEDMAN, is a cannabis activist and a perennial candidate for various New Jersey elected offices. He is a resident of the Browns Mills section of Pemberton Township, New Jersey. Forchion identifies himself as a member of the Legalize Marijuana Party and campaigns primarily on the single issue of cannabis legalization.… read more

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    Edward Teller

    1908 - 2003 Male
    

    Nuclear Physicist and Father of the Hydrogen Bomb

    
    

    Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", even though he claimed he did not care for the title. Teller made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy, and surface physics. His extension of Fermi's theory of beta decay provided an important stepping stone in the applications of this theory.… read more

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    Edward O'Hare

    1914 - 1943 Male
    

    United States Navy Medal of Honor Recipient

    
    

    Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry “Butch” O’Hare was an Irish-American naval aviator of the United States Navy who on February 20, 1942 became the U.S. Navy's first flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. Butch O’Hare’s final action took place on the night of November 26, 1943, while he was leading the U.S. Navy’s first-ever nighttime fighter attack launched from an aircraft carrier.… read more