Famous Personalities & Cultural Icons
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All Personalities (537 listed)
Edmond Halley
English Astronomer, Mathematician & Physicist (Halley's Comet)
Edmund Kean
Celebrated British Shakespearean Tragedian & Drury Lane Theatre Legend
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond
Earl of Richmond, Father of King Henry VII and Progenitor of the Royal House of Tudor
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Woman to Win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Lyrical Poet & Playwright
Edogawa Ranpo
Father of Japanese Detective Fiction, Master of Psychological Mystery & Founder of MWJ
Edward Said
Postcolonial Literary Theorist, Cultural Critic & Author of Orientalism
Edward V
King of England
Elsa Lanchester
Two-Time Academy Award-Nominated Actress (The Bride of Frankenstein & Mary Poppins)
Elvin Jones
Legendary Post-Bop Jazz Drummer (Classic John Coltrane Quartet & A Love Supreme)
Émile Bayard
Artist, Illustrator & Painter
Emily Post
World-Renowned Author, Cultural Columnist & America's Foremost Authority on Etiquette
Emperor Meiji
122nd Emperor of Japan & Monarch of the Meiji Restoration
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Giant of Northern Renaissance Humanism, Philosopher, Theologian, Satirist & Classical Scholar
Ernest Rutherford
Nuclear Physicist, Chemist & Nobel Laureate
Étienne de La Boétie
Renaissance Political Philosopher, Judge & Author of Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
Etta Moten Barnett
Pioneering African-American Contralto Singer, Actress & Cultural Ambassador