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1,666 profilesEdward Said
1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003
Edward Said was a Palestinian-American literary scholar who taught English and comparative literature at Columbia Univer...
Edwin Armstrong
18 December 1890 – 1 February 1954
Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890-1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor who developed FM (frequency modulati...
Edwin Hubble
20 November 1889 – 28 September 1953
Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) was an American astronomer who proved that galaxies exist beyond the Milky Way and discovered t...
Edwin Land
7 May 1909 – 1 March 1991
Edwin Herbert Land was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He...
Eiji Toyoda
12 September 1913 – 17 September 2013
Eiji Toyoda (1913–2013) was a Japanese industrialist who served as president of Toyota Motor Company from 1967 to 1982 a...
Eileen Chang
30 September 1920 – 8 September 1995
Eileen Chang was a Chinese-American writer celebrated for her fiction depicting life in 1940s Shanghai and Japanese-occu...
Eileen Gray
9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976
Eileen Gray was an Irish architect and furniture designer and a pioneer of the modern movement in architecture. She firs...
El Anatsui
4 February 1944 – present
El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor who has lived and worked in Nigeria since 1975, teaching for decades at the University...
El Cid
c. 1043 – 10 July 1099
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known as El Cid, was a Castilian knight and military commander in medieval Spain. Exiled by King...
El Greco
1541 – 7 April 1614
El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) was a Greek painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, born in Ven...
Eleanor of Aquitaine
c. 1122 – 1 April 1204
Eleanor of Aquitaine (c. 1122-1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right and queen consort of both France and Engla...
Eleanor Roosevelt
11 October 1884 – 7 November 1962
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as First Lady of the United S...
Elia Suleiman
28 July 1960 – present
Elia Suleiman is a Palestinian film director, screenwriter and actor born in Nazareth. His features, in which he usually...
Elias Zerhouni
12 April 1951 – present
Elias Zerhouni is an Algerian-American radiologist and biomedical researcher who emigrated to the United States in 1975...
Elie Saab
4 July 1964 – present
Elie Saab is a Lebanese fashion designer who founded his couture house in Beirut in 1982. He became the first non-Italia...
Elie Wiesel
30 September 1928 – 2 July 2016
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, and Holocaust survivor best known for his memoir Night. A ti...
Elif Shafak
25 October 1971 – present
Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist and essayist who writes in both Turkish and English. Her novels, including The...
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) was a French portrait painter, best known as the favorite portraitist of Queen Marie...
Eliud Kipchoge
5 November 1984 – present
Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan long-distance runner who won the Olympic marathon in 2016 and 2021 and twice set the world re...
Elizabeth Blackwell
3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was a British-born physician who became the first woman to receive a medical degree in t...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
12 November 1815 – 26 October 1902
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American writer and activist who was a principal leader of the women's rights...
Elizabeth I
7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603
Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603, the last Tudor monarch. Her long reign saw the defeat of the Spanish Arm...
Ella Fitzgerald
25 April 1917 – 15 June 1996
Ella Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer known as the "First Lady of Song" for her purity of tone, impeccable diction...
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
29 October 1938 – present
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian politician and economist who served as President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018, the f...
Elon Musk
28 June 1971 – present
South African-born entrepreneur behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla and other ventures, known for pushing electric vehicles and...
Elsa Schiaparelli
10 September 1890 – 13 November 1973
Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer who became one of the most prominent figures in Parisian haute couture...
Elton John
25 March 1947 – present
Sir Elton Hercules John is an English singer, songwriter, and pianist whose partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin prod...
Elvis Presley
8 January 1935 – 16 August 1977
American singer and actor, the "King of Rock and Roll", whose fusion of country, gospel and rhythm and blues transformed...
Emil Zátopek
19 September 1922 – 21 November 2000
Emil Zátopek was a Czechoslovak long-distance runner who won the 5,000 metres, 10,000 metres and marathon at the 1952 He...
Emiliano Zapata
8 August 1879 – 10 April 1919
Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a leading figure of the Mexican Revolution and the main commander of the Liberation Army of...
Émilie du Châtelet
17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet, was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher...
Emily Brontë
30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) was an English novelist and poet, best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), now...
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886
American poet who lived in near seclusion in Amherst, Massachusetts, and whose nearly 1,800 poems, mostly published afte...
Emir Abdelkader
6 September 1808 – 26 May 1883
Emir Abdelkader was an Algerian religious and military leader who led resistance against the French colonial conquest of...
Emmanuel Macron
21 December 1977 – present
Emmanuel Macron is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. A graduate of Sciences Po and t...
Emmanuelle Charpentier
11 December 1968 – present
Emmanuelle Charpentier is a French microbiologist and biochemist whose work on the bacterial immune system CRISPR-Cas9 l...
Emmeline Pankhurst
15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928
British political activist who led the militant suffragette movement demanding votes for women. She founded the Women's...
Emmy Noether
23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935
Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physi...
Emperor Meiji
3 November 1852 – 30 July 1912
Emperor Meiji (Mutsuhito, 1852-1912) was the 122nd Emperor of Japan, whose reign from 1867 to 1912 spanned Japan's trans...
Empress Dowager Cixi
29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) was the de facto ruler of Qing dynasty China for nearly half a century, governing as re...
Ennio Morricone
10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020
Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor born in Rome, who trained in trumpet and...
Enrico Caruso
25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921
Enrico Caruso was an Italian operatic tenor regarded as one of the greatest singers in history. Renowned for the beauty...
Enrico Fermi
29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954
Italian-American physicist who built the first nuclear reactor and made foundational contributions to quantum theory and...
Erasmus
c. 1466 – 12 July 1536
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist scholar, Catholic priest, and the leading intellectu...
Eric Clapton
30 March 1945 – present
Eric Clapton is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who came to prominence with the Yardbirds and John Mayall's...
Erich Honecker
25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994
Erich Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 to 1989, as General Se...
Ernest Hemingway
21 July 1899 – 2 July 1961
American novelist and short-story writer whose spare, understated prose style influenced 20th-century fiction; winner of...
Ernest Lawrence
8 August 1901 – 27 August 1958
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958) was an American physicist who invented the cyclotron particle accelerator, for which...