Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, n.
a disk-shaped region of minor planets outside the orbit of Neptune
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Edinburgh, n.
the capital of Scotland; located in the Lothian Region on the south side of the Firth of Forth
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Edirne, n.
a city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian
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Edison, n.
United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)
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Edith Cavell, n.
English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape; was caught and executed by the Germans (1865-1915)
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Edith Giovanna Gassion, n.
French cabaret singer (1915-1963)
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Edith Louisa Cavell, n.
English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape; was caught and executed by the Germans (1865-1915)
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Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, n.
United States novelist (1862-1937)
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Edith Piaf, n.
French cabaret singer (1915-1963)
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Edith Wharton, n.
United States novelist (1862-1937)
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Edmond Halley, n.
English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)
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Edmond Hoyle, n.
English writer on card games (1672-1769)
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Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt, n.
French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896)
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Edmond Malone, n.
English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812)
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Edmond Rostand, n.
French dramatist and poet whose play immortalized Cyrano de Bergerac (1868-1918)
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Edmond de Goncourt, n.
French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896)
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Edmonton, n.
the capital of the province of Alberta
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Edmontonia, n.
heavily armored and highly spiked dinosaur with semi-upright posture
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Edmund Burke, n.
British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
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Edmund Cartwright, n.
English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)
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Edmund Charles Edouard Genet, n.
French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834)
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Edmund Halley, n.
English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)
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Edmund Hillary, n.
New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)
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Edmund Husserl, n.
German philosopher who developed phenomenology (1859-1938)
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Edmund I, n.
king of the English who succeeded Athelstan; he drove out the Danes and made peace with Scotland (921-946)
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Edmund II, n.
king of the English who led resistance to Canute but was defeated and forced to divide the kingdom with Canute (980-1016)
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Edmund Ironside, n.
king of the English who led resistance to Canute but was defeated and forced to divide the kingdom with Canute (980-1016)
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Edmund John Millington Synge, n.
Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909)
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Edmund Kean, n.
English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833)
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Edmund Malone, n.
English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812)
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