Leading Figures in History

Discover the people who shaped our world — from rulers and scientists to artists and activists.

24408 persons found

Edo Murtić

b. 1921

Croatian painter

Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild

French banker (1868–1949)

Édouard Balladur

b. 1929

French politician (born 1929)

Édouard Beaupré

Canadian wrestler, strongman, and circus giant

Édouard Daladier

b. 1884

French radical socialist politician

Édouard Goursat

b. 1858

French mathematician (1858–1936)

Édouard Herriot

b. 1872

French Radical politician (1872–1957)

Édouard Lalo

French composer (1823–1892)

Édouard Le Roy

b. 1870

French philosopher and mathematician

Édouard Manet

French painter (1832–1883)

Édouard Michelin (born 1963)

French manufacturer (1963–2006)

Édouard Vuillard

French painter (1868–1940)

Edouard Wyss-Dunant

b. 1897

Swiss physician and alpinist

Édouard-Henri Avril

b. 1849

French artist (1849–1928)

Edsel Ford

American businessman (1893–1943)

Edsger W. Dijkstra

b. 1930

Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)

Edson Buddle

b. 1981

American soccer player (born 1981)

Edu (footballer, born 1978)

b. 1978

Brazilian footballer

Eduard Buchner

b. 1860

German chemist (1860–1917)

Eduard Mörike

19th-century German poet

Eduard Oja

Estonian composer and conductor

Eduard Ole

b. 1898

Estonian painter

Eduard Shevardnadze

Georgian politician and diplomat (1928–2014)

Eduard Spranger

b. 1882

German philosopher and psychologist (1882–1963)