Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.
Amelia Earhart
Born: July 24, 1897 Atchison, Kansas Died: c. 1937 American pilot and women's rights activist The American aviator Amelia Earhart rema...
George Eastman
Born: July 12, 1854 Waterville, New York Died: March 14, 1932 Rochester, New York American inventor, industrialist, and businessman ...
Shirin Ebadi
Human-rights activist Born in 1947, in Hamadan, Iran; daughter of Mino Ebadi; married to Javad Tavassolian (an electrical engineer); children: two daughters. Educa...
Shirin Ebadi
1947 • Hamadan, Iran Lawyer, human rights activist Before October of 2003, most people outside of Iran—and many people inside that coun...
Richard Eberhart
Born Richard Ghormley Eberhart, April 5, 1904, in Austin, MN; died after a brief illness, June 9, 2005, in Hanover, NH. Poet and educator. The works of Richard Eberhart brought him fame an...
Christine Ebersole
Actress Born February 21, 1953, in Chicago, IL; daughter of Robert (an engineer) and Marian (a psychiatric social worker) Ebersole; married Peter Bergman (an actor), 1976 (d...
Buddy Ebsen
Born Christian Rudolph Ebsen, April 2, 1908, in Belleville, IL; died of pneumonia, July 6, 2003, in Torrance, CA. Actor and dancer. Buddy Ebsen's career spanned more than 60 years, encompa...
Marc Ecko
Fashion designer and business executive Born Marc Milecofsky, in 1972, in New Jersey; married Allison; children: one daughter. Education: Attended Ru...
Gerald M. Edelman
American neuroscientist, professor, and author Gerald M. Edelman (born 1929) won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1972 at the age of 43. He went on to achieve equal pro...
Gertrude Ederle
Born Gertrude Caroline Ederle, October 23, 1905, in New York, NY; died November 30, 2003, in Wyckoff, NJ. Record-setting swimmer. In 1926, American Gertrude Ederle became the first woman t...
Thomas Edison
Born: February 11, 1847 Milan, Ohio Died: October 18, 1931 West Orange, New Jersey American inventor The American inv...
Althea Maria Brown Edmiston
Althea Maria Brown Edmiston (1874–1937) was an African-American missionary who spent more than 30 years serving a Presbyterian mission in the Belgian Congo in Africa in the early p...
Albert Einstein
Born: March 14, 1879 Ulm, Germany Died: April 18, 1955 Princeton, Massachusetts German-born American physicist and scientist ...
Mamie Eisenhower
Born: November 14, 1896 Boone, Iowa Died: November 1, 1979 Washington, D.C. American first lady Mamie Eisenhower, the...
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Born: October 14, 1890 Denison, Texas Died: March 26, 1969 Washington, D.C. American president, university president, and army offic...
Will Eisner
Born William Erwin Eisner, March 6, 1917, in New York, NY; died on January 3, 2005, in Lauderdale Lakes, FL. Graphic novelist. Illustrator and writer Will Eisner was an important influence...
Michael Eisner
March 7, 1942 • Mt. Kisco, New York CEO of Walt Disney Company When Michael Eisner came on board as Disney's chairman of the board of d...
Mohamed ElBaradei
Director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Born June 17, 1942, in Cairo, Egypt; son of Mostafa ElBaradei (an attorney); married Aida Elkachef (a preschool teacher)...
Joycelyn Elders
Born: August 13, 1933 Schaal, Arkansas African American federal government official and surgeon general Confirmed as the sixteenth surgeon general of t...
Olafur Eliasson
1967 • Copenhagen, Denmark Artist Olafur Eliasson is not a traditional artist. His best-known works cannot be hung on a wall and do not...