| Thomas DUrfey (16531723), English song-writer and dramatist |
| John George Lambton, Earl of Durham (17921840), English statesman |
| Duris of Samos (c. 340c. 260 B.C.), Greek historian |
| Francis Alexander Durivage (18141881), American author |
| Géraud Christophe Michel Duroc, duc de Frioul (17721813), French general |
| Joseph Marie Elisabeth Durocher (18171860), French geologist |
| Victor Duruy (18111894), French historian and statesman |
| Pierre Du Ryer (16061658), French dramatist |
| Eleanora Duse (18591924), Italian actress |
| Johann Ladislaus Dussek (17601812), Bohemian pianist and composer |
| Louis Dussieux (18151894), French historian and geographer |
| Hannah Emerson Duston (b. 1657), American pioneer |
| Louis Dutens (17301812), French writer |
| Henri Dutrochet (17761847), French physiologist |
| Michael Madhusudan Dutt (18241873), greatest native poet of India in the 19th century |
| Guillaume Du Vair (15561621), French author and lawyer |
| Alexandre Duval (17671842), French dramatist |
| Claude Duval (16431670), famous highwayman |
| Frank Duveneck (18481919), American figure and portrait painter |
| Jean Duvergier de Hauranne (15811643), Abbot of St. Cyran |
| Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne (17981881), French statesman and writer |
| Henri Duveyrier (18401892), French explorer of the Sahara |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck (18161878), American author |
| Antonín Dvořák (18411904), Bohemian musical composer |
| John Dwight (c. 16371703), first distinguished English potter |
| John Sullivan Dwight (18131893), American writer on music |
| Nathaniel Dwight (17701831), American physician |
| Sereno Edwards Dwight (17861850), American educator |
| Theodore Dwight (17641846), American journalist |
| Theodore William Dwight (18221892), American jurist and educationalist |
| Timothy Dwight (17521817), American divine, writer, and educationalist |
| Alexander Dyce (17981869), English dramatic editor and literary historian |
| William Dyce (18061864), British painter |
| Jacques Dyel du Parquet (d. 1658)), French colonizer and colonial governor |
| Alexander Brydie Dyer (18151874), American general |
| Sir Edward Dyer (15431607), English courtier and poet |
| Eliphalet Dyer (17211807), American jurist |
| George Dyer (17551841), English antiquary and scholar |
| John Dyer (1700?1758), British poet |
| Thomas Henry Dyer (18041888), English historical and antiquarian writer |
| John Bacchus Dykes (18231876), British composer |
| James Oswald Dykes (18351912), English Presbyterian clergyman and author |
| Dymoke, name of an English family holding the office of kings champion |
| John Eachard (1636?1697), English divine |
| Eadbald (d. 640), King of Kent |
| John Eadie (18101876), Scottish theologian and biblical critic |
| Eadmer (c. 1060c. 1124), English historian and ecclesiastic |
| James Buchanan Eads (18201887), American engineer |
| Thomas Eakins (18441916), American portrait and figure painter |
| Ralph Earl (17511801), American historical and portrait painter |
| John Earle (1601?1665), English divine |
| Richard Earlom (17431822), English mezzotint engraver |
| Jubal Anderson Early (18161894), American soldier and lawyer |
| Sir Alfred East (18441913), English painter and etcher |
| Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (17931865), English painter |
| Elaine Goodale Eastman (18631953), American poetess |
| George Eastman (18541932), American inventor and philanthropist |
| Edward Backhouse Eastwick (18141883), British orientalist |
| Dorman Bridgman Eaton (18231899), American lawyer |
| Peggy Eaton (1799?1879), Englishwoman noted for her beauty, wit and vivacity |
| Theophilus Eaton (c. 15901658), English colonial governor in America |
| William Eaton (17641811), American soldier |
| Wyatt Eaton (18491896), American portrait and figure painter |
| Hermann Wilhelm Ebel (18201875), German philologist |
| Johann Gottfried Ebel (17641830), author of the first real guide-book to Switzerland |
| Eberhard (14451496), Count and afterwards Duke of Württemberg |
| Johann Augustus Eberhard (17391809), German theologian and philosopher |
| Johann Ernst Eberlin (17021762), German musician and composer |
| Georg Ebers (18371898), German Egyptologist and novelist |
| Adolf Ebert (18201890), German philologist |
| Friedrich Ebert (18711925), first President of the Reich or German Federated Republic |
| Friedrich Adolf Ebert (17911834), German bibliographer |
| Karl Egon Ebert (18011882), Austrian poet |
| Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (18301916), Austrian novelist |
| Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard (18181888), German theologian |
| Ebroin (d. 681), Frankish mayor of the palace |
| Johann Eccard (15531611), German composer of church music |
| Abraham Ecchellensis (16051664), learned Maronite |
| Ecgfrith (d. 685), King of Northumbria |
| José Echegaray (18321916), Spanish author and playwright |
| Johann Eck (14861543), German theologian |
| Johann Peter Eckermann (17921854), German poet and author |
| Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (17831853), Danish painter |
| Meister Eckhart (?1260?1327), German philosopher |
| Joseph Hilarius von Eckhel (17371798), Austrian numismatist |
| Eddius Stephanus (Seventh Century), Kentish choirmaster |
| Clarence Eddy (18511937), American organist and composer |
| Henry Turner Eddy (18441921), American mathematician |
| Mary Baker Eddy (18211910), founder of Christian Science |
| Thomas Eddy (17581827), American philanthropist |
| Gérard Edelinck (16401707), Flemish copper-plate engraver |
| Sir Ashley Eden (18311887), Anglo-Indian official and diplomatist |
| Edgar (943/4975), King of the English |
| Edgar (c. 1050c. 1130), son of Edward, a son of the English King Edmund Ironside |
| Edgecumbe, name of a celebrated west of England family |
| Maria Edgeworth (17681849), Irish novelist |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth (17441817), British writer |
| Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont (17451807), last confessor to Louis XVI. |
| Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler (18491892), Swedish author |
| Edhem Pasha (18181893), Turkish statesman, of Greek origin |
| Thomas Edison (18471931), American inventor |
| Saint Edmund (c. 11701240), English saint and Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Edmund (841870), King of East Anglia |
| Edmund I. (d. 946), King of the English |
| Edmund Ironside (c. 9811016), King of the English |
| Edmund (12451296), King of Sicily and Earl of Lancaster |
| George Franklin Edmunds (18281919), American lawyer and political leader |
| Edred (d. 955), King of the English |
| Edric Streona (d. 1017), Ealdorman of the Mercians |
| Edward the Elder (d. 924), King of the Angles and Saxons |
| Edward the Martyr (c. 962978), King of the English |
| Edward the Confessor (10031066), King of the English |
| Edward I. (12391307), King of England |
| Edward II. (12841327), King of England |
| Edward III. (13121377), King of England |
| Edward IV. (14421483), King of England |
| Edward V. (14701483), King of England |
| Edward VI. (15371553), King of England and Ireland |
| Edward VII. (18411910), King of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India |
| Edward, Prince of Wales (13301376), known as The Black Prince |
| Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes (18191868), English soldier-statesman in India |
| Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (18311892), English author and Egyptologist |
| Bela Bates Edwards (18021852), American man of letters |
| Bryan Edwards (17431800), English politician and historian |
| George Edwards (16941773), English naturalist |
| Harry Stillwell Edwards (18551938), American journalist and writer |
| Henry Thomas Edwards (18371884), Welsh divine |
| John Passmore Edwards (18231911), English newspaper proprietor and philanthropist |
| Jonathan Edwards (17031758), American theologian and philosopher |
| Lewis Edwards (18091887), Welsh Nonconformist divine |
| Ninian Wirt Edwards (18091899), American lawyer and public man |
| Oliver Edwards (18351904), American soldier |
| Richard Edwards (c. 15231566), English musician and playwright |
| Thomas Charles Edwards (18371900), Welsh Nonconformist divine and educationist |
| Edwin (585?633), King of Northumbria |
| John Edwin (17491790), English actor |
| Edwy (c. 940959), King of the English |
| Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (16211674), Dutch painter |
| Maurice Francis Egan (18521924), American scholar and author |
| Pierce Egan (17721849), English sporting writer |
| Egbert (769/71839), King of the West Saxons |
| Saint Egbert (d. 766), Archbishop of York |
| Hans Egede (16861758), Norwegian missionary |
| Aqiba Eger (17611837), Jewish scholar |
| Augustus Leopold Egg (18161863), English painter |
| Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg (15681634), Austrian statesman |
| Émile Egger (18131885), French scholar |
| Edward Eggleston (18371902), American novelist and historian |
| George Cary Eggleston (18391911), American journalist and author |
| Sveinbjörn Egilsson (17911852), Icelandic antiquarian and lexicographer |
| Earls of Eglinton |
| Earls of Egmont |
| Lamoraal van Egmont (15221568), Prince of Gavre |
| Earls of Egremont |
| Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (17951876), German naturalist |
| Paul Ehrlich (18541915), German bacteriologist |
| Ehud, in the Bible, a judge who delivered Israel from the Moabites |
| Julius Eichberg (18241893), German musical composer |
| Joseph von Eichendorff (17881857), German poet and romance-writer |
| Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (17521827), German theologian |
| Karl Friedrich Eichhorn (17811854), German jurist |
| Carl Eduard von Eichwald (17951876), Russian geologist and physician |
| Einhard (c. 770840), friend and biographer of Charlemagne |
| David Einhorn (18091879), leader of the Jewish reform movement in the United States of America |
| Albert Einstein (18791955), German-Swiss physicist |
| August Eisenlohr (18321902), German Egyptologist |
| Kurt Eisner (18671919), Bavarian Socialist politician and author |
| Konrad Ekhof (17201778), German actor |
| Elagabalus (204222), Roman Emperor |
| Eldad ben Maḥli (Ninth Century), Jewish traveller |
| John Scott, Earl of Eldon (17511838), Lord High Chancellor of England |
| José de Elduayen, Marquis del Pazo de la Merced (18231898), Spanish politician |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine (c. 11221204), wife of the English King Henry II. |
| Eleutherius (d. 189), Pope |
| Edward Elgar (18571934), English musical composer |
| Earls of Elgin and Kincardine |
| Eli, a member of the ancient priesthood founded in Egypt |
| Elias of Cortona (c. 11801253), disciple of St. Francis of Assisi |
| John Elias (17741841), Welsh Nonconformist preacher and reformer |
| Léonce Élie de Beaumont (17981874), French geologist |
| Saint Eligius (588660), Apostle of the Belgians and Frisians |
| Elijah, in the Bible, the greatest and sternest of the Hebrew prophets |
| Elijah ben Solomon (17201797), noted Talmudist |
| Charles William Eliot (18341926), American educationalist |
| George Eliot (18191880), English writer |
| Sir John Eliot (15921632), English statesman |
| John Eliot (16041690), American colonial clergyman |
| John Eliot (17541813), American clergyman |
| Samuel Eliot (18211898), American historian |
| Princess Elisabeth (17641794), daughter of Louis the Dauphin |
| Elisha, in the Bible, the disciple and successor of Elijah |
| Elisha Ben Abuyah (c. 70c. 135), unique figure among the Palestinian Jews |
| Queen Elizabeth I. (15331603), Queen of England and Ireland |
| Empress Elizabeth (17091762), Empress of Russia |
| Elizabeth (15961662), Consort of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and titular King of Bohemia |
| Elizabeth (18371898), Consort of Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary |
| Princess Elizabeth (16351650), English princess, second daughter of Charles I. |
| Saint Elizabeth (12071231), daughter of Andrew II., King of Hungary |
| George Richards Elkington (18011865), founder of the electroplating industry in England |
| Ella, name of three Anglo-Saxon kings |
| Edward Law, Baron Ellenborough (17501818), English judge |
| Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough (17901871), Governor-general of India |
| William Ellery (17271820), American politician |
| Francis Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere (18001857), English noble |
| Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere (c. 15401617), English Lord Chancellor |
| Frank Field Ellinwood (18261908), American clergyman |
| John Elliotson (17911868), English physician |
| Charles Elliott (17921869), American Methodist Episcopal clergyman and author |
| Ebenezer Elliott (17811849), English poet, the corn-law rhymer |
| Alexander John Ellis (18141890), English philologist, mathematician, musician and writer on phonetics |
| George Ellis (17531815), English author |
| George Edward Ellis (18141894), American Unitarian clergyman and author |
| Henry Ellis (17771869), English antiquary |
| Robinson Ellis (18341913), English classical scholar |
| William Ellis (17941872), English Nonconformist missionary |
| Robert William Elliston (17741831), English actor |
| Oliver Ellsworth (17451807), American statesman and jurist |
| Thomas Ellwood (16391713), English author |
| George Elmacin (12051273), author of a history of the Saracens |
| Harvey Lonsdale Elmes (18141847), British architect |
| James Elmes (17821862), British architect, civil engineer, and writer on the arts |
| Peter Elmsley (17731825), English classical scholar |
| James Elphinston (17211809), British poet and man of letters |
| George Keith Elphinstone (17461823), British admiral |
| Mountstuart Elphinstone (17791859), Indian statesman and historian |
| William Elphinstone (14311514), Scottish statesman and prelate, founder of the university of Aberdeen |
| Fanny Elssler (18101884), Austrian dancer |
| Charles Isaac Elton (18391900), English lawyer and antiquary |
| George Elvey (18161893), English organist and composer |
| Gervase Elwes (18661921), English vocalist |
| Richard Theodore Ely (18541943), American political economist |
| Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 14901546), English diplomatist and scholar |
| Karl Elze (18211889), German scholar and Shakespearian critic |
| Elzevir, name of a celebrated family of Dutch printers |
| Toussaint-Bernard Émeric-David (17551839), French archæologist and writer on art |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882), American poet and essayist |
| William Emerson (17011782), English mathematician |
| Ephraim Emerton (18511935), American educator and historian |
| Paolo Emiliani-Giudici (18121872), Italian writer |
| Paolo Emilio (d. 1529), Italian historian |
| Michail Eminescu (18501889), greatest Rumanian poet of the 19th century |
| Emin Pasha (18401892), German traveller, administrator and naturalist |
| Thomas Emlyn (16631741), English nonconformist divine |
| Emmanuel Philibert (15281580), Duke of Savoy |
| Robert Emmet (17781803), Irish rebel |
| Thomas Addis Emmet (17641827), Irish lawyer and politician |
| Daniel Decatur Emmett (18151904), American musician |
| Ubbo Emmius (15471625), Dutch historian and geographer |
| Ebenezer Emmons (17991863), American geologist |
| Nathanael Emmons (17451840), American theologian |
| William Hemsley Emory (18111887), American soldier |
| Empedocles (c. 495435 B.C.), Greek philosopher and statesman |
| Sir Richard Empson (d. 1510), minister of Henry VII., King of England |
| Hieronymus Emser (14781527), antagonist of Luther |
| Juan del Encina (14681529?), often called the founder of the Spanish drama |
| Johann Franz Encke (17911865), German astronomer |
| John Endecott (1588?1665), English colonial governor in America |
| William Crowninshield Endicott (18261900), American statesman |
| Endoeus (Sixth Century B.C.), early sculptor |
| Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin (17961864), French social reformer, one of the founders of Saint-Simonism |
| Ernst Engel (18211896), German political economist and statistician |
| Johann Jakob Engel (17411802), German author |
| Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (16341716), Norwegian poet |
| Johann Georg Veit Engelhardt (17911855), German theologian |
| Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon Condé, duc dEnghien (17721804), French noble |
| Sir Francis Englefield (c. 15201596), English Roman Catholic politician |
| George Engleheart (17501829), English miniature painter |
| Thomas Dunn English (18191902), American lawyer, journalist and author |
| William Hayden English (18221896), American capitalist and politician |
| John Joseph Enneking (18411916), American landscape painter |
| Adolphe dEnnery (18111899), French dramatist and novelist |
| William Willoughby Cole, Earl of Enniskillen (18071886), British palæontologist |
| Ennius (239169 B.C.), ancient Latin poet |
| Saint Magnus Felix Ennodius (474521), Bishop of Pavia, Latin rhetorician and poet |
| Enoch, eldest son of Cain |
| Buyo, Viscount Enomoto (18361908), Japanese vice-admiral |
| Antonio Enríquez Gómez (16001663), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist of Portuguese-Jewish origin |
| Zenón de Somodevilla y Bengoechea, Marqués de la Ensenada (17021781), Spanish statesman |
| Catherine Henriette de Balzac dEntragues (15791633), mistress of Henry IV., King of France |
| Joseph-Antoine Bruni dEntrecasteaux (17391793), French navigator |
| Enver Pasha (18811922), leader of the Young Turks |
| Enzo (c. 12241272), King of Sardinia |
| Charles Geneviève Louise Auguste André Timothée dEon de Beaumont (17281810), French political adventurer, famous for the supposed mystery of his sex |
| József Eötvös (18131871), Hungarian writer and statesman |
| Epaminondas (c. 418362), Theban general and statesman |
| Ephorus (c. 400330 B.C.), Greek historian |
| Saint Ephraem Syrus (303373), Syriac theologian |
| Ephraim, a tribe of Israel |
| Epicharmus (c. 540450 B.C.), Greek comic poet |
| Epictetus (c. 50c. 138), Greek philosopher |
| Epicurus (341270 B.C.), Greek philosopher |
| Madame dÉpinay (17261783), French writer |
| Saint Epiphanius (c. 310403), celebrated Church Father |
| Simon Episcopius (15831643), Dutch theologian |
| Epps, name of an English family, well known in commerce and medicine |
| Jean-Jacques Duval dÉprémesnil (17451794), French magistrate and politician |
| Sébastien Erard (17521831), French manufacturer of musical instruments |
| Desiderius Erasmus (c. 14671536), Dutch scholar and theologian |
| Thomas Erastus (15241583), German-Swiss theologian |
| Eratosthenes (c. 276c. 194 B.C.), Greek scientific writer |
| Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (15331594), Spanish soldier and poet |
| Émile Erckmann (18221899) and Alexandre Chatrian (18261890), French writers |
| János Erdélyi (18141868), Hungarian poet and author |
| Johann Eduard Erdmann (18051892), German philosophical writer |
| Otto Linné Erdmann (18041869), German chemist |
| Eric XIV. (15331577), King of Sweden |
| Sir John Eric Erichsen (18181896), British surgeon |
| John Ericsson (18031889), Swedish-American naval engineer |
| Joannes Scotus Erigena (c. 810c. 877), medieval philosopher and theologian |
| Erinna (fl. c. 600 B.C.), Greek poet |
| Sir William Erle (17931880), English lawyer and judge |
| Paul Erman (17641851), German physicist |
| Ermanaric (fl. 350376), King of the East Goths |
| Ermoldus Nigellus (Ninth Century), Monk of Aquitaine |
| Ernest I. (17841844), Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
| Ernest II. (18181893), Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
| Ernest Augustus (17711851), King of Hanover and Duke of Cumberland |
| Johann August Ernesti (17071781), German theologian and philologist |
| Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti (17561802), German classical scholar |
| Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (18141865), German violinist and composer |
| Thomas Erpenius (15841624), Dutch orientalist |
| Francis Hay, Earl of Erroll (d. 1631), Scottish nobleman |
| Johann Samuel Ersch (17661828), founder of German bibliography |
| Ebenezer Erskine (16801754), Scottish divine, the chief founder of the Secession Church |
| Henry Erskine (17461817), Lord Advocate of Scotland |
| John Erskine (17211803), Scottish divine |
| Ralph Erskine (16851752), Scottish divine |
| Thomas Erskine (17881870), Scottish theologian |
| Thomas, Baron Erskine (17501823), Lord Chancellor of England |
| John Erskine of Carnock (16951768), Scottish jurist |
| Matthias Erzberger (18751921), German politician |
| Esarhaddon (d. 669 B.C.), Assyrian king |
| Esau, son of Isaac and Rebecca, in the Bible |
| Johann Joachim Eschenburg (17431820), German critic and literary historian |
| Carl August Eschenmayer (17681852), German philosopher and physicist |
| Arnold Escher von der Linth (18071872), Swiss geologist |
| Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (17931831), Russian traveller and naturalist |
| Antonio Escobar y Mendoza (15891669), Spanish churchman of illustrious descent |
| Juan de Escobedo (d. 1578), Spanish politician |
| Mariano Escobedo (18261902), Mexican soldier |
| Juan Escoiquiz (17621820), Spanish ecclesiastic, politician and writer |
| Harry Escombe (18381899), South African statesman |
| Patricio de la Escosura (18071878), Spanish statesman and author |
| Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount Esher (18521930), English politician and writer |
| William Baliol Brett, Viscount Esher (18151899), English lawyer and master of the rolls |
| Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch (18231908), German surgeon |
| Baldomero Espartero (17931879), Spanish soldier and statesman |
| Timoléon dEspinay (15801644), French soldier |
| Vicente Espinel (1550?1624), Spanish poet and novelist |
| Francisco Espoz y Mina (17811836), Spanish guerrillero leader and general |
| José de Espronceda (18081842), Spanish poet |
| Étienne Esquirol (17721840), French alienist |
| Alphonse Esquiros (18121876), French writer |
| Johann Heinrich van Ess (17721847), German Catholic theologian |
| Earls of Essex |
| Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex (16311683), English statesman |
| Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (15651601), English noble |
| Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (15911646), English noble |
| Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex (15411576), English noble |
| Charles Hector, Comte dEstaing (17291794), French admiral |
| Richard Estcourt (16681712), English actor |
| Este, one of the oldest of the former reigning houses of Italy |
| Serafín Estébanez Calderón (17991867), Spanish author |
| Esterházy of Galántha, a noble Magyar family |
| Esther, book in the Bible |
| Estienne, French family of scholars and printers |
| Guillaume dEstouteville (14031483), French ecclesiastic |
| Godefroi, Comte dEstrades (16071686), French diplomatist and marshal |
| Gabrielle dEstrées (1573?1599), mistress of Henry IV. of France |
| Anne de Pisseleu dHeilly, Duchesse dÉtampes (1508c. 1585), mistress of Francis I. of France |
| Antoine Étex (18081888), French sculptor, painter and architect |
| Ethelwerd (d. 998?), Anglo-Saxon historian |
| Sir George Etherege (1635?1691), English dramatist |
| John Wesley Etheridge (18041866), English nonconformist divine |
| Robert Etheridge (18191903), English geologist and palæontologist |
| Charles-Guillaume Étienne (17771845), French dramatist and miscellaneous writer |
| Constantin von Ettingshausen (18261897), Austrian geologist and botanist |
| Ludwig Ettmüller (18021877), German philologist |
| Michael Ettmüller (16441683), German physician |
| William Etty (17871849), British painter |
| Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston dOrléans, Comte dEu (18421922), French soldier |
| Eubulides (Fourth Century B.C.), Greek philosopher |
| Eubulus (Fourth Century B.C.), Athenian demagogue |
| Eubulus (c. 370 B.C.), Athenian poet of the Middle comedy |
| Rudolf Eucken (18461926), German philosopher and religious teacher
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