Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931): American inventor who held more than 1300 U.S and foreign patents for his inventions: the photograph, the incandescent lamp, etc.

Ehrenburg, Liya Grigoryevich (1891-1967): Russian writer whose novel The Thaw gave the name to post Stalin relaxation.

Ehrlich, Paul (1854-1915): German scientist, one of the pioneers of bacteriology.

Eiffel, Alexandro Gustave (1832-1923: French engineer, remembered for Eiffel tower, Paris and Panama Canal locks.

Einstein, Albert (1879-1955): Mathematical Physicist whose theory of relatively superseded Newton’s theory of gravitation. His work led on to the making of the nuclear bomb. Nobel prize, 1921.

Einthoven, Willem (1860-1927): Dutch physiologist, invented the electrocardiogram. Nobel prize.

Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight (1890-1969): American general and statesman. He was C-in-C, Allied forces, N.Africa 1942-3, and in the European theatre of operations, 1943-5; Republican president, 1953-61.

Eliot, George (1819-’80): Pen-name of English woman novelist Mary Anne) later Marion) Evans. Middlemarch.

Eliot, Thomas Sterns(1888-1965): English poet and critic, born in U.S. The Waste Land, murder in the cathedral Nobel prize.

Elizabeth II(b.1926): Queen of Gt. Britain and N.Ireland; ascended the throne, 1952.