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Famous First Names Beginning with the Letter - E

This category is for famous people who have first names which begin with the letter E. The names include - Edgar - Edward - Edwin - Elizabeth - Eric - Ernest.

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Here is a random selection of famous first names beginning with E.

Edgar Allan Poe

(1809 - 49), American short-story writer and poet. He wrote horror and detective stories including "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Pit and the Pendulum".

Ernest Henry Shackleton

[Sir], (1874 - 1922), Anglo-Irish explorer. He served in Robert Scott's Antarctic expedition, and later commanded two further expeditions - in 1908-09 and 1914-16.

Edwin Powell Hubble

(1889 - 1953), American astronomer. His discovery of the galactic 'red shift' and other research established the theory of the expanding universe. The orbiting Hubble space telescope is named after him.

Ernest Rutherford

[1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson], (1871 -1937), New Zealand physicist. In 1908 he was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry. He discovered alpha, beta and gamma radiation.

Eric Henry Liddell

(1902 - 45), Scottish athlete. He was nicknamed the 'Flying Scot'. During the 1924 Olympic Games he refused to run on a Sunday - this became the subject of the award-winning film Chariots of Fire.