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• E. D. Morel 1873–1924British journalist and campaigner; leader of the Congo Reform Association.
• E. G. PippEditor of the Dearborn Independent until April 1920; later wrote of Ford’s circle.
• E. Howard Hunt 1918–2007American intelligence officer, a member of the White House Plumbers, who pleaded guilty in the Watergate break-in.
• E. Roland HarrimanAmerican banker; chairman of Union Banking Corporation and a partner at Brown Brothers Harriman.
• Earl J. HamiltonAmerican economic historian whose 1934 book argued that American silver drove the sixteenth-century rise in Spanish prices.
• Earl Warren 1891–1974Chief Justice of the United States; chairman of the Warren Commission.
• Edmond de Rothschild 1845–1934French banker who financed the first farming colonies in Ottoman Palestine.
• Edmund BurkeMember of the House of Commons who led the impeachment of Warren Hastings.
• Edmund Muskie 28 Mar 1914 – 26 Mar 1996U.S. politician who chaired the Nestlé Infant Formula Audit Commission.
• Edward Douglass White 1845–1921Chief Justice of the United States from 1910 to 1921.
• Edward Goschen 1847–1924British ambassador in Berlin in 1914.
• Edward Gramlich 1939–2007Governor of the Federal Reserve who spoke out on abusive lending.
• Edward Grey 1862–1933British Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916.
• Edward H. White 1930–1967American astronaut who died in the Apollo 1 fire.
• Edward I of England 1239–1307King of England from 1272 to 1307.
• Edward Jay EpsteinInvestigative writer; author of The Rise and Fall of Diamonds (1982).
• Edward M. KennedyU.S. Senator from Massachusetts who chaired the Senate Health Subcommittee in 1973 and 1977.
• Edward S. HermanCo-author, with Noam Chomsky, of Manufacturing Consent (1988).
• Edward Winslow 1595–1655Plymouth colonist whose letter of 1621 is the only known eyewitness account of the harvest feast.
• Edwin BlackAmerican journalist; author of IBM and the Holocaust (2001).
• Edwin H. LandAmerican inventor of a sheet light polarizer; founder of the Polaroid Corporation.
• Edwin SeligmanColumbia University economist who wrote in 1914 that the Federal Reserve Act was more Paul Warburg's work than anyone's.
• Efraim KarshHistorian of the 1948 war and critic of the 'new historians'.
• Ehud BarakPrime Minister of Israel at the Camp David summit of July 2000.
• Einer ElhaugeLegal scholar; Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
• Elbert H. Gary 1846–1927Chairman of the United States Steel Corporation's finance committee; a judge.
• Elizabeth A. FennHistorian; author of "Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America" (2000).
• Elizabeth HolmesFounder and chief executive of Theranos; convicted in 2022 of defrauding its investors.
• Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr.U.S. Navy admiral; in 1989 and 1990 special assistant to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on Agent Orange.
• Elon Musk 28 Jun 1971 –Entrepreneur; founder and CEO of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla.
• Elouise CobellLead plaintiff in Cobell v. Babbitt, the class action over Indian trust accounts.
• Emery Reves 1904–1981Publisher who brought out the 1941 book I Paid Hitler; Turner calls him its ghost-writer.
• Emil Kirdorf 1847–1938Coal industrialist who joined the Nazi Party in 1927 and left it in 1928; Hitler kept courting him, and he rejoined after 1933.
• Emmanuel MacronPresident of France; ordered the Duclert Commission in 2019 and spoke at the Kigali Genocide Memorial on 27 May 2021.
• Enrico Fermi 1901–1954Physicist who led the team that built the first nuclear reactor, in Chicago.
• Enver PashaOttoman minister of war during the First World War.
• Ephrem KarangwaWorked in Taba commune in 1994 and became its mayor in 1996. Testified before the Rwanda Tribunal.
• Eric NzabahimanaSurvivor at Bisesero in June 1994, who spoke for the survivors to the French troops and reporters.
• Eric SchmidtGoogle CEO 2001–2011 and executive chairman of Google and then Alphabet, 2011–2018.
• Erich Ludendorff 9 Apr 1865 – 20 Dec 1937German general; First Quartermaster General of the German army (1916–1918).
• Ernest Lawrence 1901–1958Physicist and adviser on the bomb, who suggested showing it to Japan first.
• Ernest LieboldHenry Ford’s private secretary; general manager of the Dearborn Independent.
• Ernest OppenheimerMining businessman; founded Anglo American and chaired De Beers from 1929.
• Ernst von FreybergPresident of the Institute for the Works of Religion during the 2013-14 account review.
• Errol MuskSouth African engineer; father of Elon and Kimbal Musk.
• Esek HopkinsMaster of the slave ship Sally in 1764.
• Esther WojcickiEducator who founded the Media Arts Program at Palo Alto High School; author of How to Raise Successful People; mother of Susan and Anne Wojcicki.
• Estée LauderFounder, with her husband Joseph, of the company that became The Estée Lauder Companies.
• Eugene N. WhiteEconomic historian who wrote on the finances of France before and during the Revolution.
• Eugène SchuellerFrench chemist who founded the firm that became L'Oréal in 1909.
• Eunice RiversNurse at Tuskegee Institute who helped enrol and follow the men in the Tuskegee study.