Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
Edith Stein
Edith Stein was a German philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun.
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American writer and designer (1862–1937)
Edith Wharton
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer.
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Italian writer (1846-1908)
Edmondo de Amicis
Edmondo De Amicis was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer.
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Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher (1729–1797)
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism.
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English poet (c. 1552 – 1599)
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser was an English poet who is best known for having written The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory that celebrates the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.
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French painter (1832–1883)
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter.
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German politician and theorist (1850–1932)
Eduard Bernstein
Eduard Bernstein was a German social democratic politician and socialist theorist.
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Uruguayan writer and journalist (1940–2015)
Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "a literary giant of the Latin American left" and "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters".
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