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Personality/ Celebrity / Famous Name: Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing.

Personality/ Celebrity / Famous Name: Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

Personality/ Celebrity / Famous Name: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he produced works in many genres.

Personality/ Celebrity / Famous Name: Edgar Wright

Edgar Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English film and television director. He is most famous as director and co-writer of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and director of the surreal TV sitcom Spaced.

Personality/ Celebrity / Famous Name: Edgar John Bergen

Edgar John Bergen (February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an Academy Award-winning American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist.

Edgar as First Name

Edgar Mart     Edgar Mart        Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edgar Mart: (born January 2, 1963 in New York, New York, but raised in the Maguayo neighborhood of Dorado, Puerto Rico[1]) was a longtime Major League Baseball player

Edgar Jones     Edgar Jones        Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edgar Jones: is a retired American professional basketball player who had a career the NBA from 1980 to 1986.While playing college basketball for the University of Nevada, Reno (1975–79), Edgar Jones set the school's all-time points total record (1,877); a record which stood until broken by the Wolf Pack's Nick Fazekas on November 18, 2006.

Edgar Buchanan     Edgar Buchanan        Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edgar Buchanan: was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s. As Uncle Joe, "who is moving kinda slow", he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley.

Edgar John Bergen     Edgar John Bergen        Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edgar John Bergen: was an Academy Award-winning American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist.Bergen was born Edgar John Bergren in Chicago, Illinois, to a Swedish family and grew up in Decatur, Michigan. He taught himself ventriloquism from a pamphlet when he was eleven. A few years later he commissioned Chicago woodcarver Theodore Mack to sculpt a likeness of a rascally Irish newspaperboy he knew. The head went on a puppet named Charlie McCarthy, who became Bergen's lifelong sidekick. At age sixteen, he came to Chicago, where he attended Lake View High School and worked at a silent movie house.

Edgar Wayburn     Edgar Wayburn        Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edgar Wayburn: is a noted environmentalist who was elected president of the Sierra Club five times in the 1960s. One of America's legendary wilderness champions, Dr. Edgar Wayburn was a tenacious and tireless leader of the Sierra Club since the 1940s and perhaps the least-known yet most successful defender of America's natural heritage.

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Edgar as Last Name

David Edward Edgar     David Edward Edgar       Origin/Culture/Country: American

David Edward Edgar: is a Canadian football player who currently plays for Championship side Swansea City on loan from Premier League side Burnley. He can play as a centre back or left back. On 1 February 2007 he was named as Canadian Youth Player of the Year for the 2006 season. In 2007, he helped host Canada compete for the Under-20 World Cup and had been named as one of six ambassadors for the Canadian team during the competition, which was the largest single-sport event ever hosted by Canada. Edgar has played for Canada Under-17 team and Canada Under-20 team. He was called-up for the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship at only 16. In November 2008, Canada national football team for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification against Jamaica.

David Edgar     David Edgar       Origin/Culture/Country: American

David Edgar: is an American swimmer and Olympic champion. Edgar won seven NCAA championships while competing for the University of Tennessee and was named "Fastest Man Afloat" by Sports Illustrated magazine .He competed at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where he re

James Edgar     James Edgar       Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Edgar: is an American politician who was the 38th Governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1999 and Illinois Secretary of State from 1981 to 1991. As a moderate Republican in a largely blue-leaning state, Edgar was a popular and successful governor, leaving office with

Sir James David Edgar     Sir James David Edgar       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sir James David Edgar: was a Canadian politician.He was elected an alderman in 1866, and was a supporter of George Brown and the Reform Party. He ran as a Liberal in the 1871 Ontario provincial election, but was defeated by a margin of four votes in his attempt to win a seat in the provincial legislature.

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