Famous People with Name Edmund

Edmund Dantes Urick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edmund Dantes Urick: an American popular singer and actor. He is best known for his Pop and Adult Contemporary hits of the 1960s like "When the Snow is on the Roses" and the perennial "My Cup Runneth Over." He also was originally part of a popular singing group of 1950s called The Ames Brothers.They were first signed on with Decca Records in 1948. However, because of the Musician Union's ban, their records from Decca were never released. Instead, they signed on with another label, Coral Records, a subsidiary of Decca. They had their first major hit in the 1950s with the double-sided "Ragg Mopp" and "Sentimental Me". Following this, the Brothers continued to have success throughout the 50s with many hits like "It Only Hurts For a Little While", "Man With a Banjo" and "The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane".

Edmund Beecher Wilson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edmund Beecher Wilson: was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist.He was a lecturer at Williams College in 1883-84 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884-85. He served as professor of biology at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1891.He spent the balance of his career at Columbia University where he was successively adjunct professor of biology (1891-94), professor of invertebrate zoology (1894 - 1897), and professor of zoology (from 1897).Wilson is credited as America's first cell biologist. In 1898 he used the similarity in embryos to describe phylogenetic relationships. By observing spiral cleavage in molluscs, flatworms and annelids he concluded that the same organs came from the same group of cells and concluded that all these organisms must have a common ancestor.

Edmund Nash            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edmund Nash: was a Canadian–American chess master.Born into a Polish family in Canada, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1936. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison he earned a B.A. in 1932 and an M.A. in 1938. He was a division chief at the Bureau of Labor Sta

Edmund Greacen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edmund Greacen: was an American Impressionist painter.He graduated from New York University. After traveling around the world he entered the Art Students League of New York. He also took classes at the New York School of Art, where he studied with William Merritt Chase. He traveled to Spain with the Chase class in 1905, and then went on to study in the Netherlands, Belgium, and England. In the summer of 1907 he and his family settled in Giverny, France. He did not return to the United States until 1909. Upon his return to the United States and he became a member of the colony of American Impressionists at Old Lyme, Connecticut. Between 1910 and 1917, he maintained a studio in New York City. In 1922, he and John Singer Sargent founded the Grand Central Art Galleries.

Edmund Charles Tarbell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edmund Charles Tarbell: was an American Impressionist painter. He was a member of the Ten American Painters.Tarbell was born at West Groton, Massachusetts, to a family that immigrated from England in 1647. His father, Edmund Whitney Tarbell, died in 1863 after contracting typhoi

Dave Edmunds            Origin/Culture/Country: Welsh

Dave Edmunds: is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he is primarily associated with pub rock and New Wave, and had numerous popular hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll. [1]

Richard Harold Edmunds            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Richard Harold Edmunds: was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Leicestershire. He was born in Oakham and died in Leicester. Edmunds made two first-class appearances during the 1989 season for the team, making a du

George Franklin Edmunds            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Franklin Edmunds: was a Republican U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1866 to 1891. He became active in politics when he was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives which he served as a member of from 1854 to 1859, also serving as Speaker of the House for three of thos

Frederick Lewis "Fred" Edmunds            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Frederick Lewis "Fred" Edmunds: was an Australian politician. Elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Hawthorn in 1945, he and fellow MP John Lechte were expelled from the party in February 1950 after criticising the Hollway Government; he was defeated at

Jóan Símun Edmundsson            Origin/Culture/Country: Scottish

Jóan Símun Edmundsson: is a Faroese footballer who currently plays for Newcastle United and the Faroe Islands national team. Edmundsson was capped at under-19, under-21, during which he scored a memorable goal in a shock 1-0 win over Russia, and full international level while p