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  • Robert, Earl of Essex - royal favourite, rebelled against Elizabeth I
  • Anthony Eden - Conservative prime minister during Suez Crisis
  • Edward the Confessor - Anglo-Saxon king of England
  • Edward I - medieval king of England, campaigned against Scotland, Wales
  • Edward II - medieval king of England, deposed
  • Edward III - medieval king of England at the start of the Hundred Years War
  • Edward IV - king of England, established the Yorkist dynasty
  • Edward V - Yorkist king of England, deposed and murdered
  • Edward VI - Tudor king of England, only son of Henry VIII
  • Edward VII - 20th century king of the United Kingdom, heir to Victoria
  • Edward VIII - 20th century king of the United Kingdom, abdicated
  • Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist, Nobel prize winner
  • Dwight Eisenhower - World War Two general, US president
  • Eleanor of Aquitaine - queen consort of France and later queen of England
  • George Eliot - 19th century female author
  • Elizabeth I - Tudor queen of England, perceived as bringing a 'golden age'
  • Elizabeth II - queen of the United Kingdom, reigning monarch
  • Olaudah Equiano - 18th century African writer, anti-slavery campaigner
  • Erasmus - Dutch writer, scholar, humanist of the Reformation
  • Leif Erikson - 11th century explorer, may have discovered the Americas
  • TE Lawrence - British writer, soldier, mobilised the Arab Revolt of World War One
  • Vladimir Lenin - Russian revolutionary, leader of the Soviet Union
  • Abraham Lincoln - 19th century US president, won the American Civil War
  • James Lind - 18th century physician, developed treatments for scurvy
  • David Livingstone - Victorian missionary, explorer in Africa
  • Louis XIV - king of France, made France dominant on the continent
  • Louis XV - king of France whose policies precipitated revolution
  • Louis XVI - king of France, executed during the French Revolution
  • Erich Ludendorff - German World War One general, Nazi sympathiser
  • Martin Luther - German theologian, inspired the Protestant Reformation
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