Notable people with the name Edison include:
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Brent Edison (born 1956), American attorney and politician
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Charles Edison
Charles Edison (August 3, 1890 – July 31, 1969) was an American politician, businessman, inventor and animal behaviorist. He was the Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the 42nd governor of New Jersey. Commonly ...
(1890–1969), son of Thomas Edison, and Governor of New Jersey
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Dominique Edison
Dominique Jamaar Edison (born July 16, 1986) is a former American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players ...
(born 1986), American football wide receiver
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Harry Edison
Harry "Sweets" Edison (October 10, 1915 – July 27, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. His most important contribution was as a Hollywood studio musician, whose muted trumpet can be heard backi ...
(1915–1999), American jazz trumpeter
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Laurie Toby Edison
Laurie Toby Edison (born March 5, 1942) is an internationally exhibited American artist, photographer, and visual activist. Much of Edison's photography is black-and-white fine art portraits. Their current project is ''Pandemic Shadows''. Their li ...
(born 1942), American photographer
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Matthew Edison
Matthew Edison (born August 22, 1975) is a Canadian actor known for his roles in ''Fortunate Son'', ''The Detail,'' and ''Nero Wolfe'', and as Cameron Coleman in the web series '' Vought News Network: Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman'' and the t ...
(born 1975), Canadian actor
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Mike Edison
Mike Edison is a New York-based writer, editor, musician, social critic, and spoken word artist. He was one of many publishers/editors of the marijuana counterculture magazine ''High Times'', and was later named editor-in-chief of ''Screw'', th ...
(born 1964), American writer
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Noel Edison
Noel Edison (born November 16, 1958) is a Canadian conductor. He is currently the conductor of the Edison Singers.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of George and Marian Clarissa (Frost), Edison graduated from Jarvis Collegiate in 1978 and Wilf ...
(born 1958), Canadian conductor
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Theodore Miller Edison
Theodore Miller Edison (July 10, 1898 – November 24, 1992) was an American businessman, inventor, and environmentalist. He was the fourth son and youngest child of inventor Thomas Edison, and founder of Calibron Industries, Inc. He was the ...
(1898–1992), American inventor, fourth son of Thomas Edison
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventi ...
(1847–1931), American inventor
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Tommy Edison (born 1963), blind YouTuber
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Edison Barrios (born 1988), Venezuelan professional baseball player
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Edison Carter
''Max Headroom'' is an American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 31, 1987, to May 5, 1988. The seri ...
, a character in ''Max Headroom''
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Edison Chen
Edison Chen Koon-hei (, born Chen Hing-wah on 7 October 1980) is a Canadian-born Hong Kong actor, singer, rapper, fashion designer and entrepreneur. Chen is the co-founder of CLOT, a Hong Kong-based streetwear and fashion label. Debuting in 19 ...
(born 1980), Hong Kong teen idol
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Edison Denisov
Edison Vasilievich Denisov (russian: Эдисо́н Васи́льевич Дени́сов, 6 April 1929 – 24 November 1996) was a Russian composer in the so-called " Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music.
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(1929–1996), Russian composer
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Edison James
Edison Chenfil James (born October 18, 1943, in Marigot) is a Dominican politician who was the prime minister of Dominica from June 14, 1995, to February 3, 2000, as well as the member of parliament for the Marigot constituency from 1990. He gr ...
(born 1943), former prime minister of Dominica
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Édison Méndez (born 1979), Ecuadoran football midfielder
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Edison Reynoso (born 1975), Dominican baseball player
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