Edythe or Edyth is a female
given name
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Edythe Baker
Edythe A. Baker (August 25, 1899 – August 15, 1971) was an American jazz pianist.
Baker was born in poverty in Girard, Kansas to Asa and Sophronia Baker. After her mother died around 1910 she was sent to Kansas City, Missouri to live, and ...
(1899–1971), American pianist
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Edythe Chapman
Edythe Chapman (October 8, 1863 – October 15, 1948) was an American stage and silent film actress.
Career
Born in Rochester, New York, Chapman began her stage career as early as 1898 when she appeared in New York City in ''The Charity Bal ...
(1863–1948), American stage and silent film actress from Rochester, New York
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Edythe D. London, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles
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Edythe Lewis
Edythe M. "Delilah" Lewis (February 26, 1924 – June 5, 2014) was the first black, female disc jockey in Dayton, Ohio, United States, in the 1950s.
Early life and education
Lewis was born Edythe Mulzac, raised in Harlem and trained as a ...
, the first black, woman disc jockey in Dayton, Ohio, in the 1950s
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Edythe Morahan de Lauzon
Edythe Morahan de Lauzon was a Canadian poet. She is possibly best known for her poem collection ''Angels' Songs from the Golden City of the Blessed'' published in 1918 and ''From The Kingdom Of The Stars'' in 1922. Inspired by the First World War ...
, Canadian poet
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Edythe Shuttleworth Edythe Marjorie Shuttleworth (1907 – December 23, 1983) was a Canadian mezzo-soprano. She toured the rural areas of both Western Canada and the Central United States and was selected to sing on the first international radio broadcast to the Unite ...
(1907–1983), Canadian mezzo-soprano
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Edythe Wright
Edythe Wright (August 16, 1916 – October 27, 1965) was an American singer who performed from 1935 to 1939 with the band led by Tommy Dorsey.
Early life
Wright grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey.
Early career
Wright debuted on radio in Mar ...
(1916–1965), singer who worked with Tommy Dorsey
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Edyth H. Schoenrich
Edyth H. Schoenrich (September 9, 1919 – September 12, 2020) was a doctor and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Early life
Edyth Maud Hull was born on September 9, 1919, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Maud Mabel (née ...
(1919–2020), American physician and educator
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Edyth Starkie
Edyth Starkie (27 November 1867 – March 1941) was an established Irish portrait painter who was married to Arthur Rackham. She was born on the west coast of Ireland at Westcliff House, County Galway.
Life and career
Early life
The youngest ...
(1867–1941), Irish portrait painter and sculptor
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Edyth Walker
Edyth Walker (March 27, 1867 – February 19, 1950) was an American opera singer who had an active international career from the 1890s through the 1910s. She began her career performing roles from the mezzo-soprano repertory, but later success ...
(1867–1950), American opera singer
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Edith
Edith is a feminine given name derived from the Old English words ēad, meaning 'riches or blessed', and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form is Édith. Contractions and vari ...
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