Edythe or Edyth is a female
given name
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Edythe Baker
Edythe Baker (August 25, 1899–August 15, 1971) was an American pianist and dancer.
Early life
Baker was born in Girard, Kansas. Her parents divorced around 1905, and Edith moved to Kansas City, Missouri with her mother. From ages 8 to 14, Ba ...
(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 Ball''. ...
(1863–1948), American stage and silent film actress
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Edythe D. London Edythe Danick London (born September 14, 1948) is The Thomas and Katherine Pike Professor of Addiction Studies, and Director of the UCLA Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine University of California at Los Ange ...
, 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 an American woman who 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 i ...
, 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 W ...
, 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 Goodall
Edyth Shipton Goodall (20 February 1886 – 22 July 1929), professionally known as Edyth Goodall, was a Scottish actress. She was born in Dundee, the daughter of A. E. E. Goodall and his wife Annie, ''née'' Shipton.
She made her professional s ...
(1886–1929), Scottish actress
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Edyth H. Schoenrich
Edyth Schoenrich (née Hull; 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 Mabe ...
(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 successfu ...
(1867–1950), American opera singer
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Edith
Edith is a feminine given name derived from the Old English word , meaning ''wealth'' or ''prosperity'', in combination with the Old English , meaning ''wiktionary:strife, strife'', and is in common usage in this form in English language, Englis ...
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