Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain, was a wealthy Walloon Belgian engineer, entrepreneur, financier and industrialist, as well as an amateur Egyptologist. During World War I he became a known major general. His major claims to fame are being the original winner of the contract to build the Paris Metro, and developing the town of Heliopolis in Cairo.
- Occupation
- banker, engineer, archaeologist, military personnel
- Position held
- aide-de-camp
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Born
- September 20, 1852
