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Eduardo H. Rapoport

Eduardo H. Rapoport, full name Eduardo Hugo Rapoport, was an Argentine ecologist (1927–2017) whose Areografía helped found macroecology and gave his name to Rapoport's rule.

Eduardo Kafie

Eduardo Kafie, born in Tegucigalpa in 1953, is a Honduran businessman and philanthropist who leads the dairy company Lacthosa and its cereals division, and serves as Honorary Consul of Jamaica in Honduras.

Eduardo López de Romaña

Eduardo López de Romaña (1847–1912) was a Peruvian civil engineer and politician who served as President of Peru from 1899 to 1903, the first engineer to hold the office.

Eduardo Mallea

Eduardo Mallea was an Argentine novelist, essayist, and diplomat who directed the literary supplement of La Nación and wrote the influential essay Historia de una pasión argentina (1937).

Eduardo Marbán

Eduardo Marbán is a Cuban-born American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Executive Director of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai since 2007, known for cardiosphere-derived cells.

Eduardo Mendoza

Eduardo Mendoza (Eduardo Mendoza Garriga) is a Spanish novelist born in Barcelona in 1943 whose satirical novels set in the city earned him the 2016 Cervantes Prize.

Eduardo Mondlane

Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane (1920–1969) was a Mozambican anthropologist and nationalist leader who founded FRELIMO in 1962 and led it until he was assassinated in Dar es Salaam in 1969.

Eduardo Moreno (biologist)

Eduardo Moreno Lampaya, born in Madrid in 1970, is a Spanish biologist and Senior Group Leader at the Champalimaud Centre in Lisbon, known for super-competitor cells and fitness fingerprints.

Eduardo P. C. Rocha

Eduardo P. C. Rocha (born 1972) is a Portuguese computational biologist who studies bacterial genome evolution, leading the CNRS–Institut Pasteur Génétique des génomes unit since 2023.

Eduardo Paolozzi

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924–2005), Scottish-Italian sculptor and collagist, founding figure of British Pop Art via the Independent Group, I Was a Rich Man's Plaything, and Tottenham Court Road mosaics.

Eduardo Paret

Eduardo Paret, born 1972 in Santa Clara, Cuba, is a former shortstop who won Olympic golds in 1996 and 2004, a 2008 silver, and 2005 World Championship MVP honors.

Eduardo Penido

Eduardo Penido (Eduardo Henrique Gomes Penido), Brazilian sailor born 1960 in Rio de Janeiro; won 470 class gold with Marcos Soares at Moscow 1980, later sixth in the 2015 Transat Jacques Vabre Class40 aboard Zetra, the first all-Brazilian duo in that race.

Eduardo Pérez

Eduardo Atanacio Pérez, born 1969 in Cincinnati, is a former MLB first baseman (1993–2006, six teams, 79 home runs), son of Hall of Famer Tony Pérez, later Marlins and Astros coach, and ESPN Sunday Night Baseball analyst 2022–2025, now Baseball Assistance Team president.

Eduardo Pontes

Eduardo Pontes is a Brazilian payments entrepreneur who co-founded the card-acquiring company Stone in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 and served as Vice Chairman of StoneCo's board.

Eduardo Ruiz‐Hitzky

Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky is a Spanish materials chemist at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, known for introducing bionanocomposites, hybrid materials combining natural polymers with inorganic solids.

Eduardo S. Brondizio

Eduardo S. Brondízio, born 1962 in São Paulo, is a Brazilian environmental anthropologist and Distinguished Professor at Indiana University Bloomington who co-chaired the 2019 IPBES Global Assessment.

Eduardo S. Schwartz

Eduardo Schwartz is a financial economist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA Anderson, known for the least-squares Monte Carlo method for valuing American-style options and for commodity price models.

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón, born in Logroño in 1972, is a Spanish mathematician at the University of La Rioja who created the YouTube channel Derivando.

Eduardo Santos Montejo

Eduardo Santos Montejo (1888–1974) was a Colombian lawyer, journalist, and Liberal politician who owned and directed the newspaper El Tiempo and served as president of Colombia from 1938 to 1942.

Eduardo Saverin

Eduardo Saverin is a Brazilian-born, Singapore-based billionaire investor who co-founded Facebook, served as its first CFO, and later founded B Capital Group; he has been ranked Singapore's richest person.

Eduardo Slatopolsky

Eduardo Slatopolsky (1934–2024) was an Argentine-born American physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine who defined the modern understanding of secondary hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease.

Eduardo Tolosa

Eduardo Tolosa is a Spanish neurologist and emeritus professor at the Universitat de Barcelona, known for the LARGO and delayed-start rasagiline trials in Parkinson's disease.

Eduardo V. Manalo

Eduardo V. Manalo is the Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo, a Philippine-origin Christian church, and its third Manalo family leader, succeeding his father Eraño in 2009.

Eduardo Valencia

Eduardo Andres Valencia (born 2000, Valencia, Venezuela) is a Detroit Tigers catcher/first baseman who debuted July 9, 2026, homering in his first MLB at-bat after eight minor league seasons.

Eduardo Vargas

Eduardo Jesús Vargas Rojas, "Turboman", Chilean forward (born 1989, Renca). Universidad de Chile 2011 treble and Copa Sudamericana record scorer; Napoli, Tigres, Atlético Mineiro; Chile's second all-time scorer with 45 goals and two-time Copa América champion.

Eduardo Verástegui

Eduardo Verástegui, Mexican actor and producer born 1974 in Mante, Tamaulipas; founder of Metanoia Films and Manto de Guadalupe; producer of Sound of Freedom (2023) and leader of CPAC Mexico.

Eduardo White

Eduardo White (1963–2014) was a Mozambican poet who wrote in Portuguese, a leading figure of the Charrua movement known for poems of love and the Indian Ocean.

Eduardo Yáñez

Eduardo Yáñez Luévano (born 1960, Mexico City) is a Mexican telenovela and film actor, star of Senda de gloria, Destilando amor, and Amores verdaderos, also in Striptease, The Punisher, and Telemundo's Lobo, morir matando.

Eduards Veidenbaums

Eduards Veidenbaums (1867–1892) was a Latvian poet and translator whose roughly hundred poems, marked by irony and social protest, influenced Latvian writers well into the 21st century.

Eduba

The eduba (é.dub.ba.a, "tablet house"; Akkadian bīt tuppim) was where ancient Mesopotamian scribes trained, known chiefly from Old Babylonian private houses such as Nippur's House F.