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Eileen M. O’Reilly

Eileen M. O'Reilly is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, known for treating pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancers and developing KRAS-directed vaccines.

Eileen Martin

Eileen Martin is a computational geophysicist and associate professor at Colorado School of Mines who develops fiber-optic seismic sensing algorithms and won a 2025 PECASE.

Eileen Ryan

Eileen Ryan was an American character actress who worked for over five decades. She died in 2022 and was the mother of actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.

Eileen Wang

Eileen Wang (王愛琳), Chinese-born American politician, was mayor of Arcadia, California, February 3 to May 11, 2026, when she resigned after agreeing to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent of China; she pleaded guilty May 29, 2026.

Eileen White

Eileen White is an American cancer biologist at Rutgers Cancer Institute known for research on apoptosis and autophagy in cancer, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Eileithyia (Εἰλείθυια)

Eileithyia (Εἰλείθυια, Ilithyia, Eleutho) is the ancient Greek goddess of childbirth and labor pains, attested in Linear B from Minoan Crete, daughter of Hera or of Zeus and Hera, with cults at Amnisos and Inatos; Roman Lucina.

Eileithyias Antron

Eileithyias Antron (Cave of Eileithyia) is the Homeric cave sanctuary of the childbirth goddess at Amnisos, Crete, in use from Neolithic to Roman times, with a sister shrine at Inatos.

Eilert Falch Lund

Eilert Falch-Lund (Eilert Falch Lund), Norwegian sailor and wholesaler (1875-1960); won 12-metre class gold aboard Magda IX at Stockholm 1912 and placed fourth in the 8-metre class at London 1908.

Eilesion

Eilesion (Εἰλέσιον) was a town of southeast Boeotia named at Iliad 2.499 in the Catalogue of the Ships. Its location is unknown; Fossey identifies it with the site at Chlembotsari (Asopia), with a sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter.

Eilif Philipsen

Eilif Philipsen (1682-1785), Norwegian farmer from Kinsarvik near Bergen, long recognized as the earliest-born verified centenarian; documented by baptism, 1701 census, marriage, and death records, aged 102 years 334 days at death.

Eilish McColgan

Eilish McColgan (born 1990, Dundee) is a Scottish distance runner, four-time Olympian, and 2022 Commonwealth 10,000m champion coached by her mother Liz McColgan; she holds British records at 5,000m, 10,000m, and half marathon and the European 10km record of 30:08.

Eiman Azim

Eiman Azim is an American neuroscientist at the Salk Institute who studies how neural circuits control skilled movements such as reaching and grasping, and received a 2017 PECASE award.

Eimco

Eimco, originally the Eastern Iron and Metal Company, was an American manufacturer of underground mining machinery in Salt Lake City, best known for the Rocker Shovel Loader Model 12B.

Eimear E. Kenny

Eimear E. Kenny, also known as Eimear Kenny, is an Irish-born population and medical geneticist who directs the Institute for Genomic Health at Mount Sinai in New York.

Eimeria

Eimeria: large genus of obligate intracellular apicomplexan protozoan parasites (coccidia) causing coccidiosis in poultry, cattle, sheep, and goats; monoxenous life cycle, four sporocysts per oocyst, over 1800 host-specific species, no human infection.

Ein Gedi (עין גדי)

Ein Gedi (עין גדי), a spring-fed oasis on the Dead Sea's western shore in the Judean Desert, a nature reserve since 1971 with four springs, ancient irrigation, a synagogue, and 2025 flood restoration.

Ein Gedi Eco Park

Ein Gedi Eco Park, at Kibbutz Ein Gedi on the Dead Sea, Israel, is a former children's zoo turned environmental-education site with mud structures, solar cookers, composters, and animals; entry is included in the botanical garden ticket.

Ein Kessel Buntes

Ein Kessel Buntes was the flagship Saturday-evening variety show of East German television, mixing music, comedy, dance, and acrobatics; it ran from 1972 until 1992, first on GDR television and then on ARD.

Ein Lavan

Ein Lavan, Hebrew for 'White Spring', is a year-round spring and small ancient site on the Nahal Refa'im, about 2 km west of the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem.

Ein Rogel

Ein Rogel, also written En-rogel, is a spring site in Jerusalem at the junction of the Hinnom and Kidron valleys, named in the Bible as a boundary landmark.

Ein Sof (אֵין סוֹף)

Ein Sof (אֵין סוֹף, "without end") is the Kabbalistic name for God's infinite, unknowable essence, coined after 1200 in the circle of Isaac the Blind, distinguished from the ten sefirot, and central to tzimtzum in Lurianic Kabbalah.

Ein Stern, der deinen Namen trägt

"Ein Stern, der deinen Namen trägt" is a 2007 party-Schlager duet by DJ Ötzi and Nik P. that topped the German and Austrian charts and sold 1.35 million copies.

Einar Benediktsson

Einar Benediktsson (1864–1940) was an Icelandic poet, lawyer, and journalist, a leading lyric poet of his era. He published five collections and spent decades seeking foreign capital to harness Iceland's waterfalls.

Einar Hammarsten

Einar Hammarsten (1889–1968) was a Swedish physician and biochemist, professor of chemistry and pharmacy at Karolinska Institutet from 1928 to 1957, who first showed that RNA occurs in animal organs.

Einar Hedegart

Einar Hedegart, Norwegian skier born 2001 in Levanger; 2023 IBU Junior Worlds biathlon triple medalist who won two golds and a bronze in cross-country at Milano Cortina 2026, then returned to biathlon in April 2026.

Einar Hille

Einar Hille (1894–1980) was an American mathematician, born in New York and raised in Stockholm, who created the abstract theory of semigroups of operators and proved the Hille–Yosida theorem with Kōsaku Yosida.

Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran

Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran (1859–1938) was an Icelandic writer, journalist, editor, and leading spiritualist, a pioneer of naturalism in Icelandic literature and a Nobel Prize nominee in 1923 and 1924.

Einar Kárason

Einar Kárason is an Icelandic novelist and screenwriter, born in Reykjavík in 1955, one of the most popular authors of his generation, known for the Devils' Isle trilogy about post-war Reykjavík.

Einar Liberg

Einar Liberg (Einar Adolfsen Liberg, 1873–1955), Norwegian sport shooter from Elverum; won 7 Olympic medals (4 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) in rifle and running target events at the 1908–1924 Games, mostly in team events.

Einar Már Guðmundsson

Einar Már Guðmundsson, born 1954 in Reykjavík, is an Icelandic novelist and poet whose novel Angels of the Universe won the 1995 Nordic Council Literature Prize.