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Eldor Shomurodov

Eldor Shomurodov (Eldor Azamat o'g'li Shomurodov), born 1995, Uzbek striker and national captain, all-time top scorer with 45 goals; played for Rostov, Genoa, Roma, and Başakşehir, scoring 22 Süper Lig goals in 2025-26 and appearing at the 2026 World Cup.

Eldorado

Эльдорадо (Eldorado): name shared by the 1973 Eldorado Hotel-Casino in Reno and Eldorado Resorts, Nagra Gaming's Romanian slot halls, a Curacao online casino, and the Russian electronics retailer founded by Igor Yakovlev.

Eldorado (Electric Light Orchestra album)

Eldorado (A Symphony by the Electric Light Orchestra) is ELO's fourth studio album, released September 1974 on Jet Records. Produced by Jeff Lynne with a 30-piece orchestra and choir arranged by Louis Clark, it was the band's first concept album and first US gold record.

Eldorado (TV series)

Eldorado was a BBC soap opera about British expatriates on the Costa del Sol, created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland, airing 156 episodes from July 1992 to July 1993 before Alan Yentob cancelled the £10 million flop.

Eldorado Agritech

Eldorado Agritech Limited is a Hyderabad-based Indian agro-sciences company selling hybrid seeds under the Srikar Seeds brand, founded in 2009 and filing for a Rs 10 billion (Rs 1,000 crore) IPO in 2025.

Eldorado Gold

Eldorado Gold Corporation is a Canadian mid-tier gold mining company headquartered in Vancouver, producing 488,268 ounces of gold in 2025 from mines in Canada, Türkiye, and Greece.

Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver was an American Black Power activist, first Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party, and author of the memoir Soul on Ice (1968).

Eldridge Industries

Eldridge Industries is a privately held holding company controlled by Todd Boehly that owns insurance, asset management, media, sports, and real estate businesses, founded in 2015.

Eldritch

Eldritch: English adjective meaning eerie, weird, or unearthly, first recorded in 1508 in Scots. Etymology disputed (elf-realm versus 'other world'). Also a Lovecraftian horror label, a 2013 roguelike game, a larp, and a 2024 novel.

Ele Ferrannini

Ele Ferrannini (Eleuterio Ferrannini, 1948–2026) was an Italian physician-scientist at the University of Pisa known for quantitative research on insulin resistance, beta-cell function, and SGLT2 inhibition.

Elea

Elea (board game) is a 2022 unification game of pure placement by Michael Amundsen, played on a hexhex board; lower score wins, with 1 point per odd-sized and 2 per even-sized group.

Eleanor

Eleanor, from Old French Alienòr (Occitan), is a feminine given name whose first famous bearer was Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204). Often explained as "the other Aenor"; ranked #12 for US girls in 2025.

Eleanor (automobile)

Eleanor is the codename for the hero Mustangs of Gone in 60 Seconds: a yellow 1971 Sportsroof in the 1974 film and a Pepper Gray 1967 fastback styled as a Shelby GT500 in the 2000 remake, never a factory Shelby.

Eleanor & Park

Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell's 2013 YA debut novel, follows two misfit teens in 1986 Omaha who fall in love over comics and mixtapes; a Printz Honor book, Boston Globe–Horn Award winner, and ALA Top Ten challenged book.

Eleanor A. Maguire

Eleanor Anne Maguire (1970–2025) was an Irish cognitive neuroscientist and professor at University College London whose London taxi driver studies showed the adult hippocampus changes structurally with navigational experience.

Eleanor Audley

Eleanor Audley (Eleanor Zellman, 1905-1991), American actress and original voice of Disney's Lady Tremaine, Maleficent, and Madame Leota; Broadway debut 1926, radio roles on My Favorite Husband, and Eunice Douglas on Green Acres.

Eleanor Bron

Eleanor Bron (born 14 March 1934 or 1938, Stanmore, Middlesex) is an English actress and writer of the 1960s satire boom, The Establishment, Help! (1965), Alfie, Women in Love, The House of Mirth, and books including The Pillow Book of Eleanor Bron.

Eleanor Burns

Eleanor Burns (born 1945, Pennsylvania), founder of Quilt in a Day, American quilting teacher and author of the Log Cabin Pattern book (1978); known for strip piecing, PBS TV series since 1990, and 2012 Quilters Hall of Fame induction.

Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton (born 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter who won the 2013 Booker Prize for The Luminaries, the youngest winner ever at age 28.

Eleanor Clay Ford

Eleanor Clay Ford (1896–1976), born Eleanor Lowthian Clay, American philanthropist and arts patron, wife of Edsel Ford, niece of J.L. Hudson; DIA benefactor, first woman on Ford's board, Ford House founder.

Eleanor Clift

Eleanor Clift, American political journalist and author; Newsweek correspondent from 1963 and Daily Beast columnist; longtime liberal panelist on The McLaughlin Group; covered every presidential campaign since 1976.

Eleanor Coppola

Eleanor Coppola (1936–2024), American documentary filmmaker, wife of Francis Ford Coppola; made Hearts of Darkness (1991) about Apocalypse Now, won an Emmy, wrote Notes, and directed Paris Can Wait at 80.

Eleanor Elkins Widener

Eleanor Elkins Widener (1861–1937), later Widener Rice, Philadelphia heiress and Titanic survivor who funded Harvard's Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, opened 1915, in memory of her son Harry, and later married explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice.

Eleanor Garatti Saville

Eleanor Garatti Saville (Eleanor Agnes Garatti-Saville, 1909-1998), American Olympic swimmer; gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at Amsterdam 1928 and Los Angeles 1932, silver and bronze in the 100 m freestyle, first woman under 1:10 (1:09.8, 1929).

Eleanor Health

Eleanor Health is an American substance use disorder care provider founded in 2019 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, delivering hybrid in-person and virtual outpatient addiction treatment under value-based contracts with health payers.

Eleanor Holm

Eleanor Holm (1913–2004), American backstroke swimmer and entertainer; 1932 Olympic 100m backstroke gold medalist, removed from the 1936 U.S. team by Avery Brundage over champagne on the SS Manhattan, later star of Billy Rose's Aquacade.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton (born 1937) is the Democratic nonvoting U.S. delegate for the District of Columbia since 1991, first woman EEOC chair, civil rights and feminist lawyer, Newsweek case attorney, and D.C. statehood advocate.

Eleanor J. Gibson

Eleanor J. Gibson was an American developmental psychologist at Cornell University known for the visual cliff experiment, perceptual learning theory, and research on how children learn to read.

Eleanor L. Ross

Eleanor L. Ross, born 1967, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Georgia since 2014, nominated by President Barack Obama.

Eleanor Longden

Eleanor Longden is a British research psychologist who recovered from a diagnosis of schizophrenia as a student, known for her 2013 TED talk on learning to listen to her voices.