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Eli Sutter
Eli Sutter is an American-based materials scientist, professor of mechanical and materials engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, known for work on two-dimensional van der Waals materials and graphene growth on metals.
Eli Terry
Eli Terry (1772–1852) was an American clockmaker of Plymouth, Connecticut, who converted clockmaking into a factory industry by mass-producing wooden movements with interchangeable parts, receiving the first US clock patent in 1797.
Eli Thompson (Boardwalk Empire)
Elias "Eli" Thompson, played by Shea Whigham, is Nucky Thompson's younger brother and Atlantic City's sheriff in HBO's Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014), who betrays Nucky in season 2, serves 18 months in prison, and later confesses to being an informant.
Eli Tomac
Eli Tomac (ET3), American motocross and supercross racer from Cortez, Colorado, born 1992; 2012 250SX West and 2013 250MX champion, four 450MX titles (2017-2019, 2022), two 450SX titles (2020, 2022), 2023 450SMX champion; retired after the 2026 SMX playoffs.
Eli Tziperman
Eli Tziperman is an Israeli-American climate and ocean dynamicist, a Harvard professor since 2003, known for showing that the El Niño cycle can behave chaotically.
Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach (Eli Herschel Wallach, 1915-2014), American character actor and Actors Studio founding member; Tony winner for The Rose Tattoo, BAFTA for Baby Doll, and Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; honorary Oscar 2010.
Eli Waxman
Eli Waxman (born 1965) is an Israeli theoretical astrophysicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for the Waxman–Bahcall bound and for leading the ULTRASAT ultraviolet satellite.
Eli Willits
Eli Willits is an American baseball shortstop drafted first overall by the Washington Nationals in 2025 at 17, the youngest top pick since 1987.
Eli Y. Adashi
Eli Y. Adashi, born 1945 in Haifa, is a reproductive-medicine physician-scientist at Brown University and its former dean of medicine, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1999.
Eli Yablonovitch
Eli Yablonovitch is an electrical engineer and physicist at UC Berkeley who coined the term "photonic crystal" and created the 4n² light-trapping limit used in solar panels.
Eli Zeldov
Eli Zeldov (אלי זלדוב) is an Israeli condensed matter physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for inventing the SQUID-on-tip, a nanoscale probe imaging magnetic and thermal phenomena.
Eli Zysman‐Colman
Eli Zysman-Colman is Professor of Optoelectronic Materials at the University of St Andrews, known for organic TADF emitters used in OLEDs and for the spin-out SolOLED.
ELI-NP
ELI-NP, the Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics, is a research facility in Măgurele, near Bucharest, Romania, combining a 10 PW high-power laser with a gamma beam system.
Elia Canales
Elia Canales (Elia Canales Martín), Spanish recurve archer born 2001 in Tarragona; 2025 world mixed team champion with Andrés Temiño, 2018 Youth Olympic silver, 2024 Olympian, and 2026 Madrid World Cup mixed team gold medallist.
Elia Group
Elia Group is an Euronext-listed holding company that owns the Belgian transmission system operator Elia and the German operator 50Hertz, keeping power flowing for more than 30 million people.
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan (Elia Kazanjoglous, 1909–2003), American stage and film director of A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and East of Eden; Actors Studio co-founder, two Best Director Oscars, and the 1952 HUAC naming-names controversy.
Elia System Operator
Elia System Operator, also known as Elia Transmission Belgium, is the company that operates Belgium's high-voltage electricity transmission grid as the federal transmission system operator, part of the Elia Group.
Elia Viviani
Elia Viviani is an Italian former road and track cyclist who won Olympic omnium gold at Rio 2016 and retired in 2025 with a final world title.
Eliah Drinkwitz
Eliah Drinkwitz (born 1983) is an American college football coach, Missouri Tigers head coach since 2020 and 2023 SEC Coach of the Year; previously led Appalachian State to a 12-1 Sun Belt title in 2019, with a 58-30 career record through 2025.
Eliakim (son of Hilkiah)
Eliakim son of Hilkiah was the royal steward, the official over the household, of Judah under King Hezekiah, succeeding Shebna and leading talks with Assyrian envoys in 701 BC.
Eliakim Hastings Moore (mathematician)
Eliakim Hastings Moore (1862–1932) was an American mathematician, first chair of mathematics at the University of Chicago from 1892, and president of the American Mathematical Society.
Elián González
Elián González, the Cuban boy rescued at sea in November 1999 after his mother drowned, became the center of a U.S.-Cuba custody battle until his 2000 return; he is now a Cuban National Assembly deputy from Cárdenas.
Eliana La Ferrara
Eliana La Ferrara is a development economist and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, known for research on how television shapes social norms and for work on ethnicity, trust, and conflict.
Eliana Pintor Marin
Eliana Pintor Marin is an American Democratic politician representing New Jersey's 29th district in the General Assembly, where she chairs the Budget Committee and previously served on the Newark Public Schools Advisory Board.
Eliana Pittman
Eliana Pittman, born Eliana Leite da Silva in 1945, is a Brazilian singer of bossa nova, samba, and carimbó, known for the 1971 hit "Das 200 para lá".
Éliane Gluckman
Éliane Gluckman is a French hematologist who performed the first successful umbilical cord blood transplant in 1988 at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris and founded Eurocord.
Eliane Jacq
Éliane Jacq (1948–2011) was a French sprinter specializing in the 400 meters who won relay silver at the 1969 European Championships in a world-record time.
Eliaquim Mangala
Eliaquim Mangala (Eliaquim Hans Mangala), born 1991, is a French former centre-back: 8 France caps, Euro 2016 finalist; Porto and Manchester City (record 2014 fee), later Valencia, Everton, Saint-Étienne, Estoril, Oriente Petrolero; retired 2026, now Saint-Étienne assistant.
Elias
Elias, a form of the Arabic Ilyas, is the Greek and Latin form of Hebrew Elijah, meaning "Yahweh is my God," and ranked #13 for US boys in 2025.
Elias (wrestler)
Elias (Jeffrey Sciullo), also Elias Samson, Ezekiel, and Elijah, American wrestler and musician; WWE 2014-2023, NXT 'Drifter' character, two albums, multiple 24/7 Championship runs.