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Elodie Harper

Elodie Harper, British author of the Wolf Den trilogy set in Pompeii, also known for Boudicca's Daughter; ITV News journalist, Glass Bell Award winner, formerly a Channel 4 News producer.

Elodie Ouedraogo

Élodie Ouédraogo, born 1981 in Saint-Josse, Belgium, is a former sprinter and 400m hurdler who won Olympic gold in the 4x100m relay at Beijing 2008 (42.54 NR) and World bronze in 2007, then co-founded the activewear brand UNRUN and became ELLE Belgium's editor-in-chief.

Élodie Yung

Élodie Yung (born 1981, Paris) is a French actress of Cambodian descent, a karate black belt and Sorbonne law graduate, known for Elektra in Netflix's Daredevil and The Defenders, The Cleaning Lady, and returning in Daredevil: Born Again season 3.

Éloges

Éloges is the first poetry collection of the French poet and diplomat Alexis Léger, later known as Saint-John Perse, published in 1911 and celebrating his childhood in Guadeloupe.

Elohim (אֱלֹהִים)

Elohim (אֱלֹהִים) is a Hebrew word for God, plural in form but singular when naming Israel's God, with nearly 2,600 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible.

Eloi

The Eloi are the frail, childlike surface-dwelling descendants of humanity in H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895), living in 802,701; farmed and eaten by the underground Morlocks, they embody the degeneration of Wells's leisured upper class.

Éloi Marijon

Éloi Marijon is a French cardiologist and electrophysiologist who heads cardiology at Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou in Paris and studies sudden cardiac death and rheumatic heart disease.

Eloisa to Abelard

Eloisa to Abelard, Alexander Pope's 1717 heroic epistle of 366 lines, voices the twelfth-century nun Heloise's struggle between love of Abelard and religious vocation, based on Hughes's 1713 translation and widely imitated in France.

Eloise (books)

Eloise, also Kay Thompson's Eloise, is a children's picture-book series by Kay Thompson and illustrator Hilary Knight, begun in 1955, about a six-year-old living at New York's Plaza Hotel; not the Bridgerton character or other namesakes.

Eloise (psychiatric hospital)

Eloise, also Wayne County Poorhouse, Eloise Hospital, and Wayne County Psychiatric Hospital, was a Westland, Michigan county complex operating 1832-1979 as poorhouse, asylum, TB sanatorium, and general hospital, peaking at 10,000 patients.

Eloise (upcoming film)

Eloise (upcoming film), also known as an Eloise in Paris project, is a Netflix live-action family comedy directed by Amy Sherman-Palladino, starring Mae Schenk and Ryan Reynolds, based on Kay Thompson's Plaza Hotel books; in post-production as of October 2026.

Eloise at the Plaza

Eloise at the Plaza is a 2003 ABC Wonderful World of Disney television film directed by Kevin Lima, starring Sofia Vassilieva as Eloise and Julie Andrews as Nanny, based on Kay Thompson's books, with an Emmy-winning Bruce Broughton score.

Eloise Giblett

Eloise Giblett (1921–2009) was an American physician and human geneticist who led the Puget Sound Blood Center in Seattle and showed that ADA deficiency causes immunodeficiency.

Eloise Mumford

Eloise Mumford (born 1986) is an American actress from Olympia, Washington, a 2009 NYU Tisch graduate, known for Lone Star, The River, The Right Stuff, Cross, and as Kate Kavanagh in all three Fifty Shades films.

Eloise Reyes

Eloise Gómez Reyes is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic California state senator from the 29th district, elected in 2024 after eight years in the State Assembly.

Elon Dershowitz

Elon Dershowitz (1961–2025), American film and podcast producer, son of attorney Alan Dershowitz; co-producer of Reversal of Fortune and executive producer of Fallen, died of a stroke at 64.

Elon Lindenstrauss

Elon Lindenstrauss, born 1970, is an Israeli mathematician working in ergodic theory, dynamical systems, and number theory, and the first Israeli Fields Medalist, winning in 2010.

Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk is an American business executive who has led Tesla since 2008 and founded SpaceX in 2002, later buying Twitter for $44 billion in 2022.

Elon Musk salute controversy

Elon Musk salute controversy: two straight-armed chest-to-outstretched-arm gestures by Musk at Trump's January 20, 2025 inauguration rally at Capital One Arena, debated as a Nazi or Roman salute; ADL called it enthusiasm, historians disagreed, far-right celebrated.

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, also called the Space Roadster, is a sports car carrying mannequin Starman that SpaceX launched on the first Falcon Heavy flight in 2018 into an orbit around the Sun.

Elon University

Elon University (formerly Elon College), a private coeducational university in Elon, North Carolina, founded 1889 by the Christian Church. About 7,000 students; Division I Phoenix athletics; merger with Queens University of Charlotte announced 2025.

eLong

eLong (艺龙, formerly e龙网) is a Chinese online travel company founded in 1999, once China's second-largest online travel agency, now the hotel brand of Tongcheng-Elong.

Elonga

Elonga is a novel in French by the Gabonese writer Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri, published in Paris in 1980 and widely regarded as the first novel by a Gabonese woman.

Elongated labia

Elongated labia, also called labia minora hypertrophy, are inner vaginal folds extending beyond the labia majora; a common nonpathologic anatomical variation, culturally valued in parts of Eastern and Southern Africa, and increasingly targeted by labiaplasty surgery.

Elongated Man

The Elongated Man, Ralph Dibny, is a DC Comics stretching detective hero created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino in The Flash #112 (1960), powered by Gingold soda, husband of Sue Dibny, unlike Plastic Man.

Elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 2

ELOVL2 (Elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 2) is an endoplasmic reticulum fatty acid elongase acting on C20–C22 polyunsaturated acyl-CoAs; it converts DPA to 24:5n-3, the penultimate precursor of DHA, and is essential for DHA synthesis.

Elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 4

ELOVL4 (ELOVL fatty acid elongase 4, gene on 6q14) is an ER membrane elongase making very long chain (C28-C38) saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids in retina, brain, skin, and testes; mutations cause Stargardt-like macular dystrophy, SCA34, and neuro-ichthyosis.

Elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 6

ELOVL6 (ELOVL fatty acid elongase 6, EC 2.3.1.199) is an ER enzyme elongating C12-C16 saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, palmitate to stearate; an SREBP-1c/ChREBP-regulated target studied in insulin resistance, NASH, pulmonary fibrosis, skin inflammation, and cancer.

Elongator complex protein 1

ELP1 (formerly IKBKAP, IKAP) encodes elongator complex protein 1, the 1,332-amino-acid scaffold subunit of the six-subunit Elongator tRNA-modification complex on chromosome 9q31; mutations cause familial dysautonomia.

Elongin BC and Polycomb repressive complex 2-associated protein EPOP-like

EPOP-like names proteins homologous to EPOP (C17orf96, esPRC2p48), a mammalian PRC2.1 accessory subunit with an N-terminal BC-box binding Elongin BC and a C-terminal SUZ12-binding region.