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Emil Dimitrov
Emil Dimitrov (Емил Димитров) was a Bulgarian pop singer and composer, a defining star of Bulgarian popular music from the 1960s to the 1980s whose song 'Monica' was declared Song of the Century in 2000.
Emil du Bois-Reymond
Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896) was a German physiologist born and died in Berlin, remembered as the founder of electrophysiology, demonstrating the electrical nature of the nerve signal.
Emil Egli
Emil Egli (1848–1908) was a Swiss Reformed pastor and church historian at the University of Zurich, best known for putting the history of Swiss Anabaptism on a source basis.
Emil Filla
Emil Filla was a Czech Cubist painter, sculptor, and art theorist, born in Chropyně in Moravia in 1882, a leading figure of Czech Cubism in Prague.
Emil Fischer
Emil Fischer, born Hermann Emil Fischer, was a German chemist who won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on sugar and purine syntheses.
Emil Forsberg
Emil Forsberg (Emil Peter Forsberg), Swedish winger born 1991 in Sundsvall; RB Leipzig record holder (324 games, 71 goals), 92-cap Sweden international, Guldbollen 2021 winner, now New York Red Bulls Designated Player captain.
Emil Frei
Emil Frei III (1924–2013), known as Emil "Tom" Frei, was an American oncologist called the father of combination chemotherapy, whose work at Dana-Farber helped make childhood leukemia curable.
Emil Frey Group
The Emil Frey Group is a Swiss, family-owned automotive import and retail group founded in Zurich in 1924, ranking first among Europe's largest dealer groups.
Emil Friedrich Kautzsch
Emil Friedrich Kautzsch (1841–1910) was a German Protestant Old Testament scholar and Orientalist who held chairs at Basel, Tübingen, and Halle and translated the Old Testament into German.
Emil Gilels (Эмиль Григорьевич Гилельс)
Emil Gilels, full name Emil Grigoryevich Gilels, was a Soviet pianist from Odessa who won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1938 and recorded Beethoven and Brahms for Deutsche Grammophon.
Emil Grosswald
Emil Grosswald (1912–1989) was a Romanian-born American analytic number theorist known for his work on representations of integers as sums of squares and his books on number theory.
Emil Haury
Emil Haury (1904–1992) was an American archaeologist who spent his career at the University of Arizona and its Arizona State Museum, defining the Hohokam and Mogollon cultures and helping establish Southwestern archaeology.
Emil Hegle Svendsen
Emil Hegle Svendsen, born 1985 in Trondheim, is a Norwegian biathlete, four-time Olympic champion and 12-time world champion; World Cup runner-up 2010/11 to 2012/13, retired April 9, 2018.
Emil Hirschfeld
Emil Hirschfeld (1903-1968), German shot putter and discus thrower; 1928 Amsterdam Olympic bronze medallist, twice shot put world record holder in 1928, and first putter over 16 metres.
Emil Holmgren
Emil Holmgren (Emil Algot Holmgren) was a Swedish histologist and professor at the Karolinska Institute, known for studies of nerve cells and the contested trophospongium theory.
Emil Iversen
Emil Iversen (born 1991, Meråker) is a Norwegian cross-country skier for IL Varden, a four-time world champion and 2026 Olympic relay gold medalist with eight individual World Cup wins.
Emil J. Freireich
Emil J. Freireich (E J Freireich) was an American hematologist whose work on combination chemotherapy and platelet transfusion raised childhood leukemia five-year survival above 80 percent.
Emil Jakobsen
Emil Manfeldt Jakobsen (born 1998, Kerteminde) is a Danish handball left wing for SG Flensburg-Handewitt and Denmark, with Olympic gold 2024 and silver 2020 and World Championship titles 2021, 2023, 2025.
Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings, born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz (1884–1950), Swiss-born German actor; won the first Best Actor Oscar in 1929 for The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command, starred in Der letzte Mann and Der blaue Engel, and was banned from his profession by the Allies after Nazi-era propaganda films.
Emil Jellinek
Emil Jellinek (1853–1918), from 1903 Emil Jellinek-Mercedes, was an Austrian-Hungarian businessman and diplomat who created the Mercedes automobile brand, named for his daughter Mercédès, and served as Austro-Hungarian consul general in Nice.
Emil Jones
Emil Jones III, born 1978 in Chicago, is a Democratic Illinois state senator from the 14th district since 2009 and the son of former Senate President Emil Jones Jr.
Emil Kellenberger
Emil Kellenberger (1864-1943), Swiss rifle shooter from Walzenhausen, won two golds and a silver at the 1900 Paris Olympics and 13 World Championship golds, 1899-1922.
Emil Konopinski
Emil Konopinski (1911–1990) was an American theoretical physicist who worked on beta decay, the Manhattan Project, and calculations showing a nuclear explosion would not ignite the atmosphere.
Emil Kraepelin
Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), German psychiatrist, founder of modern psychiatric nosology; 1899 textbook dichotomy of dementia praecox (schizophrenia) versus manic-depressive insanity (bipolar disorder); also known for eugenic, racist, and anti-Semitic views.
Emil L. Smith
Emil L. Smith (1911–2009) was an American biochemist who pioneered determining amino acid sequences of proteins and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1962.
Emil Leon Post
Emil Leon Post (1897–1954) was a Polish-born American logician who helped found computability theory, formulated a model of computation equivalent to the Turing machine, and opened degree theory.
Emil Maurice
Emil Maurice (1897–1972), watchmaker and early NSDAP member, Hitler's first chauffeur, SS member no. 2 and honorary Aryan exception; co-founder of SA and SS precursor units.
Emil Nielsen
Emil Nielsen, Danish handball goalkeeper (born 1997, Aarhus), plays for Veszprém KC and Denmark; World gold 2021 and 2025, Olympic gold 2024, European gold 2026, Champions League winner 2024 and 2026 with Barcelona, EHF MVP 2024.
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde, born Hans Emil Hansen, was a German-Danish painter and printmaker among the leading German Expressionists, known for religious pictures, seascapes, and flower watercolors.
Emil Ovemar
Emil Ovemar is a Swedish technology founder who co-founded Toca Boca, the Stockholm-based maker of digital toys for children, in 2010 and remains its head of studio.