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Emil Pfender
Emil Pfender (1925–2016) was a German-born engineer at the University of Minnesota and a leading researcher in thermal plasma science, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.
Emil R. Unanue
Emil R. Unanue (Emil Raphael Unanue, 1934–2022) was a Cuban-born American immunologist who defined antigen presentation, led Washington University's pathology department, and won the 1995 Lasker Award.
Emil Racoviță
Emil Racoviță (1868–1947) was a Romanian biologist and polar explorer who served as naturalist on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition aboard the Belgica and founded biospeleology.
Emil Radev
Emil Radev, born 1971, in Varna, is a Bulgarian politician of GERB and a Member of the European Parliament since 2014, serving as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs.
Emil Rausch
Emil Rausch (Emil Ferdinand Gustav Rausch), German swimmer for SC Poseidon Berlin, won 1904 Olympic gold in the 880 yd and 1 mile freestyle swimming sidestroke, plus 1906 relay silver; last sidestroke Olympic champion, ISHOF 1968.
Emil Ruder
Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer and educator who led the typography department at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel and wrote Typographie: A Manual of Design (1967).
Emil Sayfutdinov
Emil Sayfutdinov (Эмиль Сайфутдинов), Russian speedway rider born 1989 in Salavat; two-time World Under-21 Champion, youngest-ever Grand Prix winner on 2009 debut, European Champion 2014 and 2015, long-time Polish Ekstraliga rider with Toruń.
Emil Schandein
Emil Schandein (1840–1888) was a Bavaria-born brewer who joined Milwaukee's Philip Best Brewing Company by marriage in 1866 and, as vice-president, helped make it America's largest brewery.
Emil Škoda
Emil Škoda (1839–1900) was a Bohemian engineer and industrialist who bought the Pilsen machine works in 1869 and built it into the largest arms factory in Austria-Hungary.
Emil Strauß
Emil Strauß (1866–1960) was a German novelist and dramatist, best known for the school novel Freund Hein (1902) and later controversial for his Nazi ties.
Emil T. Kaiser
Emil T. Kaiser (1938–1988) was a Hungarian-born American biochemist known for creating semisynthetic enzymes such as flavopapain; he taught at Chicago and Rockefeller University and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1987.
Emil und die Detektive
Emil und die Detektive (Emil and the Detectives) is Erich Kästner's 1929 children's novel about Emil Tischbein, robbed on a train to Berlin, who recovers his money with a children's gang; first filmed in 1931 by Gerhard Lamprecht with a Billy Wilder screenplay, and adapted repeatedly since.
Emil Verner
Emil Verner is a Danish-American macro-finance economist, the Lemelson Professor at MIT Sloan, known for research on household debt, credit booms, and bank failures, with tenure in 2025.
Emil Voigt
Emil Robert Voigt (1883-1973), British runner, won the 1908 London Olympic 5 miles gold in 25:11.2, Britain's last individual long-distance Olympic champion before Mo Farah, and later founded Australian radio station 2KY; distinct from American gymnast Emil Alwell Voigt.
Emil von Behring
Emil Adolf von Behring (1854–1917) was a German bacteriologist who won the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901 for diphtheria serum therapy.
Emil von Dungern
Emil von Dungern (1867–1961) was a German physician and serologist who, working with Ludwik Hirszfeld at Heidelberg, first demonstrated in 1910 that ABO blood groups are inherited.
Emil Votoček
Emil Votoček (1872–1950) was a Czech organic chemist who discovered the sugars rhodeose and isorhodeose, coined "epimer", and built the Czech school of organic chemistry in Prague.
Emil Wakim
Emil Wakim (born 1998) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, first Lebanese-American Saturday Night Live cast member, featured player in season 50, Tonight Show 2022 alum, now recording a Netflix special.
Emil Warburg
Emil Gabriel Warburg (1846–1931) was a German experimental physicist who discovered magnetic hysteresis and the cathode fall, and was president of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt from 1905 to 1922.
Emil Wolf
Emil Wolf (1922–2018) was a Czechoslovak-born American physicist who established classical optical coherence theory as its own subfield of optics and co-authored, with Max Born, the standard textbook Principles of Optics.
Emil Zátopek
Emil Zátopek (1922–2000), Czechoslovak distance runner nicknamed the Human Lokomotiv; won the 5,000m, 10,000m, and marathon at Helsinki 1952, set 18 world records, popularized interval training, and was purged after 1968.
Émile Allais
Émile Allais (1912–2012), French alpine skier from Megève; first French Olympic skiing medalist (1936 bronze) and first French world champion (1937 Chamonix triple gold); founded the École du Ski Français and pioneered parallel-turn technique.
Émile Amagat
Émile Amagat (1841–1915) was a French physicist who measured the compressibility of gases and liquids at extreme pressures, inventing the free-piston manometer; the amagat unit, Amagat diagram, and Amagat's law bear his name.
Emile Anthoine
Émile Anthoine (1882-1969), French race walker and athletics administrator; held 21 world records, founded Paris-Strasbourg (later Paris-Colmar), the French and international walking federations, and pushed the Olympic 50 km walk.
Émile Arnaud
Émile Arnaud (1864–1921) was a French lawyer and pacifist, president of the Ligue de la Paix et de la Liberté and a promoter of international law and arbitration.
Émile Baudot
Émile Baudot, born Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot, was a French telegraph engineer whose 1874 printing telegraph used a five-unit code that supplanted Morse code; the baud is named for him.
Emile Berliner
Emile Berliner, born Emil Berliner (1851–1929), was a German-born American inventor who patented the gramophone in 1887 and whose flat disc records became the first commercially successful format.
Émile Billard
Émile Billard (François Alexandre Émile Billard, 1852-1930), French sailor of the Société des Régates du Havre; won 1900 Paris Olympic gold in the 10-20 tons class aboard Estérel with Paul Perquer.
Émile Borel
Émile Borel (1871–1956) was a French mathematician who created the first effective theory of measure, helped found real-function theory, and later became a deputy and minister.
Émile Bourquelot
Émile Bourquelot (Élie-Émile Bourquelot, 1851–1921) was a French pharmacist and chemist who pioneered the enzymatic synthesis of glycosides and founded the French school of heterosides.