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Émile Boutroux
Émile Boutroux (1845–1921) was a French spiritualist philosopher whose 1874 thesis On the Contingency of the Laws of Nature attacked determinism; he held the Sorbonne's chair of history of modern philosophy from 1888.
Émile Brumpt
Émile Brumpt (1877–1951) was a French physician and zoologist, professor of parasitology at Paris from 1919 to 1948, regarded as the originator of medical parasitology in France.
Emile Cornellie
Émile Cornellie (1869–1945), Belgian naval officer and sailor of the Royal Yacht Club Oostende, won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the 6 metre class aboard Edelweiss II with his son Florimond and Frédéric-Albert Bruynseels.
Emile Coste
Émile Coste (1862–1927), French foil fencer and army officer, won gold in men's individual foil at the 1900 Paris Olympics, beating Henri Masson; later Colonel and Joinville gymnastics school director.
Émile Delchambre
Émile Henri Delchambre (1875–1958), French rower from Roubaix, Cercle de l'Aviron Roubaix; won gold in the men's coxed fours at the Paris 1900 Olympics in 7:11.0 with Cau, Bouckaert, Hazebrouck, and cox Charlot.
Emile Doumergue
Émile Doumergue (1844–1937) was a French Reformed pastor and church historian, professor at Montauban and leader of orthodox French Protestantism, best known for his seven-volume biography of John Calvin.
Émile Duclaux
Émile Duclaux (1840–1904) was a French chemist and microbiologist, Louis Pasteur's first and closest collaborator, who directed the Institut Pasteur from 1895 to 1904 and defended Alfred Dreyfus.
Émile Durkheim
Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), French sociologist born in Épinal, founder of French sociology; author of The Division of Labor, The Rules of Sociological Method, Suicide, and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life; theorist of social facts, solidarity, and anomie.
Emile E. Voest
Emile E. Voest is a Dutch medical oncologist, professor at UMC Utrecht and senior group leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, known for pan-cancer whole-genome sequencing of metastatic tumors.
Emile Eddé
Emile Eddé (إميل إده) was a Lebanese statesman who served as prime minister from 1929 and as president of the Lebanese Republic from 1936 until his resignation in 1941.
Émile Faguet
Émile Faguet (1847–1916) was a French literary critic and political polemicist who held the Sorbonne chair of French poetry, joined the Académie française in 1900, and wrote about 200 volumes.
Émile Gallé
Émile Gallé (1846–1904) was a French glassmaker, ceramist, and furniture designer based in Nancy, a leading initiator of Art Nouveau who founded the École de Nancy.
Emile Griffith
Emile Griffith (1938-2013), Virgin Islands-born American boxer, five-time world welterweight and middleweight champion; his 1962 bout with Benny Paret ended in Paret's death; IBHOF 1990.
Émile Grumiaux
Émile Grumiaux (1861–1932), French archer born in Hornu, Belgium; won gold in Sur la Perche à la Pyramide at the 1900 Paris Olympics and also competed in Sur la Perche à la Herse.
Emile Habibi
Emile Habibi (إميل حبيبي, 1922–1996) was a Palestinian writer and politician who stayed in Haifa after 1948, served in the Knesset, and wrote al-Mutasha'il, ranked sixth among the best hundred Arabic novels.
Emile Hanse
Emile Hanse (Émile Jean Ghislain Hanse, 1892-1981), Belgian footballer with Union Saint-Gilloise; won gold in men's football at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, non-starter at Paris 1924, 11 caps for Belgium.
Emile Haynie
Emile Haynie is an American record producer and songwriter who won a Grammy. He transitioned from hip-hop to produce hits for artists like Kanye West and Lana Del Rey.
Emile Heskey
Emile Heskey is an English former footballer who played as a forward for Leicester City, Liverpool, and Aston Villa, winning 62 England caps from 1999 to 2010.
Émile Hilaire Amagat
Émile Hilaire Amagat (1841–1915) was a French physicist who measured the compressibility of gases, liquids, and solids at pressures up to about 3,000 atmospheres, a record that stood until 1905.
Emile Hirsch
Emile Hirsch (born 1985) is an American actor known for Into the Wild (2007), Speed Racer, Milk, and Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood; after a 2015 Sundance assault plea he works mainly in independent and streaming films.
Emile Lachapelle
Émile Lachapelle (Émile Henri Lachapelle, 1905–1988), Swiss rower of SN Genève, won gold in coxed pairs and coxed fours at Paris 1924, then sailed Ylliam VII to 7th at London 1948.
Émile Lemoine
Émile Michel Hyacinthe Lemoine (1840–1912) was a French mathematician and civil engineer, a founder of triangle geometry known for the Lemoine point and for géométrographie.
Émile Mâle
Émile Mâle (1862–1954) was a French art historian whose 1898 book, L'Art religieux du XIIIe siècle en France, taught readers to see Gothic cathedrals as Christian teaching in stone and glass.
Émile P. Torres
Émile P. Torres, also known as Phil Torres, is a moral philosopher and journalist who studies existential risks and human extinction, and coined the acronym TESCREAL with Timnit Gebru.
Émile Roux
Émile Roux, born Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853–1933), was a French physician and bacteriologist who discovered diphtheria toxin with Alexandre Yersin in 1888 and developed its antitoxin.
Emile S. Gardiner
Emile S. Gardiner is an American research forester with the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station in Stoneville, Mississippi, known for work on oak regeneration and restoring bottomland hardwood forests on former farmland.
Emile Sarrade
Émile Pierre Sarrade (1877–1953), French athlete of Racing Club de France; won rugby gold and tug-of-war silver for France at the 1900 Paris Olympics, also competing in golf, race walking, and rowing.
Emile Smith Rowe
Emile Smith Rowe, born 2000 in Croydon, English attacking midfielder; Arsenal academy product and No 10, 3 England caps, joined Fulham August 2024 for a club-record £27m plus £7m add-ons.
Emile Thubron
Émile Thubron (Ernest Blakelock Thubron, 1861–1927), British-born engineer and motorboat racer; won 1908 Olympic A-Class motorboating gold for France aboard Camille, the only finisher.
Émile Verhaeren
Émile Verhaeren was a Belgian poet writing in French, the foremost figure among the Belgian Symbolists, who published more than 30 poetry collections before dying at Rouen station in 1916.