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Emmy Rossum

Emmy Rossum (Emmanuelle Grey Rossum, born 1986, New York) is an American actress, singer, and producer, known for Christine in The Phantom of the Opera (2004) and Fiona Gallagher on Shameless, now leading and executive producing Hulu's Furious.

Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris (born 1947, Birmingham, Alabama) is an American folk, country, and Americana singer-songwriter known for Gram Parsons collaborations, Pieces of the Sky, Trio, and Wrecking Ball; 13 Grammy wins per the Recording Academy, Country Music Hall of Fame 2008.

Emmymade

Emmymade (Emmeline Mayline Cho, formerly EmmyMadeInJapan) is an American food YouTuber whose channel, launched in Japan in 2010, features calm taste tests of viewer-sent international foods, historical recipes, and viral recipe tests, with about 3.2 million subscribers.

Emo

Emo (emotional hardcore, emocore) is a rock genre and youth subculture that emerged from 1980s Washington, D.C. hardcore punk via Rites of Spring and Embrace, went mainstream in the 2000s with My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and Panic! at the Disco, and has revived since 2008 in underground waves.

Emo Nite

Emo Nite LA is an emo-themed DJ party series founded in Los Angeles in 2014 by Morgan Freed and T.J. Petracca, now held in over 50 US cities.

Emo Philips

Emo Philips (Philip Soltanec, born 1956) is an American stand-up comedian famous since 1976 for childlike delivery and precisely constructed one-liners; called the best joke writer in America by Jay Leno.

Emo rap

Emo rap, also called emo hip hop or sad rap, is a hip hop subgenre fusing trap production with emo and pop-punk guitars and confessional lyrics. It emerged on SoundCloud around 2015, went mainstream in 2017-2018, and was led by Lil Peep, XXXTentacion, and Juice WRLD.

Emo revival

Emo revival, or fourth wave emo, was an underground emo movement of the late 2000s to mid-late 2010s in which bands like Algernon Cadwallader, Snowing, Modern Baseball, and the Hotelier revived 1990s Midwest emo, distinct from third-wave mainstream emo-pop.

Emo subculture

Emo subculture: youth culture born from 1980s Washington, D.C. emotional hardcore (Rites of Spring, Embrace), mainstream in the 2000s via My Chemical Romance; defined by dark fashion, eyeliner, and internet communities on MySpace, LiveJournal, and Netlog.

Emodin

Emodin is a naturally occurring anthraquinone compound found in rhubarb, Japanese knotweed, and aloe, long used as a purgative and now studied for its pharmacological effects and liver toxicity.

Emoia

Emoia is a genus of Pacific and Southeast Asian skinks (family Scincidae) established by Gray in 1845, with about 77 species, many island endemics, including the extinct E. nativitatis and the endangered E. slevini; molecular work shows the genus is polyphyletic.

Emoji

Emoji (絵文字) are Unicode-encoded pictographs used inline in text. Born on Japanese mobile phones (DoCoMo i-mode, 1999, 176 characters by Kurita Shigetaka), standardized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, now 3,953 emoji under UTS #51.

Emomali Rahmon (Эмомали Раҳмон)

Emomali Rahmon (Эмомали Раҳмон), formerly Emomali Rahmonov, has ruled Tajikistan since 1992 and was first elected president in 1994 during the civil war; the 2016 referendum removed term limits and his son Rustam is heir apparent.

Emoni Bates

Emoni Bates (born 2004) is an American basketball forward from Ypsilanti, Michigan; 2023 second-round pick (49th) of the Cavaliers, first sophomore Gatorade National Player of the Year, now with the G League's Texas Legends.

Emory Cohen

Emory Isaac Cohen (born 1990) is an American actor from New York City, known for AJ in The Place Beyond the Pines, Tony in Brooklyn, Homer in The OA, and roles in Rebel Ridge and The Bikeriders.

Emory Leon Chaffee

Emory Leon Chaffee (1885–1975) was an American physicist and electronics pioneer at Harvard whose 1911 dissertation established the Chaffee gap, a method of producing continuous electrical oscillations for radiotelephony.

Emory Tate

Emory Andrew Tate Jr. (1958-2015), American chess International Master, five-time U.S. Armed Forces champion, six-time Indiana champion, famed attacking tactician with about 80 Grandmaster wins, father of Andrew Tate.

Emory University

Emory University: private research university founded 1836 in Oxford, Georgia, by Methodists; moved to Atlanta in 1915 with Asa Candler's $1 million gift; nine schools, R1, desegregated 1963–1968.

Emory Upton

Emory Upton (1839–1881), Union brevet major general and Army reformer, wrote the 1867 infantry tactics, The Armies of Asia and Europe (1878), and the posthumous Military Policy (1904) that shaped the Root Reforms.

Emos vs. Punks

Emos vs. punks: the 2008 Mexico City conflict in which punks, metalheads, and other urban tribes attacked emo youths, culminating in the 16 March 2008 Glorieta de Insurgentes clash, driven by accusations of style copying, homophobia, and gender norms.

Emotech

Emotech is a London-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2014 by Hongbin Zhuang, known for the Olly home robot and later for B2B speech, pronunciation, and lipsync AI tools.

Emoticon

An emoticon, a word combining emotion and icon, is a sequence of keyboard characters representing a facial expression, best known from Scott Fahlman's 1982 smiley face :-).

Emotion

Emotion: a complex reaction pattern with experiential, behavioral, and physiological elements directed at personally significant events. Covers James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter-Singer theories, basic emotion, appraisal, and constructionist traditions, and emotion regulation.

Emotion (Carly Rae Jepsen album)

Emotion (E•MO•TION), Carly Rae Jepsen's third studio album, released August 21, 2015 on 604/School Boy/Interscope. An '80s synth-pop record written from over 200 songs, critically acclaimed but peaking at No. 16, reissued for its 10th anniversary in 2025.

Emotion (Samantha Sang song)

Emotion is a 1977 pop ballad by Barry and Robin Gibb, first recorded by Australian singer Samantha Sang at Criteria Studios, Miami. Released on Private Stock, it hit No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978, No. 1 in New Zealand; later covered by the Bee Gees and Destiny's Child.

Emotion classification

Emotion classification: organizing emotional states via discrete models (Ekman's six basic emotions) or dimensional models (valence, arousal, dominance; Russell's circumplex), used in psychology and affective computing.

Emotion recognition task

An emotion recognition task is a behavioral test measuring how well a person identifies emotions in faces, voices, or scenes, used in research and clinical groups.

Emotion Regulation Questionnaire

The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) is a 10-item self-report questionnaire measuring habitual use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, introduced by James J. Gross and Oliver P. John in 2003.

Emotional affair

Emotional affair, also called emotional infidelity: a non-sexual extrarelational bond marked by intimacy mirroring a committed relationship, sustained contemplation, and deception or opacity; hallmarks are secrecy and diverted emotional support.

Emotional blackmail

Emotional blackmail, popularized by Susan Forward's 1997 book, is manipulation of a close person through fear, obligation, and guilt (FOG), using implied threats of punishment or withdrawal to force compliance; studied in relationships, workplaces, and film discourse.