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Ebenezer Erskine
Ebenezer Erskine (1680–1754) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister at Portmoak and then Stirling who led the First Secession of 1733 from the Church of Scotland, founding the Secession Church.
Ebenezer Howard
Ebenezer Howard (1850–1928) was a British shorthand-writer and reformer who founded the garden city movement through his 1898 book To-morrow, influencing the new towns of Letchworth and Welwyn.
Ebenezer Obey
Ebenezer Obey, born Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Fabiyi in 1942, is a Nigerian jùjú musician, bandleader, and evangelist known as Chief Commander, whose Inter-Reformers band modernized the genre.
Ebenezer Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge is the miser protagonist of Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843), reformed by Jacob Marley's ghost and three Christmas spirits; his name now means a stingy, coldhearted person.
Eber
Eber (Hebrew עֵבֶר, Patriarch Eber) is a postdiluvian patriarch in Genesis, great-grandson of Shem and father of Peleg and Joktan, traditionally taken as the eponymous ancestor of the Hebrews.
Eberbach Abbey
Eberbach Abbey (Kloster Eberbach) is a former Cistercian monastery near Eltville am Rhein in the Rheingau, Germany, founded in 1136 by monks from Clairvaux and dissolved in 1803.
Eberechi Eze
Eberechi Oluchi Eze (born 1998, Greenwich, London) is an English attacking midfielder for Arsenal and England. Released by four academies, he starred for QPR and Crystal Palace, won the 2025 FA Cup, and joined Arsenal for £60m in 2025.
Eberhard Anheuser
Eberhard Anheuser was a German-born St. Louis soap and candle manufacturer who acquired the failing Bavarian Brewery out of a creditor auction in 1860, building it into Anheuser-Busch with his son-in-law Adolphus Busch.
Eberhard Billick
Eberhard Billick (c. 1499–1557) was a German Carmelite theologian at the University of Cologne, best known for his polemics against Martin Bucer and his service at the Council of Trent.
Eberhard Bodenschatz
Eberhard Bodenschatz, born 1959, is a German physicist who studies turbulence and biological physics and directs the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen.
Eberhard E. Fetz
Eberhard E. Fetz, also known as E. E. Fetz, is an American neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, a pioneer of brain–computer interfaces.
Eberhard Grün
Eberhard Grün is a German planetary physicist known for discovering interstellar dust grains passing through the solar system and the Jovian dust streams, and for founding dust astronomy.
Eberhard Hinderer
Eberhard Hinderer is a German mechanical engineer who co-founded Vector Informatik near Stuttgart in 1988, managed it for about 26 years, and retired in 2014.
Eberhard Hopf
Eberhard Hopf (1902–1983) was an Austrian-American mathematician known for the Hopf bifurcation, the Hopf maximum principle, and the Wiener–Hopf equations, who spent his final decades at Indiana University.
Eberhard K. U. Gross
Eberhard K. U. Gross, known as Hardy Gross, is a German theoretical physicist who invented time-dependent density-functional theory and directed the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle.
Eberhard Ritz
Eberhard Ritz (1938–2023) was a German nephrologist and professor at Heidelberg University, known for research on cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease and diabetic nephropathy.
Eberhardt Rechtin
Eberhardt Rechtin (1926–2006) was an American electrical engineer who directed NASA's Deep Space Network, proved the phase-locked loop optimal in noise, and founded systems architecting programs at USC.
Eberron
Eberron, D&D campaign setting by Keith Baker, winner of Wizards of the Coast's 2002 setting search ($100,000, 11,000 entries); pulp-noir world of magic-as-technology, the Last War, the Mourning, dragonmarked houses, warforged; first published 2004.
Ebers Papyrus
The Ebers Papyrus is a large ancient Egyptian medical papyrus, bought in Thebes by Georg Ebers in 1872/73 and held by Leipzig University Library since 1873.
EBEX
EBEX, the E and B Experiment, was a balloon-borne polarimeter that measured cosmic microwave background polarization, flying near the South Pole for about 25 days in 2012-13.
Ebezâde Abdullah Efendi
Ebezâde Abdullah Efendi was an Ottoman şeyhülislam who held the office twice, from 1708 to 1710 and 1712 to 1713, before dying in exile in 1714.
EBF1
EBF1 (EBF transcription factor 1; also EBF, O/E-1, COE1, OLF1), human gene at 5q33.3, encodes a pioneer transcription factor that specifies B cell fate with E2A and Pax5, binds 5′-TCCCNNGGGA via a zinc knuckle, and is linked to B-ALL leukemia.
Ebilun
Ebilun (遏必隆) was a Manchu statesman of the Niohuru clan who served the Qing dynasty and was one of the four regents for the young Kangxi Emperor.
Ebingen
Ebingen, now a district of Albstadt in the Zollernalbkreis, Germany, is documented from 793 (Ebinga) and hosts a Roman earth-and-timber cohort fort of the Alblimes of about 80 AD, plus an excavated early medieval village.
Ebionites
The Ebionites (Ebyonim) were a Jewish-Christian movement first mentioned around 175 CE that kept the Mosaic Law, rejected Paul as an apostate, and used a single gospel resembling Matthew.
Ebira people
The Ebira people, also called Egbira or Igbira, are an ethnic group of North-Central Nigeria concentrated in the hills of central Kogi State, with Okene as their administrative center.
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (Gojira, Ebira, Mosura: Nankai no Daiketto), released in the US as Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, is Toho's 1966 seventh Godzilla film, directed by Jun Fukuda, in which Godzilla and Mothra fight the giant crustacean Ebirah on Letchi Island against the terrorist Red Bamboo; originally written for King Kong.
eBird
eBird is a participatory-science bird monitoring program run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology since 2002, in which birdwatchers submit checklists feeding a database used by researchers.
Ebisu (恵比須) (mythology)
Ebisu (恵比須, also Hiruko 蛭子) is the native Japanese god of fishermen, merchants, and farmers among the Seven Lucky Gods (shichifukujin), depicted with fishing rod and sea bream, head shrine Nishinomiya, festival Toka Ebisu on January 10.
Ebisu Muscats (恵比寿マスカッツ)
Ebisu Muscats (恵比寿マスカッツ, Ebisu★Muscats) was a Japanese idol group of AV actresses and gravure idols formed in 2008 from TV Tokyo's Onegai! Muscat, debuting on record in 2010, dissolving in 2013, and continuing in second-generation and 1.5 lineups until all members graduated in August 2022.