All articles starting with E

Eric Cantona

Eric Cantona, born 1966 in Marseille, is a French former forward, nicknamed King Eric, who won five English league titles with Leeds United and Manchester United and later became an actor.

Eric Cantor, Republican U.S. representative from Virginia's 7th District (2001–2014) and House Majority Leader (2011–2014), lost the 2014 primary to David Brat, the first majority leader defeated in a primary since 1899.

Oct 21, 2026

Eric Carlberg

Eric Carlberg (Gustaf Eric Carlberg, 1880–1963), Swedish officer, diplomat, and Olympic shooter; twin brother of Vilhelm Carlberg. Won 2 gold and 3 silver, all team shooting events, at 1908 and 1912; later consul general in Tehran.

Eric Carle

Eric Carle (1929-2021), American picture-book author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear; known for painted tissue-paper collage, over 70 books, 170 million copies, and the Amherst museum he founded.

Eric Carmen

Eric Carmen (エリック・カルメン), 1949–2024, American singer-songwriter from Cleveland, Ohio; frontman of power pop pioneers the Raspberries ('Go All the Way') and solo hitmaker of 'All By Myself,' 'Hungry Eyes,' and 'Make Me Lose Control,' with 13 Billboard Hot 100 entries.

Eric Carr

Eric Carr (Paul Charles Caravello, 1950-1991), American drummer who replaced Peter Criss in Kiss in 1980 as "The Fox", played on seven studio albums through Hot in the Shade, and died of heart cancer at 41.

Eric Cartman

Eric Cartman is the antiheroic fourth-grader of South Park, created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone in 1997, voiced by Parker, inspired by Matt Karpman, and known for scheming, bigoted stunts, and The Coon persona.

Sep 19, 2026

Eric Chan

Eric Chan is an American business executive who became Chief Business and Strategy Officer of Gap Inc. in January 2024, after serving as CFO of the LA Clippers.

Eric Chang (radiologist)

Eric Y. Chang is an American musculoskeletal radiologist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and adjunct professor at UCSD who received the 2017 PECASE award.

Eric Charles Holland

Eric Charles Holland is an American neurosurgeon-scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center who studies brain tumors and has been a National Academy of Medicine member since 2009.

Sep 19, 2026

Eric Chern

Eric Chern is an American businessman in Chicago who co-founded the options and derivatives trading firm Chicago Trading Company in 1995 and was its CEO from 2009 to 2019.

Eric Ching

Eric Ching is an American Republican politician and former city councilmember and mayor, running as the 2026 nominee for the U.S. House in California's 31st District.

Eric Chou (周兴哲)

Eric Chou (周興哲, born 1995, Taiwan) is a Mandopop singer-songwriter who broke out in 2014 with 以後別做朋友 from the drama The Way We Were, known for ballads like 永不失聯的愛 and his Odyssey world tour.

Eric Christian Olsen

Eric Christian Olsen (born 1977, Eugene, Oregon) is an American actor and producer, Marty Deeks on NCIS: Los Angeles (2010–2023, 301 episodes), husband of Sarah Wright, and CEO of Cloud Nine Productions, executive producer of Matlock, Woke, and NCIS: Origins.

Eric Church

Eric Church, full name Kenneth Eric Church, is an American country music singer and songwriter from Granite Falls, North Carolina, known for blending country with rock influences.

Oct 10, 2026

Eric Chyn

Eric Chyn is an American labor economist and Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for his 2018 study of Chicago public housing demolitions.

Éric Ciotti

Éric Ciotti, born in 1965 in Nice, is a French politician who leads the Union des droites pour la République and serves as mayor of Nice.

Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton (born 1945), English blues-rock guitarist and singer; only three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee (Yardbirds, Cream, solo, 2000); 80 RIAA awards, six 1993 Grammys, over 200 Royal Albert Hall solo shows.

Eric Clapton (album)

Eric Clapton (1970) is the English guitarist's self-titled debut solo album, produced by Delaney Bramlett with Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, released on Atco and Polydor, featuring the hit "After Midnight" and mixed three times.

Eric Close

Eric Close (Eric Randolph Close), American actor born 1967 in Staten Island, known as FBI agent Martin Fitzgerald on CBS's Without a Trace (2002–2009) and Teddy Conrad on Nashville; also directs Hallmark Christmas films.

Eric Conn (plant biochemist)

Eric Edward Conn (1923–2017) was an American plant biochemist at the University of California, Davis, known for work on cyanogenesis and phenylpropanoid biosynthesis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.

Eric Conroy

Eric Conroy is an American politician and Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Ohio's 1st Congressional District, facing incumbent Democrat Greg Landsman in 2026.

Éric Coquerel

Éric Coquerel, born in 1958 in Courbevoie, is a French politician of La France insoumise who has been deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis since 2017 and chairs the Assembly's Finance Committee.

Eric Cornell

Eric Cornell is an American physicist at NIST and JILA in Boulder who created the first Bose-Einstein condensate in a gas, winning the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Eric Courchesne

Eric Courchesne is a neuroscientist and professor of neurosciences at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, known for findings on early brain overgrowth in autism.

Eric Crouch

Eric Crouch (born 1978, Omaha) is a former Nebraska quarterback who won the 2001 Heisman Trophy with 770 points over Rex Grossman, the only option QB to win it, later drafted 95th overall by the Rams.

Eric D. Bateman

Eric D. Bateman (1947–2025) was a South African respiratory physician at the University of Cape Town who led the GOAL asthma study and chaired the Global Initiative for Asthma.

Eric D. Bauer

Eric D. Bauer is a condensed matter physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who studies unconventional superconductors and f-electron materials, and received a 2009 PECASE award.

Eric D. Evans

Eric D. Evans is an American radar engineer who served as director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 2006 to 2024 and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.