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Eric D. Green

Eric D. Green is an American physician-scientist and medical geneticist who served as the third director of the National Human Genome Research Institute from 2009 to 2025.

Eric D. Miller

Eric D. Miller, born 1975, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 2019, appointed by President Trump.

Eric D. Siggia

Eric D. Siggia is an American theoretical physicist turned developmental biologist at The Rockefeller University, known for quantitative studies of morphogenesis and human embryonic stem-cell self-organization.

Eric da Silva Moreira

Eric Emanuel da Silva Moreira (born 2006, Hamburg) is a German right-back/wing-back at Excelsior Rotterdam on loan from Nottingham Forest; U17 European and World champion 2023 with Germany, 2. Bundesliga winner 2023/24 with FC St. Pauli.

Eric Dane

Eric Dane (1972–2026), American actor, played Dr. Mark "McSteamy" Sloan on Grey's Anatomy, Captain Tom Chandler on The Last Ship, and Cal Jacobs on Euphoria; died of ALS at 53 after becoming an advocate for ALS awareness.

Eric Darnell Holmes

Eric Darnell Holmes (born 1968), later Koor An Nur of Mary Katie Brown, Indiana death row prisoner sentenced in 1993 for the 1989 Shoney's murders of Charles Ervin and Theresa Blosl despite a hung jury on the death sentence.

Eric Davis (baseball)

Eric Davis (born 1962), nicknamed Eric the Red, is a former MLB outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds, Dodgers, Tigers, Orioles, and Cardinals, a three-time Gold Glove five-tool star and 1990 World Series champion.

Eric Decker

Eric Decker (born 1987, Cold Spring, Minnesota) is a former NFL wide receiver for the Broncos, Jets, and Titans; 439 catches, 5,816 yards, 53 touchdowns; retired 2018.

Eric Delbridge

Eric Delbridge is a physician-investor who leads the Sofinnova BioEquities public long/short therapeutics fund at Sofinnova Venture Partners, joining in 2016 from Balyasny Asset Management.

Eric Dickerson

Eric Dickerson (born 1960, Sealy, Texas), NFL running back for the Rams, Colts, Raiders, and Falcons; 1983 second overall pick; holds the single-season rushing record of 2,105 yards (1984); 13,259 career yards; Hall of Fame 1999.

Eric Dier

Eric Dier (born 1994, Cheltenham) is an English centre-back and former defensive midfielder for AS Monaco, formerly Sporting CP, Tottenham Hotspur (365 appearances), and Bayern Munich (2024/25 Bundesliga champion), with 49 England caps.

Eric Djemba-Djemba

Eric Djemba-Djemba (Eric Daniel Djemba Djemba, born 1981, Douala) is a Cameroonian defensive midfielder, 2002 AFCON winner, who signed for Manchester United from Nantes for £3.5m in 2003, made 39 appearances, then journeyed through Villa, Qatar, Odense, Israel, Serbia, and beyond.

Eric Dolphy

Eric Dolphy (1928–1964), Los Angeles-born jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinet pioneer; Mingus and Coltrane collaborator; Prestige and Blue Note leader; died of a diabetic coma in Berlin at 36.

Eric Donaldson

Eric Donaldson, born 1947, is a Jamaican singer known as "Mr. Festival", the record seven-time winner of the Jamaica Festival Song Competition from 1971 to 1997.

Eric Douglas

Eric Anthony Douglas (1958-2004), American actor and stand-up comedian, youngest son of Kirk Douglas and half-brother of Michael Douglas; known for A Gunfight, The Golden Child, and Delta Force 3, died of an accidental overdose in Manhattan.

Eric Dufresne

Eric R. Dufresne is a soft matter physicist, professor at Cornell University since 2023 after chairs at ETH Zurich and Yale, known for holographic optical tweezer arrays.

Eric Duoss

Eric Duoss is an American materials scientist who directs the Center for Engineered Materials and Manufacturing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and received a PECASE award.

Eric E. Fullerton

Eric E. Fullerton is an American experimental physicist and materials scientist, a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego who invented high-density magnetic recording media for hard disk drives.

Eric E. Murphy

Eric E. Murphy, born 1979, is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 2019.

Eric Eady

Eric Eady (1915–1966) was a British dynamical meteorologist whose 1949 model of baroclinic instability explained midlatitude weather; his Eady Growth Rate remains a standard climate diagnostic.

Eric Ebron

Eric Ebron, former NFL tight end (Lions 2014-17, Colts 2018-19, Steelers 2020-21), 10th overall pick in 2014, 2018 Pro Bowler with 13 touchdowns, retired December 2024.

Eric Edgar Cooke

Eric Edgar Cooke (1931–1964), the 'Night Caller', was an Australian serial killer who murdered eight people in Perth from 1959 to 1963, was the last person hanged in Western Australia, and whose confessions later exonerated John Button and Darryl Beamish.

Eric Engel

Eric Engel was a Swiss physician and cytogeneticist known for proposing uniparental disomy in 1980, and for directing medical genetics programs at Vanderbilt and in Geneva.

Eric Esch

Eric "Butterbean" Esch (Eric Scott Esch), American heavyweight fighter from Jasper, Alabama; "King of the Four-Rounders"; boxing record 77-10-4 (57 KOs), plus K-1 kickboxing, MMA (14-10-1), and the 1999 WrestleMania XV win over Bart Gunn.

Eric F. Lambin

Eric F. Lambin, born in 1962 in Belgium, is a geographer and environmental scientist at UCLouvain and Stanford known for combining satellite data with socio-economic data to study deforestation.

Eric F. Melgren

Eric F. Melgren, born 1956, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Kansas, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2008.

Eric Fellner

Eric Fellner (born 1959) is an English film producer, co-chairman of Working Title Films with Tim Bevan since 1992, producer of Four Weddings, Bridget Jones, Les Misérables, and CBE recipient.

Eric Fischer

Eric S. Fischer is a structural biologist, professor at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since 2015, known for structural studies of thalidomide's target cereblon.

Eric Fischl

Eric Fischl (born 1948) is an American painter and sculptor known for large naturalistic canvases depicting suburban life and sexuality, with breakthrough works including Sleepwalker (1979) and Bad Boy (1981).

Eric Fisher (American football)

Eric Fisher (born 1991) is a former NFL offensive tackle from Central Michigan taken first overall by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2013 draft, a two-time Pro Bowler and Super Bowl LIV champion who finished with the Colts in 2021.