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Eric Flaningam

Eric Flaningam is a venture investor who rose from researcher to Partner at Felicis, a firm managing over $3 billion, and writes the Generative Value newsletter on Substack.

Eric Fleming

Eric Fleming (Edward Heddy Jr., 1925–1966), American actor, star of CBS's Rawhide as trail boss Gil Favor (1959–1965); also Conquest of Space and The Glass Bottom Boat; drowned in Peru filming High Jungle. Distinct from a contemporary screenwriter of the same name and Erik Fleming of the Matthew Perry case.

Eric Flores

Eric Flores is an American Republican politician and Army veteran from Mission, Texas, who is the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Texas's 34th Congressional District.

Eric Foner

Eric Foner is an American historian specializing in the Civil War and Reconstruction. His 2010 book, The Fiery Trial, won the Pulitzer Prize for History.

Eric Fonoimoana

Eric Fonoimoana (born 1969, Manhattan Beach, California) is an American beach volleyball player who won 2000 Sydney Olympic gold with Dain Blanton, was 2002 AVP MVP, and founded Dig for Kids.

Eric Forrester

Eric Forrester is the fictional patriarch and head designer of Forrester Creations on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful, created by William J. Bell, first appearing March 23, 1987, and played by John McCook since the premiere.

Eric Forsyth

Eric Forsyth names two British-born sportsmen: Charles Eric Forsyth (1885-1951), 1908 Olympic water polo gold medalist and ASA swimming champion, and Captain Eric Forsyth (1932-2023), Brookhaven engineer and Blue Water Medal ocean sailor aboard Fiona.

Eric Fossum

Eric Fossum is an American engineer who invented the CMOS active pixel image sensor, the camera-on-a-chip in nearly every smartphone, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the early 1990s.

Eric Frenzel

Eric Frenzel (born 1988, Annaberg-Buchholz) is a retired German Nordic combined skier: 7 Olympic medals (3 gold), 5 straight overall World Cup titles 2013-2017, 18 World Championship medals; now Germany's men's head coach.

Eric Fyrberg

Eric Fyrberg is a molecular biologist who isolated all six actin genes of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and used mutations in them to study muscle assembly.

Eric G. Adelberger

Eric G. Adelberger is an American experimental physicist at the University of Washington, co-founder of the Eöt-Wash Group, known for precision torsion-balance tests of gravity and a National Academy of Sciences member since 1994.

Eric G. Ball

Eric G. Ball (1904–1979) was an English-born biological chemist at Harvard Medical School who studied biological oxidations, xanthine oxidase, and adipose tissue metabolism, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1948.

Eric G. Neilson

Eric G. Neilson is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist, dean of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine since 2011, known for research on fibroblasts in organ scarring and kidney inflammation.

Eric G. Pamer

Eric G. Pamer is an American immunologist and microbiome researcher, Director of the Duchossois Family Institute at the University of Chicago since 2019, known for work on Listeria immunity and colonization resistance.

Éric Gagné

Éric Gagné (born 1976, Montreal) is a Canadian former MLB relief pitcher, Dodgers closer 2002-2006 nicknamed "Game Over", winner of the 2003 NL Cy Young Award with 55 saves and a 1.20 ERA, holder of the record 84 consecutive saves and a 91.7% career save rate, later named in the Mitchell Report.

Eric Gairy

Sir Eric Matthew Gairy was a Grenadian trade unionist and politician who founded the Grenada United Labour Party and served as the first Prime Minister of independent Grenada.

Eric Gales

Eric Gales, Memphis blues-rock guitarist and singer, plays a right-handed guitar upside down left-handed. Child prodigy signed to Elektra as a teen; returned in 2017 after career problems.

Eric Garcetti

Eric Garcetti, 42nd mayor of Los Angeles (2013-2022) and later U.S. Ambassador to India, confirmed 52-42 in March 2023 after a 20-month delay over the Rick Jacobs harassment scandal.

Eric García (footballer, born 2001)

Eric García Martret (born 2001, Martorell) is a Spanish ball-playing centre-back, La Masia graduate, ex-Manchester City, Barcelona and Girona loanee; 22 Spain caps, Olympic silver and gold, renewed to 2031.

Eric Gill

Eric Gill (Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, 1882–1940), English sculptor, letter-cutter, and typeface designer; pioneer of direct carving, designer of Gill Sans, Perpetua, and Joanna; maker of the Westminster Cathedral Stations of the Cross; reputation reshaped by his published diaries.

Eric Glyman

Eric Glyman is an American entrepreneur who cofounded the New York corporate card company Ramp in 2019 and leads it as co-CEO; Ramp was valued at $44 billion in 2026.

Eric Gnock Fah

Eric Gnock Fah (王志豪) is a Hong Kong-based entrepreneur who co-founded Klook in 2014 with Ethan Lin and Bernie Xiong, and serves as the company's president.

Eric Gordon

Eric Gordon, born Eric Ambrose Gordon Jr. in 1988, is an American NBA guard who won the 2017 Sixth Man of the Year award with the Houston Rockets.

Eric Green

Eric Hubert Green (1878-1972), English field hockey outside-left for Staines Hockey Club; 16 England caps 1902-1908 and Olympic gold with England in the debut men's hockey tournament at London 1908; later The Times hockey correspondent.

Eric Greenspan

Eric Greenspan names two principal Americans: a Los Angeles chef (The Foundry on Melrose, Mr. Beast Burger virtual brands, grilled cheese cookbooks) and a Canton, Massachusetts chiropractor and Innovative Wellness Systems executive.

Eric Greer

Eric Greer is an American molecular biologist known for work on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of longevity and N6-adenine DNA methylation, now at Washington University School of Medicine.

Eric Greitens

Eric Greitens (born 1974) is a former Navy SEAL, founder of The Mission Continues, and the 56th governor of Missouri (R, 2017–2018), who resigned amid criminal charges, then finished third in the 2022 Missouri Republican Senate primary.

Eric H. Baehrecke

Eric H. Baehrecke is an American cell biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, known for research on autophagy and programmed cell death.

Eric H. Davidson

Eric H. Davidson (1937–2015) was an American developmental biologist at Caltech who showed that animal development is controlled by gene regulatory networks, working chiefly on the sea urchin.

Éric H. Oelkers

Éric H. Oelkers is a geochemist who co-directed the CarbFix carbon-storage project from 2006 to 2020 and works on storing carbon dioxide as carbonate minerals in basalt.