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Eric Hafner

Eric Hafner is an American Democratic politician serving a 20-year federal prison sentence in New York while running for Alaska's U.S. House seat in 2026.

Eric Hansen (chess player)

Eric Hansen (born 1992, Irvine, California) is a Canadian chess grandmaster, ChessBrah streamer, and Canadian Olympiad team member; peak FIDE 2629, Canadian number one in May 2013.

Eric Hanushek

Eric A. Hanushek is an economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a leading authority on the economics of education, known for research linking student achievement to economic growth.

Eric Harold Mansfield

Eric Harold Mansfield (1923–2016) was a British aeronautical structural engineer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1971.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were the two Columbine High School seniors who killed 13 people and wounded 24 on April 20, 1999, in Littleton, Colorado, before dying by suicide; Harris the leader, Klebold the follower.

Eric Haze

Eric Haze (born 1961, New York City), also tagged SE3, is an American graffiti artist, graphic designer, and painter; founding member of The Soul Artists, SVA BFA 1985, designer of hip-hop-era logos (LL Cool J, EPMD, Beastie Boys, Tommy Boy), founder of the Haze streetwear brand, and G-SHOCK collaborator since 1998.

Eric Heiden

Eric Heiden (born 1958, Madison, Wisconsin) is an American former speed skater who won all five long-track golds at the 1980 Olympics, a first, then became an orthopedic surgeon.

Eric Heisserer

Eric Heisserer (born 1969, Norman, Oklahoma) is an American screenwriter, showrunner, and author: Oscar-nominated for Arrival, creator of Netflix's Shadow and Bone, adapter of Bird Box, and author of the 2025 debut novel Simultaneous.

Eric Henriot Ducharme

Eric Henriot Ducharme is an aeronautical engineer who retired in 2021 as chief engineer at GE Aviation after leading the GE90 program and certification of the LEAP, Passport, and GE9X engines.

Eric Herbst

Eric Herbst is an astrochemist and emeritus professor at the University of Virginia, known for the 1973 Herbst–Klemperer model of ion–molecule chemistry in dense interstellar clouds.

Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), British Marxist historian born in Alexandria, Egypt, author of the Age of... quartet on 1789–1991, co-founder of Past and Present, lifelong Communist Party member, and co-creator of the 'invention of tradition' concept.

Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer (c. 1898/1902–1983), the Longshoreman Philosopher, was a San Francisco longshoreman and self-taught social philosopher whose 1951 book The True Believer analyzed mass movements and fanaticism; he won the 1983 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Eric Holcomb

Eric J. Holcomb, 51st Governor of Indiana (2017–2025), Republican, former Navy intelligence officer, state GOP chair, Dan Coats chief of staff, and Pence's lieutenant governor; re-elected 2020 with 56.5%.

Eric Holder

Eric Holder (born 1951) is an American lawyer, 82nd U.S. Attorney General (2009–2015) under Obama and the first African American in the post; earlier D.C. judge, U.S. Attorney, and Deputy AG; later NDRC chairman.

Éric Honoré

Éric Honoré, also published as Eric Honoré, is a French CNRS researcher who leads the Molecular and Integrative Mechanobiology team at the IPMC in Valbonne, France.

Eric Hosmer

Eric Hosmer, American MLB first baseman (born 1989), drafted third overall by Kansas City in 2008; 2015 World Series champion famous for his Game 5 dash home, four Gold Gloves, 2017 Silver Slugger, and eight-year $144 million Padres contract; retired 2024.

Eric Huang

Eric Huang (Eric Yi-Chun Huang, 黃翊群) is an American biotechnology researcher who led Moderna's New Venture Labs and proposed the vaccine pivot that produced Spikevax.

Eric Hudson

Eric R. Hudson is an American atomic, molecular, and optical physicist at UCLA who won a 2014 Presidential Early Career Award for controlling atoms and molecules with lasers.

Eric I. Altman

Eric I. Altman is an American chemical engineer and surface scientist at Yale University since 1994, known for atomic-scale studies of oxide surfaces, catalysis, and a 1998 PECASE award.

Eric I. Knudsen

Eric I. Knudsen is an American neuroscientist and Stanford professor emeritus who mapped auditory space in the barn owl midbrain and studied how early experience shapes it.

Eric Idle

Eric Idle (born 1943, South Shields) is a British comedian, songwriter, and founding member of Monty Python; he wrote "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life," created the Rutles and Spamalot, and survived pancreatic cancer.

Eric II of Denmark

Eric II of Denmark (Erik 2. Emune, c. 1090–1137), king 1134–1137, illegitimate son of Eric I Ejegod; won the civil war at Fodevig, executed Harald Kesja, and was murdered by Sorte Plov at a ting.

Eric J. Cassell

Eric J. Cassell, born Eric Jonathan Goldstein (1928–2021), was an American physician and bioethicist who argued that relieving suffering is a goal of medicine equal to curing disease.

Eric J. Essene

Eric J. Essene (1939–2010) was an American metamorphic petrologist who spent 40 years at the University of Michigan making geologic thermometry and barometry quantitative and critically evaluated.

Eric J. Gustafson

Eric J. Gustafson is an American landscape ecologist who spent 31 years with the USDA Forest Service in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and received the PECASE award in 1997.

Eric J. Heller

Eric J. Heller, born 1946, is an American theoretical chemist and physicist at Harvard best known for his 1984 discovery of quantum scars of periodic orbits.

Eric J. Huang

Eric J. Huang is a physician-scientist and neuropathologist who won a 2000 Presidential Early Career Award at UCSF and heads the Department of Pathology & Immunology at WashU Medicine.

Eric J. Nestler

Eric J. Nestler is an American neuroscientist known for identifying the molecular switch ΔFosB in drug addiction and for leading the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Eric J. Richards

Eric J. Richards is a plant molecular biologist and professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute in Ithaca, New York, known for discovering the DDM1 methylation mutant in Arabidopsis.

Eric J. Rubin

Eric J. Rubin, also known as Eric Rubin, is an American physician-scientist who studies tuberculosis at Harvard and became editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine in September 2019.