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Eric Lange

Eric Lange, American actor born 1973 in Hamilton, Ohio, known for Erwin Sikowitz in Victorious, Bill Stechner in Narcos, and his Critics' Choice-nominated Lyle Mitchell in Escape at Dannemora.

Eric Lawitz

Eric Lawitz (Eric J. Lawitz) is an American hepatologist and clinical trialist known for leading phase 3 sofosbuvir trials that replaced interferon-based hepatitis C therapy with all-oral antiviral regimens.

Eric LeGrand

Eric LeGrand, former Rutgers Scarlet Knights defensive tackle (No. 52, the only retired number in Rutgers football history), paralyzed from the neck down in an October 16, 2010 game against Army; later a motivational speaker, broadcaster, and founder of Team LeGrand and LeGrand Coffee House.

Eric Lemming

Eric Lemming (1880–1930), Swedish javelin thrower from Göteborg, first great modern javelinist; Olympic champion 1906, 1908 (twice), and 1912, and first official IAAF world record holder at 62.32 m.

Eric Liaw

Eric Liaw is a General Partner at the later-stage venture capital firm IVP, known for investments in UiPath, Klarna, Datadog, and GitHub, and based in London since 2023.

Eric Liddell

Eric Liddell (1902–1945), Scottish sprinter and missionary, won the 1924 Paris Olympic 400m gold in a world-record 47.6 s after refusing to run the 100m heats on a Sunday; he died in the Weihsien internment camp in China in 1945 and inspired Chariots of Fire.

Eric Lindros

Eric Lindros, Canadian center born 1973, drafted first overall 1991 by Quebec Nordiques, refused to play, traded to Philadelphia in 1992; Hart Trophy winner, 865 points in 760 NHL games, Hockey Hall of Fame 2016.

Eric Lindros trade

Eric Lindros trade: June 1992 deal sending the 1991 first-overall pick's rights from the Quebec Nordiques to the Philadelphia Flyers for Forsberg, Ricci, Hextall, Duchesne, Huffman, picks, and $15 million, confirmed by arbitrator Larry Bertuzzi over a rival Rangers deal.

Eric Lively

Eric Lively (Eric Lawrence Lively, born 1981, Atlanta) is an American actor and photographer, son of Ernie Lively and brother of Blake Lively, known for So Weird, The L Word, American Pie, and The Butterfly Effect 2.

Eric Lloyd

Eric Lloyd (David Eric Lloyd Morelli, born 1986, Glendale, California) is an American actor, musician, and producer known as child star Charlie Calvin in Disney's The Santa Clause trilogy and Little John Warner on NBC's Jesse, now running Lloyd Production Studios.

Eric Lomax

Eric Sutherland Lomax (1919-2012), Scottish Royal Signals officer, Burma Railway POW tortured for building a radio; author of The Railway Man (1995), who forgave interrogator Takashi Nagase; subject of the 2013 Colin Firth film.

Eric Lu

Eric Lu (born 1997, Bedford, Massachusetts) is an American pianist, Curtis Institute graduate, who won the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition and the 2025 International Chopin Piano Competition, the first American Chopin winner since 1970.

Eric Ly

Eric Ly (Eric Thich Vi Ly), born 1969 in Saigon, Vietnam, is a Vietnamese-American entrepreneur who co-founded LinkedIn as its founding CTO and now leads the background screening company KarmaCheck.

Eric M. Reiman

Eric M. Reiman is an American psychiatrist and brain imaging researcher who leads Banner Alzheimer's Institute in Phoenix and pioneered PET detection of Alzheimer's disease decades before symptoms.

Eric M. Rogers

Eric M. Rogers (1902–1990) was a British-born physicist and Princeton professor known for his lecture demonstrations and the 1960 textbook Physics for the Inquiring Mind.

Eric Mabius

Eric Mabius (Eric Harry Timothy Mabius, born 1971, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American actor known as Daniel Meade on Ugly Betty (2006-2010), Oliver O'Toole in Hallmark's Signed, Sealed, Delivered, and for films including Welcome to the Dollhouse, Cruel Intentions, and Resident Evil.

Eric Manaka

Eric Manaka (born 1999) is an English actor, writer, and stunt performer from South London, the first British Jackass cast member, debuting in Action Point (2018) and Jackass Forever (2022), absent from new footage in Best and Last.

Eric Mangini

Eric Mangini (born 1971, Hartford, Connecticut) is an NFL coach, Jets head coach 2006-08 and Browns head coach 2009-10, 33-47 career record, Patriots defensive coordinator 2005, 49ers DC 2015.

Eric Martin (American singer)

Eric Martin (エリック・マーティン), born 1960, is an American rock singer, lead vocalist of Mr. Big ('To Be With You', #1 in 15 countries) and of the Eric Martin Band, known also for Japan's Mr. Vocalist J-pop cover series, Avantasia, and TMG.

Eric Maskin

Eric S. Maskin, born in 1950, is an American economist at Harvard University who shared the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory.

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (born 1989) is a Cameroonian forward from Hamburg's academy who played for HSV, Nürnberg, Mainz, Schalke, Stoke, PSG, and Bayern Munich, won three Bundesligas, and never cost a transfer fee.

Eric Mays

Eric Mays (Eric Bradford Mays, died 2024) was a Flint, Michigan 1st Ward city councilman from 2013, an early Flint water crisis activist, council president, TikTok figure with 220,000 followers, repeatedly suspended and litigious.

Eric Mazur

Eric Mazur is a Dutch-born physicist and Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard, known for black silicon, femtosecond laser micromachining, and Peer Instruction, and served as President of Optica in 2017.

Eric McCormack

Eric McCormack (born 1963, Toronto) is a Canadian-American actor, Emmy winner (2001) as Will Truman on Will & Grace, also known for Perception, Travelers, and Broadway's The Music Man.

Eric Meffre

Eric Meffre is a French-trained immunologist and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University since 2022, known for defining the B cell tolerance checkpoints that remove autoreactive cells in humans.

Eric Meggers

Eric Meggers, born 1968 in Bonn, Germany, is a German organic chemist and professor at the University of Marburg known for asymmetric catalysis with chiral-at-metal complexes.

Eric Metaxas

Eric Metaxas is an American author and radio host, a Yale graduate whose bestselling biography Bonhoeffer has sold over one million copies and who hosts a syndicated radio show.

Eric Miska

Eric Miska is a British-based RNA biologist at the University of Cambridge known for showing that small RNAs carry heritable information across generations in C. elegans.

Éric Molina

Éric Molina (Eric Lee Molina, born 1982) is a Mexican-American heavyweight boxer, "Drummer Boy", 29-9 (21 KOs), who lost world title fights to Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua and was suspended two years by UKAD in 2018.

Eric Montross

Eric Montross (1971-2023), American basketball center from Indianapolis; 1993 NCAA champion at North Carolina under Dean Smith, ninth overall pick of the 1994 NBA Draft by Boston, eight NBA seasons, later Tar Heel radio analyst; died of cancer at 52.