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Eric Weddle

Eric Weddle, Utah Utes consensus All-American safety and 2007 second-round Chargers pick, played 14 NFL seasons with the Chargers, Ravens, and Rams, earning six Pro Bowls, two first-team All-Pro nods, the 2010s All-Decade Team, and a Super Bowl LVI title after a 2022 comeback; 2026 College Football Hall of Fame inductee.

Eric Weinstein

Eric Ross Weinstein is a mathematician and financial executive who co-founded the Natron Group hedge fund, served as managing director of Thiel Capital, and proposed Geometric Unity.

Éric Westhof

Éric Westhof, born in 1948, is a French molecular biologist who spent his career at CNRS and the IBMC in Strasbourg, known for the geometric classification of RNA base pairs and the concept of isostericity.

Eric Whitacre

Eric Whitacre, American Grammy-winning choral composer and conductor (Lux Aurumque, Sleep, Light & Gold), creator of the Virtual Choir projects uniting over 100,000 singers from more than 145 countries.

Eric Wieschaus

Eric F. Wieschaus, born 1947 in South Bend, Indiana, is an American developmental biologist who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize for discoveries on the genetic control of embryonic development.

Eric Williams

Eric Eustace Williams was a Trinidadian historian and politician, author of Capitalism and Slavery (1944), and the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad and Tobago.

Eric Wilson (bassist)

Eric Wilson (born 1970, Alaska) is the American bassist and founding member of ska-punk band Sublime, later of Long Beach Dub Allstars and Sublime with Rome, now playing in Sublime with Jakob Nowell.

Eric Wimberger

Eric Wimberger is an American Republican politician and attorney who represents Wisconsin's 2nd State Senate district, elected in 2024, and previously served as a Marine Corps judge advocate.

Eric Winter

Eric Winter (Eric Barrett Winter, born 1976) is an American actor and former model, known as Tim Bradford on The Rookie, Rex Brady on Days of Our Lives, and founder of Palm Republic rum.

Eric Wolf

Eric Robert Wolf (1923–1999) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist who studied peasants, power, and world history, best known for his 1982 book Europe and the People Without History.

Eric Wolff

Eric Wolff, also known as Eric W. Wolff, is a British ice core and climate scientist at Cambridge who chaired EPICA and proposed using sea salt in ice cores to estimate past sea ice.

Eric Wood

Eric F. Wood (1947–2021) was a Canadian-born American hydrologist, the Susan Dod Brown Professor at Princeton University, known for the VIC hydrologic model and drought prediction.

Eric Woolfson

Eric Woolfson, also known as Eric Norman Woolfson, was a Scottish songwriter and lyricist. He co-founded The Alan Parsons Project and later composed five stage musicals.

Eric Wynalda

Eric Boswell Wynalda (born 1969) is an American former soccer forward, USMNT scorer of 34 goals in 106 caps, three-time World Cup player, scorer of the first MLS goal in 1996, and a 2004 National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee.

Eric Yonce

Eric Yonce is an American politician, businessman, and former Ocala police officer who is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Florida's 6th district in 2026.

Eric Young (wrestler)

Eric Young (Jeremy Fritz), Canadian pro wrestler from Florence, Ontario; TNA star since 2004, two-time TNA World Champion, fourth TNA Grand Slam Champion, ex-Sanity NXT Tag Team Champion; released by TNA July 1, 2026, reportedly headed to WWE NXT as player/coach.

Eric Yu

Eric Yu is a Chinese venture capital investor who has been a Partner at MPCi, formerly Matrix Partners China, since 2014, leading its healthcare investing.

Eric Yuan (袁征)

Eric S. Yuan (袁征) is a Chinese-American software engineer who founded Zoom in June 2011 after rising to Vice President of Engineering at WebEx and Cisco.

Eric Yue

Eric Yue (Eric K. Yue), New York-based American cinematographer and multidisciplinary artist; NYU Tisch graduate. Shot A Thousand and One, I Saw the TV Glow, Atropia, and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma; 2024 AC Rising Star.

Eric Zaslow

Eric Zaslow is an American mathematician at Northwestern University working on mirror symmetry and symplectic topology, best known as the Z of the 1996 Strominger–Yau–Zaslow conjecture.

Éric Zemmour

Éric Zemmour, born 1958 in Montreuil, is a French far-right polemicist, former Le Figaro and CNews journalist, founder of Reconquête!, 2022 presidential candidate with 7% of the first-round vote, convicted for hate speech, and polling near 4% for 2027.

Eric Zheng

Eric Zheng (郑艺) is president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai since January 2022, its first ethnic-Chinese president, after a career at PwC, the US Commerce Department, and AIG China.

Eric's Trip

Eric's Trip: Canadian lo-fi indie rock/noise-pop quartet from Moncton, New Brunswick, formed 1990; first Canadian band on Sub Pop; albums Love Tara, Forever Again, Purple Blue; broke up 1996, reunited 2001 and 2006.

Erica

Erica (heaths, heathers) is a large Ericaceae genus of about 851 species native from Europe to the Arabian Peninsula and Africa, centered on South Africa's Cape Floristic Region, with ericoid whorled leaves and urn-shaped flowers.

Erica (robot)

Erica (エリカ), named for ERATO Intelligent Conversational Android, is an autonomous conversational android developed by Hiroshi Ishiguro's group at Osaka University, announced in 2015, that works as a receptionist in Kyoto.

Erica arborea

Erica arborea (tree heath, briar root), Ericaceae shrub or small tree native from the Mediterranean to tropical African mountains and Arabia; source of briar-root pipe wood, IUCN Least Concern.

Erica Ash

Erica Ash (Erica Chantal Ash, 1977–2024), American actress and comedian from MADtv, The Big Gay Sketch Show, Real Husbands of Hollywood, and Starz's Survivor's Remorse; died July 28, 2024, in Los Angeles of cancer at 46.

Erica Brescia

Erica Brescia is a Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures who invests in early-stage AI, infrastructure, and security companies, after co-founding Bitnami and serving as GitHub's Chief Operating Officer.

Erica Campbell

Erica Campbell (born Erica Monique Atkins, 1972) is an American gospel singer from Inglewood, California, one half of the duo Mary Mary with sister Tina, a Grammy-winning solo artist (Help, 2014), and host of the radio show Get Up! Mornings with Erica Campbell. Not the PAPER music journalist of the same name.

Erica carnea

Erica carnea, known as winter heath or snow heath, is a low evergreen subshrub of central and southern European mountains that flowers pink, crimson, or white from January to April.