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Erich Müller

Erich Müller (1870–1948) was a German electrochemist who created the theory of chrome plating and developed a potentiometric titration method for determining several ions side by side.

Erich Neumann (politician)

Erich Neumann (1892–1951), German civil servant and State Secretary in Göring's Four Year Plan office; Wannsee Conference participant who sought to defer deporting Jewish war-industry workers; NSDAP member 2,645,024, SS number 222,014.

Erich Neumann (psychologist)

Erich Neumann (אריך נוימן) was a German-born Israeli psychologist who emigrated to Tel Aviv in 1934 and wrote The Origins and History of Consciousness and The Great Mother.

Erich P. Ippen

Erich P. Ippen is an American physicist and electrical engineer at MIT, a founder of femtosecond optics who produced the first subpicosecond light pulses at Bell Laboratories in 1974.

Erich Priebke

Erich Priebke (1913-2013), German SS-Hauptsturmführer in Rome and Kappler associate, co-led the 1944 Ardeatine Caves massacre of 335 Italians; fled to Argentina, was extradited in 1995, and died under house arrest after a life sentence.

Erich Rademacher

Erich "Ete" Rademacher (Fritz Albert Erich Rademacher), German breaststroke swimmer and water polo goalkeeper, 1920s world record holder; 1928 Olympic water polo gold and 200 m breaststroke silver, 1932 water polo silver.

Erich Raeder

Erich Raeder (1876–1960), German Großadmiral, headed the German Navy from 1928 to 1943, led the Kriegsmarine in World War II, was credited with Weserübung, resigned in 1943, and was sentenced to life imprisonment at Nuremberg.

Erich Regener

Erich Regener (1881–1955) was a German experimental physicist who measured the elementary charge and probed cosmic rays in deep lakes and the stratosphere, finding the atmosphere's ion-production maximum.

Erich Rominger

Erich Rominger (1886–1967) was a German pediatrician and professor who held the pediatrics chair at Kiel from 1925 to 1954, researching rickets, anemia, and infant metabolism.

Erich Runge

Erich Runge is a German theoretical physicist and professor at TU Ilmenau, best known as co-author with Eberhard K. U. Gross of the 1984 paper founding time-dependent density-functional theory.

Erich Salomon

Erich Salomon (1886–1944) was a German photojournalist who pioneered candid photography of politicians and diplomats with a small hidden camera, becoming a founding figure of modern photojournalism.

Erich Schaefer

Erich Schaefer is an American game designer who co-founded Blizzard North, co-created Diablo I and II and Torchlight, and joined Moon Beast Productions in 2024.

Erich Scharer

Erich Scharer is a Swiss bobsledder, born in 1946 in Zürich, who won two-man Olympic gold at Lake Placid in 1980 and seven world championship titles.

Erich Schönhardt

Erich Schönhardt (1891–1979), born in Stuttgart, was a German mathematician and university teacher in Tübingen and Stuttgart, known for the 1928 Schönhardt polyhedron, a twisted triangular prism that cannot be tetrahedralized.

Erich Spitz

Erich Spitz (Эрих Шпиц) is a Czech-born French physicist, born in Brno in 1931, who with J.C. Simon at CSF realized single-mode propagation would benefit optical fiber communication.

Erich von Däniken

Erich von Däniken (1935–2026), Swiss author of Chariots of the Gods (Erinnerungen an die Zukunft, 1968), proposed the ancient astronaut hypothesis; tens of millions of books sold, rejected by archaeologists as pseudoarchaeology, inspired Ancient Aliens.

Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski

Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899–1972), SS-Obergruppenführer, was Higher SS and Police Leader Russland-Mitte, chief of anti-partisan warfare, and commander of the suppression of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising; he testified at Nuremberg and was convicted only of prewar murders.

Erich von Falkenhayn

Erich von Falkenhayn (1861–1922), Prussian general, Prussian Minister of War 1913, and Chief of the German General Staff 1914–1916; directed Gorlice 1915 and the Verdun offensive, dismissed August 1916 for Hindenburg and Ludendorff.

Erich von Manstein

Erich von Manstein (Fritz Erich von Lewinski, 1887–1973), German field marshal, planner of the 1940 Sichelschnitt Ardennes thrust, commander of 11th Army and Army Group South, convicted war criminal, and leading postwar promoter of the clean Wehrmacht myth through his memoir Lost Victories.

Erich von Stroheim

Erich von Stroheim (1885–1957), Viennese-born Hollywood director and actor of the silent era; directed seven films including Greed (1924) and Foolish Wives (1922), later famous as an actor in Grand Illusion and Sunset Boulevard.

Erich Wagner

Erich Wagner (1912–1959), SS-Sturmbannführer and Buchenwald camp doctor 1939–1941, wrote the 1940 Jena dissertation Ein Beitrag zur Tätowierungsfrage on 800 tattooed prisoners; he selected and killed tattooed inmates for their skin and died by suicide in custody.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957), Viennese child prodigy and opera composer (Die tote Stadt), became a founding Hollywood film composer at Warner Bros., winning Oscars for Anthony Adverse and The Adventures of Robin Hood and shaping the symphonic film score.

Erick Avari

Erick Avari (Nariman Eruch Avari, born 1952, Darjeeling) is an Indian-American character actor known as Kasuf in Stargate and Stargate SG-1, in The Mummy and Independence Day, as Nicodemus in The Chosen, and as Master Rahool's voice in Destiny.

Erick E

Erick E is a Dutch house DJ and producer from Amsterdam, known for the 2006 hit "The Beat Is Rockin'" and the duo Housequake with DJ Roog.

Erick Erickson

Erick Erickson (Erick-Woods Erickson, born 1975) is an American conservative radio host of The Erick Erickson Show on WSB Atlanta, former RedState editor-in-chief, CNN and Fox News contributor, and Substack commentator rated Right/Mixed by Media Bias/Fact Check.

Erick Fedde

Erick Fedde (born 1993) is an American MLB right-handed pitcher, 2014 Nationals first-rounder, 2023 KBO MVP with the NC Dinos, and later White Sox, Cardinals, Braves, and Brewers pitcher.

Erick Hunter

Erick Hunter, nicknamed E40, is an NFL linebacker for the New England Patriots (No. 49), a 2026 undrafted rookie from Morgan State who was briefly with the Detroit Lions and ranks second in Morgan State history with 298 tackles.

Erick M. Carreira

Erick M. Carreira is an American synthetic organic chemist, professor of chemistry at ETH Zurich since 1998, known for asymmetric synthesis and total synthesis of natural products.

Erick Morillo

Erick Morillo (1971-2020), Colombian-American house DJ and Subliminal Records founder, produced Reel 2 Real's 1993 hit "I Like to Move It", later famous from the Madagascar films; died in Miami Beach.

Erick Rowan

Erick Rowan is the ring name of Joseph Charles Ruud (born 1981), an American wrestler from Minneapolis, a Wyatt Family member and two-time SmackDown Tag Team Champion.