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Erigone Corona
Erigone Corona, a 325-km-diameter corona (volcano-tectonic structure) on Venus at 34.5S, 284E, IAU-named in 1997 for a Greek harvest goddess; Rigantona Corona flows overlie its flows.
Erigone family
The Erigone family is a collisional family of dark, carbonaceous asteroids in the inner main asteroid belt, whose largest member is the 73-km asteroid 163 Erigone.
Erik (The Phantom of the Opera)
Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, is the masked, disfigured genius antagonist of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra; architect of the Paris Opera's cellars, composer of Don Juan Triumphant, and the source of the 1925 film and 1986 Lloyd Webber musical.
Erik (wrestler)
Erik, the ring name of American professional wrestler Raymond Rowe, performs on WWE's Raw brand as one half of the tag team The Viking Raiders with Ivar.
Erik Acharius
Erik Acharius (1757–1819), Swedish physician and last pupil of Linnaeus, founder and "father of lichenology"; author of Methodus (1803), Lichenographia universalis (1810), and Synopsis methodica lichenum (1814), who created the first rational classification of lichens.
Erik Adlerz
Erik Wilhelm "Loppan" Adlerz (1892-1975), Swedish Olympic diver from Stockholms KK; first diver to win two golds at one Olympics (1912 platform and plain high diving), silver 1920, national coach 1932-57.
Erik Adolf von Willebrand
Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870–1949) was a Finnish internist who in 1926 described an inherited bleeding disorder among Åland island families, now called von Willebrand disease.
Erik Anker
Erik Anker (1903-1994), Norwegian sailor and businessman, won 6-metre class gold at Amsterdam 1928 aboard Norna with his father Johan Anker, Crown Prince Olav, and Haakon Bryhn; his only Olympic appearance.
Erik Asphaug
Erik Asphaug is a professor of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona who studies giant impacts and small bodies, co-authoring a 2001 Nature paper on the Moon's origin.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931) was a Swedish lyric poet of Dalarna who in 1931 became the only writer ever awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously.
Erik B. Bloss
Erik B. Bloss is an American neuroscientist studying how synaptic wiring among cortical and hippocampal cell types supports neural computation and behavior; he joined The Jackson Laboratory in Maine in 2019.
Erik Bernhardsson
Erik Bernhardsson, Swedish engineer, founder and CEO of Modal Labs; ex-CTO of Better.com and Spotify engineer who built its music recommendations and created Luigi and Annoy.
Erik Bladström
Erik Bladström (Bror Erik Alvar Bladström, 1918–1998), Swedish sprint canoer from Västervik; won gold in folding kayak doubles 10,000 m with Sven Johansson at Berlin 1936, and world silver at Vaxholm 1938.
Erik Blomberg
Erik Blomberg (1894–1965) was a Swedish poet, art critic, and translator, a leading Swedish poet of the 1920s and translator of Hafis and Chinese lyric.
Erik Bottcher
Erik Bottcher is an American Democratic politician and member of the New York State Senate from the 47th district, elected in a February 2026 special election.
Erik Brodt
Erik Brodt is an Ojibwe family physician and health-equity researcher at OHSU who founded the Northwest Native American Center of Excellence and joined the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.
Erik Bruhn
Erik Belton Evers Bruhn (1928-1986), Danish ballet dancer, choreographer and director trained in the Bournonville style at the Royal Danish Ballet; famed 1955 Albrecht in Giselle at the Met, director of the National Ballet of Canada, and namesake of the Erik Bruhn Prize.
Erik C. Böttger
Erik Christian Böttger, born 1956, is a German physician-scientist in medical microbiology, professor emeritus at the University of Zurich, known for describing Mycobacterium genavense in AIDS patients in 1992.
Erik C. Garnett
Erik C. Garnett (born 1982) is a Dutch-based materials chemist who leads the Nanoscale Solar Cells group at AMOLF, Amsterdam, and won the 2022 KNCV gold medal.
Erik Campbell (Final Destination)
Erik Campbell is a Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) character played by Richard Harmon: a tattoo artist outside the cursed Campbell bloodline who dies in an MRI machine after trying to cheat Death for his half-brother Bobby.
Erik Cassel
Erik Cassel (Erik Stefan Cassel) was an American software engineer who co-founded Roblox with David Baszucki in 2004, serving as vice president of engineering and later chief scientist.
Erik Charpentier
Erik Charpentier (Carl Erik Charpentier, 1897–1978), Swedish gymnast from LUGI Lund; won gold in the men's team Swedish-system gymnastics event at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics. Not the wrestler, goaltender, or defenseman of the same surname.
Erik Cole
Erik Cole, American NHL left wing born 1978 in Oswego, New York; Carolina Hurricanes 1998 draft pick (71st overall), 2006 Stanley Cup champion, 2006 U.S. Olympian; 532 points in 892 NHL games; retired 2017.
Erik De Clercq
Erik De Clercq is a Belgian physician-scientist, born in 1941, who spent his career at KU Leuven's Rega Institute developing antiviral drugs including tenofovir and brivudine.
Erik Dilan
Erik Dilan is an American Democratic politician representing Brooklyn's 54th district in the New York State Assembly since 2015, after 12 years on the New York City Council.
Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson (1902-1994), German-born American psychoanalyst trained by Anna Freud, created the eight-stage theory of psychosocial development spanning trust versus mistrust to integrity versus despair, coined the identity crisis, and won a Pulitzer Prize for Gandhi's Truth.
Erik Estrada
Erik Estrada (Henry Enrique Estrada, born 1949, Spanish Harlem, New York) is an American actor of Puerto Rican descent, famous as Officer Ponch Poncherello on CHiPs (1977-1983) and as star of the 1993 Mexican telenovela Dos Mujeres, Un Camino.
Erik Everhard
Erik Everhard (Mitch Hartwell), Canadian adult film performer and director born 1976 in Calgary; entered porn 1998 in Vancouver, moved to L.A. 1999, XRCO Hall of Fame 2010, later men's coach and author.
Erik Fredriksson
Erik Fredriksson is the name of several Swedish sports figures, most prominently Erik Algot Fredriksson, a 1912 Olympic tug-of-war champion, and Erik Fredriksson, an international football referee.
Erik Friborg
Erik Friborg (Johan Erik Friborg, 1893–1968) was a Swedish road cyclist who won team road race gold and placed seventh individually at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, later working as a physiotherapist in Cannes.