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Erik Kriessmann
Erik Kriessmann is a partner at Altimeter Capital who built its defense, aerospace, and energy investing practice, backing companies including Anduril, SpaceX, and Base Power after starting in talent roles at Khosla Ventures and Index Ventures.
Erik Kynard
Erik Kynard is an American high jumper from Toledo, Ohio, who won silver at the 2012 London Olympics and was upgraded to gold in 2021 after a doping disqualification.
Erik L. Hewlett
Erik L. Hewlett is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Virginia, known for over 40 years of research on Bordetella pertussis toxins.
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer is a Swedish bioinformatician, Professor of Bioinformatics at Stockholm University and Science for Life Laboratory, and creator of the Pfam database.
Erik Lamela
Erik Manuel Lamela, Argentine winger born 1992, played for River Plate, Roma, Tottenham (257 games, 37 goals), Sevilla, and AEK Athens; won the 2021 FIFA Puskás Award for his rabona against Arsenal and the 2023 Europa League with Sevilla; retired 2025, now Sevilla coach.
Erik Larson (author)
Erik Larson (born 1954, Brooklyn) is the American narrative nonfiction author of The Devil in the White City, In the Garden of Beasts, Dead Wake, and The Demon of Unrest; seven NYT bestsellers, twelve million copies. Not the AI researcher Erik J. Larson.
Erik Larsson (olympedia 18134)
Erik Victor Larsson (1888-1934), Swedish police officer and tug-of-war puller with Stockholmspolisens IF; won Olympic gold in tug-of-war at the 1912 Stockholm Games and the 1913 world title; distinct from the 1936 skier Erik Larsson.
Erik Larsson (olympedia 89438)
Erik August Larsson, "Kiruna-Lasse" (1912-1982), Swedish cross-country skier; won 18 km gold and relay bronze at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Olympics, then became a Laestadian preacher in Kiruna.
Erik Lee Snapp
Erik Lee Snapp is an American cell biologist and biophysicist known for quantitative imaging of protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum and for naming the ER reflux pathway.
Erik Lindahl
Erik Lindahl is a Swedish computational biophysicist and Professor of Biophysics at Stockholm University, known for developing the molecular dynamics software GROMACS and contributing to cryo-EM software RELION.
Erik Lindegren
Erik Lindegren (Johan Erik Lindegren, 1910–1968) was a Swedish poet, critic, and translator whose 1942 collection mannen utan väg launched the modernist forties; he joined the Swedish Academy in 1962.
Erik Lundqvist
Erik Hjalmar Lundqvist, called Målarn (The Painter), Swedish javelin thrower (1908-1963); 1928 Amsterdam Olympic gold at 66.60 m and first man over 70 m with a 71.01 m world record.
Erik M. Jorgensen
Erik M. Jorgensen (Erik M. Jørgensen) is an American neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Utah, an HHMI Investigator known for showing that protons act as a transmitter.
Erik Malmberg
Erik Malmberg (1897–1964), Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler from Göteborg; Olympic bronze 1924, silver 1928, gold 1932 lightweight; European champion 1929 and 1930; brother of Algot Malmberg.
Erik Miller (baseball)
Erik Christopher Miller (born 1998, St. Louis) is a left-handed MLB relief pitcher, drafted 2019 fourth round by the Phillies from Stanford, traded to the Giants in 2023, debuted 2024, and acquired by the Boston Red Sox in August 2026 for Marcelo Mayer.
Erik Morales
Erik "El Terrible" Morales is a Mexican former professional boxer from Tijuana who became the first Mexico-born boxer to win world titles in four weight divisions.
Erik Nilsson
Erik Nilsson (Erik Henry Sixten Nilsson, 1916–1995) was a Swedish footballer who played left back for Malmö FF and won Olympic gold and bronze in 1948 and 1952.
Erik Norberg
Erik Norberg (1883-1954), Swedish artistic gymnast from Smedjebacken with Stockholms GF; won gold in the men's team combined, Swedish system, at the 1908 London Olympics; distinct from teammate Tor Norberg.
Erik Ørvig
Erik Ørvig (1895–1949), Norwegian sailor of Bergens Seilforening, won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the 12 metre class (1919 rating) aboard Heira II, the only entry, crewing with brothers Olaf and Thor Ørvig.
Erik Palladino
Erik Palladino, American actor born 1968 in Yonkers, New York; Dr. Dave Malucci on ER (1999-2001, 47 episodes); recurring roles as Vostanik Sabatino on NCIS: Los Angeles, Kevin Miller on Suits, and Frank on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; film roles in U-571 and Can't Hardly Wait.
Erik Palmer-Brown
Erik Palmer-Brown (born 1997) is an American soccer center back for Panathinaikos in Greece. He signed with Sporting Kansas City at 16, the youngest signing in club history.
Erik Petersen
Erik Petersen (1939-2025), Danish rower of Roforeningen KVIK Copenhagen; won gold in the men's coxless fours at Tokyo 1964 with Hansen, Helmudt, and Hasløv, plus 1964 European silver and 1970 world bronze.
Erik Peterson (New Jersey politician)
Erik Peterson is an American Republican politician and attorney who has represented New Jersey's 23rd district in the General Assembly since 2009, after serving as a Hunterdon County freeholder.
Erik Pontoppidan
Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764) was a Danish pietist clergyman, theologian, and naturalist, bishop of Bergen, whose 1737 catechism became Denmark-Norway's standard textbook and who wrote the first natural history of Norway.
Erik Prince
Erik Prince, American former Navy SEAL, founded Blackwater (later Xe) in 1997; his contractors were central to the 2004 Fallujah ambush and the 2007 killing of 17 Iraqi civilians, and he later proposed privatizing the Afghanistan war and building private forces in Ukraine and Haiti.
Erik Rubin
Erik Rubín, born Erik Rubín Milanszenko in 1971 in Puebla, Mexico, is a Mexican pop singer and actor known for Timbiriche and a solo career begun in 1993.
Erik S. Kristensen
Erik S. Kristensen, Navy SEAL lieutenant commander, SEAL Team 10 task unit commander in Afghanistan, led the ill-fated June 28, 2005 rescue during Operation Red Wings, killed when his MH-47 was shot down; Naval Academy 1995 graduate, BUD/S class 233.
Erik S.G. Stroes
Erik S.G. Stroes is a Dutch vascular internist and professor of Vascular Medicine at Amsterdam UMC, known for antisense trials in lipidology and hereditary angioedema.
Erik Sætter-Lassen
Erik Sætter-Lassen (1892–1966), Danish sport shooter of Salonskytteforeningen Heimdal, Copenhagen; four-time Olympian 1920–1948 and 1920 Antwerp gold medalist in team standing military rifle.
Erik Sahai
Erik Sahai is a cancer biologist who leads the Tumour Cell Biology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, studying how cancer spreads and resists treatment.