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Erik Sandin
Erik "Smelly" Sandin, also spelled Eric Sandin, is the American punk drummer and founding member of NOFX since 1983, formerly of Caustic Cause, known for single-pedal speed drumming, sobriety after heroin addiction, and The Hepatitis Bathtub.
Erik Satie
Erik Satie (1866-1925), French composer and pianist of the Parisian avant-garde; wrote the Gymnopédies (1888) and Gnossiennes, Parade (1917) with Picasso, and furniture music; influenced Debussy, Ravel, Les Six, and Cage.
Erik Schlangen
Erik Schlangen is a Dutch civil engineer and professor of Experimental Micromechanics at TU Delft, known for the Delft lattice fracture model and for pioneering self-healing asphalt and bacteria-based concrete.
Erik Seidel
Erik Seidel (born 1959, New York City) is an American poker player, 10-time WSOP bracelet winner, 2010 Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and 1988 Main Event runner-up to Johnny Chan with over $50 million in earnings.
Erik Selsing
Erik Selsing is an immunologist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston whose 1981 Cell paper showed that expressed antibody genes carry somatic mutations absent from germline DNA.
Erik Selvig
Erik Selvig is a fictional astrophysicist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, mentor of Jane Foster, portrayed by Stellan Skarsgård from Thor (2011) through Thor: Love and Thunder, mind-controlled by Loki in The Avengers, later added to Marvel Comics in Avengers Standoff (2016).
Erik Silvester
Erik Silvester, born Erik Herschmann, was a German Schlager singer and producer whose 15 chart hits between 1967 and 1976 included 'Zucker im Kaffee' and 'Wenn die Trommel ruft'.
Erik Simonsen
Erik K. Simonsen is an American Republican politician in the New Jersey General Assembly from the 1st district since 2019, previously mayor of Lower Township.
Erik Slottner
Erik Slottner is a Swedish politician of Kristdemokraterna (KD) who served as Minister for Public Administration from October 2022 to September 2026, focusing on AI and agency reduction.
Erik Sowinski
Erik Sowinski (born 1989) is an American middle-distance runner specializing in the 800 meters who won bronze at the 2016 World Indoor Championships and later became a sought-after professional pacemaker.
Erik Spiekermann
Erik Spiekermann, born 1947 in Stadthagen, Germany, is a German typographer and type designer who founded MetaDesign and FontShop and designed FF Meta and ITC Officina.
Erik Spoelstra
Erik Spoelstra, Miami Heat head coach since 2008-09, two-time NBA champion (2012, 2013), six Finals appearances, winningest coach in Heat history, and 2025-28 USA Basketball Men's National Team head coach.
Erik Stensiö
Erik Stensiö, born Erik Andersson, was a Swedish vertebrate paleontologist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History known for his serial-grinding reconstructions of fossil fish skulls.
Erik Stolhanske
Erik Stolhanske (born 1968, Minneapolis) is an American actor, writer, producer, and member of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, best known as Officer Rabbit in Super Troopers 1, 2, and 3 and Todd in Beerfest; born without a fibula, Colgate BA in English.
Erik ten Hag
Erik ten Hag, Dutch football manager and former central defender; Ajax coach 2017-22 (three Eredivisie titles, 73.9% win rate), Manchester United manager 2022-24 (EFL Cup, FA Cup, sacked October 2024), brief Bayer Leverkusen spell in 2025.
Erik the Red
Erik the Red (Eiríkr rauði Þorvaldsson), born about 950 in Norway, was a Norse chieftain exiled from Iceland who explored and named Greenland and founded its first Norse settlement at Brattahlíð around 985, fathering Leif Erikson.
Erik Tolman
Erik Tolman (born 1999, Irvine, CA) is a left-handed Nationals reliever, 2021 14th-round pick from Arizona State, who reached MLB in August 2026 after two Tommy John surgeries and a 2023 leg injury with foot drop.
Erik Tomáš
Erik Tomáš is a Slovak politician and deputy leader of Hlas-SD who has served as Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of Slovakia since 2023.
Erik Trinkaus
Erik Trinkaus is an American paleoanthropologist, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his work on Neandertal biology and the Lagar Velho child.
Erik Valnes
Erik Valnes (born 1996) is a Norwegian cross-country sprint skier from Sørreisa, club Bardufoss og Omegn IF. Olympic team sprint gold 2022 with Klæbo, world relay gold 2025, Norwegian 10 km classic champion 2021.
Erik Vendt
Erik Vendt, American distance and IM swimmer, three-time Olympian (2000, 2004, 2008); two 400 IM silvers, 2008 4x200 free relay gold; first American under 15 minutes in the 1,500 free.
Erik Verlinde
Erik Verlinde, born 1962 in Woudenberg, Netherlands, is a Dutch theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam known for proposing that gravity is an emergent, entropic phenomenon.
Erik von Detten
Erik von Detten (Erik Thomas von Detten, born 1982, San Diego) is an American former actor, the voice of Sid in Toy Story and Toy Story 3, and star of Brink!, So Weird, and The Princess Diaries; he left acting for finance.
Erik Voorhees
Erik Voorhees is an American entrepreneur and one of bitcoin's earliest advocates, known for founding SatoshiDICE, the ShapeShift cryptocurrency exchange, and the privacy-focused AI platform Venice.ai.
Erik Wahlberg
Erik Wahlberg (born 2002) is a Swedish freestyle skier racing ski cross for club Aare SLK. He won boys' ski cross gold at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, the 2025 Universiade, and has FIS World Cup starts since 2023.
Erik Wallerius
Erik Gustaf Wallerius (1878–1967), Swedish Olympic sailor from Göteborg; silver in the 8-metre class on Vinga at London 1908 and gold in the 10-metre class on Kitty at Stockholm 1912. Distinct from Erik Waller of Marga.
Erik Weihenmayer
Erik Weihenmayer, American blind adventurer and No Barriers co-founder; first blind person to summit Everest (May 25, 2001) and to complete the Seven Summits (2008), also first blind climber up El Capitan in a day (2016).
Erik Widmark
Erik Widmark, full name Erik Matteo Prochet Widmark, was a Swedish chemist at Lund University whose 1922 micro-method for measuring alcohol in fingertip blood made statutory blood-alcohol limits enforceable.
Erik Winfree
Erik Winfree is a computer scientist and bioengineer at Caltech, known for algorithmic self-assembly of DNA, DNA strand displacement circuits, and a 2000 MacArthur Fellowship.
Erika Alexander
Erika Alexander (born 1969, Winslow, Arizona) is an American actress, writer, producer, and activist known for Maxine Shaw on Living Single, Cousin Pam on The Cosby Show, Get Out, and American Fiction, and co-founder of Color Farm Media.