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Ernst Witt

Ernst Witt (1911–1991) was a German mathematician, born in Augustenburg and based at Hamburg, known for the Witt ring of quadratic forms, Witt vectors, and the Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem.

Ernst Wynder

Ernst Wynder, full name Ernst Ludwig Wynder, was a German-born American epidemiologist whose landmark 1950 case-control study implicated cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer.

Ernst Zermelo

Ernst Zermelo (1871–1953) was a German mathematician, founder of axiomatic set theory, who first formulated the axiom of choice in 1904 and axiomatized set theory in 1908.

Ernst Zündel

Ernst Zündel (1939–2017) was a German Holocaust denier and publisher, founder of Samisdat Publishers in Toronto, twice convicted in Canadian 'false news' trials (1985, 1988), subject of the 1992 R v Zündel Charter ruling, deported to Germany in 2005 and imprisoned 2007–2010.

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, born 1941 in Frankfurt, is a German geneticist and biochemist who founded the Gene Center Munich and served as DFG president from 1998 to 2006.

Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan

Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan (儿女英雄传, The Story of Heroic Sons and Daughters), originally titled Jinyu Yuan, is a forty-chapter Qing dynasty novel by the Manchu bannerman Wen Kang.

Ero Copper Corp.

Ero Copper Corp. is a Canadian mining company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Vancouver, that operates copper and gold mines in Bahia, Pará, and Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Ero guro (エログロ)

Ero guro (エログロ), short for ero-guro-nansensu, was a Japanese mass culture movement of the Taishō and early Shōwa eras combining the erotic, grotesque, and nonsensical in literature, magazines, and film, associated with Edogawa Ranpo, Yumeno Kyūsaku, and Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

eRoad (易路软件)

eRoad (易路软件), legal entity Shanghai eRoad Software Ltd., is a Shanghai HR SaaS company led by Wang Tianyang since 2014, known for its payroll-centered People+ HCM platform and a RMB 1 billion Series D in 2022.

eRoad Human Resources Technology

eRoad (易路人力资源科技), legally Shanghai Yilu Software Co., Ltd., is a Shanghai-based Chinese human capital management SaaS company founded in 2004, known for its payroll-centered People+ platform and a $140 million Series D in 2022.

Erode (ஈரோடு)

Erode (ஈரோடு) is a city and district headquarters in northern Tamil Nadu, India, on the Cauvery river. Known as the Turmeric Capital and Tex-Valley, it hosts one of the world's largest turmeric markets and a major powerloom textile industry.

Erodium

Erodium (stork's-bill, filaree), a genus of about 80–122 Geraniaceae herbs, mainly Mediterranean, known for long-beaked fruits whose hygroscopic awns explosively launch and drill seeds into soil; E. cicutarium is a widespread weed.

Erodium cicutarium

Erodium cicutarium, common stork's-bill or redstem filaree (芹叶牻牛儿苗), a Geraniaceae annual/biennial herb native to temperate Eurasia and North Africa, naturalized worldwide, with stork-bill fruits, ballistic seed dispersal, and up to 9,900 seeds per plant.

Eroge

Eroge (エロゲ) is the Japanese umbrella term for erotic video games, originating with Night Life (1982); mostly visual novels marketed to heterosexual men, with subgenres like nukige and nakige.

Erogenous zone

Erogenous zone: body area producing sexual arousal when touched. Also called erotogenic zone (Freud, 1905). Mapping studies show whole-body sensitivity with hotspots at genitals, breasts, and anus, similar distributions in men and women, and a self-partner "Erogenous Mirror".

Erol Büyükburç

Erol Büyükburç (1936–2015) was a Turkish pop singer and composer, often described as Turkey's first pop star, whose 1961 song "Little Lucy" became one of the country's first pop hits.

Erol Fikrig

Erol Fikrig is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine whose research on tick-borne disease led to an FDA-approved Lyme disease vaccine.

Erol Köse Production

Erol Köse Production, also known as Erol Köse Müzik, was a Turkish record label founded in 1992 by producer Erol Köse, defining Turkish pop in the 1990s and 2000s.

Erol Sabancı

Erol Sabancı, born 1938 in Kayseri, is a Turkish businessman who served on Akbank's board for fifty-one years, chaired it from 1998 to 2008, and is Vice Chairman of Sabancı Holding.

Eromanga Sensei (エロマンガ先生)

Eromanga Sensei (エロマンガ先生) is a 13-volume Japanese light novel series by Tsukasa Fushimi and Kanzaki Hiro (Dengeki Bunko, 2013–2022) about novelist Masamune Izumi and his shut-in step-sister Sagiri, his secret illustrator; adapted into a 2017 A-1 Pictures anime.

Eromenos (ρώμενος)

Eromenos (ἐρώμενος, eromenos) is the Ancient Greek term for the younger beloved partner in the idealized pederastic erastes–eromenos relationship, contrasted with the older erastes; standard in scholarship since Dover's 1978 Greek Homosexuality.

Eroom's law

Eroom's law, named by spelling Moore's law backwards, describes the decline in new drugs approved per billion inflation-adjusted R&D dollars since the 1950s, raising drug development costs.

Eros (2004 film)

Eros (愛神) is a 2004 three-part anthology film on love and sex by Wong Kar-wai (The Hand), Steven Soderbergh (Equilibrium), and Michelangelo Antonioni (The Dangerous Thread of Things), conceived as a tribute and Antonioni's final film.

Eros (concept)

Eros (ἔρως) is the ancient Greek concept of passionate, desiring love, typically sexual, contrasted with philia (friendship) and agape (self-giving love); central to Plato's Symposium and to Anders Nygren's eros-agape debate in Christian theology.

Eros (Deftones album)

Eros is the working title of Deftones' unreleased sixth album, recorded with Terry Date in 2008 and shelved after bassist Chi Cheng's coma-inducing car crash; eleven tracks leaked in June 2026, but the band says it will likely never be officially released.

Eros (Ἔρως)

Eros (Ἔρως), Greek god of love and desire, Roman Cupid or Amor; primordial in Hesiod's Theogony, later Aphrodite's winged bow-armed son, worshipped at Thespiae, and the ancestor of the Valentine's Day cherub.

Eros + Massacre (エロス+虐殺)

Eros + Massacre (エロス+虐殺, Erosu purasu gyakusatsu) is Yoshida Kiju's 1969 Japanese New Wave masterpiece, intertwining anarchist Ōsugi Sakae and Itō Noe with 1960s students; released by ATG in 1970 after censorship cuts.

Eros International

Eros International, founded in India in 1977 by Arjan Lulla, is an Indian film production and distribution company with a 3,000-film library and the Eros Now streaming service; it merged with STX Entertainment in 2020 and delisted from the NYSE in 2023.

Eros Poli

Eros Poli (born 1963, Isola della Scala, Verona) is an Italian former road cyclist, 1984 Olympic and 1987 world 100 km team time trial champion, famous for his solo 1994 Tour de France stage win over Mont Ventoux, now a guide for inGamba luxury cycling tours.

Eros Ramazzotti

Eros Ramazzotti, born 1963 in Cinecittà, Rome, is an Italian singer-songwriter who won Sanremo 1984 with Terra promessa and 1986 with Adesso tu; 16 studio albums, over 80 million records sold, latest album Una Storia Importante (2025).