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Ervil LeBaron

Ervil Morrell LeBaron (1925–1981), called the Mormon Manson, founded the polygamist Church of the Lamb of God, ordered murders including brother Joel and Rulon Allred, died in prison, and left a hit list that drove later killings.

Ervin H. Epstein

Ervin H. Epstein is an American dermatologist who spent 35 years at UCSF, helped identify the PTCH gene behind basal cell nevus syndrome, and led the 2012 vismodegib trial.

Ervin Ibrahimović

Ervin Ibrahimović (born 1972) is a Montenegrin politician of the Bosniak Party, serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro and as party president since 2021.

Ervin Johnson

Ervin Johnson (born 1967) is an American former NBA center, 6'11", from the University of New Orleans; drafted 23rd overall in 1993 by Seattle, played 13 seasons and 845 games for Seattle, Denver, Milwaukee, and Minnesota, averaging 4.1 points and 6.1 rebounds; not Magic Johnson (Earvin).

Ervin Kováts

Ervin Kováts (1927–2012) was a Hungarian-born chemist who proposed the Kováts retention index in 1958, the reference scale used in gas chromatography to identify volatile compounds.

Ervin Meszaros

Ervin Mészáros (1877–1940), Hungarian sabre and foil fencer of MAC Budapest, nicknamed Kapitány. Barred from the 1904 and 1908 Olympics as an Austro-Hungarian officer, he won 1912 team sabre gold and individual sabre bronze at Stockholm.

Ervin Ray Fox

Ervin Ray Fox is an American cardiologist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center who studies heart disease in African Americans and received the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.

Ervin Zador

Ervin Zádor (Zádor Ervin), Hungarian water polo player (born 1934 or 1935, Budapest; died 2012, Linden, California), 1956 Olympic gold medalist punched by Valentin Prokopov in the Blood in the Water match, later a California coach of Mark Spitz.

Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman (1922–1982), Canadian-born American sociologist of the Chicago School tradition, author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, and Stigma; developer of dramaturgy and the interaction order; 37th ASA president.

Erving Winslow

Erving Winslow (1839–1922) was an American commission merchant, editorial writer, and poet in Boston who served as secretary of the Anti-Imperialist League and opposed United States imperial policies.

Erwan Heussaff

Erwan Heussaff, French-Filipino food content creator and restaurateur, founder of The Fat Kid Inside blog and FEATR media company; 2023 James Beard Award winner documenting regional Filipino cuisine, heritage salts, and ube; husband of Anne Curtis.

Erwann le Pechoux

Erwann Le Péchoux (born 1982, Pertuis) is a French left-handed foil fencer, Olympic team gold medalist at Tokyo 2021, four-time world team champion, and later coach of Japan's men's foil team, which won Olympic gold at Paris 2024.

Erwin Blask

The German hammer thrower Erwin Blask won a silver medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and later set the world record for his event in Stockholm in 1938.

Erwin brothers

The Erwin brothers, Jon and Andrew Erwin of Birmingham, Alabama, are faith-based filmmakers behind I Can Only Imagine and founders of Kingdom Story Company with Lionsgate.

Erwin Bünning

Erwin Bünning (1906–1990) was a German biologist and botanist, counted among the co-founders of chronobiology, known for his 1936 hypothesis that endogenous circadian clocks underlie photoperiodism.

Erwin Chargaff

Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist at Columbia University whose Chargaff's rules on DNA base composition helped lay the groundwork for the double-helix model.

Erwin Creed

Erwin Creed (born 1980, Paris) is a French endurance racing driver and seventh-generation member of the Creed perfume house; raced Le Mans 2018 and 2019 with Larbre Competition in LMP2.

erwin Data Modeler

erwin Data Modeler (erwin DM) is a data modeling tool sold by Quest Software that designs conceptual, logical, and physical data models and generates database schemas from them.

Erwin Eisch

Erwin Eisch (1927–2022) was a German glass artist, painter, and printmaker from Frauenau in the Bavarian Forest who, with American Harvey K. Littleton, is regarded as a founder of the studio glass movement.

Erwin F. Wagner

Erwin F. Wagner, born 1950 in Austria, is a molecular biologist known for engineering the mouse genome to define what the AP-1 complex does in bone, liver, and skin disease.

Erwin Finlay-Freundlich

Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, also known as Erwin Freundlich, was a German-born astronomer who organized eclipse expeditions to measure the bending of starlight and built the Einstein Tower in Potsdam.

Erwin Frey

Erwin Frey, born 1960, is a German theoretical physicist at LMU Munich who studies nonequilibrium statistical physics and received the Max Planck Medal in 2023.

Erwin Frink Smith

Erwin Frink Smith (1854–1927) was an American plant pathologist with the USDA who proved bacteria cause plant diseases and identified the crown gall bacterium in 1907.

Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer

Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer (1878–1962) was a German-language novelist, dramatist, and poet born in Budapest, admired for his Paracelsus trilogy and later stigmatized as a Nazi-era writer for his völkisch ideology.

Erwin Hahn

Erwin Hahn (1921–2016) was an American physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, whose 1950 discovery of the spin echo in nuclear magnetic resonance underlies medical MRI.

Erwin Kern

Erwin Kern (Anton Carl Erwin Kern) was a German sprinter who set a world relay record in 1912; he later worked as an athletics administrator.

Erwin Madelung

Erwin Madelung (1881–1972) was a German theoretical physicist, professor at Frankfurt from 1921, known for the Madelung constant of ionic crystals, the Madelung orbital-filling rule, and a hydrodynamical interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Erwin Mayer

Erwin Mayer (1937–2011) was an Austrian inorganic chemist at the University of Innsbruck who first vitrified pure liquid water in 1980 and made cubic ice from liquid water in 1987.

Erwin Neher

Erwin Neher, born in 1944, is a German biophysicist who co-invented the patch-clamp technique for measuring single ion channels, winning the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Erwin Payr

Erwin Payr (1871–1946) was a German surgeon who held chairs at Greifswald, Königsberg, and Leipzig, pioneered vascular surgery, and left his name on Payr's disease and the Payr clamp.