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Estelle Winwood

Estelle Winwood (born Estelle Ruth Goodwin, 1883–1984) was an English-born stage, film, and television actress whose career ran from the Liverpool Repertory Company and Broadway (1916) to Hollywood films including The Producers and Murder by Death, retiring after 80 years as the Screen Actors Guild's oldest member.

Esteman

Esteman, born Esteban Mateus Williamson, is a Colombian pop singer-songwriter from Bogotá based in Mexico City, known for theatrical retro pop with over 100 million streams.

Estepona

Estepona is a town and municipality in Málaga province, Andalusia, on the western Costa del Sol; founded as Estebbuna in the 10th century and independent from Marbella in 1729, it had 78,413 residents in 2024 and a tourism-centered economy.

Ester

An ester is a compound in which an acid's hydroxyl hydrogen is replaced by an organyl group, forming the R-CO-O-R′ linkage, as in ethyl acetate and nitroglycerin.

Ester Boserup

Ester Boserup, born Ester Borgesen (1910–1999), was a Danish economist whose 1965 book The Conditions of Agricultural Growth argued that population growth drives agricultural intensification.

Ester Dean

Ester Dean (Esther Renay Dean, born 1982, Muskogee, Oklahoma) is an American singer-songwriter behind hits like Rihanna's "Rude Boy" and Katy Perry's "Firework," and the actress who plays Cynthia-Rose in Pitch Perfect.

Ester Expósito

Ester Expósito (Madrid, 26 January 2000) is the Spanish actress known as Carla Rosón in Netflix's Élite, later starring in Venus (Fotogramas de Plata 2022), Perdidos en la noche, El llanto, and El talento.

Ester Ledecká

Ester Ledecká (born 1995, Prague) is a Czech skier and snowboarder; she won super-G and parallel giant slalom gold at PyeongChang 2018, defended PGS gold at Beijing 2022, and won 2025 world medals in both sports.

Ester Muñoz

Ester Muñoz de la Iglesia (born 1985, León), Spanish Partido Popular politician and lawyer; senator for León 2015–2019, PP León president, and since July 2025 PP spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies under Feijóo.

Ester pyrolysis

Ester pyrolysis is a thermal elimination reaction in which heating an ester bearing a beta-hydrogen gives an alkene and a carboxylic acid by a concerted syn-elimination mechanism.

Esterházy

The Esterházy (Esterházy de Galántha) family, Hungarian magnates from minor nobility to the Habsburg Empire's largest landowners: palatines, Haydn's patrons at Eisenstadt and Fertőd, princes from 1712, estates divided after Trianon and 1945.

Esterification

Esterification is the chemical reaction converting a carboxylic acid and an alcohol into an ester and water, first reported by Emil Fischer and Arthur Speier in 1895.

Esterified propoxylated glycerol

Esterified propoxylated glycerol (EPG, EPOGEE) is a nonabsorbable, triglyceride-like fat replacer with propylene glycol units between glycerol and fatty acids; three FDA GRAS notices (583, 640, 761) cover confectionery, spreadable, and fry-oil uses.

Estering

Estering, also Estering Buxtehude, is a 952 m rallycross circuit in Buxtehude, Germany, opened 21 May 1972 with Germany's first rallycross race; it hosted World RX 2014–2018 and 2023 and holds an FIA Grade 6R licence.

Estero Picnic

Festival Estéreo Picnic, commonly Estéreo Picnic or FEP, is an annual multi-genre music festival in Bogotá, Colombia, first held in 2010; its 2026 edition drew more than 140,000 attendees.

Estero Real - Tempisque

Estero Real - Tempisque: freshwater ecoregion 204 of tropical and subtropical coastal rivers on Central America's Pacific coast, from the Golfo de Fonseca to the Golfo de Nicoya across Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica; no known endemic fishes; about 12.47% protected.

Esterzili

Esterzili, a village of about 650 inhabitants at 700 m on Mount Santa Vittoria in Barbagia di Seulo, Sardinia; home of the Domu de Orgia megaron temple and the Roman Tavola di Esterzili bronze.

Estes Industries

Estes Industries is an American model rocket company founded by Vern and Gleda Estes in 1958, known for rocket kits, engines, and STEM education programs.

Estes Kefauver

Estes Kefauver (1903–1963), Tennessee Democrat in the House 1939–1949 and Senate 1949–1963, chaired the televised Kefauver Committee on organized crime, won the 1952 New Hampshire primary, and was the 1956 Democratic vice presidential nominee.

Estes Park, Colorado

Estes Park is a Larimer County, Colorado town of about 5,800 residents and the eastern gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park, named for settler Joel Estes, home of the 1909 Stanley Hotel, and a tourism-driven economy.

Estetrol anhydrous

Estetrol anhydrous (E4), a plant-derived synthetic copy of the fetal-liver estrogen of pregnancy; estrogen receptor agonist used in Nextstellis/Drovelis combined pills, FDA-approved April 15, 2021.

Estevanico

Estevanico, also Estebanico or Esteban de Dorantes, was a Moroccan explorer who survived the Narváez shipwreck and helped make the first recorded crossing of North America.

Estevez family

The Estevez family, also called the Sheen family, is an American acting dynasty of Spanish-Irish descent: Martin Sheen (born Ramón Estévez, never legally renamed), brother Joe, and children Emilio, Ramon, Charlie Sheen, and Renée Estevez.

Esther (אֶסְתֵּר)

Esther (אֶסְתֵּר), also called Hadassah, is the heroine of the Book of Esther, a Jewish orphan who became queen of Ahasuerus in Susa and saved the empire's Jews from extermination.

Esther Brand

Esther Brand, born Esther Cornelia van Heerden (1922–2015), was a South African high jumper who won the women's Olympic gold medal at Helsinki in 1952, clearing 1.67 m.

Esther Chibesa

Esther Chibesa is a pan-African banking executive who spent 25 years at Citi, rising to Managing Director and Treasury & Trade Solutions Head for Sub-Saharan Africa.

Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo, French-American development economist at MIT and co-founder of J-PAL; 2019 Nobel laureate with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer for the randomized controlled trial approach to alleviating global poverty.

Esther Forero

Esther Forero, known as Esthercita Forero, was a Colombian singer and composer from Barranquilla who wrote more than 500 songs, including the Carnival anthem "La Guacherna".

Esther Freud

Esther Freud, born in London in 1963, is a British novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical 1992 debut Hideous Kinky, made into a film starring Kate Winslet.

Esther H. Chang

Esther H. Chang, also known as Esther Chang, is an American molecular oncologist, professor at Georgetown University, known for her 1982 oncogene and 1990 p53 Nature papers.