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Eudoxia Lopukhina (Евдокия Фёдоровна Лопухина)

Eudoxia Lopukhina (Евдокия Фёдоровна Лопухина), also Evdokia Lopukhina, first wife of Peter the Great from 1689, mother of Tsarevich Alexei; veiled as nun Elena, imprisoned 1698–1727, restored by Peter II.

Eudoxia Streshneva

Eudoxia Streshneva (Евдокия Стрешнева) was a Russian noblewoman who became the second wife of Tsar Michael I in 1626 and mother of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.

Eudoxius

Eudoxius (died 370) was a fourth-century Homoian bishop who held the sees of Germanicia, Antioch, and Constantinople, becoming bishop of the imperial capital in 360.

Eudoxus (Martian crater)

Eudoxus is a 98.00-km-diameter impact crater on Mars centered at 44.56°S, 212.50°E, Gazetteer Feature 1864; distinct from the smaller lunar crater Eudoxus near Aristoteles.

Eudoxus of Cyzicus

Eudoxus of Cyzicus was a Greek navigator from Cyzicus who commanded two royal trading voyages from Ptolemaic Egypt to India in the later 2nd century BC.

Eudracinum

Eudracinum, also Eudracina, a Roman road station known only from the Tabula Peutingeriana, placed between In summo Pennino (Great St Bernard) and Augusta Praetoria, usually identified with St-Rhémy in the Aosta Valley.

Eudragit

Eudragit is a brand name for polymethacrylate copolymers used as pharmaceutical excipients, best known for film coatings that control where and when a drug is released in the body.

Eudyptula

Eudyptula (Bonaparte, 1856) is the penguin genus holding the Little Penguin, Eudyptula minor (kororā), the smallest and only nocturnal penguin, endemic to southern Australia and New Zealand; debated split into E. minor and E. novaehollandiae.

Eudysmic ratio

The eudysmic ratio, also spelled eudismic ratio, is the ratio of pharmacological potency between the two enantiomers of a chiral drug, the active eutomer divided by the less active distomer.

Euell Gibbons

Euell Gibbons (1911–1975), American naturalist and author of Stalking the Wild Asparagus (1962), who revived foraging interest and starred in Grape-Nuts commercials, including the line about eating a pine tree.

Euesperides

Euesperides (Εὐεσπερίδες), later Berenice, a Greek colony in Cyrenaica on the outskirts of Benghazi, Libya; westernmost Pentapolis city, founded early 6th century BC, abandoned mid-3rd century BC when inhabitants moved to coastal Berenice.

Eufaula

Eufaula names a Muscogee (Creek) tribal town in Alabama and three places: a Barbour County, Alabama city; a McIntosh County, Oklahoma town founded in 1872; and Lake Eufaula, Oklahoma's largest lake.

Eufrosin Poteca

Eufrosin Poteca, born Radu, was a Wallachian Orthodox archimandrite and philosopher, the first professor of philosophy in Romanian-language schools, teaching at Saint Sava in Bucharest.

eufy

eufy is the smart home brand of Anker Innovations, launched in 2016, selling security cameras, video doorbells, robot vacuums, and 3D UV printers, with local storage and no mandatory subscription fees.

Eugen Bleuler

Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist, professor at the University of Zürich, and Burghölzli director from 1898 to 1927 who introduced the term schizophrenia in 1908, replacing dementia praecox.

Eugen Ekman

Eugen Ekman (Eugen Georg Oskar Ekman), Finnish gymnast born 1937 in Vaasa; pommel horse specialist who shared 1960 Rome Olympic gold with Boris Shakhlin and carried Finland's flag at Tokyo 1964.

Eugen Eldracher

Eugen Eldracher (born 8 May 1907 in Hirschhorn) was a German sprinter who equaled the 100-meter world record of 10.4 seconds in Mannheim on 30 June 1929.

Eugen Freiherr von Lotzbeck

Eugen Freiherr von Lotzbeck (1882-1942), German baron, army major, and dressage rider; won team dressage gold for Germany on Caracalla at Amsterdam 1928 and placed 11th individually.

Eugen Goldstein

Eugen Goldstein (1850–1930) was a German physicist who worked on electrical discharges in gases, named cathode rays in 1876, and discovered canal rays in 1886, from which mass spectrometry later grew.

Eugen Lunde

Eugen Peder Lunde (1887–1963), Norwegian sailor and wholesale merchant from Oslo, Olympic gold medalist in the 6 metre class at Paris 1924 helming Elisabeth V; founder of a four-generation Olympic sailing dynasty; KNS chairman 1940–45.

Eugen Mack

Eugen Mack (1907-1978), Swiss artistic gymnast from Arbon; two Olympic golds (1928 team, vault), eight Olympic medals total, equal to Georges Miez, and 1934 World All-Around Champion with 11 Worlds medals.

Eugen Osmochescu

Eugen Osmochescu is a Moldovan politician and former World Bank Group official who served as Acting Prime Minister in 2026, and is now Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry.

Eugen Rabkin

Eugen Rabkin, also published as E. Rabkin, is a materials scientist and professor at the Technion in Haifa, known for the ultrahigh strength of metal nanoparticles.

Eugen Relgis

Eugen Relgis, born Eisig D. Sigler, was a Romanian Jewish anarchist-pacifist writer and philosopher whose 1922 work Principiile umanitariste was translated into 17 languages, making him famous between the world wars.

Eugen Sachsse

Eugen Sachsse (1839–1917) was a German Reformed pastor and theologian, director of the Theologisches Seminar Herborn and professor of theology in Bonn from 1889 to 1913.

Eugen Sandow

Eugen Sandow (Friedrich Wilhelm Müller, 1867–1925), Prussian-born Victorian strongman and father of modern bodybuilding; staged the 1901 Great Competition, ran the Sandow Institute, magazine, and equipment empire, and inspired the Mr. Olympia Sandow trophy.

Eugen Schmidt

Eugen Schmidt (Eugen Stahl Schmidt, 1862-1931), Danish sports pioneer and engineer; won 1900 Olympic tug-of-war gold on a mixed Swedish/Danish team, competed at Athens 1896, and co-founded the Danish Sports Federation (DIF).

Eugen Seibold

Eugen Seibold (1918–2013) was a German geologist, called the founder of modern marine geology in Germany, who led the DFG and the European Science Foundation.

Eugen Sigg

Eugen Sigg (1898–1994) was a Swiss rower who won two medals at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris: gold in the coxed four and bronze in the coxless four.

Eugen Slutsky

Eugen Slutsky (Yevhen Slutzky, Слуцький; 1880–1948) was a Russian mathematician and economist who created the Slutsky equation in consumer theory and explained economic cycles as random moving averages.