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Eunice Gayson
Eunice Gayson (Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison, 1928-2018), English actress and first Bond girl, played Sylvia Trench in Dr. No and From Russia with Love, prompting 'Bond. James Bond', and starred in The Revenge of Frankenstein and The Sound of Music.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009), sister of President John F. Kennedy and wife of Sargent Shriver, founded the Special Olympics in 1968 after starting Camp Shriver in 1962, and received the 1984 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Eunice L. Kwak
Eunice L. Kwak is an American medical oncologist who led the 2010 phase 1 trial of crizotinib for ALK-positive lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Eunice Murray Blackmer
Eunice Murray Blackmer (née Joerndt, 1902–1994), also Eunice Murray, was Marilyn Monroe's live-in housekeeper and companion, hired by Dr. Ralph Greenson in December 1961; she found Monroe's body on August 5, 1962, later gave shifting accounts including a retracted 1985 Robert Kennedy claim, and co-wrote Marilyn: The Last Months (1975).
Eunice Newton Foote
Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888) was an American amateur scientist who in 1856 linked carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to a warmer Earth, three years before John Tyndall.
Eunice Paiva
Eunice Paiva (Maria Lucrécia Eunice Facciolla Paiva, 1929–2018) was a Brazilian lawyer and human rights activist, widow of disappeared deputy Rubens Paiva, who specialized in Indigenous law, shaped the 1988 Constitution's Indigenous chapter, and obtained his 1996 death certificate.
Eunice Rivers Laurie
Eunice Rivers Laurie (Eunice Verdell Rivers, 1899–1986) was the African American public health nurse who served as liaison for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study for its entire 1932–1972 span, recruiting and retaining participants and later becoming the focus of historical debate.
Eunice Sum
Eunice Sum (full name Eunice Jepkoech Sum, born 1988) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who won the 2013 World Championship 800 meters and the 2014 Commonwealth Games title.
Eunjoon Kim
Eunjoon Kim (김은준) is a South Korean neuroscientist, professor at KAIST in Daejeon and director of the IBS Center for Synaptic Brain Dysfunctions, studying synaptopathy.
Eunkyoung Kim
Eunkyoung Kim (김은경) is a South Korean materials chemist at Yonsei University who works on polymers that switch properties under electric or optical triggers, including smart windows.
Eunoë (wife of Bogudes)
Eunoë, also spelled Eunoe, was a mid-1st-century BC queen of Mauretania as the wife of King Bogudes, known to history almost solely as one of Julius Caesar's mistresses through a single sentence of Suetonius.
Eunomia family
Eunomia family, an S-type collisional asteroid family at 2.5–2.7 AU in the intermediate main belt, parent body 15 Eunomia (255 km), partially differentiated, olivine-rich, thousands of members.
Eunsoo Cho
Eunsoo Cho is an educational psychologist and Eady/Hendrick Chair of Learning Disabilities at UC Riverside who studies reading disabilities and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.
Eunuch
A eunuch is a castrated man who served in royal harems and courts, with the practice recorded for over 3,000 years in China, Persia, Byzantium, and the Ottoman Empire.
Eunuch command of the Shence Army
Eunuch command of the Shence Army (神策軍中尉制) was the Tang dynasty system, created in 796, under which palace eunuchs commanded the Shence Army until 903.
Eunuch dictatorship under Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling
The eunuch dictatorship under Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling (宦官專政) was the domination of the Eastern Han court by eunuchs from 159 CE, driving the Partisan Proscriptions.
Eunuchs in China
Eunuchs in China (宦官) were emasculated men serving imperial palaces from the Shang dynasty to the early Republic, peaking at about 70,000 under the Ming, suppressed under the Qing, and abolished in 1912; the last eunuch, Sun Yaoting, died in 1996.
Eunuchs in the Byzantine Empire
Eunuchs in the Byzantine Empire: castrated men (eunuchos, ektomias, spadon) serving as chamberlains, generals like Narses, and church figures from the fourth to fifteenth centuries, despite legal prohibition of castration.
Eunyong Park
Eunyong Park is a structural cell biologist and associate professor at UC Berkeley, known for cryo-EM structures of protein translocation channels such as SecY, Sec61, and TOM.
Euomphaloidea
Euomphaloidea is an extinct superfamily of Paleozoic gastropods (snails) whose larval shell was openly coiled and planispiral; the group ranged from the Late Cambrian to the Late Permian.
Euonymon
Euonymon (Εὐώνυμον) was an ancient Athenian deme of the tribe Erechtheis, lying about 7 km south of Athens at modern Trachones, and known for its well-preserved rural theater.
Euonymus
Euonymus (spindle trees, burning bush) is a Celastraceae genus of about 130-149 shrub, tree, and vine species, native Old World to the Americas, centered in East Asia, with only two of five sections molecularly supported and E. alatus invasive in the US.
Euopisthobranchia
Euopisthobranchia is a clade of euthyneuran gastropod mollusks, established by Jörger et al. 2010, uniting Cephalaspidea, Anaspidea (Aplysiida), Tylodinoidea, Runcinacea, and Pteropoda within Tectipleura, sister to Panpulmonata, replacing the non-monophyletic Opisthobranchia.
Eupalinos (Εὐπαλίνος)
Eupalinos (Εὐπαλίνος) of Megara, son of Naustrophus, 6th-century BC Greek engineer named by Herodotus as designer of the Tunnel of Eupalinos on Samos, an aqueduct tunnel about 1,036 m long dug from both ends under Polycrates, meeting with only 64 cm error.
Eupatoria/Magnopolis
Eupatoria/Magnopolis, a Hellenistic Pontic city at the Lycus-Iris confluence founded by Mithridates VI, destroyed by him, refounded by Pompey as Magnopolis; near Kale, Tokat Province, Turkey.
Eupatorium
Eupatorium (bonesets, thoroughworts) is a genus of Asteraceae herbs established by Linnaeus in 1753, type E. cannabinum, with about 45-69 accepted north temperate species after narrowing from a much broader, polyphyletic circumscription.
Eupatorium cannabinum
Eupatorium cannabinum, hemp agrimony, Wasserdost, is a perennial Asteraceae herb native from Europe to Central Asia, Iran, and NW Africa, with hemp-like leaves, pink flowerheads, 2n=20, and pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
Eupelmidae
Eupelmidae (eupelmids) is a family of metallic chalcidoid parasitoid wasps, Walker 1833, about 1,100 species in 45 genera; jumping thorax, mostly ectoparasitoids, with Anastatus species used against stink bugs and spotted lanternfly.
Eupenta
Eupenta (Eupenta Inj., 유펜타) is LG Chem's fully liquid pentavalent DTwP-HepB-Hib infant vaccine, WHO prequalified 10 February 2016 and supplied under a $100 million UNICEF contract for 2023-2027.
Euphemism
Euphemism: a word or expression replacing a taboo or offensive term to soften it, from Greek eu 'good' + phēmē 'speaking'. Counterpart dysphemism; context-dependent; subject to the euphemism treadmill of pejoration.