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Eva Cassidy

Eva Cassidy (1963–1996), American singer and guitarist of Washington, D.C., known for folk, jazz, and blues interpretations; died of melanoma at 33, then posthumously famous via BBC airplay and the UK number-one album Songbird.

Eva Chen

Eva Chen (Chen Yi-hua) is a business executive who co-founded the Tokyo-based cybersecurity company Trend Micro in 1988 and has served as its chief executive officer since 2005.

Eva Coo

Eva Coo (Eva Curry, 1889-1935), Canadian-American Oneonta, New York brothel owner executed at Sing Sing in 1935 for the insurance-motivated 1934 mallet-and-car murder of handyman Harry Wright with accomplice Martha Clift.

Eva de Goede

Eva de Goede (Eva Drummond-De Goede), Dutch field hockey midfielder born 1989 in Zeist; three-time Olympic champion (2008, 2012, 2020), three World Cup titles, FIH Player of the Year 2018 and 2019, longtime Netherlands captain.

Eva Diaz

Eva Diaz is an American politician and Democratic member of the Arizona Senate from the 22nd district, elected in 2022 after 27 years as a teacher and school administrator.

Eva Donusz

Éva Dónusz (Dónusz Éva), Hungarian sprint kayaker born 1967 in Vác; 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold K4 500 m and bronze K2 500 m, 1996 Atlanta K4, 13 world championship medals, later Hungarian Canoe Federation coach.

Eva Ekeblad

Eva Ekeblad (Eva De la Gardie), 1724–1786, Swedish countess and the first woman elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1748), known for potato experiments producing flour, starch, powder, and alcohol.

Eva Gabor

Eva Gabor (Gábor Éva, 1921–1995), Hungarian-born American actress, Broadway and film performer, Lisa Douglas on Green Acres (1965–1971), Disney voice of Duchess and Miss Bianca, and chairwoman of Eva Gabor International wig company.

Eva Gerard Novak

Éva Gérard-Novák (Novák Éva, 1930–2005), Hungarian swimmer and eye surgeon; four Olympic medals for Hungary including 1952 relay gold, first Hungarian female world-record holder (200m breaststroke), married Pierre Gerard, competed for Belgium in 1956.

Eva Gerlach

Eva Gerlach is the pen name of Margaret Dijkstra, born 1948 in Amsterdam, a Dutch poet and translator who won the P.C. Hooft-prijs in 2000.

Eva Green

Eva Green (Eva Gaëlle Green, born 1980, Paris) is a French actress known for Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, Vanessa Ives in Penny Dreadful, and three Tim Burton films; BAFTA Rising Star 2007.

Eva Gutowski

Eva Gutowski, aka MyLifeAsEva, is an American YouTuber, entrepreneur, and electronic music producer born 1994 in Brea, California. Known for her lifestyle channel, the Coastal Citizen skin-care brand, and her Marisol DJ project and 2026 album Ouch.

Eva Harris

Eva Harris is an American virologist at UC Berkeley known for her work on dengue and Zika viruses and for building scientific capacity in developing countries.

Eva Hart

Eva Miriam Hart was an English survivor of the Titanic sinking at age 7 in 1912 who became a prominent speaker and critic of salvage of the wreck.

Eva Hernando

Eva Hernando, full name Eva M. Hernando-Monge, is a Spanish-born cancer biologist and tenured professor of pathology and dermatology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies melanoma metastasis.

Eva Herzigová

Eva Herzigová (born 1973, Litvínov) is a Czech supermodel of the 1990s, nicknamed Marilyn of the Nineties, famous for the 1994 Wonderbra 'Hello Boys' campaign, Guess and Victoria's Secret work, and Editor-at-Large at Vogue Czechoslovakia.

Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse (1936–1970) was a German-born American sculptor whose pioneering use of latex, fiberglass, and plastics helped bring about postminimal art in the 1960s; she died of a brain tumor at age 34.

Eva Hevia

Eva Hevia is a Spanish inorganic and organometallic chemist, born in Gijón, who has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bern since 2019.

Eva Ionesco

Eva Ionesco, French actress, director, and writer born 1965 in Paris, daughter of photographer Irina Ionesco; child erotic model, actress in The Tenant and Maladolescenza, director of My Little Princess (2011) and Golden Youth (2019).

Eva Ip

Eva Ip, also known as Eva Siu Wai Ip, is a partner and chief financial officer of HongShan, the venture firm formerly known as Sequoia China.

Eva J. Neer

Eva J. Neer, born Eva Julia Augenblick, was an American physician-biochemist at Harvard Medical School who discovered the brain G protein Go and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.

Eva Joly

Eva Joly, Norwegian-born former French investigating magistrate (1990-2002), led the Elf Aquitaine corruption probe; later MEP for Europe Ecologie 2009-2019 and 2012 presidential candidate.

Eva Kaili (Εύα Καϊλή)

Eva Kaili (Εύα Καϊλή), Greek former MEP and European Parliament vice-president (PASOK, S&D), arrested December 2022 in the Qatargate corruption scandal; charged with corruption, money laundering, and criminal organisation; denies charges, case not yet tried.

Eva Kondorosi

Eva Kondorosi (Kondorosi Éva), born 1948 in Budapest, is a Hungarian and French plant molecular biologist who established the genetics of the Rhizobium–legume symbiosis and received the 2018 Balzan Prize.

Eva Kucmanova

Eva Kucmanova (Eva Kucmanová, later Eva Šuranová), Slovak long jumper for Czechoslovakia, born 1946 in Ózd, died 2016. Won 1972 Olympic long jump bronze (6.67 m) and 1974 European silver; first Slovak Olympic athletics medalist.

Eva LaRue

Eva LaRue (born 1966) is an American actress known as Dr. Maria Santos Grey on All My Children and Natalia Boa Vista on CSI: Miami, later on The Young and the Restless and General Hospital; 2020 Daytime Emmy winner and subject of My Nightmare Stalker.

Eva Lasting

Eva Lasting (La primera vez) is a Colombian Netflix romantic coming-of-age series by Dago García, produced by Caracol Televisión, set in 1976 Bogotá, where Eva Samper becomes the first girl at the all-boys José María Root school; 4 seasons, 45 episodes, 2023-2026.

Eva Lehocka Gleskova

Eva Lehocká-Glesková (born 1943, Zvolen) is a Slovak sprinter who ran for Czechoslovakia at the 1964, 1968, and 1972 Olympics, equaled the 100 m world record of 11.0 s in Budapest in 1972, and finished eighth in the Munich 1972 final injured.

Eva Lerner-Lam

Eva Lerner-Lam is an American transportation systems engineer, founder and president of Palisades Consulting Group in New Jersey, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Eva Löcherbach

Eva Löcherbach (born 1970) is a German probability theorist working in France, a professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne known for the Galves–Löcherbach model of spiking neural networks.