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Ewan Horrocks

Ewan Horrocks (born 2002, Halifax) is a British actor known as Young Drusus in Domina, Aelfweard in The Last Kingdom and Seven Kings Must Die, and Edwin Fairley in Channel 4's 2026 A Woman of Substance.

Ewan MacColl

Ewan MacColl (James Henry Miller, 1915–1989), Salford-born folk singer, songwriter, playwright, and radio producer who led the Second English Folk Revival, wrote "Dirty Old Town" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", created the Radio Ballads with Peggy Seeger, and was tracked by MI5 as a communist radical.

Ewan McGregor

Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor (born 1971, Perth), known as Mark Renton in Trainspotting, young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequels and 2022 series, Emmy winner for Halston, Golden Globe for Fargo, and Long Way travel series with Charley Boorman.

Ewan Mitchell

Ewan Robert Mitchell (born 1997, Derby) is an English actor known as Aemond Targaryen in House of the Dragon, Osferth in The Last Kingdom, Tom Bennett in World on Fire, and for High Life and Saltburn.

Ewan R. Pearson

Ewan R. Pearson is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Dundee, known for showing that a patient's genetic diagnosis determines which diabetes drug works.

Ewangcheng Site

鄂王城城址 (E King City site), Eastern Zhou walled city at Jinniu Town, Daye, Hubei; national heritage site since 2001, ~500x400 m walls, 117 mound tombs, likely a Warring States Chu copper-mining administration center.

Ewart Horsfall

Ewart Horsfall (Ewart Douglas Horsfall, 1892–1974), British rower nicknamed Dink; Olympic gold in men's eights at Stockholm 1912 and silver at Antwerp 1920; also Boat Race winner and 1948 British rowing team manager.

EWE (utility)

EWE AG is a German energy and telecommunications company headquartered in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, serving northwestern Germany, Brandenburg, and Rügen with electricity, natural gas, and telecom services.

Ewe dirge and praise poetry

Ewe dirge and praise poetry (aviha) are oral poetic genres of the Ewe people of southeastern Ghana and southern Togo: funeral laments and panegyric praise verse.

Ewe kente

Ewe kente, also called kete or agbamevor, is strip-woven cloth made by the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo, distinguished from Asante kente by its figurative motifs of animals, people, and letters.

Ewe literature

Ewe literature is the body of written and oral works in the Ewe language, spoken in Togo, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria, and written since 1848.

Ewe people

The Ewe are a Gbe-speaking West African people of southeastern Ghana, southern Togo, and southern Benin; language Ewe (Eʋegbe), migration tradition Ketu–Tado–Notsie exodus under King Agorkoli, Hogbetsotso festival, and transborder chieftaincy.

Ewedo

Ewedo, born Efabo, was the fourth Oba, or king, of the Kingdom of Benin in what is now southern Nigeria, reigning from about 1255 to 1280.

Eweka I

Eweka I was the first Oba of the second dynasty of Benin, reigning from 1200 to 1235. Tradition makes him the son of the Ife prince Oranmiyan.

Ewen Jaouen

Ewen Jaouen (born 2005, Paris) is a French goalkeeper who rose through EA Guingamp and Stade de Reims, kept 15 Ligue 2 clean sheets in 2025-26, and joined Newcastle United in June 2026; not to be confused with Algerian defender Jaouen Hadjam.

Ewen Leslie

Ewen Leslie (born 1980, Fremantle, Western Australia) is an Australian stage, film, and television actor, aka the Guido actor from Ship to Shore, a two-time Helpmann Award winner known for Jewboy, The Daughter, Top of the Lake: China Girl, and The Stranger.

Ewen MacIntosh

Ewen Douglas MacIntosh (1973–2024), Welsh actor and comedian, played deadpan accountant Keith Bishop ("Big Keith") in all 14 episodes of The Office UK (2001–2003); later character roles in Little Britain, Miranda, After Life, and The Lobster.

Ewen Montagu

Ewen Montagu (Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu, 1901-1985) was a British barrister and naval intelligence lieutenant commander who, with Charles Cholmondeley, created Operation Mincemeat and wrote The Man Who Never Was.

Ewenki power station

Ewenki power station (鄂温克电厂) is a 1,200 MW lignite-fired power station in the Evenki Autonomous Banner of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China, with two 600 MW units commissioned in 2011 and 2012.

Ewha Hakdang

Ewha Hakdang (이화학당, Pear Blossom Academy) was a girls' school founded in Seoul in 1886 by American missionary Mary Fletcher Scranton, the first for modern women's education.

Ewhurst

Ewhurst, a village and parish in Waverley, Surrey, on the Weald edge near Cranleigh; name means yew wooded hill, first recorded 1179, church of St Peter and St Paul c.1140, Roman villa at Rapsley.

Ewiger Landfriede

Ewiger Landfriede (Perpetual Public Peace), proclaimed 7 August 1495 at the Diet of Worms under Maximilian I, abolished the right of feud in the Holy Roman Empire, created the Reichskammergericht, and lasted until 1806.

Ewin Tang

Ewin Tang is an American theoretical computer scientist known for dequantizing quantum machine learning algorithms, a Princeton faculty member who won the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize.

Ewine van Dishoeck

Ewine van Dishoeck is a Dutch molecular astrophysicist and astrochemist, professor at Leiden Observatory since 1995, who won the 2018 Kavli Prize for studying water and organic molecules in star- and planet-forming clouds.

Ewing Island

Ewing Island: ice-covered, dome-shaped Antarctic island, 8 mi across, off the Antarctic Peninsula east coast at 69°54'S 61°13'W; discovered by air in 1947 by Ronne's RARE and named for Columbia geophysicist Maurice Ewing.

Ewing Marion Kauffman

Ewing Marion Kauffman was an American pharmaceutical entrepreneur who founded Marion Laboratories in Kansas City in 1950 and owned the Kansas City Royals baseball team.

Ewing sarcoma of soft tissue

Ewing sarcoma of soft tissue, or extraosseous Ewing sarcoma, is a malignant small round cell sarcoma of soft tissue with EWSR1-ETS fusions, treated like bone Ewing sarcoma with VDC/IE chemotherapy plus surgery or radiation.

Ewing Werlein, Jr.

Ewing Werlein, Jr. (born 1936) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas since 2006.

eWLB

eWLB, or embedded wafer-level ball grid array, is a fan-out wafer-level packaging technology developed by Infineon between 2001 and 2007 and introduced to the market in 2009.

EWM (welding)

EWM, originally Elektrowerke Mündersbach, is a German family-owned manufacturer of arc welding equipment and robotic welding systems, founded in 1957 and headquartered in Mündersbach in the Westerwald region of Germany.