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Earache My Eye
Earache My Eye is a 1974 comedy rock single by Cheech and Chong, also credited to their alter ego Alice Bowie, from Cheech and Chong's Wedding Album; it peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and features in the 1978 film Up in Smoke.
Eardrum
Eardrum (tympanic membrane): thin circular tissue about 1 cm wide separating outer and middle ear, vibrating to transmit sound to the ossicles. Three-layered, derived from all germ layers; about 80% of perforations heal spontaneously.
Earendel
Earendel, designated WHL0137-LS, is a gravitationally lensed light source identified in 2022 as the most distant single-star candidate ever observed, with light that traveled 12.9 billion years.
Earhart Corona
Earhart Corona is a 414-km-wide corona on Venus at 70.1°N, 136.2°E, IAU-named in 1985 for aviator Amelia Earhart and formerly called Earhart crater.
Earl
Earl: a rank of the British peerage, third below duke and marquess, equivalent to the continental count. Dates from Saxon times, once the highest English rank; hereditary earls lost House of Lords seats in 2026.
Earl Bakken
Earl Bakken (1924–2018) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded Medtronic in Minneapolis in 1949 and built the first wearable, battery-powered, transistorized cardiac pacemaker in 1957.
Earl Bell
Earl Bell (Earl Holmes Bell), American pole vaulter born 1955 in Panama; 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, 1976 world record holder (5.67 m), three-time NCAA champion at Arkansas State, and founder of the Bell Athletics coaching center in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Earl Boen
Earl Boen (1941–2023), American character and voice actor from New York City, played Dr. Peter Silberman in the first three Terminator films and voiced LeChuck in Monkey Island until retiring from voice work in 2017.
Earl Boykins
Earl Boykins, born 1976 in Cleveland, is a 5'5" former NBA point guard, second-shortest player in league history behind Muggsy Bogues; undrafted in 1998, he played 13 seasons, 652 games, 5,791 points, and now coaches at USC.
Earl Browder
Earl Russell Browder (1891–1973), American communist leader, General Secretary of the CPUSA 1932–1945, presidential candidate 1936 and 1940, coined 'Communism is 20th-century Americanism', founded the Communist Political Association in 1944, and was expelled in 1945–1946.
Earl Campbell
Earl Campbell, "The Tyler Rose" (born 1955), Heisman-winning Texas running back and first pick of the 1978 NFL Draft; three straight NFL rushing titles with Houston Oilers, 9,407 career yards, Hall of Fame 1991.
Earl E. Gossard
Earl E. Gossard was an American research meteorologist at NOAA in Boulder, Colorado, known for work on atmospheric gravity waves and clear-air Doppler radar wind profiling.
Earl Eby
Earl William Eby (1894-1970), American middle-distance runner, silver medalist in the 800 m at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics behind Albert Hill; first NCAA 880-yard champion, later a Philadelphia Bulletin track writer.
Earl Frieden
Earl Frieden is an American biochemist at Florida State University known for his 1963 Nature paper on product inhibition of enzymes and tadpole thyroid research.
Earl Grey tea
Earl Grey tea, also called bergamot tea, is black tea scented with oil from the bergamot orange (Citrus bergamia) grown in Calabria, Italy. Named for Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, British Prime Minister 1830–1834; Twinings sold it from 1831; variants include Lady Grey and French Earl Grey.
Earl H. Dowell
Earl H. Dowell is an American engineer, a leading authority on aeroelasticity and structural dynamics, who joined Duke University in 1983 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.
Earl H. Wood
Earl H. Wood (1912–2009) was an American cardiovascular physiologist and physician-scientist at the Mayo Clinic who helped invent the G-suit and pioneered three-dimensional X-ray imaging of the heart.
Earl Hamner Jr.
Earl Hamner Jr. (1923–2016), American novelist and television writer born in Schuyler, Virginia; creator and narrator of The Waltons (1972–1981) and creator of Falcon Crest, author of Spencer's Mountain and The Homecoming.
Earl Hebner
Earl Hebner (born 1949, Richmond, Virginia) is an American pro wrestling referee, twin of Dave Hebner, famous for the 1988 Hogan-Andre twin angle and the 1997 Montreal Screwjob; WWE 1988-2005, then TNA/Impact and AEW.
Earl Hindman
Earl Hindman (1942–2003), American character actor from Bisbee, Arizona, best known as Wilson W. Wilson Jr., the face-hidden advice-giving neighbor on Home Improvement (1991–1999); also Bob Reid on Ryan's Hope.
Earl Hines
Earl "Fatha" Hines (1903-1983), American jazz pianist and bandleader from Duquesne, Pennsylvania, creator of the octave-based "trumpet style"; 1928 Armstrong recordings, Grand Terrace big band, mentor to Parker and Gillespie.
Earl Holliman
Earl Holliman (Henry Earl Holliman, 1928–2024), American actor of films and TV; Golden Globe winner for The Rainmaker, Lt. Bill Crowley on Police Woman, and star of the first Twilight Zone broadcast.
Earl K. Miller
Earl K. Miller, also known as Earl Miller, is the Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, known for recording single neurons in monkeys and for his synaptic theory of working memory.
Earl Little Jr.
Earl Little Jr., Ohio State safety from Fort Lauderdale; Alabama 2022 signee, FSU 2025 second-team All-ACC with 76 tackles and 4 interceptions; transferred to Ohio State January 2026.
Earl Lovelace
Earl Lovelace, born 1935 in Toco, Trinidad, is a Trinidadian novelist, playwright, and essayist known for The Dragon Can't Dance and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Earl Manigault
Earl "The Goat" Manigault (1944-1998), Harlem streetball legend, 6'1" leaper called the greatest NBA player never; derailed by heroin and prison, redeemed via the Goat Tournament and HBO's Rebound.
Earl Marshal
Earl Marshal: hereditary English great officer of state (eighth in rank), held by the Duke of Norfolk; arranges coronations and state ceremonies, and supervises the College of Arms and its heralds.
Earl Mccullouch
Earl McCullouch (born 1946), American hurdler and NFL wide receiver; equaled the 110 m hurdles world record of 13.2 (13.43 auto) at Minneapolis on 16 July 1967 while at USC, later played seven NFL seasons.
Earl Monroe
Earl 'The Pearl' Monroe (born 1944), NBA guard for the Baltimore Bullets and New York Knicks; 1968 Rookie of the Year, 1973 champion, Hall of Fame 1990, NBA 75 member.
Earl Morrall
Earl Morrall (Earl Edwin Morrall, 1934–2014), NFL quarterback for 21 seasons with six teams; 1968 NFL MVP with the Colts and starter for the 1972 perfect-season Dolphins; three Super Bowl rings.