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eBee

The eBee is a family of hand-launched fixed-wing survey drones made by Swiss company senseFly, now owned by AgEagle, with over a million flights worldwide.

Ebelsberg Formation

The Ebelsberg Formation is a formation of organic-rich marine mudrocks in Austria, deposited in the late Oligocene to early Miocene and known for its exceptionally preserved fossils.

Eben Alexander (author)

Eben Alexander III (born 1953) is an American neurosurgeon and author of Proof of Heaven (2012), a #1 New York Times bestseller about his 2008 near-death experience during an E. coli meningitis coma; his consciousness claims are contested by neuroscientists.

Eben Byers

Eben MacBurney Byers, Pittsburgh industrialist and 1906 U.S. amateur golf champion, died of radium poisoning in 1932 after drinking about 1,400 bottles of the radioactive patent medicine Radithor, prompting its removal and stronger FDA regulation.

Eben Etzebeth

Eben Etzebeth, South African rugby union lock (No 4) for the Springboks and Sharks, most-capped Springbok ever after passing Victor Matfield's record in 2024; 2019 World Cup winner, 2023 champion, enforcer role, 12-week eye-gouge ban in 2025-26.

Eben L. Rosenthal

Eben Lloyd Rosenthal is an American head and neck surgical oncologist who chairs Otolaryngology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and studies fluorescent dyes that make cancer visible during surgery.

Ebenaceae

Ebenaceae, the ebony family (synonyms Lissocarpaceae, Diospyraceae), is a pantropical Ericales family of about 750 tree species in Diospyros, Euclea, and Lissocarpa, source of ebony timber and persimmon fruit.

Ebenezer (2026 film)

Ebenezer (Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol) is a 2026 Paramount Pictures drama-fantasy film directed by Ti West, starring Johnny Depp as Scrooge with Rupert Grint and Ian McKellen, released theatrically November 13, 2026.

Ebenezer Cobb Morley

Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831-1924), Hull-born solicitor and founder of Barnes FC, initiated the Football Association in 1863, drafted its 13 original laws, was its first secretary and second president, and presented the first FA Cup in 1872.

Ebenezer Cunningham

Ebenezer Cunningham (1881–1977) was a British mathematician at St John's College, Cambridge, who in 1909 co-discovered with Harry Bateman the conformal invariance of Maxwell's equations.

Ebenezer Erskine

Ebenezer Erskine (1680–1754) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister at Portmoak and then Stirling who led the First Secession of 1733 from the Church of Scotland, founding the Secession Church.

Ebenezer Howard

Ebenezer Howard (1850–1928) was a British shorthand-writer and reformer who founded the garden city movement through his 1898 book To-morrow, influencing the new towns of Letchworth and Welwyn.

Ebenezer Obey

Ebenezer Obey, born Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Fabiyi in 1942, is a Nigerian jùjú musician, bandleader, and evangelist known as Chief Commander, whose Inter-Reformers band modernized the genre.

Ebenezer Scrooge

Ebenezer Scrooge is the miser protagonist of Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843), reformed by Jacob Marley's ghost and three Christmas spirits; his name now means a stingy, coldhearted person.

Eber

Eber (Hebrew עֵבֶר, Patriarch Eber) is a postdiluvian patriarch in Genesis, great-grandson of Shem and father of Peleg and Joktan, traditionally taken as the eponymous ancestor of the Hebrews.

Eberbach Abbey

Eberbach Abbey (Kloster Eberbach) is a former Cistercian monastery near Eltville am Rhein in the Rheingau, Germany, founded in 1136 by monks from Clairvaux and dissolved in 1803.

Eberechi Eze

Eberechi Oluchi Eze (born 1998, Greenwich, London) is an English attacking midfielder for Arsenal and England. Released by four academies, he starred for QPR and Crystal Palace, won the 2025 FA Cup, and joined Arsenal for £60m in 2025.

Eberhard Anheuser

Eberhard Anheuser was a German-born St. Louis soap and candle manufacturer who acquired the failing Bavarian Brewery out of a creditor auction in 1860, building it into Anheuser-Busch with his son-in-law Adolphus Busch.

Eberhard Billick

Eberhard Billick (c. 1499–1557) was a German Carmelite theologian at the University of Cologne, best known for his polemics against Martin Bucer and his service at the Council of Trent.

Eberhard Bodenschatz

Eberhard Bodenschatz, born 1959, is a German physicist who studies turbulence and biological physics and directs the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen.

Eberhard E. Fetz

Eberhard E. Fetz, also known as E. E. Fetz, is an American neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, a pioneer of brain–computer interfaces.

Eberhard Grün

Eberhard Grün is a German planetary physicist known for discovering interstellar dust grains passing through the solar system and the Jovian dust streams, and for founding dust astronomy.

Eberhard Hinderer

Eberhard Hinderer is a German mechanical engineer who co-founded Vector Informatik near Stuttgart in 1988, managed it for about 26 years, and retired in 2014.

Eberhard Hopf

Eberhard Hopf (1902–1983) was an Austrian-American mathematician known for the Hopf bifurcation, the Hopf maximum principle, and the Wiener–Hopf equations, who spent his final decades at Indiana University.

Eberhard K. U. Gross

Eberhard K. U. Gross, known as Hardy Gross, is a German theoretical physicist who invented time-dependent density-functional theory and directed the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle.

Eberhard Ritz

Eberhard Ritz (1938–2023) was a German nephrologist and professor at Heidelberg University, known for research on cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease and diabetic nephropathy.

Eberhardt Rechtin

Eberhardt Rechtin (1926–2006) was an American electrical engineer who directed NASA's Deep Space Network, proved the phase-locked loop optimal in noise, and founded systems architecting programs at USC.

Eberron

Eberron, D&D campaign setting by Keith Baker, winner of Wizards of the Coast's 2002 setting search ($100,000, 11,000 entries); pulp-noir world of magic-as-technology, the Last War, the Mourning, dragonmarked houses, warforged; first published 2004.

Ebers Papyrus

The Ebers Papyrus is a large ancient Egyptian medical papyrus, bought in Thebes by Georg Ebers in 1872/73 and held by Leipzig University Library since 1873.

EBEX

EBEX, the E and B Experiment, was a balloon-borne polarimeter that measured cosmic microwave background polarization, flying near the South Pole for about 25 days in 2012-13.