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Eddie Rickenbacker
Eddie Rickenbacker, born Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, was an American fighter pilot, race car driver, and airline executive who became America's leading World War I ace with 26 victories.
Eddie Rosario
Eddie Manuel Rosario, Puerto Rican MLB outfielder (Twins, Guardians, Braves, Nationals, Dodgers), born 1991; 2021 NLCS MVP who hit .560 with 14 hits as Atlanta reached the World Series; career .261, 169 home runs.
Eddie Settle
Eddie Settle is an American politician and Republican member of the North Carolina State Senate from the 36th district, elected in 2022 after serving as a Wilkes County commissioner.
Eddie Shore
Eddie Shore (Edward William Shore, 1902-1985), Canadian NHL defenseman for the Boston Bruins and New York Americans; only defenseman to win four Hart Trophies, two Stanley Cups (1929, 1939), later Springfield Indians owner.
Eddie Slovik
Eddie Slovik (Edward Donald Slovik, 1920–1945), Detroit draftee in the 28th Infantry Division, was the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War, shot by firing squad in France on January 31, 1945 after Eisenhower confirmed his court-martial sentence.
Eddie Southern
Eddie Southern (Silas Edward Southern, 1938-2023), American sprinter-hurdler, 400m hurdles silver at 1956 Melbourne Olympics behind Glenn Davis; NCAA 440y champion 1959, world #1 at 400m that year.
Eddie Steeples
Eddie Steeples (born 1973) is an American actor known as the Rubberband Man in OfficeMax commercials and as Darnell "Crab Man" Turner on NBC's My Name Is Earl (2005-2009), plus roles in Raising Hope, The Guest Book, and Jiu Jitsu.
Eddie Stobart
Eddie Stobart is a British road haulage and logistics company founded in 1960 in Cumbria, famous for its green, red and white lorries and its truck-spotting fan club.
Eddie Sullivan
Eddie Sullivan is a biotechnology entrepreneur who co-founded SAB Biotherapeutics in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 2014, serving as president and formerly chief executive officer.
Eddie Sutton
Eddie Sutton (1936-2020), American college basketball coach; won 806 Division I games and was the first coach to take four schools, Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Oklahoma State, to the NCAA Tournament; three Final Fours; Naismith Hall of Fame 2020.
Eddie the Eagle (film)
Eddie the Eagle is a 2016 British-American biographical comedy-drama directed by Dexter Fletcher, starring Taron Egerton as ski jumper Michael Edwards and Hugh Jackman as his fictional coach.
Eddie Tolan
Eddie Tolan (Thomas Edward Tolan Jr., 1908–1967) was an American sprinter, nicknamed the Midnight Express, who won the 100 and 200 meters at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.
Eddie Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen (Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, 1955-2020), Dutch-born American guitarist who co-founded Van Halen in 1974, popularized two-handed tapping on "Eruption," built the striped Frankenstrat, held three US patents, and sold over 80 million records.
Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Seversen III), born 1964 in Evanston, Illinois, is the American singer, guitarist, and primary lyricist of Pearl Jam since 1990, known for the Momma-Son demo tape, the Temple of the Dog 'Hunger Strike' duet, and his Golden Globe-winning Into the Wild soundtrack.
Eddie Williams (strongman)
Eddie Williams (strongman), Australian strongman born 1990, two-time Australia's Strongest Man (2017, 2018), five-time World's Strongest Man competitor with two finals, best finish 8th; 425 kg max deadlift PR; distinct from Eddie Hall.
Eddie Wineland
Eddie Wineland, American retired MMA bantamweight and first-ever WEC bantamweight champion (won May 2006, lost 2007 to Chase Beebe); 16-fight UFC veteran, challenged Renan Barao at UFC 165, retired 2022.
Eddie Wu (吴泳铭)
Eddie Wu (吴泳铭, Wu Yongming) is a Chinese technology executive and venture investor, co-founder of Alibaba Group and its CEO since September 2023, and founding partner of Vision Plus Capital.
Eddington (film)
Eddington (film) is a 2025 American satirical Western drama directed by Ari Aster. It is set in a fictional New Mexico town during the early COVID-19 pandemic.
Eddington (lunar crater)
Eddington is a 120.13-km-diameter lunar crater in Oceanus Procellarum at 21.50°N, 72.02°W, IAU-approved in 1964 and named for British astrophysicist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington; its interior is flooded by mare basalts.
Eddington experiment
The Eddington experiment, also called the Dyson-Eddington-Davidson experiment, was the 1919 solar eclipse test of Einstein's general relativity by two British expeditions whose results made Einstein world-famous.
Eddington limit
The Eddington limit is the maximum luminosity a body of given mass can sustain, where outward radiation pressure balances gravity; it caps stars and accreting black holes.
Eddington ratio
The Eddington ratio is the ratio of an object's bolometric luminosity to its Eddington luminosity, the standard measure of how fast a black hole accretes relative to the radiation-pressure limit.
Eddington-inspired Born–Infeld gravity
Eddington-inspired Born–Infeld gravity (EiBI gravity) is a nonlinear modification of general relativity proposed by Bañados and Ferreira in 2010, which avoids the big bang singularity.
Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates
Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates are horizon-penetrating coordinates for Schwarzschild spacetime, built from the ingoing or outgoing null coordinate v or u, which extend the metric smoothly through the event horizon at r = 2M.
EdDSA
EdDSA (Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) is a digital signature scheme, a variant of Schnorr signatures using Edwards curves, specified in RFC 8032 (2017) with Ed25519 and Ed448 variants.
Eddsworld
Eddsworld is a British Flash-animated comedy web series created by Edd Gould (1988-2012), following Edd, Tom, and Matt. Eras: Classic, Legacy (2012-2016), Beyond (2020-), on YouTube and Newgrounds.
Eddy (fluid dynamics)
An eddy is a rotating, swirling motion of fluid within a larger flow, from momentary vortices in a stream to mesoscale ocean eddies spanning 10 to 100 kilometers that carry heat, salt, and carbon.
Eddy Arnold
Eddy Arnold (1918–2008), the "Tennessee Plowboy," was an American country singer who pioneered the pop-crooning Nashville Sound, scoring 147 country chart singles with 28 number ones and selling over 85 million records.
Eddy Burback
Eddy Burback (Edward Burback, born 1996) is an American comedy commentary YouTuber from Schaumburg, Illinois, known for the Rainforest Cafe and Margaritaville crawls, the Morbius marathon, and co-running the Burback channel with twin brother Tony.
Eddy covariance
Eddy covariance is a micrometeorological method that measures turbulent fluxes of carbon dioxide, water vapor, heat, and momentum between the surface and the atmosphere, proposed in 1948.