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Eduard Streltsov

Eduard Streltsov (Эдуард Стрельцов, 1937–1990), Soviet forward for Torpedo Moscow and the USSR; 1956 Olympic gold champion, twice Soviet Footballer of the Year, imprisoned 1958 after a disputed rape trial, never played a World Cup.

Eduard Study

Eduard Study (1862–1930) was a German mathematician at the University of Bonn known for the Study quadric, a six-dimensional model of rigid-body motions that underlies modern kinematics and robotics.

Eduard Suess

Eduard Suess (1831–1914) was an Austrian geologist and professor at the University of Vienna who named Gondwana and Tethys and wrote Das Antlitz der Erde.

Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe

Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, was an Austrian statesman who served twice as Minister-President of Cisleithania, the Austrian half of the Habsburg Monarchy, from 1879 to 1893.

Eduard Thelen

Eduard Thelen, born 1946 in Köln, is a German former field hockey player who won gold with West Germany at the 1972 Munich Olympics, beating Pakistan 1-0 in the final, earned 38 caps, played for Rot-Weiss Köln, and became an orthopedic surgeon.

Eduard Totleben

Eduard Ivanovich Totleben (Эдуард Иванович Тотлебен) was a Russian military engineer and general of Baltic German origin who directed the land defenses of Sevastopol during the Crimean War.

Eduard Vilde

Eduard Vilde (1865–1933) was an Estonian writer, journalist, and diplomat, a classic of Estonian literature and one of the founders of the Estonian novel, known for Külmale maale.

Eduard Vinokurov

Eduard Vinokurov (Эдуард Теодорович Винокуров, 1942–2010), Soviet sabre fencer; two Olympic team golds (1968, 1976) and 1972 silver, six world team titles, later coach and Olympic referee.

Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli

Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, also known as Baron Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal who led the 2nd Army on the Eastern Front during World War I.

Eduard Weyr

Eduard Weyr (1852–1903) was a Czech mathematician who spent his career teaching in Prague and introduced the Weyr canonical form of a matrix in papers of 1885 and 1890.

Eduard Y. Chekmenev

Eduard Y. Chekmenev, also written Eduard Chekmenev, is a Russian-born American chemist at Wayne State University in Detroit known for developing parahydrogen-based SABRE hyperpolarization for biomedical imaging.

Eduard Zehnder

Eduard Zehnder (1940–2024) was a Swiss mathematician, a founder of modern symplectic topology, known for the Conley–Zehnder theorem toward the Arnold conjecture and the Hofer–Zehnder capacity.

Eduardas Mieželaitis

Eduardas Mieželaitis (1919–1997) was a Lithuanian poet and translator, a leading figure of Soviet-era Lithuanian poetry who won the 1962 Lenin Prize for Žmogus (Man).

Eduardo A. Groisman

Eduardo A. Groisman is a geneticist and microbiologist, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor at Yale since 2010, known for the PhoP/PhoQ magnesium-sensing system of Salmonella.

Eduardo A. Perozo

Eduardo A. Perozo is a Venezuelan-trained biophysicist at the University of Chicago known for structural studies of ion channels, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Eduardo Añaños

Eduardo Añaños was a Peruvian businessman who founded Grupo AJE, the beverage company behind Kola Real and Big Cola, in Ayacucho, Peru, in 1988 and built it into a company in more than 20 countries.

Eduardo Arellano Félix

Eduardo Arellano Félix, nicknamed El Doctor, is a Mexican physician and former chief financial officer of the Arellano Felix Organization (Tijuana Cartel), captured in Tijuana in 2008, extradited to the United States in 2012, sentenced to 15 years, and deported to Mexico in 2021.

Eduardo Benot

Eduardo Benot (1822–1907) was a Spanish grammarian, lexicographer, and republican politician, Minister of Fomento in 1873 and a member of the Real Academia Española whose grammatical theory anticipated modern linguistics.

Eduardo Blumwald

Eduardo Blumwald is a plant cell biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for engineering salt tolerance in plants, including salt-tolerant tomatoes, and for nitrogen-fixing cereals.

Éduardo Bruera

Éduardo Bruera, born in Argentina in 1955, is a medical oncologist who has led palliative medicine at MD Anderson since 1999 and created the widely used Edmonton Symptom Assessment System.

Eduardo Caballero Calderón

Eduardo Caballero Calderón (1910–1993) was a Colombian novelist, essayist, and journalist whose work centered on Tipacoque, Boyacá; his novels include El Cristo de espaldas and Siervo sin tierra.

Eduardo Cabra (Visitante)

Eduardo Cabra, known as Visitante, is a Puerto Rican producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who co-founded Calle 13 with his step-brother Residente, winning 21 Latin Grammys before going solo as Cabra in 2020.

Eduardo Camavinga

Eduardo Camavinga, born 2002 in Cabinda, Angola, is a French midfielder for Real Madrid and France. Rennes academy product, youngest post-war France debutant, two-time Champions League winner, versatile across midfield and left-back.

Eduardo Carranza

Eduardo Carranza Fernández (1913–1985) was a Colombian poet from the eastern plains who co-founded the Piedra y Cielo group and directed the National Library of Colombia.

Eduardo Chibás

Eduardo René Chibás was a Cuban politician and journalist who founded the Orthodox Party in 1947 and led campaigns against government corruption until his 1951 suicide.

Eduardo Clark

Eduardo Clark García Dobarganes, Mexican official; head of Mexico City's ADIP digital agency and Covid-19 data spokesperson, since October 2024 federal health subsecretary leading the consolidated medicine purchase and health digitalization.

Eduardo D. Glandt

Eduardo D. Glandt is a chemical engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, who served as dean of its engineering school from 1999 to 2015.

Eduardo da Silva

Eduardo da Silva (Eduardo Alves da Silva), born 1983 in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian-born Croatian former striker of Dinamo Zagreb, Arsenal, and Shakhtar Donetsk; 64 caps and 29 goals for Croatia, remembered for his 2008 leg break and 2009 comeback.

Eduardo Davila

Eduardo Dávila is a Spanish-born economist at Yale University since 2018, known for research on financial frictions, optimal financial regulation, and welfare-based policy evaluation, an approach he calls "welfare primacy".

Eduardo E. Benarroch

Eduardo E. Benarroch is a neurologist and Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for his 1993 definition of the central autonomic network and work on autonomic disorders.