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Eduardo Eurnekian

Eduardo Eurnekian, born 1932 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine businessman of Armenian descent who owns Corporación América, whose airports division operates 52 airports in six countries.

Eduardo F. Costantini

Eduardo F. Costantini, born in Buenos Aires in 1946, is an Argentine economist and real-estate developer who founded Consultatio and created the Nordelta gated community.

Eduardo Felicíssimo

Eduardo Felicíssimo (Eduardo Manuel Freitas Monteiro Ferreira Felicíssimo), Portuguese midfielder born 2007 in Montijo; Sporting CP academy product, ex-Benfica youth, 7 first-team 2024/25 appearances, league and cup winner, contracted to 2030.

Eduardo Frei Montalva

Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911-1982), Chilean Christian Democratic president 1964-1970, founder of the PDC, led Revolución en Libertad, Chileanized copper, opposed Allende, initially welcomed the 1973 coup, later broke with Pinochet; his 1982 death was litigated until 2023.

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Chilean Christian Democratic civil engineer, president of Chile 1994-2000, son of Eduardo Frei Montalva; later senator, 2009 candidate, Asia-Pacific ambassador.

Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano, full name Eduardo Germán Hughes Galeano, was a Uruguayan writer and journalist, best known for Las venas abiertas de América Latina and Memoria del fuego.

Eduardo Gras

Eduardo Gras Díaz is a Chilean businessman who founded the construction firm Socoviga in Temuco in 1965, which became Empresas Socovesa, a leading Chilean residential developer.

Eduardo Guerrero

Eduardo Guerrero (1928–2015), Argentine rower, Olympic gold in double sculls with Tranquilo Capozzo at Helsinki 1952; also rugby player and museum founder. Distinct from the Panamanian footballer and Dodgers infielder of the same name.

Eduardo Gutiérrez

Eduardo Gutiérrez (1851–1889) was an Argentine novelist and journalist whose serialized gaucho novels, especially Juan Moreira, Santos Vega, and Hormiga Negra, made him Argentina's leading popular writer.

Eduardo H. Fradkin

Eduardo H. Fradkin is an Argentine-born American condensed matter theorist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for the quantum Hall effect, high-temperature superconductors, and topological states of matter.

Eduardo H. Rapoport

Eduardo H. Rapoport, full name Eduardo Hugo Rapoport, was an Argentine ecologist (1927–2017) whose Areografía helped found macroecology and gave his name to Rapoport's rule.

Eduardo Kafie

Eduardo Kafie, born in Tegucigalpa in 1953, is a Honduran businessman and philanthropist who leads the dairy company Lacthosa and its cereals division, and serves as Honorary Consul of Jamaica in Honduras.

Eduardo López de Romaña

Eduardo López de Romaña (1847–1912) was a Peruvian civil engineer and politician who served as President of Peru from 1899 to 1903, the first engineer to hold the office.

Eduardo Mallea

Eduardo Mallea was an Argentine novelist, essayist, and diplomat who directed the literary supplement of La Nación and wrote the influential essay Historia de una pasión argentina (1937).

Eduardo Marbán

Eduardo Marbán is a Cuban-born American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Executive Director of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai since 2007, known for cardiosphere-derived cells.

Eduardo Mendoza

Eduardo Mendoza (Eduardo Mendoza Garriga) is a Spanish novelist born in Barcelona in 1943 whose satirical novels set in the city earned him the 2016 Cervantes Prize.

Eduardo Mondlane

Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane (1920–1969) was a Mozambican anthropologist and nationalist leader who founded FRELIMO in 1962 and led it until he was assassinated in Dar es Salaam in 1969.

Eduardo Moreno (biologist)

Eduardo Moreno Lampaya, born in Madrid in 1970, is a Spanish biologist and Senior Group Leader at the Champalimaud Centre in Lisbon, known for super-competitor cells and fitness fingerprints.

Eduardo P. C. Rocha

Eduardo P. C. Rocha (born 1972) is a Portuguese computational biologist who studies bacterial genome evolution, leading the CNRS–Institut Pasteur Génétique des génomes unit since 2023.

Eduardo Paolozzi

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924–2005), Scottish-Italian sculptor and collagist, founding figure of British Pop Art via the Independent Group, I Was a Rich Man's Plaything, and Tottenham Court Road mosaics.

Eduardo Paret

Eduardo Paret, born 1972 in Santa Clara, Cuba, is a former shortstop who won Olympic golds in 1996 and 2004, a 2008 silver, and 2005 World Championship MVP honors.

Eduardo Penido

Eduardo Penido (Eduardo Henrique Gomes Penido), Brazilian sailor born 1960 in Rio de Janeiro; won 470 class gold with Marcos Soares at Moscow 1980, later sixth in the 2015 Transat Jacques Vabre Class40 aboard Zetra, the first all-Brazilian duo in that race.

Eduardo Pérez

Eduardo Atanacio Pérez, born 1969 in Cincinnati, is a former MLB first baseman (1993–2006, six teams, 79 home runs), son of Hall of Famer Tony Pérez, later Marlins and Astros coach, and ESPN Sunday Night Baseball analyst 2022–2025, now Baseball Assistance Team president.

Eduardo Pontes

Eduardo Pontes is a Brazilian payments entrepreneur who co-founded the card-acquiring company Stone in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 and served as Vice Chairman of StoneCo's board.

Eduardo Ruiz‐Hitzky

Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky is a Spanish materials chemist at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, known for introducing bionanocomposites, hybrid materials combining natural polymers with inorganic solids.

Eduardo S. Brondizio

Eduardo S. Brondízio, born 1962 in São Paulo, is a Brazilian environmental anthropologist and Distinguished Professor at Indiana University Bloomington who co-chaired the 2019 IPBES Global Assessment.

Eduardo S. Schwartz

Eduardo Schwartz is a financial economist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA Anderson, known for the least-squares Monte Carlo method for valuing American-style options and for commodity price models.

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón, born in Logroño in 1972, is a Spanish mathematician at the University of La Rioja who created the YouTube channel Derivando.

Eduardo Santos Montejo

Eduardo Santos Montejo (1888–1974) was a Colombian lawyer, journalist, and Liberal politician who owned and directed the newspaper El Tiempo and served as president of Colombia from 1938 to 1942.

Eduardo Saverin

Eduardo Saverin is a Brazilian-born, Singapore-based billionaire investor who co-founded Facebook, served as its first CFO, and later founded B Capital Group; he has been ranked Singapore's richest person.