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Efqa Spring

Efqa Spring, meaning "the sunrise" in Palmyrene, is a sulphurous, 33 °C spring at ancient Palmyra, Syria, sacred to the god Yarhibol and vital to the oasis.

Efraim Diveroli

Efraim Diveroli is an American former arms dealer who, as president of Miami Beach firm AEY, won a $298 million Army contract at 21 and was later convicted of fraud.

Efraim Racker

Efraim Racker (1913–1991) was an Austrian-born American biochemist at Cornell who resolved and reconstituted the enzymes of oxidative phosphorylation, discovered F1 ATPase, and helped demonstrate chemiosmotic coupling.

Efraín Ríos Montt

Efraín Ríos Montt was a Guatemalan army general and evangelical preacher who ruled as de facto president from 1982 to 1983 during the civil war's bloodiest phase.

Efrat (אפרת) (Israeli settlement)

Efrat (אפרת, also Efrata) is an Israeli settlement and local council in the Gush Etzion bloc of the West Bank, founded in 1983 by Moshe Moskovics and Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, about 12 km south of Jerusalem, mainly religious-Zionist with 11,421 residents in 2020.

Efrem Zimbalist (Ефрем Цимбалист)

Efrem Zimbalist (Ефрем Цимбалист) denotes the Russian-born American violin virtuoso, composer, and Curtis Institute director (1889-1985), Auer pupil, husband of Alma Gluck, and father of actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (1918-2014) of 77 Sunset Strip and The F.B.I.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (1918–2014), American actor, played private detective Stu Bailey in 77 Sunset Strip (1958–64) and Inspector Lewis Erskine in The F.B.I. (1965–74), and voiced Alfred Pennyworth in Batman animation.

Efren Ramirez

Efren Ramirez (born 1973, Los Angeles) is an American actor, producer, and DJ, best known as Pedro Sanchez in Napoleon Dynamite (2004); also Crank, Walkout, Lightyear, Satanic Hispanics, Seven Cemeteries.

Efren Reyes

Efren 'Bata' Reyes, 'The Magician' (born 1954, Pampanga), Filipino pool player with 100+ international titles; 1994 US Open 9-Ball, 1999 World Pool Championship, 2004 World Eight-ball, Derby City one-pocket record.

Efrim Manuel Menuck

Efrim Manuel Menuck, also known as Efrim Menuck, is a Canadian musician born in 1970 in Montreal who co-founded Godspeed You! Black Emperor and founded Thee Silver Mt. Zion.

EFSATAEMD trial

EFSATAEMD (NCT07372001) is a completed Phase 4 Mexican pilot trial of topical lyophilized exosomes with microneedling for facial skin aging: 30 adults over 50, three sessions four weeks apart, favorable before-and-after results.

Efstathius

Efstathius, in Greek Eustathios (Εὐστάθιος), was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1019 until his death in 1025, a former palace clergyman who died days before Emperor Basil II.

Efstratius Garidas

Efstratius Garidas (Εὐστράτιος ὁ Γαριδᾶς) was a eunuch monk who served as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1081 to 1084, appointed by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

Efsubaglutide alfa injection

Efsubaglutide alfa (依苏帕格鲁肽α, Yi Nuo Qing) is Innogen Pharmaceuticals' human GLP-1/IgG2 Fc fusion GLP-1RA with a 204-hour half-life, approved in China in January 2025 for adult type 2 diabetes.

Efteling

Efteling, in Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands, is a fairy-tale-themed park resort opened 31 May 1952, the country's largest theme park with 5.6 million 2024 visitors and Europe's fourth largest by attendance.

Efthimios Kaxiras

Efthimios Kaxiras, known as Tim Kaxiras, is a condensed matter physicist who joined Harvard in 1991, holds the Van Vleck professorship, and introduced the term twistronics in 2017.

Efthymis Koulouris (Ευθύμης Κουλούρης)

Efthymis Koulouris (Ευθύμης Κουλούρης), Greek centre-forward born 1996 in Skydra; PAOK academy product, two Greek Cups, Super League top scorer 2018-19, Ekstraklasa top scorer 2024-25 with Pogoń Szczecin, 18 Greece caps, now Wieczysta Kraków.

Eftimie Murgu

Eftimie Murgu (1805–1870) was a Romanian jurist and philosophy professor from the Banat, best known as the leader of the Romanian revolutionary movement of 1848 there.

Efton Chism

Efton Chism III, New England Patriots wide receiver, undrafted in 2025 from Eastern Washington; record 120-catch 2024 FCS season breaking Cooper Kupp's mark, 53-game reception streak, slot receiver and kick returner.

EFTPOS

EFTPOS, or Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale, is Australia's domestic debit card payment system, first issued in the early 1980s and now operated by Australian Payments Plus.

Eftrenonacog alfa

Eftrenonacog alfa (rFIXFc, Alprolix) is an extended half-life recombinant factor IX Fc fusion protein for haemophilia B; Fc-FcRn recycling gives an about 82-hour half-life, first FDA-approved March 2014, EU 2016, marketed by Sobi.

Efua Sutherland

Efua Sutherland (1924–1996) was a Ghanaian playwright and cultural activist who founded the Ghana Experimental Theatre and Drama Studio, wrote The Marriage of Anansewa, and pioneered modern Ghanaian theater.

Efungumab

Efungumab (Mycograb, MYC-123), NeuTec Pharma's human recombinant anti-Hsp90 antibody fragment for invasive candidiasis; phase III positive but EMA refused marketing authorisation in 2007 and development was terminated.

Efunroye Tinubu

Efunroye Tinubu (Efunporoye Osuntinubu Olumosa, circa 1805 to 1887) was a Yoruba merchant and kingmaker at Lagos and Abeokuta, made Iyalode of the Egba in 1864.

Efunsetan Aniwura

Efunsetan Aniwura was the second Iyalode of Ibadan, a wealthy Yoruba trader in tobacco, arms, and slaves who was killed in 1874 after opposing Aare Latoosa.

Efuru

Efuru is a 1966 novel by the Nigerian writer Flora Nwapa, the first novel by an African woman published by a major international house, following an independent Igbo trader.

EG Group

EG Group is an international convenience store, fuel forecourt, and foodservice operator founded in 2001 by the Issa brothers, trading in the UK as EuroGarages.

EG On The Move

EG On The Move is a British petrol forecourt and convenience retail company founded in 2023 by Zuber Issa and Imraan Patel after EG Group's UK restructuring.

EGaIn

EGaIn (eutectic gallium–indium) is a liquid-metal alloy of gallium and indium that remains liquid at room temperature and is used in stretchable electronics and soft sensors.

Egalitarianism

Egalitarianism is a political philosophy treating equality as the chief value of a just society. Main strands: distributive egalitarianism (luck egalitarianism, Rawls) and relational egalitarianism (Anderson's democratic equality).