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Ego depletion

Ego depletion is the hypothesis that self-control draws on a limited energy resource, so exertion impairs later self-control. Introduced by Roy Baumeister and colleagues in 1998, it became a major social psychology model whose effect size and replicability are now heavily contested.

Ego Nwodim

Ego Nwodim (Egobunma Kelechi Nwodim, born 1988) is a Nigerian-American comedian and SNL cast member seasons 44–50 (2018–2025), seventh Black female cast member, known for Lisa from Temecula and Miss Eggy, now hosting the Thanks Dad podcast.

Ego Seeman

Ego Seeman is an Australian endocrinologist at the University of Melbourne known for research reframing osteoporosis as a disorder of bone structure, not just density.

Ego the Living Planet

Ego the Living Planet, also called Egros, is a Marvel Comics sentient planet with a humanoid face created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Thor #132 (1966); the MCU reimagined him as a Celestial played by Kurt Russell.

Sep 29, 2026

Ego-motion estimation

Ego-motion estimation is the computer vision task of computing a sensor platform's own translation and orientation over time from sequential camera images or lidar scans.

Sep 19, 2026

EGO-WRAPPIN'

EGO-WRAPPIN', also known as EGO-WRAPPIN' AND THE GOSSIP OF JAXX, is a Japanese music duo formed in Osaka in 1996, known for blending swing jazz, ska, and reggae.

Ego4D

Ego4D is a large-scale egocentric (first-person) video dataset and benchmark suite for machine perception, released in 2022 by 14 university teams with Facebook Reality Labs Research.

Egocentrism

Egocentrism, in Piagetian developmental psychology, is a failure to differentiate one's own perspective from others'. Elkind's adolescent egocentrism comprises the imaginary audience and personal fable; empirical support is inconsistent.

Egoism

Egoism: family of ethical and psychological positions giving one's own welfare priority. Covers psychological, ethical, and rational egoism, self-interest accounts, objections, and Hobbes, Stirner, Sidgwick, and Rand.

Egoist anarchism

Egoist anarchism, grounded in Max Stirner's 1844 Der Einzige und sein Eigentum (The Ego and Its Own), rejects the state, morality, and other 'fixed ideas' in favor of individual ownness and the union of egoists, shaping the individualist wing of anarchism.

Egon Balas

Egon Balas, born Egon Blatt, was a Romanian-American operations researcher at Carnegie Mellon University who pioneered integer programming, founded disjunctive programming, and won the 1995 John von Neumann Theory Prize.

Oct 20, 2026

Egon Franke

Egon Franke (Egon Johann Franke, 1935-2022), Polish foil fencer; first Polish Olympic fencing champion, individual foil gold at Tokyo 1964, plus team silver 1964 and team bronze 1968; later a coach in Italy.

Egon Henninger

Egon Henninger (1940–2025), East German breaststroke swimmer; two Olympic silvers in the 4×100 m medley relay (Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968) and 1967 world record 3:56.5.

Egon Jonsson

Egon Jonsson is a Swedish-Canadian health economist and pioneer of health technology assessment who headed Sweden's SBU agency for 16 years before leading the Institute of Health Economics in Edmonton.

Egon Krenz

Egon Krenz (born 1937, Kolberg) was the last General Secretary of the SED and last chairman of the GDR Council of State, October to December 1989, succeeding Honecker; later convicted for Berlin Wall deaths.

Egon Müller

Egon Müller (born 1948, Kiel), German track racer; long track (Sandbahn) world champion 1974, 1975, 1978 and 1983 speedway world champion at Norden, the only German to hold that title; also a Schlager singer.

Egon Orowan

Egon Orowan (Orován Egon, 1902–1989) was a Hungarian-born physicist and metallurgist who, with Taylor and Polanyi, introduced the crystal dislocation in 1934 and later taught at MIT.

Oct 10, 2026

Egon Pearson

Egon Sharpe Pearson (1895–1980) was a British statistician who, with Jerzy Neyman, founded modern hypothesis testing theory, succeeded his father Karl Pearson at University College London, and edited Biometrika for thirty years.

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele (1890–1918), Austrian Expressionist painter and draftsman of Viennese Modernism, protégé and rival heir of Gustav Klimt; known for angular self-portraits, over 2,500 works on paper, 1912 imprisonment, and 1918 Secession breakthrough before dying of Spanish flu at 28.

Egon Spengler

Egon Spengler, also Dr. Egon Spengler, is the fictional scientist of the original Ghostbusters, played and co-written by Harold Ramis; named for a classmate and Oswald Spengler, digitally revived as a ghost in Afterlife (2021).

Egon T. Degens

Egon Theodor Degens (1928–1989) was a German geologist and geochemist who led the 1965 Red Sea expedition that discovered the first sea-floor hydrothermal ore deposits and made the first detailed study of the anoxic Black Sea.

Oct 10, 2026

Egon Wiberg

Egon Wiberg (1901–1976) was a German inorganic chemist who held the chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Munich from 1951 and co-edited Holleman-Wiberg, the standard German inorganic chemistry textbook.

Egon Zimmermann

Egon Zimmermann (1939-2019), Austrian alpine skier, Egon Zimmermann II, won the 1964 Innsbruck Olympic downhill in 2:18.16 and the 1962 Chamonix giant slalom world title; later hotelier in Lech.

Egor Dëmin

Egor Dëmin (born 2006, Moscow) is a Russian NBA guard-forward for the Brooklyn Nets, drafted 8th overall in 2025 from BYU after Real Madrid's youth system; rookie record 34 straight games with a three.

Sep 24, 2026

Egor Kankrin

Egor Kankrin (Егор Францевич Канкрин), born Georg Ludwig Daniel von Cancrin, was a Russian statesman of German origin who served as finance minister under Nicholas I from 1823 to 1844.

Sep 27, 2026

Egor Kovalchuk

Egor Viktorovich Kovalchuk, born in 1973 in Chelyabinsk, is a United Russia politician who became Governor of Bryansk Oblast in 2026, winning 67.52 percent of the vote.

Egor Popov

Egor Popov (1913–2001) was a Russian-born American structural and earthquake engineer and UC Berkeley professor, best known for the eccentrically braced frame and the textbook Mechanics of Materials.

Egotism

Egotism: inflated self-importance with excessive self-reference, related to but distinct from egoism, narcissism, and egocentrism; coined 1714 by Joseph Addison; central to the psychological egoism-altruism debate and studied as implicit egotism.

EGR1

EGR1 (early growth response 1; also NGFI-A, Zif268, Krox-24, TIS8) is a human gene at 5q31.2 encoding an immediate-early C2H2 zinc-finger transcription factor regulating differentiation, mitogenesis, memory, and cancer, with dual tumor-suppressive and oncogenic roles.