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Eileen Derbyshire

Eileen Derbyshire (born 1931, Urmston, Manchester) is a retired English actress, MBE, who played Emily Bishop in Coronation Street from 27 January 1961 to 2016 with a 2019 cameo, the show's longest-serving female cast member.

Eileen E. M. Furlong

Eileen E. M. Furlong is a developmental genomics biologist who heads the Genome Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg, known for work on developmental enhancers and the 2022 Leibniz Prize.

Eileen Fulton

Eileen Fulton (Margaret Elizabeth McLarty, 1933–2025), American actress who played Lisa Grimaldi on As the World Turns from 1960 to 2010, daytime TV's first vixen, also Our Private World, cabaret singer, mystery novelist.

Oct 22, 2026

Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was an Irish-born furniture designer, lacquer artist, and architect based in France, whose villa E-1027 and tubular-steel furniture are icons of the Modern movement.

Eileen Gu (谷爱凌)

Eileen Gu (谷爱凌, Gu Ailing), born 2003 in San Francisco, is a freestyle skier competing for China in halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air; six Olympic starts, three golds and three silvers, most decorated Olympic freestyle skier.

Eileen Heckart

Eileen Heckart (Anna Eileen Herbert, 1919-2001) was an American character actress of stage, film, and TV. Oscar winner for Butterflies Are Free (1972), Golden Globe for The Bad Seed, Emmy for Love & War (1994), special Tony (2000), final role The Waverly Gallery.

Eileen Higgins

Eileen Higgins, American engineer, former diplomat, and Miami-Dade commissioner, became Miami's first woman elected mayor and first Democratic mayor in nearly 30 years, sworn in December 18, 2025 after defeating Trump-endorsed Emilio Gonzalez.

Eileen Hiscock

Eileen May Hiscock (1909-1958), English sprinter of the London Olympiades; Olympic 4x100m relay bronze 1932 and silver 1936, British women's team captain 1932, and 1934 Empire Games triple gold medallist.

Eileen Laubacher

Eileen Laubacher, retired two-star Navy rear admiral and former Republican, is the 2026 Democratic nominee against Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado's solidly Republican 4th Congressional District, out-raising Boebert with over $3.5 million on hand.

Eileen M. Crimmins

Eileen M. Crimmins is an American demographer and gerontologist at the University of Southern California, known for research on mortality, life expectancy, and aging, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Eileen M. O’Reilly

Eileen M. O'Reilly is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, known for treating pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancers and developing KRAS-directed vaccines.

Eileen Martin

Eileen Martin is a computational geophysicist and associate professor at Colorado School of Mines who develops fiber-optic seismic sensing algorithms and won a 2025 PECASE.

Eileen Ryan

Eileen Ryan was an American character actress who worked for over five decades. She died in 2022 and was the mother of actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.

Eileen Wang

Eileen Wang (王愛琳), Chinese-born American politician, was mayor of Arcadia, California, February 3 to May 11, 2026, when she resigned after agreeing to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent of China; she pleaded guilty May 29, 2026.

Sep 20, 2026

Eileen White

Eileen White is an American cancer biologist at Rutgers Cancer Institute known for research on apoptosis and autophagy in cancer, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Eileithyia (Εἰλείθυια)

Eileithyia (Εἰλείθυια, Ilithyia, Eleutho) is the ancient Greek goddess of childbirth and labor pains, attested in Linear B from Minoan Crete, daughter of Hera or of Zeus and Hera, with cults at Amnisos and Inatos; Roman Lucina.

Eileithyias Antron

Eileithyias Antron (Cave of Eileithyia) is the Homeric cave sanctuary of the childbirth goddess at Amnisos, Crete, in use from Neolithic to Roman times, with a sister shrine at Inatos.

Eilert Falch Lund

Eilert Falch-Lund (Eilert Falch Lund), Norwegian sailor and wholesaler (1875-1960); won 12-metre class gold aboard Magda IX at Stockholm 1912 and placed fourth in the 8-metre class at London 1908.

Eilesion

Eilesion (Εἰλέσιον) was a town of southeast Boeotia named at Iliad 2.499 in the Catalogue of the Ships. Its location is unknown; Fossey identifies it with the site at Chlembotsari (Asopia), with a sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter.

Eilif Philipsen

Eilif Philipsen (1682-1785), Norwegian farmer from Kinsarvik near Bergen, long recognized as the earliest-born verified centenarian; documented by baptism, 1701 census, marriage, and death records, aged 102 years 334 days at death.

Eilish McColgan

Eilish McColgan (born 1990, Dundee) is a Scottish distance runner, four-time Olympian, and 2022 Commonwealth 10,000m champion coached by her mother Liz McColgan; she holds British records at 5,000m, 10,000m, and half marathon and the European 10km record of 30:08.

Eiman Azim

Eiman Azim is an American neuroscientist at the Salk Institute who studies how neural circuits control skilled movements such as reaching and grasping, and received a 2017 PECASE award.

Oct 15, 2026

Eimco

Eimco, originally the Eastern Iron and Metal Company, was an American manufacturer of underground mining machinery in Salt Lake City, best known for the Rocker Shovel Loader Model 12B.

Eimear E. Kenny

Eimear E. Kenny, also known as Eimear Kenny, is an Irish-born population and medical geneticist who directs the Institute for Genomic Health at Mount Sinai in New York.

Eimeria

Eimeria: large genus of obligate intracellular apicomplexan protozoan parasites (coccidia) causing coccidiosis in poultry, cattle, sheep, and goats; monoxenous life cycle, four sporocysts per oocyst, over 1800 host-specific species, no human infection.