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Ein Sof (אֵין סוֹף)

Ein Sof (אֵין סוֹף, "without end") is the Kabbalistic name for God's infinite, unknowable essence, coined after 1200 in the circle of Isaac the Blind, distinguished from the ten sefirot, and central to tzimtzum in Lurianic Kabbalah.

Ein Stern, der deinen Namen trägt

"Ein Stern, der deinen Namen trägt" is a 2007 party-Schlager duet by DJ Ötzi and Nik P. that topped the German and Austrian charts and sold 1.35 million copies.

Einar Benediktsson

Einar Benediktsson (1864–1940) was an Icelandic poet, lawyer, and journalist, a leading lyric poet of his era. He published five collections and spent decades seeking foreign capital to harness Iceland's waterfalls.

Einar Hammarsten

Einar Hammarsten (1889–1968) was a Swedish physician and biochemist, professor of chemistry and pharmacy at Karolinska Institutet from 1928 to 1957, who first showed that RNA occurs in animal organs.

Einar Hedegart

Einar Hedegart, Norwegian skier born 2001 in Levanger; 2023 IBU Junior Worlds biathlon triple medalist who won two golds and a bronze in cross-country at Milano Cortina 2026, then returned to biathlon in April 2026.

Einar Hille

Einar Hille (1894–1980) was an American mathematician, born in New York and raised in Stockholm, who created the abstract theory of semigroups of operators and proved the Hille–Yosida theorem with Kōsaku Yosida.

Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran

Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran (1859–1938) was an Icelandic writer, journalist, editor, and leading spiritualist, a pioneer of naturalism in Icelandic literature and a Nobel Prize nominee in 1923 and 1924.

Einar Kárason

Einar Kárason is an Icelandic novelist and screenwriter, born in Reykjavík in 1955, one of the most popular authors of his generation, known for the Devils' Isle trilogy about post-war Reykjavík.

Einar Liberg

Einar Liberg (Einar Adolfsen Liberg, 1873–1955), Norwegian sport shooter from Elverum; won 7 Olympic medals (4 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) in rifle and running target events at the 1908–1924 Games, mostly in team events.

Einar Már Guðmundsson

Einar Már Guðmundsson, born 1954 in Reykjavík, is an Icelandic novelist and poet whose novel Angels of the Universe won the 1995 Nordic Council Literature Prize.

Einar Meulengracht

Jens Einar Meulengracht (1887–1976) was a Danish internist, chief physician at Bispebjerg Hospital and professor at Copenhagen, known for the Meulengracht diet and icterus index.

Einar Strøm

Einar Johan Strøm (1885–1964) was a Norwegian gymnast who won a gold medal in the team all-around, free system event at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

Einav Tayeb-Fligelman

Einav Tayeb-Fligelman is an Israeli structural biologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who studies amyloids and revealed the cross-α fibril structure of the Staphylococcus aureus toxin PSMα3.

Eindhoven

Eindhoven is a city in North Brabant, the Netherlands, known as the founding place of Philips in 1891 and now a high-tech hub in the Brainport region. Population reached 250,000 in 2025; area 8,936 ha.

Eindhoven University of Technology

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) is a Dutch public research university founded in 1956, specializing in engineering, part of the 4TU federation, located in the Brainport high-tech region, with 37 accredited programmes and a QS rank of 152 in 2027.

Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 in G major, K. 525) is Mozart's 1787 string serenade, four surviving movements of five, title from his own catalog, famous only after the 20th century.

Einfach genial

Einfach genial, also known as Ingenious, is Reiner Knizia's 2004 Kosmos abstract tile-laying game for 1-4 players, where the lowest of six color scores decides the winner; Spiel des Jahres 2004 nominee.

Eingana Corona

Eingana Corona, a 375 km wide corona (volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 5.00°N, 350.00°E, IAU-named in 1997 for an Australian Aboriginal snake goddess.

Einhänder (アインハンダー)

Einhänder (アインハンダー) is Square's 1997/1998 PlayStation horizontal shoot-'em-up, German for "one-handed". Its manipulator arm steals Gunpod weapons from enemies; ships include Endymion Mk II/III and Astraea; Metacritic 89, EGM's best-reviewed shmup.

Einhard

Einhard (c. 770–840), Frankish courtier and lay abbot, adviser to Charlemagne and Louis the Pious; author of the Vita Karoli Magni, the Suetonius-modeled biography of Charlemagne, plus letters and the Translatio of Marcellinus and Peter.

Einherjar

Einherjar (Old Norse, singular einheri) are the battle-slain warriors of Norse mythology chosen for Odin's hall Valhalla, where they fight daily, feast nightly on Særimner and Heiðrún's mead, and fall at Ragnarök.

Einin Tokuseirei

Einin Tokuseirei (永仁の徳政令, Einin no tokuseirei) was a 1297 debt-cancellation decree of the Kamakura shogunate that returned lands sold by its impoverished vassals and barred debt lawsuits.

Eining

Eining is a village in Lower Bavaria, Germany, the site of Abusina, a Roman auxiliary fort on the Danube that is part of a UNESCO World Heritage property.

Einmusik

Einmusik is the alias of Samuel Kindermann, a Berlin-based producer and DJ working in melodic techno and house since his 2003 debut, and founder of Einmusika Recordings.

Eino Leino

Eino Aukusti Leino (1891-1986), Finnish freestyle wrestler, won Olympic medals at four consecutive Games 1920-1932: gold middleweight 1920, silver 1924, bronze 1928 and 1932; US-based, AAU champion 1920 and 1923.

Eino Penttila

Eino Penttilä (1906–1982) was a Finnish javelin thrower who set the world record in 1927 and won the bronze medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Eino Purje

Eino Purje (Eino Alfred Purje, born Borg, 1900-1984), Finnish middle-distance runner; 1925 Workers' Olympiad triple champion and bronze medalist in the 1,500 m at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics behind Harri Larva and Jules Ladoumègue.

Eino Rastas

Eino Rastas (1894-1965), Finnish long-distance runner; two Olympic team cross-country golds (1920, 1924), 1928 marathoner, three Finnish titles, and the deliberate three-way tie in the 1928 marathon trial.

Eino Seppala

Eino Seppälä (1896–1968), Finnish long-distance runner for Virolahden Sampo; won 1924 Paris Olympic gold in the 3,000 m team race and placed fifth in the 5,000 m. Not the biathlete Tero Seppälä.

Einosuke Harada

Einosuke Harada (1892–1946) was a Japanese ophthalmologist at the Hara Eye Clinic in Nagasaki who in 1926 first described the bilateral uveitis now known as Harada disease, part of Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada syndrome.