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Eleanor Clift
Eleanor Clift, American political journalist and author; Newsweek correspondent from 1963 and Daily Beast columnist; longtime liberal panelist on The McLaughlin Group; covered every presidential campaign since 1976.
Eleanor Coppola
Eleanor Coppola (1936–2024), American documentary filmmaker, wife of Francis Ford Coppola; made Hearts of Darkness (1991) about Apocalypse Now, won an Emmy, wrote Notes, and directed Paris Can Wait at 80.
Eleanor Elkins Widener
Eleanor Elkins Widener (1861–1937), later Widener Rice, Philadelphia heiress and Titanic survivor who funded Harvard's Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, opened 1915, in memory of her son Harry, and later married explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice.
Eleanor Garatti Saville
Eleanor Garatti Saville (Eleanor Agnes Garatti-Saville, 1909-1998), American Olympic swimmer; gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at Amsterdam 1928 and Los Angeles 1932, silver and bronze in the 100 m freestyle, first woman under 1:10 (1:09.8, 1929).
Eleanor Health
Eleanor Health is an American substance use disorder care provider founded in 2019 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, delivering hybrid in-person and virtual outpatient addiction treatment under value-based contracts with health payers.
Eleanor Holm
Eleanor Holm (1913–2004), American backstroke swimmer and entertainer; 1932 Olympic 100m backstroke gold medalist, removed from the 1936 U.S. team by Avery Brundage over champagne on the SS Manhattan, later star of Billy Rose's Aquacade.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Eleanor Holmes Norton (born 1937) is the Democratic nonvoting U.S. delegate for the District of Columbia since 1991, first woman EEOC chair, civil rights and feminist lawyer, Newsweek case attorney, and D.C. statehood advocate.
Eleanor J. Gibson
Eleanor J. Gibson was an American developmental psychologist at Cornell University known for the visual cliff experiment, perceptual learning theory, and research on how children learn to read.
Eleanor L. Ross
Eleanor L. Ross, born 1967, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Georgia since 2014, nominated by President Barack Obama.
Eleanor Longden
Eleanor Longden is a British research psychologist who recovered from a diagnosis of schizophrenia as a student, known for her 2013 TED talk on learning to listen to her voices.
Eleanor Maccoby
Eleanor Maccoby (1917–2018) was an American developmental psychologist at Stanford whose research on gender differentiation and parent–child socialization reshaped both fields, and the first woman to chair Stanford's psychology department.
Eleanor Marx
Eleanor Marx (1855–1898), youngest daughter of Karl Marx, English socialist campaigner, trade union organizer, and translator of Flaubert and Ibsen; co-founded the Socialist League and helped lead New Unionism.
Eleanor Matsuura
Eleanor Matsuura (born 1983, Tokyo) is a Japanese-born British actress known for Yumiko in The Walking Dead, DI Hopkins in Sherlock, Hannah Santo in Spooks: The Greater Good, and video game voice roles including Elden Ring.
Eleanor Mondale
Eleanor Mondale (Eleanor Jane Mondale, later Poling, 1960–2011), daughter of Vice President Walter Mondale, was an American entertainment reporter and radio host at WCCO-TV, E!, ESPN, CBS This Morning, and WCCO-AM; she died of brain cancer at 51.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine (Aliénor d'Aquitaine, c. 1122-1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right and queen successively of France (Louis VII) and England (Henry II), mother of Richard I and John, imprisoned 16 years and later regent.
Eleanor of Arborea
Eleanor of Arborea (Elianora de Arbaree), c. 1340 to c. 1403-04, giudicessa regent of the Sardinian Giudicato of Arborea from 1383, fought the Crown of Aragon and promulgated the Carta de Logu, Sardinia's law code until 1827.
Eleanor of Austria
Eleanor of Austria (Leonor; Éléonore d'Autriche, 1498–1558), eldest sister of Charles V, was queen consort of Manuel I of Portugal from 1518 and of Francis I of France from 1530, serving for seventeen years as the principal Habsburg-Valois intermediary.
Eleanor of Castile
Eleanor of Castile (1241-1290), also Leonor de Castilla, was queen consort of Edward I of England. Known for her scriptorium, Jewish-debt land acquisitions, and the twelve Eleanor Crosses Edward I built after her 1290 death.
Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester
Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215–1275), youngest daughter of King John, secretly married Simon de Montfort in 1238; she backed his baronial rule, held Dover Castle in 1265, and died in exile at Montargis Abbey.
Eleanor of Provence
Eleanor of Provence (c. 1223–1291), queen of England, wife of Henry III from 1236, mother of Edward I; regent 1253–54, Barons' War leader, Savoyard kin, buried at Amesbury.
Eleanor Parker
Eleanor Parker (1922-2013), American actress, three-time Best Actress Oscar nominee for Caged, Detective Story, and Interrupted Melody; best known as Baroness Elsa Schraeder in The Sound of Music (1965).
Eleanor Powell
Eleanor Powell, also known as Eleanor Torrey Powell, was an American dancer and actress. She was known for her fast, percussive solo tap dancing in MGM musicals.
Eleanor Rathbone
Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1872–1946), British independent MP for Combined English Universities, first woman on Liverpool City Council, NUSEC president, and architect of family allowances (Child Benefit).
Eleanor Rigby
Eleanor Rigby, Beatles song written mainly by Paul McCartney, released 5 August 1966 with Yellow Submarine and on Revolver; string-octet-only George Martin arrangement, no Beatle plays an instrument, UK number one for four weeks.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), longest-serving US First Lady (1933–1945), later UN delegate and chair of the UN Human Rights Commission who steered the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights; also 'My Day' columnist and Kennedy's Status of Women commission chair.
Eleanor the Great
Eleanor the Great (2025) is Scarlett Johansson's feature directorial debut, written by Tory Kamen, starring June Squibb as 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who passes off her late friend Bessie's Holocaust story as her own after moving to New York. Premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard; Sony Pictures Classics released it September 26, 2025.
Eleanor Tomlinson
Eleanor Tomlinson, English actress best known as Demelza in BBC One's Poldark (2015–2019); films include The Illusionist, Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Loving Vincent, Colette, One Day; also The Nevers, The Outlaws, The Forsytes.
ELEANOR trial
ELEANOR (NCT05438862) is a Czech-led randomized trial comparing early aortic valve surgery with watchful waiting in 217 asymptomatic severe aortic regurgitation patients at CMR-defined risk; distinct from a neratinib breast cancer study of the same name.
Eleanor Worthington Cox
Eleanor Worthington Cox, born 2001 in Merseyside, is a British actress known as Matilda in the West End musical, youngest Olivier Award winner at age 10, and Janet Hodgson in The Enfield Haunting.
Eleazar (אלעזר)
Eleazar (Hebrew Elazar) was the third son of Aaron who succeeded his father as high priest of Israel, serving more than twenty years and helping divide the land with Joshua.