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Eliezer Greenberg

Eliezer Greenberg (1896–1977) was a Yiddish poet, translator, teacher, and critic who immigrated from Bessarabia to the United States in 1913 and became best known for anthologies of Yiddish literature.

Eliezer Hager (Damesek Eliezer), Vizhnitz

Eliezer Hager, known as the Damesek Eliezer (1891–1946), was a Hasidic rebbe of the Vizhnitz dynasty who led Vizhnitz Hasidism from 1936 until his death in 1946.

Eliezer Masliah

Eliezer Masliah is a physician-scientist and neuropathologist known for research on synaptic damage in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease; in 2024 the NIH found research misconduct against him.

Eliezer Shteynbarg

Eliezer Shteynbarg (אליעזר שטיינבאַרג, 1880–1932) was a Yiddish poet, educator, and fabulist born in Lipkany, Bessarabia, who wrote about 150 rhymed fables and led Jewish cultural life in interwar Romania.

Eliezer Van Allen

Eliezer Van Allen is an American medical oncologist and computational biologist who leads population sciences at Dana-Farber and studies genomics of cancer therapy response and resistance.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky (born 1979) is an American AI safety researcher who co-founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, seeded the LessWrong community blog, and argues superhuman AI likely means extinction.

Elif (TV series)

Elif is a Turkish daily television drama aired on Kanal 7 from 15 September 2014 to 10 June 2019, running 940 episodes in five seasons. Produced by Green Yapım and sold in over 40 countries, it follows the girl Elif, secretly left at the Emiroğlu mansion by her mother Melek.

Elif Eralp

Elif Eralp, born 1981 in Munich, German lawyer and Die Linke politician, member of the Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus since 2021, faction chair, lead candidate who won the 2026 Berlin election with 25.7 percent.

Elif Nur Turhan

Elif Nur Turhan, "Golden Turkish Warrior," is an undefeated Turkish boxer (14-0, 8 KOs), IBF female lightweight world champion since December 2025 and WBA interim super-featherweight champion, facing Alycia Baumgardner in November 2026.

Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak (born 1971, Strasbourg) is a British-Turkish novelist of 21 books in about 60 languages, author of The Forty Rules of Love; tried in 2006 under Article 301 over The Bastard of Istanbul.

ELife

eLife: nonprofit open-access life-science journal founded 2012 by HHMI, Max Planck, and Wellcome; since January 2023 publishes every reviewed paper as a Reviewed Preprint with no post-review accept/reject decision, charges a $3,750 fee, and lost its Web of Science impact factor.

Eligibility and appointment of justices of the Supreme Court of Canada

Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada are nine judges appointed under the Supreme Court Act, with three seats reserved for Quebec and retirement at 75.

Eligibility Determination

Eligibility determination: applying defined criteria to decide whether a person qualifies for health care programs or benefits, also called eligibility certification. Covers Medicaid MAGI and non-financial rules, SSA disability determinations, Medicare NCDs, and X12 270/271 transactions.

Eligibility for the NBA draft

NBA draft eligibility: rules requiring US players to be 19 and one year out of high school, international players 22 or early entry, NCAA withdrawal deadlines, and the 2005 CBA one-and-done age limit.

Eligible receiver

An eligible receiver in American football is a player allowed by rules to legally touch or catch a forward pass, determined by jersey number, position, and reporting.

Eliglustat

Eliglustat (Cerdelga) is an oral glucosylceramide synthase inhibitor, a substrate reduction therapy for Gaucher disease type 1 in CYP2D6 extensive, intermediate, or poor metabolizers; approved in the US in 2014 and the EU in 2015, non-inferior to imiglucerase in the ENCORE trial.

Eligo

Eligo was a Milan-based fashion-tech startup, founded in 2016, that combined personal styling with a marketplace for Made in Italy products before its 2025 delisting.

Elihino Corona

Elihino Corona is a corona on Venus in the Agnesi quadrangle (V-45), centered at 37°S, 49.1°E, named for the Cherokee Earth Mother and IAU-approved in 2010; it is defined by radial and concentric fractures with a domical interior, with published diameters of 175 to 370 km.

Elihu Abrahams

Elihu Abrahams (1927–2018) was an American theoretical physicist who spent most of his career at Rutgers University, known for the 1979 scaling theory of electron localization and work on delta-plutonium.

Elihu H. Estey

Elihu H. Estey was an American hematologist and oncologist who introduced a chemotherapy-free ATRA plus arsenic regimen for APL and shaped European LeukemiaNet AML guidelines.

Elihu Root

Elihu Root was an American lawyer and statesman who rebuilt the US Army as Secretary of War from 1899 to 1904 and won the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize.

Elihu Thomson

Elihu Thomson was an English-born American electrical engineer and inventor, co-founder of Thomson-Houston, which merged with Edison General Electric in 1892 to form General Electric, where he served as chief engineer.

Elihu Yale

Elihu Yale (1649–1721), English East India Company governor of Madras (1687–1692) and benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, renamed Yale College in 1718. His fortune was partly tied to the slave trade.

Elijah (oratorio)

Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah (Elias), op. 70, MWV A 25, premiered Birmingham 1846 and revised 1847; a two-part biblical drama from 1 Kings on the prophet, second only to Messiah in British popularity.

Elijah (אֵלִיָּהוּ)

Elijah (אֵלִיָּהוּ, Eliyahu) is a prophet of ancient Israel in the Hebrew Bible, known for opposing Baal worship and ascending to heaven in a whirlwind.

Elijah and Milo Peters

Elijah and Milo Peters (born 1990) are Czech identical twin brothers, gay adult film performers for Bel Ami from 2009 to 2012, known for performing sex with each other on camera; Taboo (2010) sold over 20,000 copies and they retired in May 2012.

Elijah Arroyo

Elijah Arroyo, born 2003, is a Seattle Seahawks tight end from Independence, Texas, of Mexican heritage. Miami Hurricanes star (35 catches, 590 yards, 7 TDs in 2024, second-team All-ACC), drafted 50th overall in 2025 after a 2022 ACL tear.

Elijah Blue Allman

Elijah Blue Allman (born 1976, Beverly Hills) is an American musician, son of Cher and Gregg Allman, founder and frontman of the industrial rock band Deadsy under the stage name P. Exeter Blue I.

Elijah Brown (American football)

Elijah Brown is an American college football quarterback from Huntington Beach, California, a Mater Dei High star who passed for 1,103 yards at Stanford (2024-2025) before transferring to Washington for 2026.

Elijah Burke

Elijah Burke (Elijah Samuel Burke, born 1978), also D'Angelo Dinero or Da Pope, American wrestler and former amateur boxer; WWE ECW New Breed leader, TNA Pope, NWA World Television Champion.