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Elio Fabri

Elio Fabri, born in Rome in 1930, is an Italian theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Pisa, known for the Dalitz–Fabri diagram and work on Italy's first computer.

Elio Mei

Elio Mei, also known as Madilyn Mei (born 2002), is an American indie-folk/indie-pop singer-songwriter from Queen Creek, Arizona, known for ukulele-driven TikTok hits, the Mercury Records album A Thousand Songs About It All: Act 1, and clowncore live shows.

Elio Morille

Elio Morille (1927–1998), Italian rower of Canottieri Moto Guzzi; Olympic gold in the men's coxless four at London 1948 with Moioli, Invernizzi, and Faggi, plus European titles 1947, 1949, 1950 and 12 Italian titles.

Elio Motors

Elio Motors was an American vehicle startup founded in Phoenix in 2009 by Paul Elio to build a three-wheeled, 84-mpg commuter car, but it never delivered one.

Elio Ríboli

Elio Ríboli is a physician-epidemiologist at Imperial College London who designed and led EPIC, a European cancer and nutrition study of over half a million people.

Elio Vittorini

Elio Vittorini (1908–1966) was an Italian novelist, translator, and editor, author of Conversazione in Sicilia and founder of the postwar journals Il Politecnico and Il Menabò.

Eliodoro Matte Ossa

Eliodoro Matte Ossa (died 2000) was a Chilean stockbroker and businessman who took control of CMPC, a paper company founded by relatives in 1920, and built the Matte business group.

Eliodoro Villazón

Eliodoro Villazón was a Bolivian lawyer and Liberal Party statesman who served as the 27th President of Bolivia from 1909 to 1913, between Ismael Montes's two terms.

Eliomys

Eliomys, the garden dormice, is a genus of three Gliridae dormouse species: E. quercinus (Europe), E. munbyanus (Maghreb), and E. melanurus (Middle East). Hibernating rodents; the garden dormouse is IUCN Vulnerable (2024) after major European range decline.

Eliomys quercinus

Eliomys quercinus, the garden dormouse (Lérot), is a European Gliridae rodent described by Linnaeus in 1766. IUCN Vulnerable since 2024 after losing over half its range; insect-eating, hibernating, extinct in eastern Europe.

Elior Peles

Elior Peles is an Israeli cellular and molecular neurobiologist, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot known for work on the axon–glia interface and nodes of Ranvier.

Eliot A. Cohen

Eliot A. Cohen, American strategist and scholar of civil-military relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS (Robert E. Osgood Professor, SAIS dean 2019-2021), State Department counselor 2007-2009, CSIS Burke Chair, author of Supreme Command.

Eliot Blackwelder

Eliot Blackwelder (1880–1969) was an American geologist, head of Stanford's geology department from 1922 to 1945, known for desert geomorphology and the glacial framework of the Sierra Nevada.

Eliot Engel

Eliot Lance Engel, New York Democrat, represented the Bronx and Westchester in the U.S. House 1989–2021 (16 terms) and chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Kosovo advocate, Harkin-Engel Protocol co-negotiator, defeated by Jamaal Bowman in 2020, died 2026.

Eliot Glazer

Eliot Glazer (born 1983, New York), also known for Haunting Renditions and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay, is an American comedian, writer, actor, and musician, brother of Ilana Glazer, who wrote and produced Broad City, New Girl, Younger, iCarly, and The Boys Presents: Diabolical.

Eliot Ness

Eliot Ness (1903–1957), American Prohibition agent who led the Untouchables against Al Capone in Chicago and served as Cleveland's Director of Public Safety, 1935–1942; never an FBI agent.

Eliot Patera

Eliot Patera is a 116-km-wide patera on Venus at 39.1°N, 79.0°E, adopted by the IAU in 1991 and named for the English writer George Eliot; Venusian paterae are volcano-tectonic depressions named for women of history.

Eliot Porter

Eliot Porter was an American photographer, 1901 to 1990, who pioneered color nature photography after leaving a Harvard biochemistry career, and whose 1962 book In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World set new standards.

Eliot Quataert

Eliot Quataert is an American theoretical astrophysicist, the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University, known for his work on black hole accretion and neutron star mergers.

Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer, born 1959, New York's 54th governor (2007-2008) and attorney general (1999-2007), the 'Sheriff of Wall Street' who used the Martin Act against financial firms, resigned in March 2008 after an Emperors Club VIP prostitution investigation; never charged; later led Spitzer Enterprises.

Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal

The 2008 scandal in which New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, "Client 9" of the Emperors Club VIP escort ring, resigned in March 2008 after a federal wiretap investigation; he faced no charges.

Eliot Sumner

Eliot Sumner (Eliot Pauline Sumner, aka Coco), English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor born 1990 in Pisa, child of Sting and Trudie Styler; led I Blame Coco (The Constant, 2010), then released the solo album Information (2016) and acted in Ripley and No Time to Die.

Eliott Rodriguez

Eliott Rodriguez is an American politician and former CBS News Miami anchor who won the 2026 Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Florida's 27th Congressional District.

Éliphas Lévi

Éliphas Lévi Zahed, pen name of Alphonse-Louis Constant (1810–1875), was a French former deacon who founded modern occultism, known for the Astral Light and his Tarot–Kabbalah correspondences.

Elis (city)

Elis (Ἦλις), capital city of the ancient Elean state in the northwestern Peloponnese on the Peneios river; synoecized 471/0 BC, controller of Olympia and organizer of the Olympic Games, joined the Achaian League 191 BC.

Elis & Tom

Elis & Tom is a 1974 collaborative album by Brazilian singer Elis Regina and composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, recorded in Los Angeles and opening with "Águas de Março".

Elis Gymnasium

Elis Gymnasium: ancient Greek training complex at Elis (Xystus, Square gymnasium, Maltho) where Olympic athletes trained before going to Olympia; described by Pausanias 6.23.

Elis James

Elis James (born 1980, Haverfordwest) is a Welsh comedian, actor, and broadcaster from Carmarthen who performs stand-up in Welsh and English, starred in Crims and Josh, and co-hosts the Elis James and John Robins podcast on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Elis Ligtlee

Elis Ligtlee, Dutch track cyclist (born 1993, Deventer), surprise women's keirin gold at Rio 2016 Olympics; also 2015 world sprint silver; retired December 2018 at 24; later Elis Ligtlee Sports & Lifestyle.

Elis Regina

Elis Regina (Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, 1945-1982), Brazilian MPB singer from Porto Alegre; won the 1965 TV Excelsior festival with Arrastao, recorded Elis & Tom with Jobim, and died at 36.