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Elmer L. Gaden
Elmer L. Gaden (1923–2012) was an American biochemical engineer called the father of biochemical engineering, whose oxygen-transfer research enabled large-scale antibiotic production and who founded Biotechnology and Bioengineering.
Elmer Layden
Elmer Layden (1903-1973), American football fullback, one of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen; 1925 Rose Bowl star and 1924 national champion; Notre Dame head coach 1934-1940; first NFL commissioner 1941-1946.
Elmer McCollum
Elmer McCollum (1879–1967) was an American biochemist who discovered vitamin A, helped establish the alphabetical naming of vitamins, and pioneered rat-based nutrition research at Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins.
Elmer McCurdy
Elmer J. McCurdy (1880–1911) was an American outlaw killed by an Oklahoma posse in 1911, whose embalmed body spent decades as a traveling sideshow attraction until rediscovered in 1976.
Elmer Niklander
Elmer Konstantin Niklander (1890–1942), nicknamed Oitin kanuuna, Finnish weight thrower; 1920 Olympic discus gold, 1912 both-hands discus silver, 44 Finnish titles, 1911 discus world record 44.01.
Elmer Peter Kohler
Elmer Peter Kohler (1865–1938) was an American organic chemist and Harvard professor known for work on unsaturated compounds, including the first resolution of an allene.
Elmer Rafael Cuba Bustinza
Elmer Rafael Cuba Bustinza is a Peruvian economist who has served as Minister of Economy and Finance since July 2026, sworn in by President Keiko Fujimori.
Elmer Wayne Henley
Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. (born 1956) is an American murderer serving six consecutive 99-year terms for his role in the Houston Mass Murders; he killed Dean Corll in 1973.
Elmidae
Elmidae, riffle beetles, a beetle family (Coleoptera, Byrrhoidea) of small 1-8 mm aquatic beetles whose adults and larvae live underwater in clean flowing streams, breathe via a plastron and abdominal gills, and serve as water quality bioindicators.
Elmiene
Elmiene, stage name of Abdala Elamin (born 2001), is a British-Sudanese R&B and neo-soul singer from Oxford who went viral in 2021 covering D'Angelo, released EPs including EL-MEAN and For the Deported, and the 2026 debut album sounds for someone.
Elmina Castle
Elmina Castle, also known as São Jorge da Mina, is a Portuguese-built fortress in Elmina, Ghana, from 1482, now the oldest European structure in sub-Saharan Africa.
Elmira Alembekova
Elmira Alembekova (Эльмира Алембекова) is a Russian race walker, born in Saransk in 1990, who won the 2014 European Championship in the women's 20 kilometers race walk.
Elmira College
Elmira College, founded 1855 in Elmira, New York, was the first American college to grant women degrees equal to men's; coeducational since 1969, MSCHE-accredited, home of the Mark Twain Study and Center for Mark Twain Studies.
Elmira Corning Regional Airport
Elmira Corning Regional Airport (ELM/KELM), also called Elmira/Corning Regional, is a Chemung County-owned non-hub commercial airport in Horseheads, New York, with three runways, Delta and Allegiant service to five US destinations, and a 2019 record of 157,338 enplanements.
Elmira, New York
Elmira, New York: county seat of Chemung County in the Southern Tier near Pennsylvania, on the Chemung River. 26,523 residents (2020); known for the 1972 Agnes flood, its Civil War prison camp, and Mark Twain's grave.
Elmo
Elmo (Elmo Monster), the furry red three-and-a-half-year-old Muppet on Sesame Street, created 1979-1980, voiced in falsetto by Kevin Clash then Ryan Dillon, host of Elmo's World and star of Tickle Me Elmo.
ELMO domain
ELMO domain (ELM): conserved domain of unknown function in ELMO/CED-12 family proteins (ELMO1-3, CED-12), scaffolds that bind DOCK180 and activate Rac1 in phagocytosis and cell migration; distinct from the ELMo NLP embedding model.
Elmo Lee Smith
Elmo Lee Smith (b. 1921, Richmond, Virginia; d. 1962), Bridgeport, Pennsylvania handyman convicted of the 1959 rape-murder of teenager Maryann Mitchell; executed April 2, 1962 at Rockview, the 350th and last Pennsylvania electric-chair execution.
Elmo Zumwalt
Elmo R. "Bud" Zumwalt Jr. (1920–2000), 19th Chief of Naval Operations (1970–1974) and youngest ever, formerly Commander U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam and SEALORDS architect, known for Z-Gram personnel reforms, equal opportunity directives, and Trident, Perry-frigate, and F-14 programs.
Elmo's World
Elmo's World is the Sesame Street segment hosted by Elmo, also called Elmo's World segment of Sesame Street. Debuting November 1998 as a 15-minute closer (141 episodes, writer Judy Freudberg), it was rebooted at 4–5 minutes in 2017 and returned in the Netflix Season 56.
Elmont, New York
Elmont, New York: a densely populated hamlet and CDP in Nassau County on the Queens border, Long Island; 35,265 residents (2020), 43.5% foreign-born, home to Belmont Park, UBS Arena, and the LIRR Elmont station.
Elmore James
Elmore James (born Elmore Brooks, 1918–1963), the "King of the Slide Guitar," was a Mississippi-born Chicago blues slide guitarist whose 1951 electric "Dust My Broom" and band the Broomdusters shaped electric blues and blues rock.
Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard (1925–2013), nicknamed Dutch, American crime novelist and former Western writer; author of Get Shorty, Glitz, Out of Sight, and Fire in the Hole; famed for dialogue-driven style and the 10 Rules of Writing.
Elmworth Oil and Gas Field
Elmworth Oil and Gas Field is a giant natural gas field in the Deep Basin of west-central Alberta, discovered in 1976, holding an estimated 17 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Elmyr de Hory
Elmyr de Hory (Elemér Hoffmann, 1906-1976), Hungarian-born painter and one of history's most prolific art forgers, sold over 1,000 fake Picassos, Matisses, and Modiglianis before his 1967 exposure, Irving's Fake!, Welles's F for Fake, and his 1976 suicide in Ibiza.
Elnaaz Norouzi
Elnaaz Norouzi, also romanized Ilnaz Nawruzii, is an Iranian-born, German actress, model, and singer known for Zoya Mirza in Netflix's Sacred Games, Kandahar, Tehran, and The Fix (2026) opposite Liam Neeson.
Elnathan son of Achbor
Elnathan son of Achbor (Hebrew אֶלְנָתָן, "God has given") was a Judean court official under King Jehoiakim, sent to Egypt to fetch the prophet Uriah.
Elnur Hüseynov
Elnur Hüseynov is an Azerbaijani singer, born in 1987 in Ashgabat, who represented Azerbaijan at Eurovision in 2008 and 2015 and won O Ses Türkiye in 2015.
Elnur Məmmədli
Elnur Məmmədli (Elnur Çingiz oğlu Məmmədli), Azerbaijani judoka born 1988 in Baku; 2008 Beijing Olympic lightweight (-73 kg) champion, Azerbaijan's first judo gold, 2007 world silver, double European champion.
Elnusa
Elnusa (PT Elnusa Tbk) is an Indonesian integrated energy services company founded in 1969 as a Pertamina support contractor and controlled by Pertamina Hulu Energi, which holds 51.10%.