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Emil (Nier)

Emil (エミール), also known as No. 7, is a character in NieR Replicant and NieR:Automata: a once-human boy turned magical weapon with a petrifying gaze, later a clone-producing immortal head shopkeeper and Yoko Taro's mask icon.

Oct 22, 2026

Emil Aarestrup

Emil Aarestrup, full name Carl Ludvig Emil Aarestrup (1800–1856), was a Danish physician and poet whose single collection, Digte (1838), sold about 40 copies before his posthumous recognition.

Emil Abderhalden

Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950) was a Swiss-German physiologist and biochemist, co-founder of protein biochemistry, discoverer of the essential amino acid distinction, and 20th president of the German Academy Leopoldina from 1932 to 1950.

Emil Albert Friedberg

Emil Albert Friedberg (1837–1910) was a German jurist and leading state canonist who taught at Halle, Freiburg, and Leipzig, and edited the Corpus Iuris Canonici (1879–1881).

Emil Artin

Emil Artin (1898–1962) was an Austrian-born mathematician and one of the major algebraists of the twentieth century, known for the reciprocity law, Artinian rings, and the theory of braids.

Emil Audero

Emil Audero Mulyadi (born 1997, Mataram, Lombok) is an Indonesian-Italian goalkeeper from Juventus' academy who starred for Sampdoria, won the 2023/24 Scudetto as Inter backup, and saved two shootout penalties to win Indonesia the FIFA ASEAN Cup 2026.

Emil Benecke

Emil Benecke (Emil Curt Benecke, 1898-1945), German water polo player and swimmer from SC Hellas Magdeburg; won gold at Amsterdam 1928 and silver at Los Angeles 1932, refereed at Berlin 1936, and died in Soviet POW captivity in Riga.

Emil Bove

Emil Bove III (born 1981), also Emil Joseph Bove III, is a Third Circuit federal appeals judge, former Trump criminal defense lawyer, and 2025 acting deputy attorney general who fired January 6 prosecutors and moved to drop the Eric Adams case before a contested 50-49 confirmation.

Emil C. Gotschlich

Emil C. Gotschlich (1935–2023) was an American physician and molecular chemist at Rockefeller University who developed the first effective vaccine against meningococcal meningitis and did foundational research on the gonococcus.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran (1911–1995), Romanian-born French essayist and pessimist philosopher, author of Précis de décomposition and De l'inconvénient d'être né; wrote six Romanian and ten French books, anti-systematic aphoristic style, Rivarol Prize 1950.

Sep 19, 2026

Emil Dimitrov

Emil Dimitrov (Емил Димитров) was a Bulgarian pop singer and composer, a defining star of Bulgarian popular music from the 1960s to the 1980s whose song 'Monica' was declared Song of the Century in 2000.

Emil du Bois-Reymond

Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896) was a German physiologist born and died in Berlin, remembered as the founder of electrophysiology, demonstrating the electrical nature of the nerve signal.

Emil Egli

Emil Egli (1848–1908) was a Swiss Reformed pastor and church historian at the University of Zurich, best known for putting the history of Swiss Anabaptism on a source basis.

Oct 22, 2026

Emil Filla

Emil Filla was a Czech Cubist painter, sculptor, and art theorist, born in Chropyně in Moravia in 1882, a leading figure of Czech Cubism in Prague.

Emil Fischer

Emil Fischer, born Hermann Emil Fischer, was a German chemist who won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on sugar and purine syntheses.

Emil Forsberg

Emil Forsberg (Emil Peter Forsberg), Swedish winger born 1991 in Sundsvall; RB Leipzig record holder (324 games, 71 goals), 92-cap Sweden international, Guldbollen 2021 winner, now New York Red Bulls Designated Player captain.

Emil Frei

Emil Frei III (1924–2013), known as Emil "Tom" Frei, was an American oncologist called the father of combination chemotherapy, whose work at Dana-Farber helped make childhood leukemia curable.

Emil Frey Group

The Emil Frey Group is a Swiss, family-owned automotive import and retail group founded in Zurich in 1924, ranking first among Europe's largest dealer groups.

Emil Friedrich Kautzsch

Emil Friedrich Kautzsch (1841–1910) was a German Protestant Old Testament scholar and Orientalist who held chairs at Basel, Tübingen, and Halle and translated the Old Testament into German.

Emil Gilels (Эмиль Григорьевич Гилельс)

Emil Gilels, full name Emil Grigoryevich Gilels, was a Soviet pianist from Odessa who won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1938 and recorded Beethoven and Brahms for Deutsche Grammophon.

Emil Grosswald

Emil Grosswald (1912–1989) was a Romanian-born American analytic number theorist known for his work on representations of integers as sums of squares and his books on number theory.

Emil Haury

Emil Haury (1904–1992) was an American archaeologist who spent his career at the University of Arizona and its Arizona State Museum, defining the Hohokam and Mogollon cultures and helping establish Southwestern archaeology.

Emil Hegle Svendsen

Emil Hegle Svendsen, born 1985 in Trondheim, is a Norwegian biathlete, four-time Olympic champion and 12-time world champion; World Cup runner-up 2010/11 to 2012/13, retired April 9, 2018.

Emil Hirschfeld

Emil Hirschfeld (1903-1968), German shot putter and discus thrower; 1928 Amsterdam Olympic bronze medallist, twice shot put world record holder in 1928, and first putter over 16 metres.

Emil Holmgren

Emil Holmgren (Emil Algot Holmgren) was a Swedish histologist and professor at the Karolinska Institute, known for studies of nerve cells and the contested trophospongium theory.

Emil Iversen

Emil Iversen (born 1991, Meråker) is a Norwegian cross-country skier for IL Varden, a four-time world champion and 2026 Olympic relay gold medalist with eight individual World Cup wins.

Emil J. Freireich

Emil J. Freireich (E J Freireich) was an American hematologist whose work on combination chemotherapy and platelet transfusion raised childhood leukemia five-year survival above 80 percent.

Emil Jakobsen

Emil Manfeldt Jakobsen (born 1998, Kerteminde) is a Danish handball left wing for SG Flensburg-Handewitt and Denmark, with Olympic gold 2024 and silver 2020 and World Championship titles 2021, 2023, 2025.

Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings, born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz (1884–1950), Swiss-born German actor; won the first Best Actor Oscar in 1929 for The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command, starred in Der letzte Mann and Der blaue Engel, and was banned from his profession by the Allies after Nazi-era propaganda films.