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Emil Jones
Emil Jones III, born 1978 in Chicago, is a Democratic Illinois state senator from the 14th district since 2009 and the son of former Senate President Emil Jones Jr.
Emil Kellenberger
Emil Kellenberger (1864-1943), Swiss rifle shooter from Walzenhausen, won two golds and a silver at the 1900 Paris Olympics and 13 World Championship golds, 1899-1922.
Emil Konopinski
Emil Konopinski (1911–1990) was an American theoretical physicist who worked on beta decay, the Manhattan Project, and calculations showing a nuclear explosion would not ignite the atmosphere.
Emil Kraepelin
Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), German psychiatrist, founder of modern psychiatric nosology; 1899 textbook dichotomy of dementia praecox (schizophrenia) versus manic-depressive insanity (bipolar disorder); also known for eugenic, racist, and anti-Semitic views.
Emil L. Smith
Emil L. Smith (1911–2009) was an American biochemist who pioneered determining amino acid sequences of proteins and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1962.
Emil Leon Post
Emil Leon Post (1897–1954) was a Polish-born American logician who helped found computability theory, formulated a model of computation equivalent to the Turing machine, and opened degree theory.
Emil Maurice
Emil Maurice (1897–1972), watchmaker and early NSDAP member, Hitler's first chauffeur, SS member no. 2 and honorary Aryan exception; co-founder of SA and SS precursor units.
Emil Nielsen
Emil Nielsen, Danish handball goalkeeper (born 1997, Aarhus), plays for Veszprém KC and Denmark; World gold 2021 and 2025, Olympic gold 2024, European gold 2026, Champions League winner 2024 and 2026 with Barcelona, EHF MVP 2024.
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde, born Hans Emil Hansen, was a German-Danish painter and printmaker among the leading German Expressionists, known for religious pictures, seascapes, and flower watercolors.
Emil Ovemar
Emil Ovemar is a Swedish technology founder who co-founded Toca Boca, the Stockholm-based maker of digital toys for children, in 2010 and remains its head of studio.
Emil Pfender
Emil Pfender (1925–2016) was a German-born engineer at the University of Minnesota and a leading researcher in thermal plasma science, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.
Emil R. Unanue
Emil R. Unanue (Emil Raphael Unanue, 1934–2022) was a Cuban-born American immunologist who defined antigen presentation, led Washington University's pathology department, and won the 1995 Lasker Award.
Emil Racoviță
Emil Racoviță (1868–1947) was a Romanian biologist and polar explorer who served as naturalist on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition aboard the Belgica and founded biospeleology.
Emil Radev
Emil Radev, born 1971, in Varna, is a Bulgarian politician of GERB and a Member of the European Parliament since 2014, serving as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs.
Emil Rausch
Emil Rausch (Emil Ferdinand Gustav Rausch), German swimmer for SC Poseidon Berlin, won 1904 Olympic gold in the 880 yd and 1 mile freestyle swimming sidestroke, plus 1906 relay silver; last sidestroke Olympic champion, ISHOF 1968.
Emil Ruder
Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer and educator who led the typography department at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel and wrote Typographie: A Manual of Design (1967).
Emil Sayfutdinov
Emil Sayfutdinov (Эмиль Сайфутдинов), Russian speedway rider born 1989 in Salavat; two-time World Under-21 Champion, youngest-ever Grand Prix winner on 2009 debut, European Champion 2014 and 2015, long-time Polish Ekstraliga rider with Toruń.
Emil Schandein
Emil Schandein (1840–1888) was a Bavaria-born brewer who joined Milwaukee's Philip Best Brewing Company by marriage in 1866 and, as vice-president, helped make it America's largest brewery.
Emil Škoda
Emil Škoda (1839–1900) was a Bohemian engineer and industrialist who bought the Pilsen machine works in 1869 and built it into the largest arms factory in Austria-Hungary.
Emil Strauß
Emil Strauß (1866–1960) was a German novelist and dramatist, best known for the school novel Freund Hein (1902) and later controversial for his Nazi ties.
Emil T. Kaiser
Emil T. Kaiser (1938–1988) was a Hungarian-born American biochemist known for creating semisynthetic enzymes such as flavopapain; he taught at Chicago and Rockefeller University and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1987.
Emil und die Detektive
Emil und die Detektive (Emil and the Detectives) is Erich Kästner's 1929 children's novel about Emil Tischbein, robbed on a train to Berlin, who recovers his money with a children's gang; first filmed in 1931 by Gerhard Lamprecht with a Billy Wilder screenplay, and adapted repeatedly since.
Emil Verner
Emil Verner is a Danish-American macro-finance economist, the Lemelson Professor at MIT Sloan, known for research on household debt, credit booms, and bank failures, with tenure in 2025.
Emil Voigt
Emil Robert Voigt (1883-1973), British runner, won the 1908 London Olympic 5 miles gold in 25:11.2, Britain's last individual long-distance Olympic champion before Mo Farah, and later founded Australian radio station 2KY; distinct from American gymnast Emil Alwell Voigt.
Emil von Behring
Emil Adolf von Behring (1854–1917) was a German bacteriologist who won the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901 for diphtheria serum therapy.
Emil von Dungern
Emil von Dungern (1867–1961) was a German physician and serologist who, working with Ludwik Hirszfeld at Heidelberg, first demonstrated in 1910 that ABO blood groups are inherited.
Emil Votoček
Emil Votoček (1872–1950) was a Czech organic chemist who discovered the sugars rhodeose and isorhodeose, coined "epimer", and built the Czech school of organic chemistry in Prague.
Emil Wakim
Emil Wakim (born 1998) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, first Lebanese-American Saturday Night Live cast member, featured player in season 50, Tonight Show 2022 alum, now recording a Netflix special.
Emil Warburg
Emil Gabriel Warburg (1846–1931) was a German experimental physicist who discovered magnetic hysteresis and the cathode fall, and was president of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt from 1905 to 1922.
Emil Wolf
Emil Wolf (1922–2018) was a Czechoslovak-born American physicist who established classical optical coherence theory as its own subfield of optics and co-authored, with Max Born, the standard textbook Principles of Optics.