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Emil Zátopek

Emil Zátopek (1922–2000), Czechoslovak distance runner nicknamed the Human Lokomotiv; won the 5,000m, 10,000m, and marathon at Helsinki 1952, set 18 world records, popularized interval training, and was purged after 1968.

Émile Allais

Émile Allais (1912–2012), French alpine skier from Megève; first French Olympic skiing medalist (1936 bronze) and first French world champion (1937 Chamonix triple gold); founded the École du Ski Français and pioneered parallel-turn technique.

Émile Amagat

Émile Amagat (1841–1915) was a French physicist who measured the compressibility of gases and liquids at extreme pressures, inventing the free-piston manometer; the amagat unit, Amagat diagram, and Amagat's law bear his name.

Emile Anthoine

Émile Anthoine (1882-1969), French race walker and athletics administrator; held 21 world records, founded Paris-Strasbourg (later Paris-Colmar), the French and international walking federations, and pushed the Olympic 50 km walk.

Émile Arnaud

Émile Arnaud (1864–1921) was a French lawyer and pacifist, president of the Ligue de la Paix et de la Liberté and a promoter of international law and arbitration.

Émile Baudot

Émile Baudot, born Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot, was a French telegraph engineer whose 1874 printing telegraph used a five-unit code that supplanted Morse code; the baud is named for him.

Emile Berliner

Emile Berliner, born Emil Berliner (1851–1929), was a German-born American inventor who patented the gramophone in 1887 and whose flat disc records became the first commercially successful format.

Émile Billard

Émile Billard (François Alexandre Émile Billard, 1852-1930), French sailor of the Société des Régates du Havre; won 1900 Paris Olympic gold in the 10-20 tons class aboard Estérel with Paul Perquer.

Émile Borel

Émile Borel (1871–1956) was a French mathematician who created the first effective theory of measure, helped found real-function theory, and later became a deputy and minister.

Émile Bourquelot

Émile Bourquelot (Élie-Émile Bourquelot, 1851–1921) was a French pharmacist and chemist who pioneered the enzymatic synthesis of glycosides and founded the French school of heterosides.

Émile Boutroux

Émile Boutroux (1845–1921) was a French spiritualist philosopher whose 1874 thesis On the Contingency of the Laws of Nature attacked determinism; he held the Sorbonne's chair of history of modern philosophy from 1888.

Émile Brumpt

Émile Brumpt (1877–1951) was a French physician and zoologist, professor of parasitology at Paris from 1919 to 1948, regarded as the originator of medical parasitology in France.

Emile Cornellie

Émile Cornellie (1869–1945), Belgian naval officer and sailor of the Royal Yacht Club Oostende, won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the 6 metre class aboard Edelweiss II with his son Florimond and Frédéric-Albert Bruynseels.

Emile Coste

Émile Coste (1862–1927), French foil fencer and army officer, won gold in men's individual foil at the 1900 Paris Olympics, beating Henri Masson; later Colonel and Joinville gymnastics school director.

Émile Delchambre

Émile Henri Delchambre (1875–1958), French rower from Roubaix, Cercle de l'Aviron Roubaix; won gold in the men's coxed fours at the Paris 1900 Olympics in 7:11.0 with Cau, Bouckaert, Hazebrouck, and cox Charlot.

Emile Doumergue

Émile Doumergue (1844–1937) was a French Reformed pastor and church historian, professor at Montauban and leader of orthodox French Protestantism, best known for his seven-volume biography of John Calvin.

Émile Duclaux

Émile Duclaux (1840–1904) was a French chemist and microbiologist, Louis Pasteur's first and closest collaborator, who directed the Institut Pasteur from 1895 to 1904 and defended Alfred Dreyfus.