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Emma de Caunes

Emma de Caunes is a French actress and director born in Paris in 1976, who won the César for Most Promising Actress for Un frère... (1997).

Emma Dench

Emma Dench is a Roman historian and classicist, Dean of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and McLean Professor; author of Romulus' Asylum and Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World.

Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue (born Dublin, 1969) is an Irish-Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and literary historian living in London, Ontario; author of Room (2010), a Man Booker-shortlisted bestseller adapted into an Oscar-winning film, plus The Wonder, The Pull of the Stars, and The Paris Express.

Emma Doran

Emma Doran, Irish stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Dublin; memoir Mad, Isn't It? (2024), podcast Keep It Tight with Deirdre O'Kane, tours Dilemma and Emmaculate.

Emma Dumont

Emma Dumont (born 1994, Seattle; birth name Emma Noelle Roberts) is an American actor known for Bunheads, Aquarius, Polaris in The Gifted, and Jackie Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer; came out as transmasculine nonbinary in 2024, using Nick privately.

Emma Elizabeth Smith

Emma Elizabeth Smith (c. 1843–1888), first victim in the Whitechapel Murders file: a 45-year-old widow fatally assaulted by a gang near Whitechapel Church on 3 April 1888; died of peritonitis; not a canonical Jack the Ripper victim.

Emma family

Emma family, asteroid family of (283) Emma, a cratering family in the outer main belt with 76 members at 40 m/s cutoff, two confirmed cratering events forming two jets, and a binary C-type parent body with a large satellite.

Emma Felbermayr

Emma Felbermayr (born 2007 in Wels, Austria) is an Austrian racing driver who competes in F1 Academy with Rodin Motorsport and was the first Austrian woman to win a race in the series.

Emma Ferrer

Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer (born 1994, Morges, Switzerland) is a Tuscan-based figurative painter, granddaughter of Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, a 2014 Harper's Bazaar cover model, and painter of The Scapegoat series shown at Sapar Contemporary.

Emma Fielding

Emma Fielding (Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding) is an English RSC Associate Artist actress and Olivier Award nominee; born in Catterick, she created Thomasina in Arcadia (1993) and won a Theatre World Award for Private Lives on Broadway.

Emma Finucane

Emma Finucane is a Welsh track cyclist, born in Carmarthen in 2002, who is an Olympic champion and three-time world champion in the sprint disciplines.

Emma Foody

Emma Foody, Labour and Co-operative MP for Cramlington and Killingworth since July 2024 (22,274 votes, 12,820 majority), former Nottinghamshire deputy police and crime commissioner, Government whip and Vice Chamberlain of HM Household from 2026.

Emma Forrest

Emma Forrest (born 1976, London) is a British writer and director, author of novels Namedropper and Father Figure and memoir Your Voice in My Head, and director of the 2018 Tribeca debut Untogether, formerly married to Ben Mendelsohn.

Emma Freud

Emma Freud (born 1962) is an English broadcaster, script editor, and Red Nose Day director; OBE 2011, co-creator of Make Poverty History, script editor on Richard Curtis films, host of The Archers Podcast.

Emma Frost

Emma Frost (Emma Grace Frost), Marvel Comics mutant telepath and former White Queen of the Hellfire Club who joined the X-Men; can turn to organic diamond form, which suppresses her telepathy; first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129.

Emma Frost (Marvel Rivals)

Emma Frost (Marvel Rivals): Vanguard tank hero added in Season 2 Hellfire Gala, April 11, 2025, 38th roster hero. Dual-form telepath and Diamond Form brawler; Psionic Seduction ultimate blocks enemy ultimates; team-ups with Luna Snow, Mantis, Magneto, Psylocke.

Emma Fuhrmann

Emma Fuhrmann, American actress born 2001 in Dallas, Texas; played teenage Cassie Lang in Avengers: Endgame, Finnegan O'Neil in The Magic of Belle Isle, and Espn in Blended; recast as Kathryn Newton for Quantumania.

Emma Gad

Emma Gad (1852–1921) was a Danish playwright, editor, and author from Copenhagen who wrote 19 plays, edited the encyclopedia Vort Hjem, and is remembered chiefly for her 1918 etiquette handbook Takt og Tone.

Emma George

Emma George (born 1974, Wangaratta, Victoria), Australian pole vaulter and former Flying Fruit Flies trapeze artist; set 17 women's pole vault world records, first woman over 4.50m, 1998 Commonwealth Games champion, Sydney 2000 Olympian.

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (1869-1940), Lithuanian-born anarchist and feminist, 'Red Emma,' publisher of Mother Earth, companion of Alexander Berkman, imprisoned and deported from the US in 1919, author of Living My Life and My Disillusionment in Russia.

Emma Grede

Emma Grede is a British businesswoman who co-founded Good American with Khloé Kardashian in 2016 and serves as chief product officer of the shapewear company SKIMS.

Emma Hart (computer scientist)

Emma Hart is an English computer scientist and Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, known for evolutionary robotics, especially jointly evolving a robot's body and controller.

Emma Harvie

Emma Harvie is an Australian actress known as Megan in Colin from Accounts and Chaya Batra in RFDS, a 2023 Casting Guild of Australia Rising Star, and a Belvoir and Sydney Theatre Company stage performer.

Emma Hayes

Emma Hayes (born 1976), English football manager, USWNT head coach since 2024 and 2024 Olympic gold winner; previously Chelsea Women manager 2012-2024, winning a record seven WSL titles.

Emma Hewitt

Emma Hewitt is an Australian singer-songwriter and trance vocalist, born 1988 in Geelong, known for collaborations with Dash Berlin and Cosmic Gate and the album Burn the Sky Down.

Emma Holland

Emma Holland (born 1994) is an Australian stand-up comedian, writer, collage artist and photographer, known for visually elaborate shows like Don't Touch My Trinkets and The Dog Dies at the Start, and for Taskmaster Australia and panel TV appearances.

Emma Hough Hobbs

Emma Hough Hobbs (she/they) is an Adelaide-based Australian filmmaker, animator, and production designer, co-director of the 2025 Berlinale Teddy Award-winning animated feature Lesbian Space Princess and creator of the short On Film.

Emma Hunton

Emma Hunton (born 1991, Los Angeles) is an American actress and singer, distinct from Emma Hatton or Emma Haughton, known for Broadway's Spring Awakening, Elphaba in Wicked's first national tour, and Davia Moss on Freeform's Good Trouble.

Emma Island

Emma Island (Emma, Ile) is a small Antarctic island east of Cape Anna in Wilhelmina Bay, Danco Coast, Graham Land, at 64°36'S 62°18'W. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for Emma de Gerlache de Gomery, mother of commander Adrien de Gerlache.

Emma Kennedy

Emma Kennedy (born 1967, Corby, England) is an English actress, comedy writer, and author; former lawyer, Seven Raymonds comedian, creator of BBC1's The Kennedys, memoirist of The Tent, the Bucket and Me, and Celebrity Masterchef 2012 winner.