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Emmanuel Adebayor

Emmanuel Adebayor (Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor), Togolese striker born 1984 in Lomé; played for Arsenal, Manchester City, Tottenham, Real Madrid, and Crystal Palace; 97 Premier League goals, 32 goals in 85 Togo caps; retired March 2023.

Emmanuel Amunike

Emmanuel Amunike (Amuneke), Nigerian left winger born 1970 in Eze Obodo; Zamalek, Sporting CP and Barcelona player; 1994 African Footballer of the Year; scored winners in the 1994 AFCON final and 1996 Olympic final; later coached Nigeria U-17 to the 2015 World Cup.

Emmanuel Besnier

Emmanuel Besnier (born 1970) is a French businessman who has led Lactalis, the world's largest dairy company, since 2000, controlling it with his siblings Jean-Michel and Marie.

Emmanuel Callender

Emmanuel Earl Callender (born 1984, Arouca) is a Trinidad and Tobago sprinter, 2008 Olympic 4x100m relay gold medalist (upgraded after Jamaica's DQ), 2012 silver medalist, and 2009 World Championships relay silver medalist.

Emmanuel Candès

Emmanuel Candès is a mathematician and statistician who holds the Barnum-Simons Chair at Stanford University and is known for compressed sensing, high-dimensional statistics, and the knockoffs method for variable selection.

Emmanuel Chabrier

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), French composer and pianist, Ministry of the Interior civil servant until 1880, known for España (1883), L'Étoile, Pièces pittoresques, and Bourrée fantasque; forerunner of Debussy and Ravel.

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Emmanuel College is a college of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay on the site of a Dominican friary; John Harvard studied there.

Emmanuel D. Levy

Emmanuel D. Levy is a structural and computational biologist at the University of Geneva, known for showing that single point mutations can push folded proteins into self-assembled structures.

Emmanuel de Margerie

Emmanuel de Margerie (1862–1953) was a French geographer and geologist who worked at the junction of the two disciplines, publishing 265 works, translating Suess, and directing international map projects.

Emmanuel de Martonne

Emmanuel de Martonne (1873–1955) was a French geographer who founded French geomorphology, wrote the influential Traité de géographie physique, and drew Romania's borders at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.

Emmanuel Defaÿ

Emmanuel Defaÿ, also published as Emmanuel Defay, is a materials scientist who heads the Smart Materials Unit at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, working on piezoelectric thin films.

Emmanuel Delamarche

Emmanuel Delamarche, born 1966, is a French-born Swiss-based microfluidics and biosensors researcher, now a Senior Manager at Spiden AG, who led the Precision Diagnostics group at IBM Research – Zurich.

Emmanuel Dennis

Emmanuel Bonaventure Dennis, Nigerian forward born 1997 in Abuja; Zorya Luhansk, Club Brugge, Watford (10 Premier League goals 2021-22), Nottingham Forest, loans, now Brøndby; two Champions League goals at Real Madrid, 8 Nigeria caps.

Emmanuel Desurvire

Emmanuel Desurvire is a French physicist who led development of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier at AT&T Bell Laboratories, a device that transformed long-haul and submarine optical communications.

Emmanuel Detournay

Emmanuel Detournay is a Belgian geomechanics engineer and University of Minnesota professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for advances in hydraulic fracturing and drilling dynamics.

Emmanuel Deutz

Emmanuel Deutz, born Menachem Manlin Deutz in Koblenz in 1764, was the third Chief Rabbi of France, serving from 1810 until his death in Paris in 1842.

Emmanuel Dongala

Emmanuel Boundzeki Dongala, born 1941, is a Congolese chemist and novelist who taught at the University of Brazzaville, fled the 1997 civil war to the United States, and wrote Johnny Mad Dog.

Emmanuel Eboué

Emmanuel Eboué (born 1983, Abidjan) is an Ivorian former right back; ASEC Mimosas, Beveren, Arsenal (2005-11, 214 apps, 2006 Champions League final), Galatasaray, and Sunderland, 79 Ivory Coast caps, two World Cups.

Emmanuel Emenike

Emmanuel Chinenye Emenike, born 1987 in Otuocha, Nigeria, is a retired forward who starred for Spartak Moscow and Fenerbahce, won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations with Nigeria, and played at the 2014 World Cup.

Emmanuel Farber

Emmanuel Farber (1918–2014) was a Canadian pathologist and biochemist who established the biochemical analysis of chemical carcinogenesis and led pathology at the University of Toronto from 1975 to 1985.

Emmanuel Farhi

Emmanuel Farhi (1978–2020) was a French macroeconomist at Harvard University, where he held the Robert C. Waggoner Professorship and was called the leading macroeconomist of his generation.

Emmanuel Fauré-Frémiet

Emmanuel Fauré-Frémiet (1883–1971) was a French biologist who held the chair of comparative embryology at the Collège de France from 1928 to 1954 and became a central figure in ciliate protozoology.

Emmanuel Foulon

Emmanuel Foulon (1871–1945), Belgian archer from Frameries, won gold in Pole Archery, Sur la Perche à la Herse, at the 1900 Paris Olympics, the only edition of that event.

Emmanuel Frimpong

Emmanuel Yaw Frimpong (born 1992) is a Ghanaian former defensive midfielder, an Arsenal academy graduate with 16 first-team appearances, later at Wolves, Fulham, Barnsley, Ufa, and Ermis Aradippou; one Ghana cap; retired 2019 after knee injuries.

Emmanuel Goldstein

Emmanuel Goldstein is the fictional Enemy of the People in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949): supposed Brotherhood leader, focus of the Two Minutes Hate, attributed author of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, modeled on Leon Trotsky, and possibly a Party invention.

Emmanuel Grégoire

Emmanuel Grégoire, French Socialist politician, mayor of Paris since 29 March 2026; former first deputy mayor to Anne Hidalgo (budget, urbanism), deputy for Paris's 7th constituency 2024-2026, elected with 103 of 163 council votes after a 50.52% runoff win.

Emmanuel Hédon

Emmanuel Hédon (1863–1933) was a French physician and physiologist, professor at Montpellier, who showed that canine diabetes could be cured by pancreas implants or transfusion.

Emmanuel Henderson

Emmanuel Henderson Jr. (born 2003) is a Seattle Seahawks wide receiver and return specialist, a former five-star Alabama running back who starred at Kansas and was drafted 199th overall in 2026.

Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah

Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah is a Ghanaian economist and Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of Ghana Business School, known for research on green bonds and fintech.

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836), French abbé, pamphleteer, and statesman; author of What Is the Third Estate? (1789) and theorist of constituent power; helped launch the French Revolution and later engineered the 18 Brumaire coup.