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Emmanuelle Béart
Emmanuelle Béart, French actress and director born 1963 in Gassin, Var; daughter of singer Guy Béart; César-winning Manon des Sources star, Mission: Impossible actress, UNICEF ambassador, and co-director of Un silence si bruyant (2023).
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Emmanuelle Charpentier, born 1968 in France, is a French microbiologist who co-developed CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jennifer Doudna.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Emmanuelle Chriqui (born 1975) is a Canadian actress, full name Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui, known as Sloan on HBO's Entourage and Dalia in You Don't Mess with the Zohan; also Lana Lang in Superman & Lois.
Emmanuelle de Dampierre
Emmanuelle de Dampierre, also Duchess of Segovia, was a French and Italian noblewoman who married Infante Jaime of Spain in 1935 and died in Rome in 2012.
Emmanuelle in Space
Emmanuelle in Space is a 1994 series of seven softcore erotic science-fiction cable films starring Krista Allen as Emmanuelle, produced by Alain Siritzky and aired uncut on Cinemax; distinct from the 1974 theatrical Emmanuelle film.
Emmanuelle Martiano Rolland
Emmanuelle Martiano-Rolland is a French engineer and business strategist who co-founded Aqemia, a Paris-based AI drug-discovery company, in 2019 with Maximilien Levesque and serves as its chief operating officer.
Emmanuelle Passegué
Emmanuelle Passegué is a stem cell biologist known for showing that loss of JunB in blood stem cells causes a leukemia-like disease, and for linking inflammation to stem cell aging.
Emmanuelle Seigner
Emmanuelle Seigner (born 1966, Paris) is a French actress, singer, and former model; wife of Roman Polanski, César-nominated for Place Vendôme and Venus in Fur, and lead vocalist of Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle.
Emmanuelle Vaugier
Emmanuelle Vaugier (Emmanuelle Frederique Vaugier), Canadian actress, singer, and model born 1976 in Vancouver; known for Smallville's Dr. Helen Bryce, Mia on Two and a Half Men, Detective Jessica Angell on CSI: NY, The Morrigan on Lost Girl, Saw II, and the Fluffball animal-welfare foundation.
Emmaus/Nicopolis
Emmaus/Nicopolis ('Amwas): ancient town in the Ayalon valley, central Israel, 30 km west of Jerusalem; Maccabean battle site, Roman city renamed Nicopolis in 221 AD, traditional Gospel Emmaus, now an archaeological site run by the Community of the Beatitudes.
eMMC
eMMC, short for embedded MultiMediaCard, is a soldered-on storage device combining NAND flash and a controller in one package, standardized by JEDEC in 2006 and common in budget devices.
Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial
Grade II listed 1930 bronze statue of Emmeline Pankhurst by A G Walker and Herbert Baker in Victoria Tower Gardens, London, expanded in 1959 by Peter Hills to commemorate Christabel Pankhurst and WSPU prisoners.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928), Manchester-born British suffragist, founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903 under "Deeds, Not Words," led militant suffragette tactics, suspended them for war work in 1914, and influenced the American movement.
Emmental cheese
Emmental (Emmentaler) is a hard Swiss cow's-milk cheese from the Emme valley, defined by propionic acid fermentation that creates its large eyes and nutty flavor; Swiss Emmentaler AOP requires raw milk, while generic emmental is made across Europe.
Emmer
Emmer (Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccum), also called farro, is a hulled tetraploid wheat domesticated in the Fertile Crescent by roughly 10,000 years ago; it is the ancestor of durum wheat and a progenitor of bread wheat.
Emmeram
Emmeram was a seventh-century bishop of Poitiers who, according to his earliest biography, worked three years as a missionary bishop in Bavaria and died a martyr's death near Munich.
Emmerdale
Emmerdale, originally Emmerdale Farm, is a British ITV soap opera created by Kevin Laffan, first broadcast 16 October 1972, set in a Yorkshire Dales village, filmed at Arncliffe, Esholt, and since 1998 a purpose-built Harewood set.
Emmerson Mnangagwa
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, nicknamed the Crocodile, is Zimbabwe's president since the 2017 ouster of Robert Mugabe; re-elected 2018 and 2023, criticized by Amnesty and HRW for repression, and in 2026 he extended his term to 2030.
Emmet G. Sullivan
Emmet G. Sullivan (born 1947, Washington, D.C.), senior U.S. District Judge for D.C., appointed by three presidents to three judicial seats; known for the Ted Stevens trial, the Michael Flynn case, and Epstein files litigation.
Emmet Gowin
Emmet Gowin (born 1941) is an American photographer known for intimate portraits of his wife Edith and aerial photos of landscapes altered by human activity.
Emmetropia
Emmetropia, from Greek emmetros, is the normal refractive state of the eye: parallel rays focus on the relaxed retina, far point at infinity, opposite of ametropia, reached via emmetropization.
Emmett Brown
Emmett "Doc" Brown, fictional eccentric scientist of Hill Valley in Back to the Future, creator of the DeLorean time machine (flux capacitor, 88 mph, 1.21 gigawatts), played by Christopher Lloyd.
Emmett Johnson
Emmett Johnson, Nebraska Cornhuskers running back from Minneapolis; 2025 Big Ten Running Back of the Year with 1,451 rushing yards; drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs, Round 5, Pick 161, 2026 NFL Draft.
Emmett Kelly
Emmett Kelly (Emmett Leo Kelly Sr., 1898-1979), American circus clown who created the sad hobo character Weary Willie, starred with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey 1942-1956, helped during the 1944 Hartford circus fire, and appeared in The Greatest Show on Earth.
Emmett Leith
Emmett Leith (1927–2005) was an American electrical engineer and physicist at the University of Michigan who, with Juris Upatnieks, developed practical holography in the early 1960s using laser light and an off-axis reference beam.
Emmett Mosley V
Emmett Mosley V is an American college football wide receiver for the Texas Longhorns who transferred from Stanford in 2025, where he caught 48 passes as a freshman.
Emmett Shear
Emmett Shear is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the live-video service Justin.tv and led its game-streaming spinoff Twitch, which Amazon acquired in 2014 for $970 million.
Emmett Till
Emmett Till (1941–1955), a Chicago teenager lynched near Money, Mississippi, in August 1955 after an encounter with Carolyn Bryant; his killers' acquittal and Look magazine confession galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.
Emmett Toppino
Emmett Toppino (Martin Emmett Toppino, 1909-1971), New Orleans sprinter, Loyola runner, 1932 Olympic 4x100m relay gold medalist, equaled world 60-yard and 100-meter records.
Emmi Haux
Emmi Haux (Mollenhauer), German track and field athlete born 1904 in Frankfurt, pioneer of women's athletics; 1929 two-handed javelin world record 57.05 m, 100 m champion 1923/1924, model for Werner's Läuferin am Start.