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El Fuerte (Street Fighter)

El Fuerte (エル・フォルテ) is Capcom's Mexican luchador-chef fighter introduced in Street Fighter IV (2008), returning in Super and Ultra SFIV; a Habanero Dash mix-up grappler with dish-named moves, ranked among vanilla SFIV's weakest characters.

El Grande Americano

El Grande Americano, a masked WWE/AAA wrestling character created by Chad Gable in March 2025 and later played by Ludwig Kaiser; won the Mask vs. Mask match at Noche de Los Grandes 2026 and the AAA Mega Championship at Triplemanía 34.

El Hadji Diouf

El Hadji Ousseynou Diouf, Senegalese forward born 1981 in Dakar; starred at the 2002 World Cup, won CAF African Footballer of the Year 2001 and 2002, played for Lens, Liverpool (80 apps, 6 goals), Bolton, Sunderland, Blackburn, Rangers, Doncaster, and Leeds.

El Hadji Malick Cissé

El Hadji Malick Cissé, Senegalese centre-back born 2008 in Dakar, Be Sport Academy product; captained Senegal U17 at the 2025 World Cup; signed by AC Milan in January 2026 for about €2 million, playing for Milan Futuro.

El Hadji Malick Diouf

El Hadji Malick Diouf (born 2004, Ziguinchor) is a Senegalese left-back. Tromsø, Slavia Prague, West Ham (€19.4m, 2025), Brentford (2026); Senegal international since 2024, AFCON finalist, 2026 World Cup squad. Not related to El Hadji Diouf.

El Hijo de Rey Misterio

El Hijo de Rey Misterio (Rey Misterio Heredero), born 1989 in San Diego, is a Mexican-American luchador, son of Rey Misterio Sr. and cousin of Rey Mysterio; the original holder of a name later also used by Rey Horus and others.

El Huaico

El Huaico is a beach and reef surf break on the Lima coast of Peru (12.38° S, 76.79° W) near Punta Rocas, with consistent year-round south swells; other places of the same name exist in Argentina and Bolivia.

El Perro

El Perro ("The Dog"), fully El Perro y las Cabras, is a traditional hunt game from the Canary Islands in which a dog captures twelve goats.

El Salvador national football team

El Salvador national football team, La Selecta, El Salvador men's soccer team: Concacaf side run by FESFUT; two World Cups (1970, 1982), six losses, one goal (Luis Ramírez), best regional finish second in 1981.

El Santo

El Santo (El Enmascarado de Plata), real name Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (1917-1984), Mexican wrestler and actor; debuted 1942, never unmasked, starred in 52 monster films and a 1952 comic, icon of Mexican popular culture.

El Zonte

El Zonte, also called Bitcoin Beach or Pueblo loko, is a surf village in Chiltiupan, La Libertad, El Salvador, at km 53 of the Litoral highway, known for its right-hand point break and the 2019 bitcoin circular economy project.

El Zorro

El Zorro (Fox and Geese, El Zorro y los Gansos) is a traditional asymmetric hunt board game: one fox piece hunts geese or hens on a cross-shaped board, first recorded in the Icelandic Grettis saga around 1300, with Canarian and Andean variants.

Elaine Tanner

Elaine Tanner (Tanner-Watt), "Mighty Mouse", Canadian swimmer born 1951 in Vancouver; 1966 Commonwealth Games seven-medal haul, 1967 Pan Am double backstroke gold, and three 1968 Olympic medals as Canada's first female Olympic swimming medallist.

Elaine Thompson-Herah

Elaine Thompson-Herah, Jamaican sprinter born 1992, five-time Olympic champion; first woman to win 100m-200m doubles at consecutive Olympics (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020); Jamaican 100m record 10.54; comeback from Achilles injury toward Glasgow 2026.

Elana Meyer

Elana Meyer (born 1966, née van Zyl), South African distance runner; 1992 Olympic 10,000m silver, 1994 world half marathon champion, half marathon world record 1:06:44 (1999); retired 2005, founded Endurocad.

Elana Meyers Taylor

Elana Meyers Taylor, American bobsled pilot, six-time Olympic medalist and 2026 Milan Cortina monobob gold medalist at 41; most decorated woman in Olympic bobsled and most decorated Black Winter Olympian.

Elano

Elano (Elano Ralph Blumer, born 1981, Iracemápolis) is a Brazilian former midfielder, two-time Brasileirão and 2011 Libertadores winner with Santos, ex-Shakhtar, Manchester City, Galatasaray, 2010 World Cup player, now Santos youth manager.

Elche CF

Elche CF (Elche Club de Fútbol), Spanish football club founded 1923 in Elche, Alicante; plays at Estadio Martínez Valero (31,388 seats), one Copa del Rey final (1969), relegated administratively in 2015, owned by Christian Bragarnik since 2019.

Eldece Clarke-Lewis

Eldece Clarke-Lewis (born 1965), Bahamian sprinter of the 'Golden Girls' 4x100m relay; Olympic gold Sydney 2000 (heats), silver Atlanta 1996, world gold Seville 1999; personal best 10.96 in the 100m.

Elden Ring

Elden Ring is FromSoftware's 2022 open-world dark fantasy action RPG, directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki with worldbuilding by George R.R. Martin; over 23 million copies shipped, Game of the Year 2022, with the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion in 2024.

Elden Ring Nightreign

Elden Ring Nightreign: FromSoftware's standalone 3-player co-op roguelike action RPG in the Elden Ring universe, released May 30, 2025, directed by Junya Ishizaki; timed Limveld expeditions against 8 Nightlords, over 5 million shipped.

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is FromSoftware's June 21, 2024 DLC expansion for Elden Ring, set in the Land of Shadow with Miquella's story, 50 Scadutree Fragments, 10 million sales, Metacritic 94.

Eldor Shomurodov

Eldor Shomurodov (Eldor Azamat o'g'li Shomurodov), born 1995, Uzbek striker and national captain, all-time top scorer with 45 goals; played for Rostov, Genoa, Roma, and Başakşehir, scoring 22 Süper Lig goals in 2025-26 and appearing at the 2026 World Cup.

Elea

Elea (board game) is a 2022 unification game of pure placement by Michael Amundsen, played on a hexhex board; lower score wins, with 1 point per odd-sized and 2 per even-sized group.

Eleanor Garatti Saville

Eleanor Garatti Saville (Eleanor Agnes Garatti-Saville, 1909-1998), American Olympic swimmer; gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at Amsterdam 1928 and Los Angeles 1932, silver and bronze in the 100 m freestyle, first woman under 1:10 (1:09.8, 1929).

Eleanor Holm

Eleanor Holm (1913–2004), American backstroke swimmer and entertainer; 1932 Olympic 100m backstroke gold medalist, removed from the 1936 U.S. team by Avery Brundage over champagne on the SS Manhattan, later star of Billy Rose's Aquacade.

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts (EA), American video game publisher founded 1982 by Trip Hawkins; maker of EA SPORTS FC, Madden NFL, Battlefield, The Sims; taken private in 2026 by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for $55 billion.

Electronic game

Electronic game: games played on electronic devices, spanning arcade machines, consoles, computers, and mobile. Began with Ralph Baer's Brown Box (Magnavox Odyssey, 1972) and Pong; global market reached $201.6 billion in 2025.

Eleda Stadion

Eleda Stadion (Malmö New Stadium in UEFA play) is Malmö FF's 22,500-seat home ground in Malmö, opened 2009, designed by C.F. Møller, renamed from Swedbank Stadion in 2019, record crowd 24,148.

Elektra Lopez

Elektra Lopez, ring name of Karissa Rivera (born 1992), American wrestler in WWE 2021-2025; NXT and SmackDown member of Legado del Fantasma with Santos Escobar; nickname La Madrina; released February 2025, now wrestles on the independent circuit.