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| Eggs Benedict | Commodore E. C. Benedict (1834-1920), American banker and yachtsman |
| Eiffel Tower | Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), French engineer |
| einstein, einsteinium | Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American physicist |
| Eisenmenger’s Complex | Victor Eisenmenger (1864-1932), Austrian physician |
| Electra complex | Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology |
| Elgin Marbles | Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), British ambassador |
| Elizabethan | Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603) |
| éminence grise | Éminence gris, nickname of Père Joseph (François le Clerc du Tremblay 1577-1638), French friar and diplomat |
| Eotvos unit | Roland, Baron von Eötvös (1848-1919), Hungarian physicist |
| epicure; Epicurean | Epicurus (341-270BC), Greek philosopher |
| Erastianism | Thomas Erastus (1524-83), Swiss theologian |
| erlang | Agner Krarup Erlang (1878-1929), Dutch scientist |
| erotic | Eros, Greek god of love |
| eschscholtzia | Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793-1834), Russian-born German naturalist |
| Esperanto | Dr Esperanto, pseudonym of Lazarus Ludwig Zamenhof (1859-1917), Polish doctor and linguist |
| Euclidean geometry | Euclid, 3rd century BC Greek mathematician |
| euhemerism | Ehhemerus, 4th century Sicilian Greek philosopher |
| euphorbia | Euphorbus, 1st century AD Greek physician |
| euphuism | Euphues, character in the prose romance in two parts Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580) by English writer John Lyly (c.1554-1606) |
| Eustachian tube | Bartolommeo Eustachio (1524-74), Greek philosopher |