List of Eponyms (A-K) - E

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• Thomas Edison — Edison effect, Edison Records, Edisonian approach, Edison, Georgia, Edison, New Jersey, Edisonade
• Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (younger brother of King George IV and King William IV), commander of British forces in Halifax — Prince Edward Island
• Gustave Eiffel — Eiffel Tower, designer
• Albert Einstein — Einstein refrigerator, einsteinium — chemical element, Bose-Einstein statistics, Bose-Einstein condensates
• Queen Elizabeth I of England, the "Virgin Queen" and "Wingina", a Native American regional king — Virginia, West Virginia, Elizabethan sonnet, Elizabethan era, Elizabethan theatre, Elizabethan architecture, Elizabethan government
• Saint Elmo — St. Elmo's fire
• Arpad Elo — Elo rating system
• Loránd Eötvös — eotvos, gravitational gradient
• Sir Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr — Epstein-Barr virus
• Lars Magnus Ericsson — Ericsson
• Agner Krarup Erlang (1878–1929) — in telecommunications and queueing theory, the Erlang (unit) and Erlang distribution are widely used; in computing, the concurrent-processing Erlang (programming language)
• Leonhard Euler — Euler's formula, Eulerian path, Euler equations; see also: List of topics named after Leonhard Euler
• Europa — Europe
• Bartolomeo Eustachi — Eustachian tube
• William Davies Evans — Evans Gambit
• Sir George Everest* — Mount Everest
• Ewale a Mbedi — Duala people, Douala (from a variant of his name, Dwala)
• Edward Eyre - Lake Eyre, Eyre Peninsula, Eyre Highway, Eyre Creek, Mount Eyre, Eyre Mountains (New Zealand)