Austrian playwright and novelist
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist.
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American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist
Eli Lilly
Eli Lilly was an American Union Army officer, pharmacist, chemist, and businessman who founded Eli Lilly and Company.
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American actor (1915–2014)
Eli Wallach
Eli Herschel Wallach was an American film, television, and stage actor from New York City.
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American director and actor (1909–2003)
Elia Kazan
Elias Kazantzoglou, known as Elia Kazan, was a Greek-American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
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Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer.
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Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802–1884)
Elias Lönnrot
Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish medical doctor, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry.
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Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
Elie Wiesel
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.
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Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was a Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881, when the Ottoman Empire ruled it.
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