Eberhard is an old Germanic name meaning the strength or courage of a wild

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Eberhard of Friuli Eberhard (c. 815 – 16 December 867) was the Frankish Duke of Friuli from 846. His name is alternatively spelled Everard, Evrard, Erhard, or Eberard; in Latinized fashion, ''Everardus'', ''Eberardus'', or ''Eberhardus''. He wrote his own name "E ...

(815–866), Duke and key figure in the Carolingian Empire *

Eberhard of Béthune file:Eberardo di béthune, il graecismus, 1275, copista lamberto di vergy (bml, pl 25 sin 10).jpg, ''Graecismus'' by Eberhard of Béthune (also known as Everard of Béthune, Évrard de Béthune, Éverard de Béthune, Ebrardus Bethuniensis or Bithu ...

(died 1212), Flemish grammarian *

Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg Eberhard I of Württemberg also known as Eberhard im Bart (Eberhard the bearded) (11 December 144524 February 1496) was the first Duke of Württemberg. After the death of his older brother in 1459 he became the Count of Württemberg-Urach as E ...

(1445–1496) *

Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg Eberhard II (131515 March 1392), nicknamed the Quarrelsome (), was Count of Württemberg from 1344 until his death in 1392. He ruled Württemberg alongside his brother, Ulrich IV, before forcing him out of power in 1362. Life Eberhard was born ...

(after 1315–1392) * Eberhard I, Count of Bonngau (died 937) *

Eberhard III, Duke of Franconia Eberhard (c. 885 – 2 October 939), a member of the Conradine dynasty, was Duke of Franconia, succeeding his elder brother, King Conrad I, in December 918. From 926 to 928, he also acted as ruler of Lotharingia. Life Eberhard was the second so ...

(ca. 885–939) * Eberhard (Archbishop of Trier) (1010–1066) *

Eberhard of Salzburg Eberhard was Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria from 1146 until his death in 1164. Life Eberhard was born to a noble family of Nuremberg, Germany; he became a Benedictine in 1125 at Pruffening, Germany. Later he was made Abbot of Biburg near Re ...

(died 1164), Bishop of Salzburg and saint * Eberhard Zacharias Munck af Rosenschöld (1775–1840), Swedish vaccine pioneer *

Eberhard Anheuser Eberhard Anheuser (27 September 1806 – May 1880) was a German-American soap and candle maker, and the father-in-law of Adolphus Busch, with whom he co-founded the Anheuser-Busch Company. Anheuser grew up in Kreuznach, where his parents opera ...

(1806–1880), soap and candle maker, co-founder of

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* Eberhard Wagner (* 1938), German linguist and author *

Eberhard Weber Eberhard Weber is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, he is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing. Weber's compositions blend chamber jazz, European classical music, minimalism and ambient music, and are regarded ...

(* 1940), German jazz musician and composer

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*Eberhard family, a prominent Swiss industrialist family ( Eberhard & Co.) from Bern whose origin has been traced back to the 10th century **

George-Emile Eberhard Georges Eberhard (1865–1926) was a Swiss watchmaker and industrialist who founded Eberhard & Co. Biography Early life Georges-Lucien Eberhard was born in 1865 in Saint-Imier, the son of a prominent Bernese family tracing its origins back to ...

(1868–1936), founder of Eberhard & Co **George Eberhard, George-Emile's son and heir **Maurice Eberhard, George-Emile's son and heir * Christian August Gottlob Eberhard (1769–1884), German writer *

Dennis Eberhard Dennis Eberhard (1943-2005) was an American composer. In his youth he was crippled by polio, which contributed to respiratory problems that contributed to his death in 2005. Eberhard was an active composer for more than 30 years and was a mem ...

(1943–2005), American composer *

Fritz Eberhard Fritz Eberhard (2 October 1896 – 30 March 1982) was a German journalist, anti-fascist and social democrat and fought in the German Resistance against Nazism. He was a member of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). After the wa ...

(1896–1982), German journalist *

Hans J. Müller-Eberhard Hans Joachim Müller-Eberhard (born Hans Joachim Müller, 5 May 1927, Magdeburg was a distinguished molecular immunologist who did pioneering research in the United States and his native Germany. The areas of investigation upon which he left his ...

(1927–1998), molecular immunologist *

Hermann Eberhard Hermann Eberhard (27 February 1852 in Ohlau, Silesia – 30 May 1908) was a 19th-century German explorer credited with western discovery of considerable lands in Patagonia, Chile. Eberhard journeyed by boat up the Última Esperanza Sound to invest ...

(1852–1908), 19th-century German explorer who discovered Giant sloth remains at Cueva del Milodon Natural Monument *

Johann Augustus Eberhard Johann Augustus Eberhard (August 31, 1739January 6, 1809) was a German theologian and "popular philosopher". Life and career Eberhard was born at Halberstadt in the Principality of Halberstadt, where his father was a school teacher and the singi ...

(1739–1809), German theologian *

Martin Eberhard Martin Forest Eberhard (; born 1960) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Tesla, Inc. (then Tesla Motors) with Marc Tarpenning in July 2003, where Eberhard was its original CEO serving until late 2007. In 2015, he was induct ...

(born 1960), co-founder and former CEO of Tesla Motors *

Mary Jane West-Eberhard Mary Jane West-Eberhard (born 1941) is an American theoretical biologist noted for arguing that phenotypic and developmental plasticity played a key role in shaping animal evolution and speciation. She is also an entomologist notable for her wor ...

(born 1941), contemporary biologist upon social wasps and phenotypic plasticity *

Matthias Eberhard Matthias Eberhard (born 15 November 1815, at Trier, Germany, died there 30 May 1876) was a German Roman Catholic Bishop of Trier. After successfully completing the Gymnasium (Germany), gymnasium course of his native town, he devoted himself ...

(1815–1876), Roman Catholic Bishop of Trier *

Paul Eberhard Paul Hans Eberhard (30 October 1917 – 4 September 1983) was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s. He won the silver medal in the two-man event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. He was born in Bülach and died in K� ...

(1917–1983), Swiss bobsledder *

Théodore Eberhard Théodore Eberhard (29 August 1812 – 12 May 1874) was a Luxembourg Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the eas ...

(1812–1874), Luxembourgish architect and politician *

Wolfram Eberhard Wolfram Eberhard (March 17, 1909 – August 15, 1989) was a professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley focused on Western, Central and Eastern Asian societies. Biography Born in Potsdam, German Empire, he had a str ...

(1909–1989), a sociologist of rural China

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Eberhard's Eberhard's or Eberhard was a supermarket chain based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The company ceased operations in the early 1990s succumbing to increased competition, and the inability to keep up with evolving supermarket trends. Between 1985 and ...

, supermarket chain in Michigan

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