Eberhard is an old Germanic name meaning the strength or courage of a wild
boar
The wild boar (''Sus scrofa''), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a Suidae, suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The speci ...
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People
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Eberhard of Friuli (815–866), Duke and key figure in the Carolingian Empire
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Eberhard of Béthune (died 1212), Flemish grammarian
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Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (1445–1496)
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Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg (after 1315–1392)
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Eberhard I, Count of Bonngau (died 937)
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Eberhard III, Duke of Franconia (ca. 885–939)
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Eberhard (Archbishop of Trier) (1010–1066)
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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
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Eberhard Zacharias Munck af Rosenschöld (1775–1840), Swedish vaccine pioneer
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Eberhard Anheuser (1806–1880), soap and candle maker, co-founder of
Anheuser-Busch
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Eberhard Wagner (* 1938), German linguist and author
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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
Last name
*Eberhard family, a prominent Swiss industrialist family (
Eberhard & Co.) from Bern whose origin has been traced back to the 10th century
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George-Emile Eberhard (1868–1936), founder of Eberhard & Co
**George Eberhard, George-Emile's son and heir
**Maurice Eberhard, George-Emile's son and heir
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Christian August Gottlob Eberhard (1769–1884), German writer
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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
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Fritz Eberhard (1896–1982), German journalist
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Hans J. Müller-Eberhard (1927–1998), molecular immunologist
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Théodore Eberhard
Théodore Eberhard (29 August 1812 – 12 May 1874) was a Luxembourg
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(1812–1874), Luxembourgish architect and politician
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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
Companies
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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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Everard Everard is a given name and surname which is the anglicised version of the old Germanic name Eberhard. Notable people with the name include:
People First name
* Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps (1835–1857), English East India officer awarded the ...
, anglicized version of the name
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Evert
Evert is a Dutch and Swedish short form of the Germanic masculine name "Everhard" (alternative Eberhard).Evert
at the , Dutch version of the name
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Eberhardt
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Eberhart (disambiguation)
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Germanic-language surnames
Surnames from given names