Euclid generally refers to the ancient Greek mathematician

Euclid of Alexandria Euclid (; ; BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry", he is chiefly known for the '' Elements'' treatise, which established the foundations of geometry that largely domina ...

(3rd century BC), who wrote a work on geometry called the ''Elements''. Euclid, Euclides, or Eucleides may also refer to:

People

Euclid of Megara Euclid of Megara (; ; c. 435 – c. 365 BC) was a Greek Socratic philosopher who founded the Megarian school of philosophy. He was a pupil of Socrates in the late 5th century BC, and was present at his death. He held the supreme good to be o ...

(c. 435 BC–c. 365 BC), ancient Greek philosopher *

Eucleides Eucleides () was eponymous archon of Athens for the year running from July/August 403 BC until June/July 402 BC. His year in office was marked by Athens' official adoption of the Ionic alphabet. There is some evidence that he may have been perso ...

, archon of Athens (5th century BC) *

Euclid Bertrand Euclid Bertrand (born July 23, 1974) is a Dominican footballer playing with Dublanc FC in the Dominica Premier League. His wife is María José Pilalo Castro, his stepson Carlos Javier Briones Pilalo, current stepson, currently live in Dominica. ...

(born 1974), Dominican former footballer *

Euclides da Cunha Euclides da Cunha (, January 20, 1866 – August 15, 1909) was a Brazilian journalist, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is '' Os Sertões'' (''Rebellion in the Backlands''), a non-fictional account of the military expeditions ...

(1866–1909), Brazilian sociologist *

Euclid James Sherwood Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood (May 8, 1942 – December 25, 2011) was an American rock musician notable for being a member of the original version of Frank Zappa's band the Mothers of Invention, providing soprano, tenor and baritone saxoph ...

(1942–2011), American musician *

Euclid Kyurdzidis Euclid Kiriakovich Kyurdzidis (), Euclid Gurdjiev ( Gr. Ευκλείδης Κιουρτζίδης του Κυριάκου; born 22 February 1968 in Yessentuki) is a Russian actor, best known for his role as Ruslan Shamayev in '' Voyna''. He was b ...

(born 1968), Russian actor *

Euclid Tsakalotos Euclid Stefanou Tsakalotos ( ; born 1960) is a Greek economist and politician who was Minister of Finance of Greece from 2015 to 2019. He was also a member of the Central Committee of Syriza and has represented Athens B in the Hellenic Parliam ...

(born 1960), Greek economist and Minister of Finance * Nicholas Euclid (1932–2007), Australian rugby league player, coach, and official

Mathematics, science, and technology

* Euclid (computer program) *

Euclid (programming language) {{Infobox programming language , name = Euclid , logo = , paradigm = multi-paradigm: structured, imperative, functional , year = 1970s , designer = Butler Lampson, James G. Mitchell, Jim Horning, Ralph L. London, Gerald J. Popek , develope ...

* ''Euclid'', a space telescope built by ESA, launched in 2023 * Euclid, a computer system used by

Euroclear Euroclear, or the Euroclear Group, is a Belgium-based financial market infrastructure group that specialises in the central securities depository (CSD) segment. It traces its origins to the Euro-clear System developed in 1968 by Morgan Guaranty (a ...

* Euclid Contest, a maths competition held by the

Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing The Faculty of Mathematics is one of six faculties of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, offering more than 500 courses in mathematics, statistics and computer science. The faculty also houses the David R. Cheriton School of Comput ...

Euclidean space Euclidean space is the fundamental space of geometry, intended to represent physical space. Originally, in Euclid's ''Elements'', it was the three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, but in modern mathematics there are ''Euclidean spaces ...

4354 Euclides 4354 Euclides , provisional designation , is a dark Dorian asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 24 September 1960, by Dutch astronomer couple Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten on ...

Higher education

EUCLID (university) EUCLID, also called ''Pôle Universitaire Euclide'' or Euclid University, is an international intergovernmental organization with a university charter established in 2008. It has official headquarters in The Gambia and in the Central African Rep ...

, an intergovernmental organization *

Euclid Consortium The Euclid Consortium is a distance learning educational consortium created in 2005 by the University of Bangui (Central African Republic), the Université Libre Internationale (Belgium), and the International Organization for Sustainable Devel ...

, a group of universities *

Project Euclid Project Euclid is a collaborative partnership between Cornell University Library and Duke University Press which seeks to advance scholarly communication in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics through partnerships with independent a ...

, a university collaboration to assist publishing in math and statistics

Places in the United States

* Euclid, Minnesota, an unincorporated community *

Euclid, Ohio Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. Located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is an Inner suburb, inner ring suburb of Cleveland. The population was 49,692 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the fo ...

, a city and suburb of Cleveland *

Euclid, Pennsylvania Euclid is an unincorporated community in Butler County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. History Euclid was founded , and named after fashionable Euclid Avenue, in Cleveland, Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern Uni ...

, an unincorporated community *

Euclid, West Virginia Euclid is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, West Virginia, United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal r ...

, an unincorporated community *

Euclid Township, Polk County, Minnesota Euclid Township is a township in Polk County, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Grand Forks- ND- MN Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 149 at the 2000 census. Euclid Township was organized in 1879, and named after Eucl ...

Euclid Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States is divided into 21 townships. When Cuyahoga County was founded, it was divided into civil townships for purposes of rural government, as were other Ohio counties. By 1990, this county was the most urbani ...

, in existence from 1809 to 1917

Fiction

* Euclid, a supercomputer built by the fictional character Maximillian Cohen in the 1998 film '' Pi'' * Euclid, a town in the game ''

Tales of Phantasia is an action role-playing video game developed by Wolf Team and published by Namco for the Super Famicom. Originally released only in Japan in December 1995, it is the first title in the '' Tales'' series. It was later ported to a number of othe ...

'' * Euclid, an object classification in the

SCP Foundation The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization featured in stories created by contributors on the SCP Wiki, a wiki-based Collaborative fiction, collaborative writing project. Within the project's shared universe, shared fictional universe, the ...

storytelling project

Other uses

Euclid Avenue (disambiguation) Euclid Avenue may refer to: * California State Route 83 or Euclid Avenue in San Bernardino County, California ** Euclid Avenue (Ontario and Upland, California), a historic district * Euclid Avenue station (San Diego Trolley), California, a railw ...

, several streets in the United States, as well as transit stations and a school *

Euclid Apartments Euclid Apartments is a historic structure located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The building was completed in 1920 and contains 47 units. The building was renovated from 2009 to 2011. It was listed on the National Registe ...

, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C. *

Euclid Tree The Euclid Tree is a giant sequoia located in the Mountain Home Grove, one of several sequoia groves found in the southern Sierra Nevada of California. It is the 17th largest giant sequoia in the world, and could be considered the 16th largest dep ...

, a giant Sequoia in California *

Euclid Trucks The Euclid Trucks was a manufacturer which specialized in heavy equipment for earthworks (engineering), earthmoving, particularly dump trucks, loader (equipment), loaders and wheel tractor-scrapers. Known for its distinctive bright green paint s ...

, a company specialized in heavy equipment for earthmoving * ''

Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. ''Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.'', 272 U.S. 365 (1926), more commonly known as ''Euclid v. Ambler'', was a United States Supreme Court landmark case argued in 1926. It was the first significant case regarding the relatively new practice ...

'', a U.S. Supreme Court case relevant to contemporary land use and police power issues; the legal precedent for zoning * "Euclid", a song by Sleep Token from ''