Eberhard is an old Germanic name meaning the strength or courage of a wild
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People
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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 ...
(815–866), Duke and key figure in the Carolingian Empire
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Eberhard of Béthune
Eberhard of Béthune (also known as Everard of Béthune, Évrard de Béthune, Éverard de Béthune, Ebrardus Bethuniensis or Bithuniensis, Eberhardus Bethuniensis, Eberard, Ebrard, Ebrad; d. c. 1212) was a Flemish grammarian of the early thirteenth ...
(died 1212), Flemish grammarian
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Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg
Eberhard I of Württemberg (11 December 144524 February 1496) was known as Count ''Eberhard V'' from 1459 to 1495, and from July 1495 he was the first Duke of Württemberg. He is also known as ''Eberhard im Bart'' (Eberhard the Bearded).
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(1445–1496)
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Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg
Eberhard II, called ''"der Greiner"'' (the Jarrer) (after 1315 – 15 March 1392, in Stuttgart), Count of Württemberg from 1344 until 1392.
Eberhard II was son of Count Ulrich III of Württemberg and Sofie of Pfirt. He married Countess Eliz ...
(after 1315–1392)
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Eberhard I, Count of Bonngau
Eberhard I, count of Bonngau and count in Zulpichgau and in Keldachgau (904 – 937), son of Erenfried I of Maasgau.
He left children:
*Hermann I count in Auelgau (922/48), who had children:
**Eberhard II count in Auelgau (died 966), and
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(died 937)
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Eberhard III, Duke of Franconia
Eberhard III (c. 885 – 2 October 939), a member of the Conradines, Conradine dynasty, was Duchy of Franconia, Duke of Franconia, succeeding his elder brother, King Conrad I of Germany, Conrad I, in December 918. From 926 to 928, he also acted a ...
Eberhard of Salzburg
Eberhard was Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria.
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 Regensburg. In 1146 Pope Innocent II ap ...
(died 1164), Bishop of Salzburg and saint
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Eberhard Anheuser
Eberhard Anheuser (27 September 1806–May 1880) was a German American soap and candle maker, as well as the father-in-law of Adolphus Busch, the founder of the Anheuser-Busch Company.
Anheuser grew up in Kreuznach, where his parents operated ...
(1806–1880), Soap and candle maker, co-founder of
Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC is an American brewing company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 2008, it has been wholly owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (AB InBev), now the world's largest brewing company, which owns multiple glo ...
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Eberhard Weber
Eberhard Weber (born 22 January 1940, in Stuttgart, Germany) 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, m ...
(* 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
** 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
Christian August Gottlob Eberhard (12 January 176913 May 1845) was a German miscellaneous writer.
He was born at Belzig, in the Electorate of Saxony. He studied theology at Leipzig; but, having had a story successfully published in a periodical ...
(1769–1884), a 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 membe ...
(1943–2005), an American composer
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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 war ...
(1896-1982), German journalist
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Hans J. Müller-Eberhard
Hans Joachim Müller-Eberhard (May 5, 1927 – March 3, 1998) 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 mark include t ...
(1927–1998), a 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 Seno Última Esperanza to inve ...
(1852–1908), a 19th-century German explorer that 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 singin ...
(1739–1809), a German theologian
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Martin Eberhard
Martin Eberhard (born ) is an American inventor, engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Tesla, Inc. (then Tesla Motors) with Marc Tarpenning in 2003. Eberhard served as Tesla's original chairman, and its CEO until late 2007. In 2015, he was in ...
(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 work ...
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 course of his native town, he devoted himself to the study of theolo ...
(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 Küsna ...
(1917–1983), Swiss bobsledder
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Théodore Eberhard
Théodore Eberhard (29 August 1812 – 12 May 1874) was a Luxembourgish architect and politician.
Biography
Eberhard was born in Luxembourg City.
He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1851 to 1854 and of the ''Assemblée des État ...
(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 strong f ...
(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 19 ...
, 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:
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*Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps (1835–1857), English East India officer awarded the V ...
, 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 Eberhardt is a Germanic surname. It may refer to:
People
*Andrei Eberhardt (1856–1919), Russian naval officer
* Charles Eberhardt (1871-1965), American diplomat
*Cliff Eberhardt (b. 1954), American contemporary folk singer and songwriter
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Eberhart (disambiguation) Eberhart is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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*Adolph Olson Eberhart (1870-1944), American politician
*Mark Eberhart, American chemist and author
* Meredith J. Eberhart, American hiker
* Mignon G. Eberh ...