Euclid, Euclides, or Eucleides generally refers to the ancient Greek mathematician

Euclid of Alexandria Euclid (; grc-gre, Εὐκλείδης; 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 g ...

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

People

Euclid of Megara Euclid of Megara (; grc-gre, Εὐκλείδης ; 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 he ...

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

Eucleides Eucleides ( grc-gre, Εὐκλείδης) was archon of Athens towards the end of the fifth century BC. He contributed towards the re-establishment of democracy during his years in office (403–402 BC). He is also believed to have contributed to ...

, 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 Kyurdzidis (born 1968), Russian actor *

Euclid Tsakalotos Euclid Stefanou Tsakalotos ( el, Ευκλείδης Στεφάνου Τσακαλώτος, ; born 1960) is a Greek economist and politician who was Minister of Finance of Greece from 2015 to 2019. He is also a member of the Central Committee of ...

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

Mathematics, science, and technology

* Euclid Contest, a maths competition held by the

Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) is a Canadian educational organization dedicated to promoting and creating activities and materials in mathematics and computer science. Founded in 1995 with origins dating back to the 1 ...

Euclid (programming language) Euclid is an imperative programming language for writing Formal verification, verifiable programs. It was designed by Butler Lampson and associates at the Xerox PARC lab in the mid-1970s. The implementation was led by Ric Holt at the University of ...

Euclid (computer program) Euclid is a CAD software which has been developed since 1970. Initially written by Jean Marc Brun and Michel Théron at Laboratoire d'informatique pour la mécanique et les sciences de l'ingénieur (LIMSI) for modelling fluid flow, they founded the ...

* Euclid, a computer system used by

Euroclear Euroclear is a Belgium-based financial services company that specializes in the settlement of securities transactions, as well as the safekeeping and asset servicing of these securities. It was founded in 1968 as part of J.P. Morgan & Co. to settl ...

Euclid (spacecraft) Euclid is a visible to near-infrared space telescope currently under development by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Euclid Consortium. The objective of the Euclid mission is to better understand dark energy and dark matter by accurately ...

, a space telescope built by ESA, to be launched in Feb 2023 *

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

* 4354 Euclides

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 Repu ...

, 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 Develo ...

, 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 and ...

, a university collaboration to assist publishing in math and statistics

Places in the United States

Euclid, Minnesota Euclid is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Minnesota, United States. It is situated on U.S. Route 75, north of Crookston. Euclid has a post office with ZIP code 56722. History A post office called Euclid has been in operation since ...

, 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 Euclid ...

Euclid, Ohio Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is an inner ring suburb of Cleveland. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 49,692. History The City of Euclid was originally a part of Euclid Township, first map ...

, a city and suburb of Cleveland *

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 urbanized ...

, in existence from 1809 to 1917 *

Euclid, Pennsylvania Euclid is an unincorporated community in Butler County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. History Euclid was founded ca. 1880, and named after fashionable Euclid Avenue, in Cleveland, Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the ...

, an unincorporated community *

Euclid, West Virginia Euclid is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, West Virginia, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North Amer ...

, an unincorporated community

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 game originally developed by Wolf Team. It is the first title in Namco's ''Tales (video game series), Tales'' series. Initially released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Famicom in December 1995, it was ...

'' * Euclid, an object classification in the

SCP Foundation The SCP Foundation is a fictional secret organization documented by the collaborative-writing wiki project of the same name. Within the website's shared universe, the Foundation is responsible for capturing, containing, and studying various p ...

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 an 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 Regist ...

, 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 (U.S.), Sierra Nevada of California. It is the List of largest giant sequoias, 17th largest giant sequoia in the ...

, a giant Sequoia in California *

Euclid Trucks The Euclid Company of Ohio was a company that specialized in heavy equipment for earthmoving, namely dump trucks, loaders and wheel tractor-scrapers. It operated in the US from the 1920s to the 1950s, when it was purchased by General Motors. It ...

, 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 ''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 of zoning. ...

'', a U.S. Supreme Court case relevant to contemporary land use and police power issues; the legal precedent for zoning {{Disambiguation, geo, given name