Historian, politician, Trinidad and Tobago.

Influential British rock and blues guitarist.

(born February 7, 1943) an American historian.

Eric Russell Bentley (September 14, 1916 – August 5, 2020) was a British-born American theater critic, playwright, singer, editor, and translator.

British sculptor, typographer, and engraver.

(May 10, 1910 – July 15, 1970) a Canadian-born psychiatrist who created the theory of transactional analysis as a way of explaining human behavior.

(July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) an American philosopher and social critic.

Eric Honeywood Partridge (6 February 1894 – 1 June 1979) was a New Zealand–British lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang.

(June 25, 1929 – May 23, 2021) an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books.

George Orwell's real birth name.

British author, thriller and espionage.

(born June 27, 1958) a former professional tennis player from the United States.

Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer.

Sir William Eric Kinloch Anderson (27 May 1936 – 22 April 2020) was a British teacher and educator, who was head master of Eton College from 1980 to 1994 and provost of Eton College from September 2000 to January 2009.

(born 29 March 1943) an English actor, comedian, songwriter, musician, screenwriter and playwright.