Eberhard
Eberhard is an old Germanic name meaning the strength or courage of a wild boar.
People
First name
- Eberhard of Friuli (815–866), Duke and key figure in the Carolingian Empire
- Eberhard of Béthune (died 1212), Flemish grammarian
- Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (1445–1496)
- Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg (after 1315–1392)
- Eberhard I, Count of Bonngau (died 937)
- Eberhard III, Duke of Franconia (ca 885–939)
- Eberhard (Archbishop of Trier) (1010–1066)
- Eberhard of Salzburg (died 1164), Bishop of Salzburg and saint
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
- Christian August Gottlob Eberhard (1769–1884), a German writer
- Dennis Eberhard (1943–2005), an American composer
- Hans J. Müller-Eberhard (1927–1998), a molecular immunologist
- Hermann Eberhard (1852–1908), a 19th-century German explorer that discovered Giant sloth remains at Cueva del Milodon Natural Monument
- Johann Augustus Eberhard (1739–1809), a German theologian
- Martin Eberhard (born 1960), co-founder and former CEO of Tesla Motors
- Mary Jane West-Eberhard contemporary biologist upon social wasps and phenotypic plasticity
- Matthias Eberhard (1815–1876), Roman Catholic Bishop of Trier
- Paul Eberhard (born 1917), Swiss bobsledder
- Théodore Eberhard (1812–1874), Luxembourgish architect and politician
- Wolfram Eberhard (1909–1989), a sociologist of rural China
Companies
- Eberhard's, supermarket chain in Michigan
gollark: I'm disappointed it's not cruxen.
gollark: The whole "borrowed from X" thing is really the crux of the issue - it just pulls words from other languages, but oh look now you need this grammar too.
gollark: `life` → `lives` also.
gollark: Oxen, too.
gollark: Especially with people insisting it's either "octopi" or "octopoda", which are both wrong.
References
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