Famous People with Name Eric

Eric Deis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eric Deis: a Canadian photographer best known for his large-scale photographs of the urban landscape. In particular, his work addresses contentious issues such as Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Woodward's building.[1]Eric Deis received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 2004.[2] Deis is currently lives and works in Vancouver, B.C., where he teaches photography at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.[3]

Eric Goldberg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eric Goldberg: was a Jewish-Canadian painter, born in 1890 in Berlin, Germany. Goldberg was influenced by the art of Pierre-Auguste Renoir at an early age. He studied at Paris, France's Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1906-10) and Académie Julian under Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Jean-Paul Laurens, and taught at the Berlin Academy of Art and, later, the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1911-1915, returning to teach again in then British Mandate of Palestine from 1924-1926). He began working in Montreal in 1928, and soon after began favouring the landscapes of Quebec's Gaspésie region as subjects. In 1939, Goldberg became a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society (in French, Société d'art contemporain), a group of Canadian artists intent on sensitizing the public to modern art.

Eric Pratt Hamp            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eric Pratt Hamp: he received his PhD from Harvard University in 1950s and since then he taught at the University of Chicago where he is Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Departments of Linguistics, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Psychology (Cognition and Communication) and the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World. His field is Indo-European linguistics, particularly Celtic languages and Albanian. He is known for his interest in and expertise on the smaller Indo-European languages. Unlike many Indo-Europeanists, who work entirely on the basis of written materials, he has conducted extensive fieldwork on lesser-known Indo-European languages and dialects, such as Albanian, Breton, Welsh, Irish, and Scots Gaelic.

Eric Schiller            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eric Schiller: an American chess player, trainer, arbiter and author. Schiller has a Ph.D. and is a published author in linguistics, specializing in Cambodian languages. [1] Eric Schiller represented the University of Chicago several times in the Pan American Intercollegiate Team Championships. He was awarded the title of Fide Master shortly after reaching a rating of 2300 points. Since then, he has fallen down the charts and according to the July 2007 FIDE list he has an Elo rating of 2174.[2] He is also an International Arbiter[3] and was the arbiter of a chess match between Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik in 2000[citation needed].

Eric Layman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eric Layman: was a Canadian poet and songwriter/singer. He lived in Toronto, Ontario since 1957.His influences range from Ayn Rand to Appalachian folk ballads. His publications include a full-length book, To a Stark and Clean Place, and two chapbooks, Satires and Sunb