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Elisabeth Murdoch (philanthropist)
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE (1909-2012), Australian philanthropist, widow of Sir Keith Murdoch and mother of Rupert Murdoch; president of the Royal Children's Hospital, founder of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, DBE 1963, supporter of over 100 charities annually.
Elisabeth of Romania
Elisabeth of Romania (Elisabeta, Carmen Sylva, 1843–1916), first Queen of Romania as consort of Carol I; German-born Wied princess, author of 89 books, Red Cross founder, exiled 1890–1894 over the Văcărescu affair.
Elisabeth of Valois
Elisabeth of Valois (Élisabeth de France; Isabel de Valois), 1545-1568, French princess, second child of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, and Queen consort of Spain as Philip II's third wife via the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis.
Elisabeth of Wied
Elisabeth of Wied, who wrote under the pseudonym Carmen Sylva, was a German-born writer who became the first Queen of Romania as the wife of King Carol I in 1881.
Elisabeth Röhm
Elisabeth Röhm, German-American actress born 1973 in Düsseldorf, played ADA Serena Southerlyn on Law & Order (2001–2005) and Kate Lockley on Angel; since 2021 she directs Lifetime true-crime films and co-founded Röhm Feifer Entertainment.
Elisabeth Rotten
Elisabeth Rotten (1882–1964) was a Swiss-German reform pedagogue, pacifist, and Quaker who attended the 1915 Hague Women's Peace Congress and co-founded the New Education Fellowship.
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, born 1938 in Romania, is a German Roman Catholic feminist theologian, Krister Stendahl Professor Emerita at Harvard Divinity School, and author of In Memory of Her.
Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Judson Shue (born 1963, Wilmington, Delaware) is an American actress, sister of Andrew Shue; starred in The Karate Kid, Adventures in Babysitting, Cocktail, and Leaving Las Vegas, earning a 1995 Oscar nomination.
Elisabeth Sladen
Elisabeth Sladen, also known as Liz Sladen, was an English actress best known as Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who, who later starred in The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Elisabeth Svantesson
Elisabeth Svantesson is a Swedish Moderate Party politician serving as Minister for Finance of Sweden since 2022, presenting the government's budgets and leading its response to rising energy prices.
Elisabeth Tournier‐Lasserve
Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve is a French medical geneticist and neurologist at Université Paris Cité whose laboratory identified the Notch3 gene behind CADASIL, a hereditary stroke disorder; she shared the 2019 Brain Prize.
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), French portrait painter, official painter to Marie Antoinette from 1779 with about 30 portraits of the queen, Académie member 1783, twelve-year European exile after 1789, author of the Souvenirs (1835–1837).
Elisabethpol Governorate
Elisabethpol Governorate (Елизаветпольская губерния) was a governorate of the Russian Empire in eastern Transcaucasia from 1868 to 1917, with its center at Elisabethpol, now Ganja.
Elisabetta Canalis
Elisabetta Canalis, born 1978 in Sassari, is an Italian showgirl, presenter, and actress, ex-velina of Striscia la notizia (1999–2002), Sanremo 2011 co-host, Dancing with the Stars 2011 contestant, ex-wife of surgeon Brian Perri, and 2026 host of Tú sí que vales.
Elisabetta Dejana
Elisabetta Dejana, born 1951 in Bologna, is an Italian vascular biologist known for discovering VE-cadherin, the first tissue-specific cadherin, and for work on angiogenesis and cerebral cavernous malformations.
Elisabetta Patorno
Elisabetta Patorno is an Italian-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, a Harvard School of Public Health graduate who became Professor of Medicine at UCLA in 2026 and led the 2017 NEJM study on lithium use in pregnancy.
Elisabetta Ullu
Elisabetta Ullu was an Italian-born RNA biologist and molecular parasitologist at Yale School of Medicine known for her studies of Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness.
Elisama
Elisama (Giebel, 1856) is an extinct genus of Blattulidae cockroaches, Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous, with species from Mongolia and Cretaceous amber including E. kacerovae, E. pterostigmata, and E. globosa.
Elisaveta Bagryana
Elisaveta Bagryana (Елисавета Багряна), born Elisaveta Lyubenova Belcheva, was a Bulgarian poet whose 1927 debut, The Eternal and the Holy, introduced a frank female voice into Bulgarian poetry.
Elise Christie
Elise Christie, Livingston-born British short track speed skater; 2017 overall world champion (first European woman), 500m world record 42.335, three Olympics without a medal, retired December 2021.
Elise Eberle
Elise Eberle (born 1993) is an American actress from Albuquerque, New Mexico, known for playing Mercy Lewis on WGN America's Salem (2014-2017), Tiger Eyes (2012), Shameless, and The Last Tycoon; distinct from Swiss artist Elisabeth Eberle.
Elise Kibler
Elise Kibler is an American actor, director, and writer based in New York City and an NYU Tisch graduate. Known for Broadway's The Heidi Chronicles, All the Natalie Portmans, The Night Agent, and American Classic; distinct from the San Antonio pediatrician of the same name.
Elise Mertens
Elise Mertens, Belgian tennis player born 1995 in Leuven; 10 WTA singles titles, 24 doubles titles, six Grand Slam doubles crowns, former doubles world No. 1, 2018 Australian Open singles semifinalist.
Elise Neal
Elise Neal, born 1966 in Memphis, Tennessee, is an American actress and producer known for Yvonne Hughley on The Hughleys, Tia Jewel on All of Us, and films Scream 2, Hustle & Flow, and Logan; distinguished from Eliza Neals, the blues musician, and Elise Neel, the Panasonic executive.
Elise Rechichi
Elise Rechichi (born 1986, Perth) is an Australian sailor, 2008 Beijing Olympic gold medallist in the women's 470 with Tessa Parkinson, 2012 Olympian with Belinda Stowell, and 2023 Australian Sailing Hall of Fame inductee.
Elise Richter
Elise Richter was an Austrian Romance philologist and phonetician, the first woman to habilitate in Austria-Hungary in 1905, dismissed by the Nazis and murdered in Theresienstadt in 1943.
Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik, Republican U.S. representative for New York's 21st District since 2015, youngest woman ever elected to Congress, House Republican Conference chair 2021-2025, Trump's withdrawn UN ambassador nominee.
Elise van Truyen
Elise van Truyen (Elise Louise Van Truÿen, born 13 April 1906, Anderlecht) was a Belgian high jumper, long jumper, and sprinter of the 1920s-1930s; 15 national titles, unratified 1924 high jump world records, and a 1928 Amsterdam Olympian.
EliseAI
EliseAI is a New York artificial intelligence company, founded in 2017 by Minna Song and Tony Stoyanov, whose AI assistants automate tenant and patient communications for housing and healthcare providers.
Élisée Reclus
Élisée Reclus (1830–1905), French geographer and anarchist, author of the 19-volume Nouvelle Géographie universelle (1876–1894), La Terre (1867–68), and L'Homme et la Terre; Paris Commune participant, exile, professor at Brussels.