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Eliseo J. Perez-Stable

Eliseo J. Perez-Stable, also known as Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, is a Cuban-born American physician-scientist who has directed the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at NIH since 2015.

Elisey Mysin

Elisey Mysin (Елисей Мысин), born 2010 in Stavropol, is a Russian pianist and composer, first-prize winner at the Cleveland, Nashville Chopin, Zhuhai Mozart, and Krainev competitions, and a Denis Matsuev project regular.

Elisha (אֱלִישָׁע)

Elisha (אֱלִישָׁע), also known as Eliseus, was a prophet in the northern kingdom of Israel, called from plowing by Elijah and known for his miracles.

Elisha Cook Jr.

Elisha Cook Jr. (December 26, 1903 – May 18, 1995) was an American stage, film, and television character actor. He appeared in more than 100 films and was known particularly for villainous.

Elisha Cuthbert

Elisha Cuthbert, born 1982, is a Canadian actress known for playing Kim Bauer on the Fox action series 24 and Alex Kerkovich on the sitcom Happy Endings.

Elisha Gray

Elisha Gray was an American electrical engineer and inventor who co-founded the company that became Western Electric and filed a telephone caveat hours apart from Bell's 1876 patent application.

Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy

The Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy, or Bell-Gray controversy, is the dispute over who invented the telephone, sparked by same-day patent filings in February 1876.

Elisha Otis

Elisha Otis, or Elisha Graves Otis (1811–1861), was an American inventor whose 1854 demonstration of the elevator safety brake made passenger elevators safe and accepted.

Elision

Elision is the omission of a sound, such as a vowel, consonant, or syllable, from a word in speech, common in rapid casual conversation and often marked with an apostrophe.

ELISION Ensemble

ELISION Ensemble: Australian contemporary music ensemble founded in Melbourne in the mid 1980s, led by Daryl Buckley, known for complex new music, Liza Lim operas, and about 800 commissions.

ELISPOT assay

The ELISPOT assay is an immunoassay that detects and counts individual cells secreting a specific protein, most often a cytokine or antibody, first reported in 1983.

Elissa L. Newport

Elissa L. Newport is an American cognitive scientist at Georgetown University known for the "less is more" hypothesis of child language learning and for helping establish statistical learning.

Elissa Slotkin

Elissa Slotkin, Democratic U.S. Senator from Michigan since 2025, former CIA analyst with three Iraq tours and Pentagon official; House 2019-2025, elected Senate 2024 succeeding Debbie Stabenow.

Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi

Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi, born in 1956, is a Greek New Democracy politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014 and has chaired its Transport and Tourism Committee since 2024.

Elita

Elita (Fredericks, 1918) is an extinct Devonian brachiopod genus in family Elythidae, order Spiriferida; type species Elita fimbriata (Conrad, 1842), a spine-bearing index fossil of eastern North America, also known from China, Russia, and Colombia.

Elita Karim

Elita Karim is a Bangladeshi singer and journalist in Dhaka who rose as a vocalist with the rock band Black and edited The Daily Star's Arts & Entertainment desk.

Elite

Elite: a small group concentrating wealth, power, and honor in any society; classical elite theory (Mosca, Pareto, Michels) holds that ruling minorities always govern majorities, later adapted into democratic elitism.

Elite (TV series)

Élite (Elite) is a Spanish Netflix teen thriller-drama created by Carlos Montero and Darío Madrona, set at the exclusive school Las Encinas, running eight seasons and 64 episodes from October 2018 to July 2024 around murders and class conflict.

Elite (video game)

Elite (1984) is a space trading and combat game by Ian Bell and David Braben for the BBC Micro, published by Acornsoft; wireframe 3D, procedural eight-galaxy universe, Cobra MkIII, ranks up to Elite, sequels to Elite Dangerous.

Elite Dangerous

Elite Dangerous (2014) is Frontier Developments' fourth Elite-series space sim, simulating a 1:1 Milky Way of 400 billion star systems via its Stellar Forge procedural engine, with a Thargoid War narrative, Odyssey on-foot expansion, and 2025 System Colonisation.

Elite Ice Hockey League

Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL), Motorpoint Elite Ice Hockey League, UK top-tier professional ice hockey founded 2003 with 10 teams playing 54 games; record 1,321,128 attendance in 2025/26.

Elite League (speedway)

Elite League (speedway): top division of British league speedway until 2016, also called Elite League. Play-off champions from 2002 included Poole (five titles) and Wolverhampton; replaced in 2017 by the SGB Premiership.

Elite League (엘리트 리그) (TV series)

Elite League is a Coupang Play South Korean reality survival series, first released November 3, 2023, in which top students from Seoul National University, KAIST, and other elite universities compete in brain battles; season 3 used a medical vs. STEM format.

Elite Model Management

Elite Model Management, founded in Paris in 1972 by John Casablancas, is an international modeling agency network behind Elite Model Look and the supermodel era, now part of Elite World Group with offices worldwide.

Elite Squad

Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite) is José Padilha's 2007 Brazilian drama about Rio's BOPE police unit, starring Wagner Moura as Captain Nascimento; it won the 2008 Berlin Golden Bear and sparked national controversy over police brutality.

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de Elite 2) is a 2010 Brazilian crime-political film directed by José Padilha, starring Wagner Moura as Colonel Nascimento.

Elite Syncopations (ballet)

Elite Syncopations is Kenneth MacMillan's 1974 one-act ragtime ballet for The Royal Ballet, set to Scott Joplin and others with an onstage band, Spurling costumes, premiered 7 October 1974 at Covent Garden.

Elite theory

Elite theory: political and sociological doctrine from Pareto, Mosca, and Michels holding that a ruling minority always governs, including in democracies; includes Michels' iron law of oligarchy, democratic elitism, and pluralist rivals.

Elite wheelchair tennis seasons and match records

Elite wheelchair tennis seasons are the year-by-year competitive records of top players on the ITF wheelchair tour, whose 2017 Wheelchair World Champions were Yui Kamiji, Gustavo Fernandez, and David Wagner.

EliteBus

EliteBus is a satellite bus product line developed by Thales Alenia Space in France for telecommunications constellations, serving as the common platform for second-generation Globalstar, O3b, and Iridium NEXT.