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Eliza Orzeszkowa
Eliza Orzeszkowa, born Eliza Pawłowska, was a Polish novelist and essayist, the leading woman writer of the Warsaw Positivism movement, whose masterpiece is Nad Niemnem (1888).
Eliza Pollock
Eliza Pollock (Lida Peyton Pollock, 1840-1919), American archer of the Cincinnati Archers; 1904 Olympic gold in women's team recurve and two bronzes; oldest female Olympic gold medallist at 63 years 333 days.
Eliza Roberts (actress)
Eliza Roberts (born Eliza Rayfiel, 1953) is an American actress, casting director, and producer, Brunella in Animal House, wife and manager of Eric Roberts, Toronto festival Best Actress winner.
Eliza Rose b2b SAIDAH
Eliza Rose b2b SAIDAH is a back-to-back billing pairing two UK garage DJs: Eliza Rose, whose "B.O.T.A." topped the UK chart in 2022, and Amsterdam-based SAIDAH.
Eliza Scanlen
Eliza Scanlen (born 1999, Sydney) is an Australian actress known for Amma Crellin in Sharp Objects, Beth March in Little Women, and the AACTA-winning Babyteeth; also a director of short films.
Eliza Taylor
Eliza Taylor is an Australian actress, also credited early in her career as Eliza Taylor-Cotter, best known as Clarke Griffin on The CW's post-apocalyptic series The 100 (2014-2020), cast without auditioning, after Australian roles in Neighbours, All Saints, and Pirate Islands.
Elizabet Tursynbaeva
Elizabet Tursynbaeva, born in Moscow in 2000, is a Kazakh figure skater who in 2019 became the first woman to land a clean quadruple Salchow at Worlds, taking silver.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Elder Weiner
Elizabeth (Betsy) Elder Weiner is an American nursing informaticist elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2013, known for pioneering simulation and distance learning in nursing education.
Elizabeth (film)
Elizabeth is a 1998 British historical drama directed by Shekhar Kapur and starring Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I, dramatizing her accession to a divided England.
Elizabeth (given name)
Elizabeth (Elisabeth, Elisabet) is a feminine given name from Hebrew Elisheva, "my God is an oath", via Greek Elisabet; borne by Aaron's wife and John the Baptist's mother, and never below rank 30 for US girls since 1880.
Elizabeth A. Campbell
Elizabeth A. Campbell is a structural biologist at Rockefeller University who studies RNA polymerases, known for the first rifampicin-bound polymerase structure and atomic structures of the SARS-CoV-2 replication machinery.
Elizabeth A. Craig
Elizabeth A. Craig is an American molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies Hsp70 molecular chaperones and J-protein co-chaperones in yeast; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer
Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer is a Canadian medical oncologist at Queen's University who directed the NCIC Clinical Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program from 1982 to 2012.
Elizabeth A. Kovachevich
Elizabeth Anne Kovachevich is an American jurist, a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1982.
Elizabeth A. McGlynn
Elizabeth A. McGlynn is an American health services researcher, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2005, best known for a 2003 study finding US adults receive about half of recommended care.
Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps is a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard University who studies how emotion shapes memory and decision making, and showed fear memories can be rewritten through reconsolidation.
Elizabeth A. Thompson
Elizabeth A. Thompson (born 1949) is a statistical geneticist, Professor of Statistics Emerita at the University of Washington, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.
Elizabeth A. Tivol
Elizabeth A. Tivol is an immunologist best known as first author of the 1995 Immunity paper reporting the CTLA-4 knockout mouse, cited in the 2018 Nobel Prize background.
Elizabeth A. Wolford
Elizabeth Ann Wolford is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of New York since 2013, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Elizabeth Allen (actress)
Elizabeth Allen (1929–2006), born Elizabeth Ellen Gillease, American film, TV, and Broadway actress; Amelia Dedham in Donovan's Reef (1963), Gleason Show's "away we go" girl, Tony-nominated for The Gay Life and Do I Hear a Waltz?. Distinct from Elizabeth Allan and the 1904-1992 Elizabeth Allen.
Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs
Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs: two remote coral atolls in the northern Tasman Sea, 150 km north of Lord Howe Island, the world's southernmost open ocean platform reefs, an Australian Ramsar site and Marine National Nature Reserve.
Elizabeth Ann Blaesing
Elizabeth Ann Blaesing (1919-2005), born Elizabeth Ann Christian in Asbury Park, NJ, was the daughter of Nan Britton and President Warren G. Harding, confirmed by 2015 AncestryDNA testing.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Elizabeth Ann Seton, also known as Mother Seton, was a New York widow who converted to Catholicism and founded the Sisters of Charity at Emmitsburg, Maryland, in 1809.
Elizabeth Anne Kellogg
Elizabeth Anne Kellogg, known professionally as Toby Kellogg, is a plant systematist who studies grass evolution and crop biology at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis.
Elizabeth Arden
Elizabeth Arden, born Florence Nightingale Graham, was a Canadian-born entrepreneur who built one of the twentieth century's largest cosmetics companies from a Fifth Avenue salon opened in 1910.
Elizabeth Ashley
Elizabeth Ashley (Elizabeth Ann Cole, born 1939) is an American stage, film, and TV actress; Tony winner for Take Her, She's Mine (1962), famed for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1974), Evening Shade, and Russian Doll, distinct from the British actress of the same name (1920–2001).
Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1842-1933), Libbie, American author and widow of General George Armstrong Custer; wrote Boots and Saddles, Following the Guidon, Tenting on the Plains, and campaigned 57 years to make her husband a hero.
Elizabeth Banks
Elizabeth Banks (born 1974, born Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell) is an American actress, director, and producer known for Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games, directing Pitch Perfect 2 and Cocaine Bear, four Emmy nominations, and Brownstone Productions.
Elizabeth Barnard
Elizabeth Barnard (1608-1670), born Elizabeth Hall, was William Shakespeare's only grandchild and last direct descendant; she married Thomas Nash in 1626 and Sir John Barnard in 1649, inherited New Place, and died childless.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), English Victorian poet, wife of Robert Browning; wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese (44 love sonnets, 1850) and Aurora Leigh (1857); also political verse on Italian unification, child labor, and slavery.