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Elizabeth Barrett‐Connor
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor (1935–2019) was an American epidemiologist and physician who founded and directed the Rancho Bernardo Study of Healthy Aging at UC San Diego for nearly five decades.
Elizabeth Báthory
Elizabeth Báthory (Báthory Erzsébet), 1560–1614, Hungarian countess of Čachtice Castle, the "Blood Countess." Arrested 1610 by Palatine Thurzó, never tried; the blood-bath legend appears only in 18th-century accounts.
Elizabeth Bennet
Elizabeth Bennet (Eliza, Lizzy): heroine of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813), second of five Bennet sisters, witty and quick to judge; her mistaken prejudice against Darcy, undone by his letter, distinguishes her from all other characters of the same name.
Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
Elizabeth Bennett-Parker is an American Democratic politician serving in the Virginia Senate from the 39th district, elected in 2026 after serving in the House of Delegates and as Vice Mayor of Alexandria.
Elizabeth Berkley
Elizabeth Berkley (born 1972), American actress known as Jessie Spano in Saved by the Bell and Nomi Malone in Showgirls (1995); later The First Wives Club, Ask Elizabeth workshops, and the 2020 reboot.
Elizabeth Berrington
Elizabeth Berrington (born 1970, Wallasey) is an English actress, Webber Douglas Academy graduate, known for Waterloo Road, Stella, Mike Leigh films (Naked, Secrets & Lies), Abigail's Party, Good Omens, and ITV's Frauds.
Elizabeth Bettini
Elizabeth Bettini is an American special education researcher at Boston University Wheelock who studies teachers' working conditions and received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) was an American poet known for precise, descriptive verse and sparing publication, winning the 1956 Pulitzer Prize, 1970 National Book Award, and 1976 Neustadt Prize.
Elizabeth Blaber
Elizabeth Blaber is a space biologist and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who studies how spaceflight stressors affect stem cells and tissue regeneration.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn, born 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania, is an Australian-born molecular biologist who determined telomere DNA composition and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), British-born physician, first woman to earn an M.D. from an American medical school (Geneva Medical College, 1849); founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children and its women's medical college, and was first woman on the British Medical Register.
Elizabeth Blount
Elizabeth Blount, known as Bessie Blount, was an English gentlewoman from Shropshire who became Henry VIII's acknowledged mistress and bore his only acknowledged illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, in 1519.
Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire
Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and Ormond (Elizabeth Howard, d. 3 April 1538), Howard noblewoman, wife of Thomas Boleyn, mother of Anne, Mary, and George Boleyn, lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon, buried at Lambeth.
Elizabeth Bonner
Elizabeth (Beth) Bonner, American marathon runner (1952-1998), first woman under three hours with 2:55:22 at the 1971 New York City Marathon; also set a 3:01:42 world best in Philadelphia that year.
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer of The Last September, The Death of the Heart, and the wartime London novel The Heat of the Day; MI5 reporter, ARP warden, and a modernist often compared with Virginia Woolf.
Elizabeth Bugie
Elizabeth Bugie, later Elizabeth Bugie Gregory, was an American biochemist at Rutgers who co-authored the 1944 streptomycin discovery paper yet received only a 0.2 percent royalty share.
Elizabeth C. Coombe
Elizabeth C. Coombe is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of New York since 2024, appointed by President Biden.
Elizabeth C. Engle
Elizabeth C. Engle is an American neurologist and neurogeneticist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School whose research defined the congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders, birth defects of cranial nerve development.
Elizabeth C. Miller
Elizabeth C. Miller (1920–1987) was an American biochemist who, with her husband James A. Miller, founded the field of chemical carcinogenesis at the University of Wisconsin.
Elizabeth C. Raff
Elizabeth C. Raff, known as Beth Raff, is a cell biologist at Indiana University who used Drosophila genetics to show that tubulin isoforms determine microtubule architecture; she retired in 2019.
Elizabeth C. Wayne
Elizabeth C. Wayne is an American biomedical engineer who repurposes macrophages as drug delivery vehicles and living biosensors, and teaches bioengineering at the University of Washington.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), American suffragist, abolitionist, and philosopher of the woman's rights movement; author of the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments, co-founder of the NWSA with Susan B. Anthony, and writer of The Woman's Bible.
Elizabeth Carling
Elizabeth Carling (Liz Carling), English actress and singer born 1967 in Middlesbrough; known for Phoebe in Goodnight Sweetheart, Selena Donovan in Casualty, Betty Scanlon in Hotel Portofino.
Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Catlett, also known as Elizabeth Catlett Mora, was an American and Mexican sculptor and printmaker best known for depicting the Black American experience, often centered on women's lives.
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1758-1824), born Elizabeth Hervey, Lady Elizabeth Foster, was a British diarist, novelist, and arts patron: companion of Georgiana, second wife of the 5th Duke of Devonshire, later excavator of the Roman Forum in Rome.
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (born 1978, New York City) is an American documentary filmmaker; with husband Jimmy Chin she directed Meru, the Oscar- and BAFTA-winning Free Solo, The Rescue, and her first narrative film Nyad (2023).
Elizabeth Chambers (television personality)
Elizabeth Chambers (born 1982), American TV personality, journalist, and BIRD Bakery founder; ex-wife of Armie Hammer; star of Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise and creator of the docuseries Toxic.
Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine
Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine (Liselotte von der Pfalz, 1652-1722), German-born Duchess of Orléans, second wife of Louis XIV's brother Philippe I, and author of roughly 60,000 letters documenting the court of Versailles.
Elizabeth Christ Trump
Elizabeth Christ Trump, born Elisabetha Christ (1880–1966), was a German-born American real estate entrepreneur who founded E. Trump & Son, the firm that became the Trump Organization.
Elizabeth City State University
Elizabeth City State University (ECSU), founded 1891 in Elizabeth City, NC, is a public historically black university in the UNC System, known for North Carolina's only four-year Aviation Science degree program and NC Promise tuition.