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Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Elizabeth City, North Carolina, is a city of about 18,600 people on the Pasquotank River near the Outer Banks, incorporated in 1793 and known as the Harbor of Hospitality.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, also known as Elizabeth Prophet, was an American religious leader who led the Church Universal and Triumphant from 1973 until her 1999 retirement.
Elizabeth Colbert Busch
Elizabeth Colbert Busch, sister of Stephen Colbert, was the 2013 Democratic nominee in South Carolina's 1st District special election, losing to Mark Sanford 54-45 despite outspending him.
Elizabeth Coleman
Elizabeth Coleman, born 1937, is an American literary scholar and academic administrator who was president of Bennington College from 1987 to 2013, leading its radical 1994 restructuring.
Elizabeth Colson
Elizabeth Colson (1917–2016) was an American social anthropologist and UC Berkeley professor best known for her decades-long study of the Gwembe Tonga, forcibly resettled by the Kariba Dam in Zambia.
Elizabeth Corday
Elizabeth Corday is a fictional British surgeon on ER, played by Alex Kingston from 1997 to 2009 across seasons 4-11 and 15, wife of Mark Greene and later Chief of Surgery.
Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten was an American folk and blues musician best known for "Freight Train," written in childhood near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Left-handed, she played right-handed guitars upside down.
Elizabeth D. Getzoff
Elizabeth D. Getzoff (born 1954) is a biochemist and professor at the Scripps Research Institute known for structural work on superoxide dismutase, nitric oxide synthase, and photoactive yellow protein.
Elizabeth D. Hay
Elizabeth D. Hay (1927–2007) was an American cell biologist at Harvard who established the extracellular matrix as a determinant of cell behavior and introduced epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
Elizabeth Day
Elizabeth Day, British novelist, journalist and broadcaster, author of Scissors Paper Stone, The Party, Magpie and One of Us, and host of the How To Fail podcast.
Elizabeth de Burgh
Elizabeth de Burgh (c. 1289–1327), queen of Scots, second wife of Robert the Bruce, crowned at Scone in March 1306, held eight years captive in England, mother of David II; distinct from Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare (c. 1295–1360).
Elizabeth Debicki
Elizabeth Debicki, born 1990, in Paris, is an Australian actress known for The Great Gatsby, Widows, Tenet, and her Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Princess Diana in The Crown.
Elizabeth Diller
Elizabeth Diller is an American architect and artist, co-founding partner of the New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, known for the High Line, the Blur Building, and The Shed.
Elizabeth Dole
Elizabeth Hanford Dole is a respected American politician and public official who served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Labor, and President of the American Red Cross.
Elizabeth Dulau
Elizabeth Dulau is a British actress, RADA graduate (2020), best known as Kleya Marki in Andor (2022–2025), her first screen role, which brought an Emmy nomination; also House of Guinness, Maternal, Wicked, and Bird Grove at Hampstead Theatre.
Elizabeth Dunn
Elizabeth Dunn is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia whose research shows that spending money on others promotes happiness, and co-author of Happy Money (2013).
Elizabeth E. Foote
Elizabeth E. Foote, born 1953, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born 1941), Little Rock Nine member who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957; her solo walk through a mob on September 4, 1957, photographed by Will Counts, became an iconic civil rights image.
Elizabeth Eden
Elizabeth (Liz) Eden, born Ernest Aron (1946-1987), American transgender woman whose partner John Wojtowicz's 1972 Brooklyn bank robbery inspired Dog Day Afternoon; she told her own story in a 1977 CLUB memoir.
Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards (Mary Elizabeth Anania, 1949-2010), American attorney, political adviser to John Edwards, breast cancer advocate, author of Saving Graces and Resilience; separated from him in January 2010.
Elizabeth F. Neufeld
Elizabeth F. Neufeld (born 1928) is an American biochemist who worked out the biochemical causes of lysosomal storage diseases and laid the groundwork for enzyme replacement therapy.
Elizabeth Feinler
Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler, born 1931, is an American information scientist who ran the ARPANET Network Information Center at SRI International and managed the internet's Host Naming Registry until 1989.
Elizabeth Fisher (British neurogeneticist)
Elizabeth M.C. Fisher is a British neurogeneticist, Professor of Neurogenetics at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in London, known for mouse models of ALS, Down syndrome, and dynein mutations causing motor neuron degeneration.
Elizabeth Francis
Elizabeth Francis (1909–2024) was an American supercentenarian from Louisiana and Houston, Texas; validated by LongeviQuest, she was the oldest living American from February 2024 until her death at 115.
Elizabeth Fraser
Elizabeth Davidson Fraser (born 1963, Grangemouth, Scotland) is the Scottish vocalist and lyricist of dream pop band Cocteau Twins, nicknamed 'the voice of God', known for glossolalia-style lyrics, Massive Attack's 'Teardrop', and the 2022 Sun's Signature EP with Damon Reece.
Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), born Elizabeth Gurney, English Quaker prison reformer; founded the Newgate women prisoners association (1817) and first woman to give Commons evidence; her work shaped the 1823 Gaols Act and she appeared on the £5 note.
Elizabeth Galitzin
Elizabeth Galitzin was a Russian-born nun of the Society of the Sacred Heart who led its American houses and founded convents in New York and Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) was an English physician, the first openly female recipient of a medical qualification in Britain in 1865, who founded the New Hospital for Women.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), English Victorian novelist and biographer, wife of Unitarian minister William Gaskell of Manchester; wrote Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, Ruth, and The Life of Charlotte Brontë.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969, Waterbury, Connecticut) is the American author of Eat, Pray, Love, Big Magic, The Signature of All Things, City of Girls, and the 2025 Oprah's Book Club memoir All the Way to the River, with over 25 million books sold.