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Elizabeth Gillies
Elizabeth Gillies (born 1993, Haworth, NJ), also known as Liz Gillies, is an American actress and singer, Jade West on Victorious and Fallon Carrington on Dynasty, with records with Seth MacFarlane and stage roles in 13 and Little Shop of Horrors.
Elizabeth Glaser
Elizabeth Glaser (1947-1994), American AIDS activist, contracted HIV from a 1981 blood transfusion, passed it to children Ariel and Jake, and co-founded the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, renamed EGPAF after her death; known for her 1992 DNC speech.
Elizabeth Goudge
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) was an English novelist and children's writer whose best-known books, Green Dolphin Country and The Little White Horse, sold nearly ten million copies by 1959.
Elizabeth Gould (neuroscientist)
Elizabeth Gould is a Princeton neuroscientist known for research showing that the adult mammalian brain produces new neurons, and the first to report neurogenesis in adult primates.
Elizabeth Gracen
Elizabeth Gracen (Elizabeth Grace Ward, born 1961), Miss America 1982 as Elizabeth Ward, American actress best known as Amanda Darieux in Highlander: The Series and Highlander: The Raven, later a documentary director and Flapper Press publisher.
Elizabeth Gutiérrez
Elizabeth Gutiérrez, American telenovela actress and model born 1979 in Los Angeles, star of El Rostro de Analía and El Rostro de la Venganza, ex-partner of William Levy, returned in 2025 in Telemundo's Velvet, el Nuevo Imperio.
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn is an Australian-American molecular biologist who discovered the molecular nature of telomeres and co-discovered telomerase, sharing the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Elizabeth H. Bradley
Elizabeth H. Bradley, known as Betsy Bradley, is an American health services researcher and public health scholar who has served as Vassar College's 11th president since July 2017.
Elizabeth Hanson (CIA officer)
Elizabeth Curry Hanson (1979-2009), American CIA targeting officer from Rockford, Illinois, Colby College class of 2002; joined CIA 2005, hunted al-Qaeda leaders including bin Laden, killed in the December 30, 2009 Camp Chapman suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan.
Elizabeth Hardwick (writer)
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007) was an American critic, essayist, and novelist who co-founded The New York Review of Books in 1963 and wrote for it for over four decades.
Elizabeth Harris Aitken
Elizabeth Harris Aitken, born Elizabeth Rees-Williams (Cardiff, 1936 – 2022), Welsh socialite, daughter of the first Baron Ogmore; married Richard Harris, Sir Rex Harrison, Peter Aitken and Jonathan Aitken; wrote Love, Honour and Dismay.
Elizabeth Hartman
Elizabeth Hartman (Mary Elizabeth Hartman, 1943–1987), American actress nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for her debut in A Patch of Blue (1965); seven films, last role Mrs. Brisby in The Secret of NIMH; died by suicide in Pittsburgh in 1987.
Elizabeth Harvest
Elizabeth Harvest (2018) is a sci-fi thriller by Sebastian Gutierrez, reimagining Bluebeard: newlywed Elizabeth (Abbey Lee) discovers her scientist husband Henry (Ciarán Hinds) clones her. IFC Films release, SXSW 2018 premiere, shot in Colombia.
Elizabeth Haysom
Elizabeth Roxanne Haysom, Canadian University of Virginia student, pleaded guilty in 1987 as accessory before the fact in her parents' 1985 Bedford County murders; sentenced to 90 years, paroled and deported to Canada in 2019.
Elizabeth Henstridge
Elizabeth Henstridge (born 1987, Sheffield) is an English actress and director, known as Jemma Simmons on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and for directing episodes of Superman & Lois and Gotham Knights.
Elizabeth Hohmann
Elizabeth Louise Hohmann, known as Libby Hohmann, is an infectious-disease physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital who directs its fecal microbiota transplant laboratory and studies Salmonella and Listeria.
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
Elizabeth Holloway Marston (1893–1993), born Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, was an American attorney and psychologist, BU Law 1918, who co-authored systolic blood pressure lie-detection research with her husband William Moulton Marston and suggested Wonder Woman be a woman.
Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Holmes, also known as Liz Holmes, is an American entrepreneur who founded Theranos in 2003 and was convicted of defrauding investors in January 2022.
Elizabeth Howell
Elizabeth A. Howell is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and health services researcher known for studies of racial disparities in maternal mortality, and chairs Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Hurley (born 1965, Basingstoke) is an English model and actress, star of Austin Powers (1997) and Bedazzled (2000), face of Estée Lauder since the mid-1990s, Breast Cancer Campaign ambassador, and founder of Elizabeth Hurley Beach swimwear.
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I, known as Good Queen Bess, was Queen of England from 1558 to 1603, the last Tudor monarch and daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (1926-2022), Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952, longest-reigning British monarch; 15 prime ministers, Head of the Commonwealth, died 8 September 2022 succeeded by Charles III.
Elizabeth Inchbald
Elizabeth Inchbald, née Simpson (1753–1821), was an English novelist, dramatist, actress, and critic who wrote A Simple Story (1791), Nature and Art, and about 21 plays and adaptations.
Elizabeth J. Goldsmith
Elizabeth J. Goldsmith, also published as E. J. Goldsmith, is an American structural biologist and professor of biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who studies protein kinases.
Elizabeth J. Robertson
Elizabeth J. Robertson, also published as Liz Robertson, is a British developmental biologist and Professor at Oxford known for discovering Nodal and for early embryonic stem cell work.
Elizabeth Johnson (theologian)
Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ, born 1941, is an American Catholic feminist and ecological theologian, a Sister of St. Joseph, and Fordham professor known for She Who Is.
Elizabeth K. Dillon
Elizabeth K. Dillon, also known as Elizabeth Kay Dillon, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Virginia since 2014.
Elizabeth Kemp
Elizabeth Kemp (1951–2017) was an American actress and Actors Studio acting coach who taught Bradley Cooper, Hugh Jackman, Lady Gaga, and Harvey Keitel, chaired the Actors Studio Drama School MFA at Pace University, and appeared in He Knows You're Alone.
Elizabeth Kenny
Elizabeth Kenny, known as Sister Elizabeth Kenny, was an Australian nurse who developed a hot-pack treatment for polio and founded the Sister Kenny Institute in Minneapolis in 1942.
Elizabeth Key Grinstead
Elizabeth Key Grinstead (c. 1630–1667), Virginia mixed-race woman whose 1656 freedom suit, argued via partus sequitur partem and her Christian baptism, won her liberty and prompted the 1662 partus sequitur ventrem law.