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Elizabeth of Russia
Elizabeth of Russia (Elizaveta Petrovna, 1709–1762), daughter of Peter the Great, empress 1741–1762 after a bloodless coup against Ivan VI; founded Moscow University, fought Prussia in the Seven Years' War, occupied Berlin 1760.
Elizabeth of York
Elizabeth of York, queen consort of Henry VII and first Tudor queen, daughter of Edward IV, whose marriage united Lancaster and York; a well-loved but conventionally passive consort whose finances, court propriety, and model for Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor define her recorded queenship.
Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk
Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk (Elizabeth Plantagenet, 1444–c.1503), daughter of Richard, Duke of York, sister of Edward IV and Richard III; married John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, and mother of the Yorkist claimants Lincoln, Edmund, and Richard de la Pole.
Elizabeth Olsen
Elizabeth Olsen, American actress and younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, plays Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in the MCU (from Avengers: Age of Ultron, 2015) and stars in indies like Martha Marcy May Marlene, WandaVision, His Three Daughters, and Eternity.
Elizabeth P. Henske
Elizabeth P. Henske, also known as Elizabeth Petri Henske, is an American physician-scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital who discovered that TSC2 mutations cause sporadic LAM.
Elizabeth P. Turtle
Elizabeth P. Turtle, known as Zibi Turtle, is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory who leads NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Titan.
Elizabeth Peña
Elizabeth Peña (1959-2014) was a Cuban American actress of Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Lone Star, La Bamba, Rush Hour, and the voice of Mirage in The Incredibles; Independent Spirit Award winner, distinct from the speech-language researcher Elizabeth D. Peña.
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich (1911–1958), Tlingit name Kaaxgal.aat, was a Tlingit civil rights leader whose 1945 testimony helped pass Alaska's Anti-Discrimination Act, the first broad anti-discrimination law in the United States.
Elizabeth Perkins
Elizabeth Perkins (Elizabeth Ann Perkins), American actress born 1960 in Queens, New York; known for Big (1988), The Flintstones, and her Emmy-nominated Celia Hodes on Weeds; now in Netflix's Big Mistakes.
Elizabeth Peyton
Elizabeth Peyton, full name Elizabeth Joy Peyton, is an American contemporary painter born in 1965 in Danbury, Connecticut, known for intimate small-scale portraits of icons like Kurt Cobain and Napoleon.
Elizabeth Posey
Elizabeth Posey (born 1992) is an American actress from Shrewsbury, New Jersey, cousin of Tyler Posey, known for Euphoria, Heels, Gully, Dreamcatcher, and the upcoming The Boys prequel Vought Rising as Private Angel.
Elizabeth Prelogar
Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar, 48th Solicitor General of the United States (2021–2025), second woman in the role; Harvard Law graduate, Ginsburg and Kagan clerk, argued 35 Supreme Court cases before leaving office in January 2025.
Elizabeth Public Schools
Elizabeth Public Schools (EPS) is the public school district of Elizabeth, New Jersey, one of the state's largest, with about 28,000 students in 37 schools, an 87.9% graduation rate, and a 140-credit graduation requirement.
Elizabeth Raleigh
Elizabeth "Bess" Throckmorton Raleigh (1565–1647) was a Lady of the Privy Chamber to Elizabeth I and secret wife of Sir Walter Raleigh; their unauthorized 1591 marriage sent both to the Tower of London, and she later shared his imprisonment under James I until his 1618 execution.
Elizabeth Reaser
Elizabeth Reaser, American actress (born 1975, Bloomfield, Michigan), Juilliard-trained; known as Rebecca Pope on Grey's Anatomy, Esme Cullen in all five Twilight films, and Shirley Crain in The Haunting of Hill House.
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Elizabeth Rodriguez (born 1980) is an American actress from Manhattan of Puerto Rican heritage, known as Aleida Diaz in Orange Is the New Black, her Tony-nominated Broadway role in The Motherfucker with the Hat, and co-writing Allswell in New York.
Elizabeth S. Cochran
Elizabeth S. Cochran is an American seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Science Center in Pasadena, known for work on induced earthquakes and early warning.
Elizabeth S. Dennis
Elizabeth S. Dennis, also known as Elizabeth Dennis, is an Australian plant molecular biologist known for establishing the molecular and epigenetic basis of vernalization, the process by which cold promotes flowering.
Elizabeth S. Russell
Elizabeth S. Russell, known as "Tibby," was an American mammalian developmental geneticist who spent her career at The Jackson Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Elizabeth S. Sattely
Elizabeth S. Sattely is a chemical engineer, Associate Professor at Stanford University, and HHMI Investigator known for engineering plant metabolic pathways that make drug-like molecules.
Elizabeth S. Wing
Elizabeth S. Wing is an American zooarchaeologist who founded the Florida Museum of Natural History's zooarchaeology program in 1961 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
Elizabeth Sackler
Elizabeth Sackler is an American public historian and philanthropist who serves as Board Chair of the Brooklyn Museum. She founded the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757-1854), known as Eliza or Betsey, wife of Alexander Hamilton and New York philanthropist who co-founded New York's first private orphanage (now Graham Windham) and preserved her husband's papers and legacy for fifty widowhood years.
Elizabeth Selvin
Elizabeth Selvin is an American epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins whose research on hemoglobin A1c helped establish it as a standard test for diagnosing diabetes; she directs the Welch Center.
Elizabeth Seton College
Elizabeth Seton College was a private Catholic two-year college in Yonkers, New York, run by the Sisters of Charity of New York from 1961, first Catholic two-year college in New York State, based at Alder Manor; merged with Iona College in 1989 and its campus closed soon after.
Elizabeth Setren
Elizabeth Setren is an American economist of education at Tufts University, a 2025 PECASE recipient whose research covers Boston charter schools, education technology, and desegregation.
Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell
Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell was an English noblewoman of Wolf Hall, Wiltshire and sister of Queen Jane Seymour, twice a baroness through marriages to Gregory Cromwell and John Paulet.
Elizabeth Siddal
Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862), English Pre-Raphaelite painter, poet, and model, Ophelia sitter, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ruskin's £150-a-year protegee, only woman in the 1857 PRB exhibition.
Elizabeth Siddon
Elizabeth Calvert "Ebett" Siddon is an American fisheries research biologist at NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Juneau, Alaska, who received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
Elizabeth Simpson (immunologist)
Elizabeth Simpson, born 1939, is a British transplantation immunologist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for her work on the male-specific HY antigen.