All articles starting with E

Elsa Einstein

Elsa Einstein (Elsa Löwenthal, 1876–1936), Albert Einstein's first cousin and second wife, married him in 1919, managed his affairs and household, and moved with him to Princeton in 1933.

Elsa Håstad

Elsa Håstad is a Swedish diplomat, former Sida Eurolatin department head, and Sweden's ambassador to Albania from 2019, now Deputy Head of Mission at the Swedish embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Elsa Hosk, Swedish model and entrepreneur (born 1988, Stockholm), former Victoria's Secret Angel (2015) who wore the 2018 Dream Angels Fantasy Bra, and founder of the Helsa fashion label sold via Revolve and Fwrd.

Oct 22, 2026

Elsa Joubert

Elsa Joubert, born Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert (1922–2020), was a South African Afrikaans writer best known for the anti-apartheid novel Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena.

Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986), British-born actress and wife of Charles Laughton, played Mary Shelley and the Bride in Bride of Frankenstein (1935); also ran the Cave of Harmony nightclub and appeared in Mary Poppins.

Elsa Lunghini

Elsa Lunghini, known as Elsa, French singer and actress born 1973 in Paris; youngest Top 50 number-one artist at 13 with "T'en va pas" (1986); plays Clotilde Armand in Ici tout commence.

Elsa M. Garmire

Elsa M. Garmire, born 1939, is an American physicist known for nonlinear optics and semiconductor lasers, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Elsa Mars

Elsa Mars, or Fräulein Elsa Mars, is a fictional character in American Horror Story: Freak Show, the German owner and star of a freak show, portrayed by Jessica Lange.

Elsa Martinelli

Elsa Martinelli (Elisa Tia, 1935-2017), Italian model turned actress; Silver Bear winner for Donatella (1956), star of The Indian Fighter, Hatari!, and The Trial.

Elsa Morante

Elsa Morante (1912–1985), Italian novelist, poet, and essayist, wife of Alberto Moravia; author of Menzogna e sortilegio, Strega-winning L'isola di Arturo, the 600,000-copy bestseller La Storia (1974), and Prix Médicis-winning Aracoeli.

Elsa Olivetti

Elsa A. Olivetti is a materials scientist and professor at MIT who models the cost and environmental impact of materials, including metals recycling and lithium-ion battery supply chains.

Elsa Pataky

Elsa Pataky (Elsa Lafuente Medianu), Spanish actress born in Madrid in 1976, known for Raquel in Al salir de clase, Elena Neves in Fast & Furious, Netflix's Interceptor, and SkyShowtime's Matices and El Homenaje; married to Chris Hemsworth, lives in Byron Bay.

Elsa Peretti

Elsa Peretti (1940-2021), Italian jewelry designer for Tiffany & Co. from 1974; creator of the Bone cuff, Bean, Open Heart, and Diamonds by the Yard; founder of the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation, her universal heir.

Elsa R. Flores

Elsa R. Flores is a cancer biologist and Senior Member in Molecular Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, known for establishing p63 and p73 as tumor suppressors.

Elsa Redmond

Elsa Redmond is an American archaeologist at the American Museum of Natural History known for her research on warfare and the early Zapotec state in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Elsa Reichmanis

Elsa Reichmanis is an Australian-born chemical engineer who developed the chemically amplified photoresists that made deep-ultraviolet lithography workable in silicon chip manufacturing, winning the 2001 Perkin Medal.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973), Italian-born Paris couturière and founder of the House of Schiaparelli (1927), famed for Surrealist collaborations with Dalí and Cocteau, rival of Coco Chanel; house closed 1954, revived under Daniel Roseberry.

Elsagate

Elsagate is the controversy over YouTube and YouTube Kids videos presented as child-friendly but containing violence or sexual content; the term combines Elsa from Frozen with "-gate," peaked in 2017, and recurred as AI-generated content.

Elsbeth (TV series)

Elsbeth is a CBS comedy-drama procedural (premiered February 29, 2024) starring Carrie Preston as attorney Elsbeth Tascioni, spun off from The Good Wife and The Good Fight; created by Robert and Michelle King, it uses a Columbo-style inverted detective format with the NYPD's 11th Precinct.

Elsbeth Tascioni

Elsbeth Tascioni, the quirky attorney-detective played by Carrie Preston in The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and the 2024 CBS series Elsbeth; female Columbo, Emmy-winning guest role, NYPD spin-off lead.

Else Jacobsen

Else Jacobsen (1911–1965), Danish breaststroke swimmer, first Dane to set a swimming world record (200 m, 1927), bronze medalist at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, later coach of Greta Andersen.

Oct 22, 2026

Else Lasker-Schüler

Else Lasker-Schüler, born Elisabeth Schüler, was a German Jewish poet and playwright, a leading voice of German Expressionism, who won the 1932 Kleist Prize and died in exile in Jerusalem in 1945.

Else Marthe Sørlie Lybekk

Else Marthe Sørlie Lybekk (born 1978, Gjøvik) is a Norwegian former handball line player, Olympic champion 2008, world champion 1999, and three-time European champion, with 215 caps and 598 goals.

Else Plickert

Else Plickert (later Anders), German sprinter of SC Brandenburg Berlin, world record holder in the women's 10 x 100 m relay, 2:05.3, Frankfurt, 20 July 1929; event discontinued after 1936.

Else von Richthofen

Else von Richthofen, also known as Else Jaffé, was a German economist and the first academic factory inspector in Germany, and a long-time companion of Max Weber.

Elsebet Lund

Elsebet Lund is a molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for work on ribosomal RNA processing in E. coli and nuclear export of small RNAs.

Elseid Hysaj

Elseid Hysaj, Albanian right-back born 1994 in Shkodër; Empoli, Napoli (€5M, 2015), and Lazio defender, 99 caps for Albania, Euro 2016 and Euro 2024, free agent July 2026.

Elsemieke Hillen

Elsemieke Hillen (Havenga-Hillen), born 1959 in Den Haag, Dutch field hockey forward; Olympic gold at Los Angeles 1984, World Cup champion 1978, 1983, 1986, 106 caps; later Dutch TV presenter and communication advisor.

Elsevier

Elsevier: Dutch academic publisher in Amsterdam, a RELX segment and the largest scientific journal publisher, with 3,000 journals, The Lancet and Cell, hybrid and gold open access models, ScienceDirect and Scopus, and noted criticism over pricing and access.