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Elah (king of Israel)
Elah was the fourth king of Israel, son and successor of Baasha, who reigned two years at Tirzah before being murdered while drunk by Zimri.
Elaheh Ahmadi
Elaheh Ahmadi is an electrical engineer and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara who works on gallium nitride transistors and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Elaine A. Elion
Elaine A. Elion is a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School known for showing that the yeast protein Ste5 tethers kinases in a MAP kinase cascade.
Elaine A. Ostrander
Elaine A. Ostrander is an American geneticist at the National Human Genome Research Institute who began the canine genome project in 1993 and studies human cancer genetics.
Elaine Benes
Elaine Benes (Elaine Marie Benes), Seinfeld character played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Jerry's ex-girlfriend, added after the pilot at NBC's demand, notable as the sitcom's only woman and a subject of feminist criticism.
Elaine Carroll
Elaine Carroll (born 1984, New York) is an American actress, writer, and impressionist who created and stars in Very Mary-Kate and Precious Plum, and works with Dropout on Game Changer and Make Some Noise.
Elaine Cassidy
Elaine Cassidy (born 1979), Irish actress of Felicia's Journey, Disco Pigs, The Others, No Offence, and Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale; IFTA-winning Irish screen star from County Wicklow.
Elaine Chao
Elaine Chao, Taiwanese-born American official, was Labor Secretary 2001–2009 (first Asian-American woman in a presidential Cabinet) and Transportation Secretary 2017–2021; wife of Mitch McConnell, later subject of a DOT inspector general ethics report.
Elaine Collins
Elaine Collins is a Scottish actor and television executive producer, head of Tod Productions. She produced Vera and Shetland at ITV Studios, worked at BBC Drama, and executive produces Criminal Record with STV Studios.
Elaine de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning, née Fried (1918-1989), American Abstract Expressionist painter, ARTnews critic, and educator; married Willem de Kooning; known for gestural portraits, including the 1963 John F. Kennedy portrait, and the Bacchus series.
Elaine Devry
Elaine Devry, born Thelma Elaine Mahnken, was an American film and television actress from the early 1950s to the late 1970s, known as the fourth of Mickey Rooney's eight wives.
Elaine Dzierzak
Elaine Dzierzak is a developmental biologist known for showing that blood stem cells are born inside the embryo, in the AGM region, and is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
Elaine E. Bucklo
Elaine E. Bucklo, born 1944 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, is a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
Elaine Esposito
Elaine Esposito (1934-1978), the "sleeping beauty," fell into a coma aged six during a 1941 Chicago appendectomy and never woke, holding the Guinness longest-coma record at 37 years 111 days until her death in Florida.
Elaine Fuchs
Elaine Fuchs (born 1950) is an American cell biologist who studies skin stem cells and tissue repair, known for work on keratin genes and hair-follicle stem cells.
Elaine Hendrix
Elaine Hendrix (Katherine Elaine Hendrix), American actress born 1970 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; played Meredith Blake in The Parent Trap, Alexis Carrington in Dynasty, and finished as a Dancing with the Stars season 34 finalist.
Elaine Hsiao
Elaine Y. Hsiao is a microbiome researcher at UCLA who studies how gut microbes influence brain development, known for work connecting gut bacteria to autism and epilepsy.
Elaine Irwin
Elaine Irwin, American fashion model discovered in 1985 in Pennsylvania, Seventeen cover model, 1992 Harper's Bazaar supermodel group, married John Mellencamp 1992, returned to Ralph Lauren runways 2022-2024.
Elaine Jay Dorward-King
Elaine Jay Dorward-King is an environmental strategist and mining sustainability executive who led sustainability functions at Rio Tinto and Newmont and now serves on the Sibanye-Stillwater board.
Elaine Joyce
Elaine Joyce (Elaine Joyce Pinchot), American actress born 1945 in Kansas City, Missouri; Broadway's Sugar Kane in Sugar (1972), Mr. Merlin lead, Dating Game host, wife of Bobby Van and Neil Simon.
Elaine Luria
Elaine Luria (born 1975), American Democratic politician and retired Navy commander, represented Virginia's 2nd congressional district 2019-2023, served on the January 6 committee, lost to Jen Kiggans in 2022, and is running again in 2026.
Elaine M. Hylek
Elaine M. Hylek is an American physician-scientist and professor of medicine at Boston University, known for research defining how intensely blood should be thinned to prevent stroke in atrial fibrillation.
Elaine M. Tobin
Elaine M. Tobin is an American plant molecular biologist who joined UCLA in 1975, showed that phytochrome controls gene transcription, and discovered the plant circadian clock component CCA1.
Elaine Marshall
Elaine Marshall is an American Democratic politician who has served as Secretary of State of North Carolina since 1997, the first woman elected to statewide executive office in the state.
Elaine May
Elaine May (born Elaine Iva Berlin, April 21, 1932, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American comedian, playwright, screenwriter, and director, half of the comedy duo Nichols and May.
Elaine Nile
Elaine Blanche Nile (1936-2011), wife of Fred Nile, was an Australian Christian Democratic Party member of the NSW Legislative Council from 1988 to 2002, leading the party ticket in 1988 and 1995 before resigning through ill-health.
Elaine Pagels
Elaine Pagels (born 1943) is an American historian of religion at Princeton known for The Gnostic Gospels and her work on the Nag Hammadi library.
Elaine Paige
Elaine Paige, born Elaine Bickerstaff in 1948, is an English singer and actress known as the First Lady of British Musical Theatre, star of Evita and Cats.
Elaine Peacock
Elaine Peacock (full name Elaine Alexandra Peacock, previously Knight) is a fictional EastEnders character, mother of Linda Carter, first played by Maria Friedman in 2014 and by Harriet Thorpe from May 2023 as Queen Vic landlady and later Peacock Palace hotel owner.
Elaine R. Mardis
Elaine R. Mardis, also known as Elaine Mardis, is an American cancer genomics researcher who co-led the first whole cancer genome sequencing and now leads the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital.