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Elis Strömgren
Svante Elis Strömgren (1870–1947) was a Danish astronomer and Copenhagen professor whose 1914 work showed comets follow elliptical orbits, making them members of the Solar System.
Elis Wiklund
Elis Wiklund (1909–1982), Swedish cross-country skier, 50 km world champion 1934 in Sollefteå and Olympic 50 km gold medalist at Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936, leading a Swedish sweep of the top four; later coach, shopkeeper, and ski wax maker.
ELISA
ELISA, or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, is a laboratory method using enzyme-linked antibodies to detect and quantify substances like antibodies, antigens, and hormones in liquid samples.
Elisa & Marcela
Elisa & Marcela (Elisa y Marcela) is Isabel Coixet's 2019 Spanish black-and-white Netflix drama about Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, teachers who married in A Coruña in 1901 in Spain's first recorded same-sex marriage; it competed at the 2019 Berlinale.
Elisa Confortola
Elisa Confortola, Italian short track speed skater (born 2002, Sondalo), Fiamme Oro club. 2026 Olympic mixed relay gold and women's 3000 m relay silver; European 1500 m champion Gdansk 2024.
Elisa Donovan
Elisa Donovan (born 1971, birth name Lisa Adaline Donovan) is an American actress and author known for Amber in Clueless (1995 film and TV series), Morgan on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and her 2021 memoir Wake Me When You Leave, now a planned directorial debut.
Elisa Innocenti
Elisa Innocenti (born 2004, Trento) is an Italian ice hockey defender who won gold in girls' 3-on-3 ice hockey at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics with mixed-NOC Team Yellow; sister of Emily Innocenti; later EV Bozen Eagles, EWHL.
Elisa Izaurralde
Elisa Izaurralde (1959–2018) was a Uruguayan-born biochemist and molecular biologist known for work on messenger RNA export and silencing, and director at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen from 2005 until her death.
Elisa K
Elisa K is a 2010 Catalan-language Spanish drama co-directed by Jordi Cadena and Judith Colell, adapted from Lolita Bosch's novel Elisa Kiseljak, about repressed memory of child rape; it won the San Sebastián Special Jury Prize.
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (1887–1973) was a Romanian chemical engineer who became the first woman to obtain an engineering title in Romania and the first female engineering graduate in Germany.
Elisa Mevius
Elisa Mevius (born 2004, Rendsburg) is a German 3x3 basketball player, Olympic gold medalist at Paris 2024, 2025 World University Games champion, and Oregon college guard after two Siena seasons.
Elisa Riedo
Elisa Riedo is an experimental physicist and nanoscientist, the Herman F. Mark Chair Professor at NYU Tandon, known for pioneering thermal scanning probe lithography and studying graphene and nanoconfined water.
Elisa-3
Elisa-3 is a 5 cm miniature differential-drive mobile robot made by GCtronic, an EPFL spin-off, for education and swarm robotics research, with magnetic wheels for climbing.
Elísabet Benavent
Elísabet Benavent, also known as Beta Coqueta, is a Spanish romantic-comedy novelist born in Gandía, Valencia, in 1984. Self-published En los zapatos de Valeria in 2013; over five million copies sold; Valeria saga adapted by Netflix.
Elisabet Lann
Elisabet Lann is a Swedish politician of the Christian Democrats who has served as Minister for Health Care since taking office on September 9, 2025, succeeding Acko Ankarberg Johansson.
Elisabet Wahlander
Elisabet Wahlander, born 1960 in Austria and formerly Elisabet Nagy, is a Swedish javelin thrower who won nine Swedish titles and made a record 22 Finnkampen appearances.
Elisabeta Oleniuc Lipa
Elisabeta Oleniuc Lipă, Romanian rower (born 1964, Siret), most decorated Olympic rower with 8 medals (5 gold) across six Games 1984–2004; 1989 single sculls world champion; later Romanian Rowing Federation president.
Elisabeth A. Murray
Elisabeth A. Murray is an American cognitive neuroscientist who studies learning, memory, and decision-making in monkeys, and chief of the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Section at NIMH.
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder, born 1971 in Vienna, is an Austrian psychiatrist and neuroscientist directing translational research in psychiatry at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich.
Élisabeth Baume-Schneider
Élisabeth Baume-Schneider, born in 1963, is a Swiss Social Democratic politician who has been a Federal Councillor and head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs since 2024.
Elisabeth Becker
Elisabeth Becker (1923–1946), German SS Aufseherin at the Stutthof concentration camp women's section SK-III from 1944; convicted of war crimes by a Polish court in Danzig in 1946 and hanged at Biskupia Górka on 4 July 1946.
Élisabeth Borne
Élisabeth Borne (born 1961) is a French engineer-politician, Prime Minister of France 2022–2024, the second woman in that post, who passed the 62-to-64 pension reform via article 49.3 and later served as Bayrou's education minister.
Elisabeth Buda
Elisabeth Buda, Romanian middle-distance runner; set the women's 1000 m world record of 2:50.2 in Bucharest on 23 September 1956, breaking Yevdokiya Vasilyeva's mark; not Elisabeth Budd or Zola Budd.
Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015), American missionary, author of Through Gates of Splendor and Passion and Purity, widow of martyred missionary Jim Elliot, who lived among the Waorani who killed him and hosted Gateway to Joy radio.
Elisabeth Eybers
Elisabeth Eybers (1915–2007) was a South African poet who wrote in Afrikaans and in 1936 became the first woman to publish a volume of poetry in that language.
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846–1935) was the sister and literary executor of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who founded the Nietzsche Archive in Weimar, compiled The Will to Power, and forged his letters.
Elisabeth Frink
Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993) was an English figurative sculptor and printmaker of men, birds, horses and religious subjects, a Geometry of Fear associate, creator of Goggle Heads, Risen Christ, Walking Madonna, over 400 sculptures.
Elisabeth G.E. de Vries
Elisabeth G.E. de Vries, known as Liesbeth de Vries, is a Dutch medical oncologist and professor at the University Medical Center Groningen who pioneered cancer drug imaging.
Elisabeth Gantt
Elisabeth Gantt is a Yugoslav-born American plant biologist and phycologist at the University of Maryland, best known for discovering phycobilisomes, the light-harvesting complexes of red algae.
Elisabeth Harnois
Elisabeth Harnois (born 1979, Detroit) is an American actress, a Disney child star as Alice in Adventures in Wonderland, later lead of Point Pleasant and Morgan Brody on CSI seasons 11 through 15 plus Immortality.