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Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Elisabeth Hasselbeck (nee Elisabeth Del Padre Filarski), born 1977, American TV host: Survivor: The Australian Outback finalist, The View co-host 2003-2013, Fox & Friends host, Emmy-winning author of gluten-free bestsellers.
Elisabeth Kaiser
Elisabeth Kaiser is a German SPD politician who has served in the Bundestag since 2017 and as Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Germany since 2025.
Elisabeth Knust
Elisabeth Knust (born 1951) is a developmental biologist and Director Emerita at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, known for the Drosophila polarity genes crumbs, stardust, and bazooka.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004), Swiss-born American psychiatrist, wrote On Death and Dying (1969), introducing the five stages DABDA; pioneer of counseling the dying and hospice, later heavily criticized model.
Elisabeth Liesel Schumann
Elisabeth "Liesel" Schumann (later Sireni), born 10 August 1907, German javelin thrower of the interwar era. Set an 800-gram javelin world record of 34.495 m in 1926, won the 1930 Women's World Games title in Prague with 42.32 m, and was German champion in 1933.
Elisabeth Mann Borgese
Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918–2002), German-born daughter of Thomas Mann, 'Mother of the Oceans', founded the International Ocean Institute and championed the common heritage of mankind in UNCLOS from Dalhousie University.
Elisabeth Maxwell
Elisabeth (Betty) Maxwell, née Meynard (1921-2013), French-born Holocaust scholar, widow of media tycoon Robert Maxwell; founded Holocaust and Genocide Studies journal and the Remembering for the Future conferences; not to be confused with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Elisabeth Micheler Jones
Elisabeth Micheler Jones, born 1966 in Augsburg, is a German slalom canoeist who won the women's K1 gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and later became an ICF course designer.
Elisabeth Moss
Elisabeth Singleton Moss (born 1982) is an American actress and producer known for The West Wing, Mad Men's Peggy Olson, and The Handmaid's Tale's June, with Emmy and Golden Globe wins and a directing and producing career via Love & Squalor Pictures.
Elisabeth Murdoch (businesswoman)
Elisabeth Murdoch (born 1968, Sydney), daughter of Rupert Murdoch, ex-wife of Matthew Freud; media executive who founded Shine Group (sold to News Corp 2011), co-founded SISTER, and exited the Murdoch family trust in 2025.
Elisabeth Murdoch (philanthropist)
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE (1909-2012), Australian philanthropist, widow of Sir Keith Murdoch and mother of Rupert Murdoch; president of the Royal Children's Hospital, founder of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, DBE 1963, supporter of over 100 charities annually.
Elisabeth of Romania
Elisabeth of Romania (Elisabeta, Carmen Sylva, 1843–1916), first Queen of Romania as consort of Carol I; German-born Wied princess, author of 89 books, Red Cross founder, exiled 1890–1894 over the Văcărescu affair.
Elisabeth of Valois
Elisabeth of Valois (Élisabeth de France; Isabel de Valois), 1545-1568, French princess, second child of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, and Queen consort of Spain as Philip II's third wife via the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis.
Elisabeth of Wied
Elisabeth of Wied, who wrote under the pseudonym Carmen Sylva, was a German-born writer who became the first Queen of Romania as the wife of King Carol I in 1881.
Elisabeth Röhm
Elisabeth Röhm, German-American actress born 1973 in Düsseldorf, played ADA Serena Southerlyn on Law & Order (2001–2005) and Kate Lockley on Angel; since 2021 she directs Lifetime true-crime films and co-founded Röhm Feifer Entertainment.
Elisabeth Rotten
Elisabeth Rotten (1882–1964) was a Swiss-German reform pedagogue, pacifist, and Quaker who attended the 1915 Hague Women's Peace Congress and co-founded the New Education Fellowship.
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, born 1938 in Romania, is a German Roman Catholic feminist theologian, Krister Stendahl Professor Emerita at Harvard Divinity School, and author of In Memory of Her.
Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Judson Shue (born 1963, Wilmington, Delaware) is an American actress, sister of Andrew Shue; starred in The Karate Kid, Adventures in Babysitting, Cocktail, and Leaving Las Vegas, earning a 1995 Oscar nomination.
Elisabeth Sladen
Elisabeth Sladen, also known as Liz Sladen, was an English actress best known as Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who, who later starred in The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Elisabeth Svantesson
Elisabeth Svantesson is a Swedish Moderate Party politician serving as Minister for Finance of Sweden since 2022, presenting the government's budgets and leading its response to rising energy prices.
Elisabeth Tournier‐Lasserve
Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve is a French medical geneticist and neurologist at Université Paris Cité whose laboratory identified the Notch3 gene behind CADASIL, a hereditary stroke disorder; she shared the 2019 Brain Prize.
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), French portrait painter, official painter to Marie Antoinette from 1779 with about 30 portraits of the queen, Académie member 1783, twelve-year European exile after 1789, author of the Souvenirs (1835–1837).
Elisabethpol Governorate
Elisabethpol Governorate (Елизаветпольская губерния) was a governorate of the Russian Empire in eastern Transcaucasia from 1868 to 1917, with its center at Elisabethpol, now Ganja.
Elisabetta Canalis
Elisabetta Canalis, born 1978 in Sassari, is an Italian showgirl, presenter, and actress, ex-velina of Striscia la notizia (1999–2002), Sanremo 2011 co-host, Dancing with the Stars 2011 contestant, ex-wife of surgeon Brian Perri, and 2026 host of Tú sí que vales.
Elisabetta Dejana
Elisabetta Dejana, born 1951 in Bologna, is an Italian vascular biologist known for discovering VE-cadherin, the first tissue-specific cadherin, and for work on angiogenesis and cerebral cavernous malformations.
Elisabetta Patorno
Elisabetta Patorno is an Italian-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, a Harvard School of Public Health graduate who became Professor of Medicine at UCLA in 2026 and led the 2017 NEJM study on lithium use in pregnancy.
Elisabetta Ullu
Elisabetta Ullu was an Italian-born RNA biologist and molecular parasitologist at Yale School of Medicine known for her studies of Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness.
Elisama
Elisama (Giebel, 1856) is an extinct genus of Blattulidae cockroaches, Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous, with species from Mongolia and Cretaceous amber including E. kacerovae, E. pterostigmata, and E. globosa.
Elisaveta Bagryana
Elisaveta Bagryana (Елисавета Багряна), born Elisaveta Lyubenova Belcheva, was a Bulgarian poet whose 1927 debut, The Eternal and the Holy, introduced a frank female voice into Bulgarian poetry.
Elise Christie
Elise Christie, Livingston-born British short track speed skater; 2017 overall world champion (first European woman), 500m world record 42.335, three Olympics without a medal, retired December 2021.