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Eliza Butterworth
Eliza Butterworth (born 1993, Lincolnshire) is an English RADA-trained actress known for Lady Aelswith in The Last Kingdom (2015–2022, 45 episodes), Hester in The North Water, Carly Lord in A Town Called Malice, and her 2021 West End debut.
Eliza Carthy
Eliza Carthy MBE, daughter of Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy, is an English folk singer, songwriter and fiddler active since the early 1990s, with Mercury nominations for Red Rice and Anglicana and albums on Topic and Hem Hem.
Eliza Coupe
Eliza Coupe (Eliza Kate Coupe), American actress and comedian born 1981 in Plymouth, New Hampshire, known for Jane Kerkovich-Williams in Happy Endings, Denise Mahoney in Scrubs, and Tiger in Future Man; recent roles include The Residence and Haunted Hotel.
Eliza Courtney
Eliza Courtney (1792–1859), illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; born in Aix-en-Provence, raised by the Greys in Northumberland, married General Robert Ellice in 1814.
Eliza Doolittle
Eliza Doolittle is the Cockney flower seller at the center of Shaw's 1912 play Pygmalion, transformed by phonetics professor Henry Higgins to pass as a lady, later famous through the musical My Fair Lady and its 1964 film.
Eliza Doolittle (musician)
Eliza Doolittle, real name Eliza Sophie Caird, is an English singer-songwriter with 2010 UK pop hits like "Pack Up" and the vocal on Disclosure's "You & Me".
Eliza Dushku
Eliza Dushku, born 1980 in Boston, is an American former actress known as Faith in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, star of Bring It On, Tru Calling, and Dollhouse, who retired from acting in 2017 and became a mental health counselor.
ELIZA effect
The ELIZA effect is the tendency to attribute human-like understanding, intention, or feeling to computer programs even when users know they follow simple rules, named for the 1966 MIT chatbot ELIZA by Joseph Weizenbaum.
Eliza Hamilton Holly
Eliza Hamilton Holly, second daughter and seventh child of Alexander Hamilton, married Sidney Augustus Holly, shared the Hamilton-Holly House with her widowed mother, and pressed brother John Church Hamilton to publish his father's biography.
Eliza Haywood
Eliza Haywood (née Fowler, c. 1693–1756) was an English novelist, playwright, actress, and periodical publisher whose debut novel Love in Excess was a 1719 bestseller.
Eliza Orzeszkowa
Eliza Orzeszkowa, born Eliza Pawłowska, was a Polish novelist and essayist, the leading woman writer of the Warsaw Positivism movement, whose masterpiece is Nad Niemnem (1888).
Eliza Pollock
Eliza Pollock (Lida Peyton Pollock, 1840-1919), American archer of the Cincinnati Archers; 1904 Olympic gold in women's team recurve and two bronzes; oldest female Olympic gold medallist at 63 years 333 days.
Eliza Roberts (actress)
Eliza Roberts (born Eliza Rayfiel, 1953) is an American actress, casting director, and producer, Brunella in Animal House, wife and manager of Eric Roberts, Toronto festival Best Actress winner.
Eliza Rose b2b SAIDAH
Eliza Rose b2b SAIDAH is a back-to-back billing pairing two UK garage DJs: Eliza Rose, whose "B.O.T.A." topped the UK chart in 2022, and Amsterdam-based SAIDAH.
Eliza Scanlen
Eliza Scanlen (born 1999, Sydney) is an Australian actress known for Amma Crellin in Sharp Objects, Beth March in Little Women, and the AACTA-winning Babyteeth; also a director of short films.
Eliza Taylor
Eliza Taylor is an Australian actress, also credited early in her career as Eliza Taylor-Cotter, best known as Clarke Griffin on The CW's post-apocalyptic series The 100 (2014-2020), cast without auditioning, after Australian roles in Neighbours, All Saints, and Pirate Islands.
Elizabet Tursynbaeva
Elizabet Tursynbaeva, born in Moscow in 2000, is a Kazakh figure skater who in 2019 became the first woman to land a clean quadruple Salchow at Worlds, taking silver.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Elder Weiner
Elizabeth (Betsy) Elder Weiner is an American nursing informaticist elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2013, known for pioneering simulation and distance learning in nursing education.
Elizabeth (film)
Elizabeth is a 1998 British historical drama directed by Shekhar Kapur and starring Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I, dramatizing her accession to a divided England.
Elizabeth (given name)
Elizabeth (Elisabeth, Elisabet) is a feminine given name from Hebrew Elisheva, "my God is an oath", via Greek Elisabet; borne by Aaron's wife and John the Baptist's mother, and never below rank 30 for US girls since 1880.
Elizabeth A. Campbell
Elizabeth A. Campbell is a structural biologist at Rockefeller University who studies RNA polymerases, known for the first rifampicin-bound polymerase structure and atomic structures of the SARS-CoV-2 replication machinery.
Elizabeth A. Craig
Elizabeth A. Craig is an American molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies Hsp70 molecular chaperones and J-protein co-chaperones in yeast; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer
Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer is a Canadian medical oncologist at Queen's University who directed the NCIC Clinical Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program from 1982 to 2012.
Elizabeth A. Kovachevich
Elizabeth Anne Kovachevich is an American jurist, a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1982.
Elizabeth A. McGlynn
Elizabeth A. McGlynn is an American health services researcher, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2005, best known for a 2003 study finding US adults receive about half of recommended care.
Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps is a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard University who studies how emotion shapes memory and decision making, and showed fear memories can be rewritten through reconsolidation.
Elizabeth A. Thompson
Elizabeth A. Thompson (born 1949) is a statistical geneticist, Professor of Statistics Emerita at the University of Washington, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.
Elizabeth A. Tivol
Elizabeth A. Tivol is an immunologist best known as first author of the 1995 Immunity paper reporting the CTLA-4 knockout mouse, cited in the 2018 Nobel Prize background.
Elizabeth A. Wolford
Elizabeth Ann Wolford is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of New York since 2013, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Elizabeth Allen (actress)
Elizabeth Allen (1929–2006), born Elizabeth Ellen Gillease, American film, TV, and Broadway actress; Amelia Dedham in Donovan's Reef (1963), Gleason Show's "away we go" girl, Tony-nominated for The Gay Life and Do I Hear a Waltz?. Distinct from Elizabeth Allan and the 1904-1992 Elizabeth Allen.