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Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs
Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs: two remote coral atolls in the northern Tasman Sea, 150 km north of Lord Howe Island, the world's southernmost open ocean platform reefs, an Australian Ramsar site and Marine National Nature Reserve.
Elizabeth Ann Blaesing
Elizabeth Ann Blaesing (1919-2005), born Elizabeth Ann Christian in Asbury Park, NJ, was the daughter of Nan Britton and President Warren G. Harding, confirmed by 2015 AncestryDNA testing.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Elizabeth Ann Seton, also known as Mother Seton, was a New York widow who converted to Catholicism and founded the Sisters of Charity at Emmitsburg, Maryland, in 1809.
Elizabeth Anne Kellogg
Elizabeth Anne Kellogg, known professionally as Toby Kellogg, is a plant systematist who studies grass evolution and crop biology at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis.
Elizabeth Arden
Elizabeth Arden, born Florence Nightingale Graham, was a Canadian-born entrepreneur who built one of the twentieth century's largest cosmetics companies from a Fifth Avenue salon opened in 1910.
Elizabeth Ashley
Elizabeth Ashley (Elizabeth Ann Cole, born 1939) is an American stage, film, and TV actress; Tony winner for Take Her, She's Mine (1962), famed for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1974), Evening Shade, and Russian Doll, distinct from the British actress of the same name (1920–2001).
Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1842-1933), Libbie, American author and widow of General George Armstrong Custer; wrote Boots and Saddles, Following the Guidon, Tenting on the Plains, and campaigned 57 years to make her husband a hero.
Elizabeth Banks
Elizabeth Banks (born 1974, born Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell) is an American actress, director, and producer known for Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games, directing Pitch Perfect 2 and Cocaine Bear, four Emmy nominations, and Brownstone Productions.
Elizabeth Barnard
Elizabeth Barnard (1608-1670), born Elizabeth Hall, was William Shakespeare's only grandchild and last direct descendant; she married Thomas Nash in 1626 and Sir John Barnard in 1649, inherited New Place, and died childless.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), English Victorian poet, wife of Robert Browning; wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese (44 love sonnets, 1850) and Aurora Leigh (1857); also political verse on Italian unification, child labor, and slavery.
Elizabeth Barrett‐Connor
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor (1935–2019) was an American epidemiologist and physician who founded and directed the Rancho Bernardo Study of Healthy Aging at UC San Diego for nearly five decades.
Elizabeth Báthory
Elizabeth Báthory (Báthory Erzsébet), 1560–1614, Hungarian countess of Čachtice Castle, the "Blood Countess." Arrested 1610 by Palatine Thurzó, never tried; the blood-bath legend appears only in 18th-century accounts.
Elizabeth Bennet
Elizabeth Bennet (Eliza, Lizzy): heroine of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813), second of five Bennet sisters, witty and quick to judge; her mistaken prejudice against Darcy, undone by his letter, distinguishes her from all other characters of the same name.
Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
Elizabeth Bennett-Parker is an American Democratic politician serving in the Virginia Senate from the 39th district, elected in 2026 after serving in the House of Delegates and as Vice Mayor of Alexandria.
Elizabeth Berkley
Elizabeth Berkley (born 1972), American actress known as Jessie Spano in Saved by the Bell and Nomi Malone in Showgirls (1995); later The First Wives Club, Ask Elizabeth workshops, and the 2020 reboot.
Elizabeth Berrington
Elizabeth Berrington (born 1970, Wallasey) is an English actress, Webber Douglas Academy graduate, known for Waterloo Road, Stella, Mike Leigh films (Naked, Secrets & Lies), Abigail's Party, Good Omens, and ITV's Frauds.
Elizabeth Bettini
Elizabeth Bettini is an American special education researcher at Boston University Wheelock who studies teachers' working conditions and received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) was an American poet known for precise, descriptive verse and sparing publication, winning the 1956 Pulitzer Prize, 1970 National Book Award, and 1976 Neustadt Prize.
Elizabeth Blaber
Elizabeth Blaber is a space biologist and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who studies how spaceflight stressors affect stem cells and tissue regeneration.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn, born 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania, is an Australian-born molecular biologist who determined telomere DNA composition and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), British-born physician, first woman to earn an M.D. from an American medical school (Geneva Medical College, 1849); founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children and its women's medical college, and was first woman on the British Medical Register.
Elizabeth Blount
Elizabeth Blount, known as Bessie Blount, was an English gentlewoman from Shropshire who became Henry VIII's acknowledged mistress and bore his only acknowledged illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, in 1519.
Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire
Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and Ormond (Elizabeth Howard, d. 3 April 1538), Howard noblewoman, wife of Thomas Boleyn, mother of Anne, Mary, and George Boleyn, lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon, buried at Lambeth.
Elizabeth Bonner
Elizabeth (Beth) Bonner, American marathon runner (1952-1998), first woman under three hours with 2:55:22 at the 1971 New York City Marathon; also set a 3:01:42 world best in Philadelphia that year.
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer of The Last September, The Death of the Heart, and the wartime London novel The Heat of the Day; MI5 reporter, ARP warden, and a modernist often compared with Virginia Woolf.
Elizabeth Bugie
Elizabeth Bugie, later Elizabeth Bugie Gregory, was an American biochemist at Rutgers who co-authored the 1944 streptomycin discovery paper yet received only a 0.2 percent royalty share.
Elizabeth C. Coombe
Elizabeth C. Coombe is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of New York since 2024, appointed by President Biden.
Elizabeth C. Engle
Elizabeth C. Engle is an American neurologist and neurogeneticist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School whose research defined the congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders, birth defects of cranial nerve development.
Elizabeth C. Miller
Elizabeth C. Miller (1920–1987) was an American biochemist who, with her husband James A. Miller, founded the field of chemical carcinogenesis at the University of Wisconsin.
Elizabeth C. Raff
Elizabeth C. Raff, known as Beth Raff, is a cell biologist at Indiana University who used Drosophila genetics to show that tubulin isoforms determine microtubule architecture; she retired in 2019.