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Elizabeth C. Wayne
Elizabeth C. Wayne is an American biomedical engineer who repurposes macrophages as drug delivery vehicles and living biosensors, and teaches bioengineering at the University of Washington.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), American suffragist, abolitionist, and philosopher of the woman's rights movement; author of the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments, co-founder of the NWSA with Susan B. Anthony, and writer of The Woman's Bible.
Elizabeth Carling
Elizabeth Carling (Liz Carling), English actress and singer born 1967 in Middlesbrough; known for Phoebe in Goodnight Sweetheart, Selena Donovan in Casualty, Betty Scanlon in Hotel Portofino.
Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Catlett, also known as Elizabeth Catlett Mora, was an American and Mexican sculptor and printmaker best known for depicting the Black American experience, often centered on women's lives.
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1758-1824), born Elizabeth Hervey, Lady Elizabeth Foster, was a British diarist, novelist, and arts patron: companion of Georgiana, second wife of the 5th Duke of Devonshire, later excavator of the Roman Forum in Rome.
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (born 1978, New York City) is an American documentary filmmaker; with husband Jimmy Chin she directed Meru, the Oscar- and BAFTA-winning Free Solo, The Rescue, and her first narrative film Nyad (2023).
Elizabeth Chambers (television personality)
Elizabeth Chambers (born 1982), American TV personality, journalist, and BIRD Bakery founder; ex-wife of Armie Hammer; star of Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise and creator of the docuseries Toxic.
Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine
Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine (Liselotte von der Pfalz, 1652-1722), German-born Duchess of Orléans, second wife of Louis XIV's brother Philippe I, and author of roughly 60,000 letters documenting the court of Versailles.
Elizabeth Christ Trump
Elizabeth Christ Trump, born Elisabetha Christ (1880–1966), was a German-born American real estate entrepreneur who founded E. Trump & Son, the firm that became the Trump Organization.
Elizabeth City State University
Elizabeth City State University (ECSU), founded 1891 in Elizabeth City, NC, is a public historically black university in the UNC System, known for North Carolina's only four-year Aviation Science degree program and NC Promise tuition.
Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Elizabeth City, North Carolina, is a city of about 18,600 people on the Pasquotank River near the Outer Banks, incorporated in 1793 and known as the Harbor of Hospitality.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, also known as Elizabeth Prophet, was an American religious leader who led the Church Universal and Triumphant from 1973 until her 1999 retirement.
Elizabeth Colbert Busch
Elizabeth Colbert Busch, sister of Stephen Colbert, was the 2013 Democratic nominee in South Carolina's 1st District special election, losing to Mark Sanford 54-45 despite outspending him.
Elizabeth Coleman
Elizabeth Coleman, born 1937, is an American literary scholar and academic administrator who was president of Bennington College from 1987 to 2013, leading its radical 1994 restructuring.
Elizabeth Colson
Elizabeth Colson (1917–2016) was an American social anthropologist and UC Berkeley professor best known for her decades-long study of the Gwembe Tonga, forcibly resettled by the Kariba Dam in Zambia.
Elizabeth Corday
Elizabeth Corday is a fictional British surgeon on ER, played by Alex Kingston from 1997 to 2009 across seasons 4-11 and 15, wife of Mark Greene and later Chief of Surgery.
Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten was an American folk and blues musician best known for "Freight Train," written in childhood near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Left-handed, she played right-handed guitars upside down.
Elizabeth D. Getzoff
Elizabeth D. Getzoff (born 1954) is a biochemist and professor at the Scripps Research Institute known for structural work on superoxide dismutase, nitric oxide synthase, and photoactive yellow protein.
Elizabeth D. Hay
Elizabeth D. Hay (1927–2007) was an American cell biologist at Harvard who established the extracellular matrix as a determinant of cell behavior and introduced epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
Elizabeth Day
Elizabeth Day, British novelist, journalist and broadcaster, author of Scissors Paper Stone, The Party, Magpie and One of Us, and host of the How To Fail podcast.
Elizabeth de Burgh
Elizabeth de Burgh (c. 1289–1327), queen of Scots, second wife of Robert the Bruce, crowned at Scone in March 1306, held eight years captive in England, mother of David II; distinct from Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare (c. 1295–1360).
Elizabeth Debicki
Elizabeth Debicki, born 1990, in Paris, is an Australian actress known for The Great Gatsby, Widows, Tenet, and her Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Princess Diana in The Crown.
Elizabeth Diller
Elizabeth Diller is an American architect and artist, co-founding partner of the New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, known for the High Line, the Blur Building, and The Shed.
Elizabeth Dole
Elizabeth Hanford Dole is a respected American politician and public official who served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Labor, and President of the American Red Cross.
Elizabeth Dulau
Elizabeth Dulau is a British actress, RADA graduate (2020), best known as Kleya Marki in Andor (2022–2025), her first screen role, which brought an Emmy nomination; also House of Guinness, Maternal, Wicked, and Bird Grove at Hampstead Theatre.
Elizabeth Dunn
Elizabeth Dunn is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia whose research shows that spending money on others promotes happiness, and co-author of Happy Money (2013).
Elizabeth E. Foote
Elizabeth E. Foote, born 1953, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born 1941), Little Rock Nine member who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957; her solo walk through a mob on September 4, 1957, photographed by Will Counts, became an iconic civil rights image.
Elizabeth Eden
Elizabeth (Liz) Eden, born Ernest Aron (1946-1987), American transgender woman whose partner John Wojtowicz's 1972 Brooklyn bank robbery inspired Dog Day Afternoon; she told her own story in a 1977 CLUB memoir.
Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards (Mary Elizabeth Anania, 1949-2010), American attorney, political adviser to John Edwards, breast cancer advocate, author of Saving Graces and Resilience; separated from him in January 2010.