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Elizabeth F. Neufeld
Elizabeth F. Neufeld (born 1928) is an American biochemist who worked out the biochemical causes of lysosomal storage diseases and laid the groundwork for enzyme replacement therapy.
Elizabeth Feinler
Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler, born 1931, is an American information scientist who ran the ARPANET Network Information Center at SRI International and managed the internet's Host Naming Registry until 1989.
Elizabeth Fisher (British neurogeneticist)
Elizabeth M.C. Fisher is a British neurogeneticist, Professor of Neurogenetics at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in London, known for mouse models of ALS, Down syndrome, and dynein mutations causing motor neuron degeneration.
Elizabeth Francis
Elizabeth Francis (1909–2024) was an American supercentenarian from Louisiana and Houston, Texas; validated by LongeviQuest, she was the oldest living American from February 2024 until her death at 115.
Elizabeth Fraser
Elizabeth Davidson Fraser (born 1963, Grangemouth, Scotland) is the Scottish vocalist and lyricist of dream pop band Cocteau Twins, nicknamed 'the voice of God', known for glossolalia-style lyrics, Massive Attack's 'Teardrop', and the 2022 Sun's Signature EP with Damon Reece.
Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), born Elizabeth Gurney, English Quaker prison reformer; founded the Newgate women prisoners association (1817) and first woman to give Commons evidence; her work shaped the 1823 Gaols Act and she appeared on the £5 note.
Elizabeth Galitzin
Elizabeth Galitzin was a Russian-born nun of the Society of the Sacred Heart who led its American houses and founded convents in New York and Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) was an English physician, the first openly female recipient of a medical qualification in Britain in 1865, who founded the New Hospital for Women.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), English Victorian novelist and biographer, wife of Unitarian minister William Gaskell of Manchester; wrote Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, Ruth, and The Life of Charlotte Brontë.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969, Waterbury, Connecticut) is the American author of Eat, Pray, Love, Big Magic, The Signature of All Things, City of Girls, and the 2025 Oprah's Book Club memoir All the Way to the River, with over 25 million books sold.
Elizabeth Gillies
Elizabeth Gillies (born 1993, Haworth, NJ), also known as Liz Gillies, is an American actress and singer, Jade West on Victorious and Fallon Carrington on Dynasty, with records with Seth MacFarlane and stage roles in 13 and Little Shop of Horrors.
Elizabeth Glaser
Elizabeth Glaser (1947-1994), American AIDS activist, contracted HIV from a 1981 blood transfusion, passed it to children Ariel and Jake, and co-founded the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, renamed EGPAF after her death; known for her 1992 DNC speech.
Elizabeth Goudge
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) was an English novelist and children's writer whose best-known books, Green Dolphin Country and The Little White Horse, sold nearly ten million copies by 1959.
Elizabeth Gould (neuroscientist)
Elizabeth Gould is a Princeton neuroscientist known for research showing that the adult mammalian brain produces new neurons, and the first to report neurogenesis in adult primates.
Elizabeth Gracen
Elizabeth Gracen (Elizabeth Grace Ward, born 1961), Miss America 1982 as Elizabeth Ward, American actress best known as Amanda Darieux in Highlander: The Series and Highlander: The Raven, later a documentary director and Flapper Press publisher.
Elizabeth Gutiérrez
Elizabeth Gutiérrez, American telenovela actress and model born 1979 in Los Angeles, star of El Rostro de Analía and El Rostro de la Venganza, ex-partner of William Levy, returned in 2025 in Telemundo's Velvet, el Nuevo Imperio.
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn is an Australian-American molecular biologist who discovered the molecular nature of telomeres and co-discovered telomerase, sharing the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Elizabeth H. Bradley
Elizabeth H. Bradley, known as Betsy Bradley, is an American health services researcher and public health scholar who has served as Vassar College's 11th president since July 2017.
Elizabeth Hanson (CIA officer)
Elizabeth Curry Hanson (1979-2009), American CIA targeting officer from Rockford, Illinois, Colby College class of 2002; joined CIA 2005, hunted al-Qaeda leaders including bin Laden, killed in the December 30, 2009 Camp Chapman suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan.
Elizabeth Hardwick (writer)
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007) was an American critic, essayist, and novelist who co-founded The New York Review of Books in 1963 and wrote for it for over four decades.
Elizabeth Harris Aitken
Elizabeth Harris Aitken, born Elizabeth Rees-Williams (Cardiff, 1936 – 2022), Welsh socialite, daughter of the first Baron Ogmore; married Richard Harris, Sir Rex Harrison, Peter Aitken and Jonathan Aitken; wrote Love, Honour and Dismay.
Elizabeth Hartman
Elizabeth Hartman (Mary Elizabeth Hartman, 1943–1987), American actress nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for her debut in A Patch of Blue (1965); seven films, last role Mrs. Brisby in The Secret of NIMH; died by suicide in Pittsburgh in 1987.
Elizabeth Harvest
Elizabeth Harvest (2018) is a sci-fi thriller by Sebastian Gutierrez, reimagining Bluebeard: newlywed Elizabeth (Abbey Lee) discovers her scientist husband Henry (Ciarán Hinds) clones her. IFC Films release, SXSW 2018 premiere, shot in Colombia.
Elizabeth Haysom
Elizabeth Roxanne Haysom, Canadian University of Virginia student, pleaded guilty in 1987 as accessory before the fact in her parents' 1985 Bedford County murders; sentenced to 90 years, paroled and deported to Canada in 2019.
Elizabeth Henstridge
Elizabeth Henstridge (born 1987, Sheffield) is an English actress and director, known as Jemma Simmons on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and for directing episodes of Superman & Lois and Gotham Knights.
Elizabeth Hohmann
Elizabeth Louise Hohmann, known as Libby Hohmann, is an infectious-disease physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital who directs its fecal microbiota transplant laboratory and studies Salmonella and Listeria.
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
Elizabeth Holloway Marston (1893–1993), born Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, was an American attorney and psychologist, BU Law 1918, who co-authored systolic blood pressure lie-detection research with her husband William Moulton Marston and suggested Wonder Woman be a woman.
Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Holmes, also known as Liz Holmes, is an American entrepreneur who founded Theranos in 2003 and was convicted of defrauding investors in January 2022.
Elizabeth Howell
Elizabeth A. Howell is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and health services researcher known for studies of racial disparities in maternal mortality, and chairs Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Hurley (born 1965, Basingstoke) is an English model and actress, star of Austin Powers (1997) and Bedazzled (2000), face of Estée Lauder since the mid-1990s, Breast Cancer Campaign ambassador, and founder of Elizabeth Hurley Beach swimwear.