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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I, known as Good Queen Bess, was Queen of England from 1558 to 1603, the last Tudor monarch and daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

Elizabeth II (1926-2022), Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952, longest-reigning British monarch; 15 prime ministers, Head of the Commonwealth, died 8 September 2022 succeeded by Charles III.

Oct 22, 2026

Elizabeth Inchbald

Elizabeth Inchbald, née Simpson (1753–1821), was an English novelist, dramatist, actress, and critic who wrote A Simple Story (1791), Nature and Art, and about 21 plays and adaptations.

Elizabeth J. Goldsmith

Elizabeth J. Goldsmith, also published as E. J. Goldsmith, is an American structural biologist and professor of biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who studies protein kinases.

Sep 20, 2026

Elizabeth J. Robertson

Elizabeth J. Robertson, also published as Liz Robertson, is a British developmental biologist and Professor at Oxford known for discovering Nodal and for early embryonic stem cell work.

Elizabeth Johnson (theologian)

Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ, born 1941, is an American Catholic feminist and ecological theologian, a Sister of St. Joseph, and Fordham professor known for She Who Is.

Elizabeth K. Dillon

Elizabeth K. Dillon, also known as Elizabeth Kay Dillon, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Virginia since 2014.

Elizabeth Kemp

Elizabeth Kemp (1951–2017) was an American actress and Actors Studio acting coach who taught Bradley Cooper, Hugh Jackman, Lady Gaga, and Harvey Keitel, chaired the Actors Studio Drama School MFA at Pace University, and appeared in He Knows You're Alone.

Elizabeth Kenny

Elizabeth Kenny, known as Sister Elizabeth Kenny, was an Australian nurse who developed a hot-pack treatment for polio and founded the Sister Kenny Institute in Minneapolis in 1942.

Elizabeth Key Grinstead

Elizabeth Key Grinstead (c. 1630–1667), Virginia mixed-race woman whose 1656 freedom suit, argued via partus sequitur partem and her Christian baptism, won her liberty and prompted the 1662 partus sequitur ventrem law.

Elizabeth Kirtley

Elizabeth Guida Kirtley is an American politician and the 2026 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Ohio's 6th District, a first-time candidate facing incumbent Michael Rulli in November 2026.

Elizabeth Kloepfer

Elizabeth Kloepfer (pseudonym Elizabeth Kendall), Ted Bundy's girlfriend 1969–1975, wrote the 1981 memoir The Phantom Prince and reported her suspicions of him to Seattle police.

Elizabeth L. Branch

Elizabeth L. Branch, also known as Elizabeth Lee Branch, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit since 2018.

Elizabeth L. Corbett

Elizabeth L. Corbett is a clinical epidemiologist and Professor of Global Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for tuberculosis and HIV research in sub-Saharan Africa.

Elizabeth Lacy

Elizabeth Lacy is a molecular and developmental biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York since 1983, known for transgenic mouse work and co-authoring "the Mouse Bible".

Elizabeth Lail

Elizabeth Lail (born 1992, Williamson County, Texas) is an American actress known as Anna in Once Upon a Time, Guinevere Beck in You, and Vanessa in Five Nights at Freddy's (2023, 2025).

Elizabeth LeCompte

Elizabeth LeCompte (born 1944) is the American experimental theater director who co-founded The Wooster Group in 1980 with Spalding Gray and directs it from The Performing Garage, Soho; MacArthur, Gish Prize, and 2025 Venice Golden Lion winner.

Elizabeth Lee (Arizona politician)

Elizabeth Lee is an American politician and registered nurse who won the 2026 Democratic primary for Arizona's 5th Congressional District and faces Republican Mark Lamb in November.

Elizabeth Leslie

Elizabeth Leslie, also known as Elizabeth J. Leslie-Clarkson, is an American human geneticist and associate professor at Emory University School of Medicine, known for research on orofacial clefts and Van der Woude syndrome.

Elizabeth line

The Elizabeth line, also known as the Crossrail line, is a commuter railway in London that opened in May 2022, running from Reading and Heathrow to Shenfield and Abbey Wood.

Elizabeth Loftus

Elizabeth Loftus, also Elizabeth F. Loftus, is an American cognitive psychologist at UC Irvine known for showing that suggestion can create false memories and distort eyewitness testimony.

Elizabeth M. McNally

Elizabeth M. McNally (born 1961) is an American geneticist and cardiologist who directs the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University, studying inherited heart and muscle disease.

Elizabeth M. Nolan

Elizabeth M. Nolan is an American bioinorganic chemist at MIT who studies metals, immunity, and antibiotic resistance, and holds the Ivan R. Cottrell Professor of Immunology title.

Elizabeth MacRae

Elizabeth MacRae (Elizabeth Hendon MacRae, 1936–2024), American actress known as Lou-Ann Poovie on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Meg Baldwin on General Hospital, April on Gunsmoke, and Meredith in The Conversation; distinct from other MacRae actors.

Elizabeth Marvel

Elizabeth Marvel (born 1969, Los Angeles) is an American actress trained at Juilliard, known for Nancy Parras on The District, Heather Dunbar on House of Cards, President Elizabeth Keane on Homeland, and Obie-winning stage work.

Elizabeth May

Elizabeth May, Canadian lawyer, environmentalist, and Leader of the Green Party of Canada (2006-2019, again since 2022); first elected Green MP, representing Saanich-Gulf Islands since 2011 and former Sierra Club of Canada executive director.

Elizabeth Mayeda

Elizabeth Rose Mayeda is an American epidemiologist and tenured associate professor at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health, known for quantifying racial disparities in dementia incidence.

Elizabeth McCord (Madam Secretary)

Elizabeth McCord is the fictional Secretary of State, later President, played by Téa Leoni in CBS's Madam Secretary (2014–2019, 120 episodes), a former CIA analyst loosely inspired by Hillary Clinton.

Elizabeth McGovern

Elizabeth McGovern, born 1961 in Evanston, Illinois, is an American actress known for Ordinary People, her Oscar-nominated Ragtime role, Lady Cora in Downton Abbey, the play Ava: The Secret Conversations, and the band Sadie and the Hotheads.