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Elizabeth Mitchell
Elizabeth Mitchell (born Elizabeth J. Robertson, 1970) is the American actress known as Juliet Burke on Lost, Erica Evans on V, and Rachel Matheson on Revolution; distinct from Elizabeth Banks, born Elizabeth Mitchell.
Elizabeth Montagu
Elizabeth Montagu, née Robinson (1718–1800), was an English literary critic, salon host, and businesswoman who led the Bluestocking circle; Samuel Johnson called her the "Queen of the Blues."
Elizabeth Montgomery
Elizabeth Montgomery (1933-1995), American actress, daughter of Robert Montgomery; starred as witch Samantha Stephens in Bewitched (ABC, 1964-1972, 254 episodes), later Emmy-nominated TV movies, died of colon cancer.
Elizabeth Murchison
Elizabeth Murchison is a Tasmanian cancer geneticist who is Professor of Comparative Oncology and Genetics at the University of Cambridge, known for sequencing the Tasmanian devil and its transmissible facial cancer.
Elizabeth Murphy
Elizabeth Murphy is an NIH scientist who studies cardiac cell death and protection against it, leading the Cardiac Physiology Section at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) was an American painter known for large shaped canvases that jut from the wall and depict everyday objects like coffee cups and shoes.
Elizabeth Nabel
Elizabeth (Betsy) Nabel, American cardiologist; NHLBI director 2005-2009, Brigham and Women's Hospital president 2010-2021, first NFL chief health and medical advisor; vascular gene transfer and progeria researcher.
Elizabeth Nel
Elizabeth Layton Nel (1917-2007), Churchill's personal secretary 1941-1945, author of Mr. Churchill's Secretary; distinct from secretary Elizabeth Layton; later married Frans Nel, lived in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Elizabeth Nichols (singer)
Elizabeth Nichols (born 2002) is an American country singer-songwriter from Plano, Texas, whose viral 2024 debut single "I Got a New One," boosted by a Kelly Clarkson Kellyoke cover, led to the 2025 EP Tough Love, PULSE Records, and a Grand Ole Opry debut.
Elizabeth of Hungary
Elizabeth of Hungary (Elisabeth von Thüringen, Árpádházi Szent Erzsébet), 1207–1231, Hungarian princess, landgravine of Thuringia, Franciscan tertiary and hospital founder at Marburg; canonized 1235 after landmark papal hearings; feast November 17.
Elizabeth of Russia
Elizabeth of Russia (Elizaveta Petrovna, 1709–1762), daughter of Peter the Great, empress 1741–1762 after a bloodless coup against Ivan VI; founded Moscow University, fought Prussia in the Seven Years' War, occupied Berlin 1760.
Elizabeth of York
Elizabeth of York, queen consort of Henry VII and first Tudor queen, daughter of Edward IV, whose marriage united Lancaster and York; a well-loved but conventionally passive consort whose finances, court propriety, and model for Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor define her recorded queenship.
Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk
Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk (Elizabeth Plantagenet, 1444–c.1503), daughter of Richard, Duke of York, sister of Edward IV and Richard III; married John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, and mother of the Yorkist claimants Lincoln, Edmund, and Richard de la Pole.
Elizabeth Olsen
Elizabeth Olsen, American actress and younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, plays Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in the MCU (from Avengers: Age of Ultron, 2015) and stars in indies like Martha Marcy May Marlene, WandaVision, His Three Daughters, and Eternity.
Elizabeth P. Henske
Elizabeth P. Henske, also known as Elizabeth Petri Henske, is an American physician-scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital who discovered that TSC2 mutations cause sporadic LAM.
Elizabeth P. Turtle
Elizabeth P. Turtle, known as Zibi Turtle, is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory who leads NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Titan.
Elizabeth Peña
Elizabeth Peña (1959-2014) was a Cuban American actress of Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Lone Star, La Bamba, Rush Hour, and the voice of Mirage in The Incredibles; Independent Spirit Award winner, distinct from the speech-language researcher Elizabeth D. Peña.
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich (1911–1958), Tlingit name Kaaxgal.aat, was a Tlingit civil rights leader whose 1945 testimony helped pass Alaska's Anti-Discrimination Act, the first broad anti-discrimination law in the United States.
Elizabeth Perkins
Elizabeth Perkins (Elizabeth Ann Perkins), American actress born 1960 in Queens, New York; known for Big (1988), The Flintstones, and her Emmy-nominated Celia Hodes on Weeds; now in Netflix's Big Mistakes.
Elizabeth Peyton
Elizabeth Peyton, full name Elizabeth Joy Peyton, is an American contemporary painter born in 1965 in Danbury, Connecticut, known for intimate small-scale portraits of icons like Kurt Cobain and Napoleon.
Elizabeth Posey
Elizabeth Posey (born 1992) is an American actress from Shrewsbury, New Jersey, cousin of Tyler Posey, known for Euphoria, Heels, Gully, Dreamcatcher, and the upcoming The Boys prequel Vought Rising as Private Angel.
Elizabeth Prelogar
Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar, 48th Solicitor General of the United States (2021–2025), second woman in the role; Harvard Law graduate, Ginsburg and Kagan clerk, argued 35 Supreme Court cases before leaving office in January 2025.
Elizabeth Public Schools
Elizabeth Public Schools (EPS) is the public school district of Elizabeth, New Jersey, one of the state's largest, with about 28,000 students in 37 schools, an 87.9% graduation rate, and a 140-credit graduation requirement.
Elizabeth Raleigh
Elizabeth "Bess" Throckmorton Raleigh (1565–1647) was a Lady of the Privy Chamber to Elizabeth I and secret wife of Sir Walter Raleigh; their unauthorized 1591 marriage sent both to the Tower of London, and she later shared his imprisonment under James I until his 1618 execution.
Elizabeth Reaser
Elizabeth Reaser, American actress (born 1975, Bloomfield, Michigan), Juilliard-trained; known as Rebecca Pope on Grey's Anatomy, Esme Cullen in all five Twilight films, and Shirley Crain in The Haunting of Hill House.
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Elizabeth Rodriguez (born 1980) is an American actress from Manhattan of Puerto Rican heritage, known as Aleida Diaz in Orange Is the New Black, her Tony-nominated Broadway role in The Motherfucker with the Hat, and co-writing Allswell in New York.
Elizabeth S. Cochran
Elizabeth S. Cochran is an American seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Science Center in Pasadena, known for work on induced earthquakes and early warning.
Elizabeth S. Dennis
Elizabeth S. Dennis, also known as Elizabeth Dennis, is an Australian plant molecular biologist known for establishing the molecular and epigenetic basis of vernalization, the process by which cold promotes flowering.
Elizabeth S. Russell
Elizabeth S. Russell, known as "Tibby," was an American mammalian developmental geneticist who spent her career at The Jackson Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Elizabeth S. Sattely
Elizabeth S. Sattely is a chemical engineer, Associate Professor at Stanford University, and HHMI Investigator known for engineering plant metabolic pathways that make drug-like molecules.