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Elizabeth S. Wing
Elizabeth S. Wing is an American zooarchaeologist who founded the Florida Museum of Natural History's zooarchaeology program in 1961 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
Elizabeth Sackler
Elizabeth Sackler is an American public historian and philanthropist who serves as Board Chair of the Brooklyn Museum. She founded the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757-1854), known as Eliza or Betsey, wife of Alexander Hamilton and New York philanthropist who co-founded New York's first private orphanage (now Graham Windham) and preserved her husband's papers and legacy for fifty widowhood years.
Elizabeth Selvin
Elizabeth Selvin is an American epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins whose research on hemoglobin A1c helped establish it as a standard test for diagnosing diabetes; she directs the Welch Center.
Elizabeth Seton College
Elizabeth Seton College was a private Catholic two-year college in Yonkers, New York, run by the Sisters of Charity of New York from 1961, first Catholic two-year college in New York State, based at Alder Manor; merged with Iona College in 1989 and its campus closed soon after.
Elizabeth Setren
Elizabeth Setren is an American economist of education at Tufts University, a 2025 PECASE recipient whose research covers Boston charter schools, education technology, and desegregation.
Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell
Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell was an English noblewoman of Wolf Hall, Wiltshire and sister of Queen Jane Seymour, twice a baroness through marriages to Gregory Cromwell and John Paulet.
Elizabeth Siddal
Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862), English Pre-Raphaelite painter, poet, and model, Ophelia sitter, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ruskin's £150-a-year protegee, only woman in the 1857 PRB exhibition.
Elizabeth Siddon
Elizabeth Calvert "Ebett" Siddon is an American fisheries research biologist at NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Juneau, Alaska, who received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
Elizabeth Simpson (immunologist)
Elizabeth Simpson, born 1939, is a British transplantation immunologist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for her work on the male-specific HY antigen.
Elizabeth Skidmore
Elizabeth Skidmore is an American occupational therapist and rehabilitation scientist, Associate Dean for Research at the University of Pittsburgh, known for research on cognitive impairment and stroke rehabilitation.
Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart, American abduction survivor and child-safety activist, kidnapped June 5, 2002 from Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, held nine months, rescued March 12, 2003; founded the Elizabeth Smart Foundation in 2011.
Elizabeth Smyth
Elizabeth Smyth is an Irish-trained medical oncologist at Oxford University Hospitals specializing in esophagogastric cancer; she chairs the EORTC GI Trials Group and was elected ESMO Director of Education in 2025.
Elizabeth Spelke
Elizabeth S. Spelke is an American cognitive and developmental psychologist who holds the Marshall L. Berkman Professorship at Harvard and is known for the core knowledge theory of infant cognition.
Elizabeth Spriggs
Elizabeth Spriggs (1929–2008), English character actress; RSC and National Theatre member, Olivier Award 1978 for Love Letters on Blue Paper, Nan in Shine on Harvey Moon, Mrs Jennings in Sense and Sensibility, the Fat Lady in Harry Potter.
Elizabeth Stine
Elizabeth Stine (1905-1993), American track and field athlete from Hackensack, New Jersey; high jumper and long jumper who set the first unofficial women's triple jump world record, 10.32 m, in 1922 and a 1.48 m high jump world record in 1923.
Elizabeth Stride
Elizabeth Stride (Elisabeth Gustafsdotter, 1843-1888), called Long Liz, a Swedish-born Whitechapel resident found with her throat cut in Dutfield's Yard on 30 September 1888, the third canonical Jack the Ripper victim and the only one not mutilated.
Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout, American novelist born in Portland, Maine, author of Olive Kitteridge (Pulitzer Prize 2009) and the Lucy Barton books, including The Things We Never Say, her 11th novel and a 2026 Booker shortlistee.
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia
Elizabeth Stuart (1596–1662), the Winter Queen, daughter of James VI and I, wife of Frederick V, briefly Queen of Bohemia from November 1619, exiled in The Hague after 1620, grandmother of George I.
Elizabeth Swaney
Elizabeth Marian "Liz" Swaney is an American freestyle skier who competed for Hungary in the women's ski halfpipe at the 2018 Winter Olympics, finishing 24th and last.
Elizabeth Swann
Elizabeth Swann (later Turner) is the fictional Pirates of the Caribbean heroine portrayed by Keira Knightley, daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann, who rises from kidnapped governor's daughter to Pirate King of the Brethren Court and wife of Will Turner.
Elizabeth Tabish
Elizabeth Tabish, American actress and filmmaker, plays Mary Magdalene in The Chosen (41 episodes, 2019-2025); OSU graduate, director of feminist short films, ScreenCraft 2025 Grand Prize winner.
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011), British-born American film star and two-time Best Actress Oscar winner (Butterfield 8, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), child star of National Velvet, first star paid $1 million for Cleopatra, married eight times, pioneering AIDS activist.
Elizabeth Taylor (song)
"Elizabeth Taylor" is a 2025 Taylor Swift song, track 2 on The Life of a Showgirl, produced with Max Martin and Shellback. Its lyrics use Elizabeth Taylor's violet eyes, White Diamonds perfume, and Burton romance; an archive-footage video arrived March 31, 2026.
Elizabeth Teeter
Elizabeth Teeter is an American stage actress and singer who debuted on Broadway in 2012. She is best known for originating Lydia Deetz in the musical Beetlejuice.
Elizabeth Thompson
Elizabeth J. Thompson is an American research meteorologist at NOAA's Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, who studies clouds, precipitation, and air-sea fluxes, and received the Presidential Early Career Award.
Elizabeth Tighe
Elizabeth Tighe is an American educational and cognitive psychologist at Georgia State University who studies reading comprehension in adults with low literacy, receiving the Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.
Elizabeth Tulloch
Elizabeth "Bitsie" Tulloch (born 1981) is an American actress known for Juliette Silverton/Eve on Grimm and Lois Lane on Superman & Lois, plus films The Artist and Parkland; married to David Giuntoli.
Elizabeth Vargas
Elizabeth Anne Vargas (born 1962) is an American television journalist best known as a longtime co-anchor of ABC's 20/20, since 2023 hosting NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas Reports.
Elizabeth Vierling
Elizabeth Vierling is an American plant molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.