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Elio Di Rupo
Elio Di Rupo (born 1951, Morlanwelz) is a Belgian socialist politician, Prime Minister of Belgium 2011-2014 after the 541-day formation crisis, three-time Minister-President of Wallonia, PS president, and the EU's first openly gay head of government, now a Member of the European Parliament.
Eliodoro Villazón
Eliodoro Villazón was a Bolivian lawyer and Liberal Party statesman who served as the 27th President of Bolivia from 1909 to 1913, between Ismael Montes's two terms.
Eliot A. Cohen
Eliot A. Cohen, American strategist and scholar of civil-military relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS (Robert E. Osgood Professor, SAIS dean 2019-2021), State Department counselor 2007-2009, CSIS Burke Chair, author of Supreme Command.
Eliot Engel
Eliot Lance Engel, New York Democrat, represented the Bronx and Westchester in the U.S. House 1989–2021 (16 terms) and chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Kosovo advocate, Harkin-Engel Protocol co-negotiator, defeated by Jamaal Bowman in 2020, died 2026.
Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Spitzer, born 1959, New York's 54th governor (2007-2008) and attorney general (1999-2007), the 'Sheriff of Wall Street' who used the Martin Act against financial firms, resigned in March 2008 after an Emperors Club VIP prostitution investigation; never charged; later led Spitzer Enterprises.
Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal
The 2008 scandal in which New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, "Client 9" of the Emperors Club VIP escort ring, resigned in March 2008 after a federal wiretap investigation; he faced no charges.
Eliott Rodriguez
Eliott Rodriguez is an American politician and former CBS News Miami anchor who won the 2026 Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Florida's 27th Congressional District.
Elisabet Lann
Elisabet Lann is a Swedish politician of the Christian Democrats who has served as Minister for Health Care since taking office on September 9, 2025, succeeding Acko Ankarberg Johansson.
Élisabeth Baume-Schneider
Élisabeth Baume-Schneider, born in 1963, is a Swiss Social Democratic politician who has been a Federal Councillor and head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs since 2024.
Élisabeth Borne
Élisabeth Borne (born 1961) is a French engineer-politician, Prime Minister of France 2022–2024, the second woman in that post, who passed the 62-to-64 pension reform via article 49.3 and later served as Bayrou's education minister.
Elisabeth Kaiser
Elisabeth Kaiser is a German SPD politician who has served in the Bundestag since 2017 and as Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Germany since 2025.
Elisabeth of Wied
Elisabeth of Wied, who wrote under the pseudonym Carmen Sylva, was a German-born writer who became the first Queen of Romania as the wife of King Carol I in 1881.
Elisabeth Svantesson
Elisabeth Svantesson is a Swedish Moderate Party politician serving as Minister for Finance of Sweden since 2022, presenting the government's budgets and leading its response to rising energy prices.
Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik, Republican U.S. representative for New York's 21st District since 2015, youngest woman ever elected to Congress, House Republican Conference chair 2021-2025, Trump's withdrawn UN ambassador nominee.
Elissa Slotkin
Elissa Slotkin, Democratic U.S. Senator from Michigan since 2025, former CIA analyst with three Iraq tours and Pentagon official; House 2019-2025, elected Senate 2024 succeeding Debbie Stabenow.
Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi
Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi, born in 1956, is a Greek New Democracy politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014 and has chaired its Transport and Tourism Committee since 2024.
Elite
Elite: a small group concentrating wealth, power, and honor in any society; classical elite theory (Mosca, Pareto, Michels) holds that ruling minorities always govern majorities, later adapted into democratic elitism.
Elite theory
Elite theory: political and sociological doctrine from Pareto, Mosca, and Michels holding that a ruling minority always governs, including in democracies; includes Michels' iron law of oligarchy, democratic elitism, and pluralist rivals.
Elitism
Elitism, or elite theory, is the political-sociological doctrine of Mosca, Pareto, and Michels that every society is ruled by an organized minority, with concepts like circulation of elites and the iron law of oligarchy.
Eliza Courtney
Eliza Courtney (1792–1859), illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; born in Aix-en-Provence, raised by the Greys in Northumberland, married General Robert Ellice in 1814.
Eliza Hamilton Holly
Eliza Hamilton Holly, second daughter and seventh child of Alexander Hamilton, married Sidney Augustus Holly, shared the Hamilton-Holly House with her widowed mother, and pressed brother John Church Hamilton to publish his father's biography.
Elizabeth Ann Blaesing
Elizabeth Ann Blaesing (1919-2005), born Elizabeth Ann Christian in Asbury Park, NJ, was the daughter of Nan Britton and President Warren G. Harding, confirmed by 2015 AncestryDNA testing.
Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
Elizabeth Bennett-Parker is an American Democratic politician serving in the Virginia Senate from the 39th district, elected in 2026 after serving in the House of Delegates and as Vice Mayor of Alexandria.
Elizabeth Blount
Elizabeth Blount, known as Bessie Blount, was an English gentlewoman from Shropshire who became Henry VIII's acknowledged mistress and bore his only acknowledged illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, in 1519.
Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire
Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and Ormond (Elizabeth Howard, d. 3 April 1538), Howard noblewoman, wife of Thomas Boleyn, mother of Anne, Mary, and George Boleyn, lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon, buried at Lambeth.
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 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 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 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 II
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.