Elisa is a feminine given name. It is of Phoenician origin. According to legend, the first queen of
Carthage
Carthage was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the clas ...
was Elissa (also known as
Dido
Dido ( ; , ), also known as Elissa ( , ), was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage (located in modern Tunisia), in 814 BC.
In most accounts, she was the queen of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre (t ...
). Another opinion is that it is a shortened form of Elisabeth, a variant of the Biblical name Elizabeth. For other uses, see
Elisa (disambiguation)
The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (, ) is a commonly used analytical biochemistry assay, first described by Eva Engvall and Peter Perlmann in 1971. The assay uses a solid-phase type of enzyme immunoassay (EIA) to detect the presence ...
Eliza
ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between humans and machines ...
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Lisa Lisa or LISA may refer to:
People
People with the mononym
* Lisa Lisa (born 1967), American actress and lead singer of the Cult Jam
* Lisa (Japanese musician, born 1974), stylized "LISA", Japanese singer and producer
* Lisa Komine (born 1978), ...
Elisha
Elisha ( ; or "God is my salvation", Greek: , ''Elis îos'' or , ''Elisaié,'' Latin: ''Eliseus'') was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a prophet and a wonder-worker. His name is commonly transliterated into English as Elisha via Hebrew, Eli ...
, and the French form
Élise
Élise, Elise, Elyse or Elize is the shortened feminine French language, French form of Elizabeth (given name), Elizabeth, coming originally from the Hebrew name אלישבע (אלי = My God שבע = oath) and meaning "My God is an oath" or "My ...
.
People with this name
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Elisa Badenes
Elisa Badenes is a Spanish ballet dancer who is currently a principal dancer at the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany.
Early life
Badenes was born in Valencia, Spain. She started ballet at Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Valencia at age 11. In 2 ...
Élisa Bonaparte
Maria Anna Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi Levoy (French: ''Marie Anne Elisa Bonaparte''; 3 January 1777 – 7 August 1820), better known as Elisa Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess and sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was Princess of Lucca ...
Elisa Donovan
Lisa Adaline Donovan (born February 3, 1971), known professionally as Elisa Donovan, is an American actress. She played the role of Amber in the 1995 teen comedy film '' Clueless'', and reprised her role in the TV series of the same name (1996- ...
(born 1971), American actress
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Lisvel Elisa Eve
Lisvel Elisa Eve-Castillo (''née'' Eve Mejía, born September 10, 1991 in Puerto Plata) is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who played for the Women's National Team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
She also played the ...
(born 1991), Dominican Republic volleyball player
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Elisa Fiorillo
Elisa Fiorillo (born February 28, 1969, Philadelphia) is an American singer, best known for appearing on the 1987 Jellybean song "Who Found Who", which reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart.
Personal life
Fiorillo was born into a musical f ...
(born 1969), American singer
* Elisa Georgiou (born 1994), Greek Cypriot model
* Elisa Iorio (born 2003), Italian artistic gymnast
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Elisa Izquierdo
Elisa Izquierdo (February 11, 1989 – November 22, 1995) was a six-year-old Puerto Rican– Cuban-American girl who died of a brain hemorrhage inflicted by her mother, Awilda Lopez, at the peak of a prolonged and increasing campaign of physical ...
(1989–1995), American female murder victim
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Elisa Jimenez
Elisa Jimenez (born 1965) is an interdisciplinary artist, primarily in fashion design but also including writing, drawing, painting, performance art, and art installation. Her main ongoing project is called "The Hunger World," a world of marione ...
(born 1963), American fashion designer and ''Project Runway'' contestant
* Elisa Lam (1991–2013), a Canadian student whose death at the Cecil Hotel attracted wide attention
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Elisa Lindström
Eva Elisa Lindström (born 24 April 1991) is a Swedish pop and country music singer, and the lead singer for the dansband, Elisa's.
Career
As part of the music group Lali, she participated in Lilla Melodifestivalen in 2005, where their song ...
, Swedish singer
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Elisa Kadigia Bove
Elisa Kadigia Bove is an Italian actress.
Personal life
Kadigia Bove is of Italian-Somali descent.Elisa Radziwill (1803–1834), Polish aristocrat
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Elisa Riedo
Elisa Riedo is a physicist and researcher known for her contributions in condensed matter physics, nanotechnology and engineering. She is a professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and the director of the picoForce Lab.
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, nanotechnologist
* Elisa Servenius (fl. 1809), Swedish soldier
* Elisa Silva (born 1999), Portuguese singer
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Elisa Siragusa
Elisa Siragusa (born 17 July 1986) is an Italian politician. She was elected as a member of the Five Star Movement and has sat in the Chamber of Deputies since 2018.
Political career
In January 2022, she joined the Green Europe party.
Refere ...
(born 1986), Italian politician
* Elisa Toffoli (born 1977), Italian singer
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Elisa Togut
Elisa Togut (born 14 May 1978 in Gorizia) is an Italian former volleyball player who represented Italy at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There she ended up in ninth place with the Women's National Team. Two years lat ...
(born 1978), Italian volleyball player
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Elisa Volpatto
Elisa Volpatto (born 2 December 1986) is a Brazilian actress who played the lead role in the HBO, HBO Latin America's TV series ''Mulher de Fases, Woman of Phases''.
Career
Born in Nova Prata, a city from Rio Grande do Sul, she studied Performi ...
(born 1986), Brazilian television and film actress
* Elisa Zulueta (born 1984), Chilean television and film actress
;Fictional characters
* Elisa Maza in the Disney animated series ''Gargoyles''
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Elisa
The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (, ) is a commonly used analytical biochemistry assay, first described by Eva Engvall and Peter Perlmann in 1971. The assay uses a solid-phase type of enzyme immunoassay (EIA) to detect the presence ...
Elisha
Elisha ( ; or "God is my salvation", Greek: , ''Elis îos'' or , ''Elisaié,'' Latin: ''Eliseus'') was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a prophet and a wonder-worker. His name is commonly transliterated into English as Elisha via Hebrew, Eli ...
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Eliza (given name)
Eliza is a female given name in English, meaning "pledged to God" or "joyful."
Etymology
The name first developed as a diminutive of Elizabeth in the 16th century and its use as an independent name started in the 18th century.
The name Elizabet ...
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Elisa (disambiguation)
The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (, ) is a commonly used analytical biochemistry assay, first described by Eva Engvall and Peter Perlmann in 1971. The assay uses a solid-phase type of enzyme immunoassay (EIA) to detect the presence ...