Elsie is a feminine given name, sometimes a diminutive form (

hypocorism A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for I ...

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Elizabeth Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Ships * HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships * ''Elisabeth'' (sch ...

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People

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Elsie Baker Elsie Baker (July 13, 1883 – August 16, 1971) was an American actress. Her career spanned the gamut from vaudeville through silent movies to radio to Hollywood and television. She has sometimes been confused with the American contralto El ...

(1883–1971), American actress and singer *

Elsie Bertram Elsie Bertram ( Hacking; 6 June 1912 – 26 October 2003) was an English wholesale publishers' bookseller and philanthropist who co-founded the Bertrams books wholesaler in 1968. She became wholesale distributor for Pan Paperbacks in East Anglia ...

(1912–2003), English bookseller *

Elsie Bowerman Elsie Edith Bowerman (18 December 1889 – 18 October 1973) was a British lawyer, suffragette, political activist, and RMS ''Titanic'' survivor. Early life Elsie Edith Bowerman was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the only daughter of Willi ...

(1889–1973), British pioneering female barrister, suffragette and ''Titanic'' survivor *

Elsie Cameron Corbett Elsie Cameron Corbett (1893 –1977) was a volunteer ambulance driver and major donor to the World War One Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Service in Serbia, She was a prisoner of war in 1916 and won medals from the Serbian and British go ...

(1893–1977), volunteer ambulance driver in World War I *

Elsie Cassels Elsie Cassels (February 1864 - 12 November 1938) was a Scottish born naturalist, the first woman to become Vice-President of a Canadian naturalist society. Cassels lived in Red Deer, Alberta and became a recognised authority across Canada on mig ...

(1864–1938), Scottish born naturalist and Canadian ornithologist *

Essie B. Cheesborough Essie B. Cheesborough (pen names, Motte Hall, Elma South, Ide Delmar, and E. B. C.; 1826 – December 29, 1905) was a prolific American writer who contributed to several popular periodicals during South Carolina's antebellum period. Cheesborough's ...

(1826-1905), American writer * Elsie Dohrmann (1875–1909), New Zealand scholar, teacher and temperance campaigner *

Elsie Ferguson Elsie Louise Ferguson (August 19, 1883 – November 15, 1961) was an American stage and film actress. Early life Born in New York City, Elsie Ferguson was the only child of Hiram and Amelia Ferguson. Her father was a successful attorney. Raise ...

(1883–1961), American stage and film actress *

Elsie Fox Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the ...

(c. 1900–1992), minor screenwriter in the 1930s, married to novelist/screenwriter Paul Hervey Fox *

Elsie Gibbons Elsie May Gibbons (; May 23, 1903 – January 28, 2003) was a Canadian Liberal Party later Progressive Conservative Party politician and businessperson who was the first woman to be elected mayor of an municipality in the Canadian province of Q ...

(1903–2003), Canadian politician *

Elsie Griffin Elsie Griffin (6 December 1895 – 21 December 1989) was an English opera singer, best known for her performances in the soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Beginning her career by entertaining British troops ...

(1895–1989), English opera singer *

Elsie Hall Elsie Maude Stanley Hall (22 June 1877 – 27 June 1976), commonly referred to as Elsie Stanley Hall, was a prominent Australian-born South African classical pianist. Life Hall was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, the oldest daughter of ...

(1877–1976), Australian-born South African classical pianist * Elsie Higgon (1879–1969), English pharmacist * Elsie Hodder (1886–1952), English actress and singer under the stage name

Lily Elsie Elsie Cotton (''née'' Hodder, 8 April 1886 – 16 December 1962), known professionally as Lily Elsie, was an English actress and singer during the Edwardian era. She was best known for her starring role in the London premiere of Franz Lehár's ...

Elsie Inglis Eliza Maud "Elsie" Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was a Scottish doctor, surgeon, teacher, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. She was the first woman to hold the Serbian Order of the White Eagle. Early ...

(1864–1917), innovative Scottish doctor *

Elsie Janis Elsie Janis (born Elsie Bierbower, March 16, 1889 – February 26, 1956) was an American actress of stage and screen, singer, songwriter, screenwriter and radio announcer. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as " the sw ...

(1889–1956), American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter * Elsie May Kittredge (1870–1954), American botanist *

Elsie Lefebvre Elsie Lefebvre (born May 5, 1979 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Quebec politician. She was the Member of the National Assembly for the Laurier-Dorion riding from 2004 to 2007, and later served on Montreal City Council. She is trilingual, speaking Fr ...

(born 1979), Quebec politician *

Elsie Lessa Elsie Lessa (1912 – 17 May 2000) was a Brazilian journalist and writer of American descent. She was hired as a reporter for the newspaper ''O Globo'' in 1946. From 1952 till her death in May 2000, she wrote continuously for the paper. No ...

(1912–2000), American-Brazilian journalist and writer *

Elsie Leung Elsie Leung Oi-sie, GBM, JP (; born 24 April 1939) is a Hong Kong politician and solicitor. She was Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong from 1997 to 2005 and a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. Early life and education Leung was b ...

, member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong *

Elsie Locke Elsie Violet Locke (née Farrelly; 17 August 1912 – 8 April 2001) was a New Zealand communist writer, historian, and leading activist in the feminism and peace movements. Also available to subscribers at Oxford Reference Online'. Probably be ...

(1912–2001), New Zealand writer, historian and activist in the feminism and peace movements * Elsie Lyon, Canadian politician; see Cooperative Commonwealth Federation candidates, 1953 Manitoba provincial election#Elsie Lyon (Fisher) *

Elsie Mackay Honorable Lady Elsie Mackay (August 21, 1893–13th March 1928) was a British actress, jockey, interior decorator and pioneering aviator who died attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean with Walter G. R. Hinchliffe in a single engined Stinson D ...

(c. 1893–1928), British actress, interior decorator and pioneering aviator who died trying to fly across the Atlantic *

Elsie Maréchal Elsie Maréchal (21 June 1894 – 25 March 1969) was an English woman who became active in the Belgian Resistance during World War II. As a member of the Comet Line, she helped downed Allied airmen evade capture by German forces. After being betr ...

(1894–1969), English woman active in the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War * Elsie Mitchell (died 1945), American woman killed in Oregon by a Japanese balloon bomb during World War II; see Fire balloon#Single lethal attack *

Elsie Clews Parsons Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (November 27, 1875 – December 19, 1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes—such as the Tewa and Hopi—in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexic ...

(1875–1941), American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist and feminist *

Elsie Payne Dame Elsie Payne ( Pilgrim; 14 May 1927 – 25 August 2004) was a teacher and following independence she became the first Barbadian-born principal of Queen's College in Bridgetown. She was the first woman knighted in Barbados for her long ded ...

(1927–2004), teacher and first indigenous Barbadian principal of Queen's College of Bridgetown *

Elsie Sigel Elsie Sigel (1889 – '' ca.'' June 1909) was a granddaughter of General Franz Sigel, and the victim of a notorious murder at the age of 19 in New York City in 1909. Sigel, who had been a missionary in Chinatown, was found strangled inside a ...

ca. 1890–1909), American murder victim * Elsie Snowden, member of the

Snowden Family Band The Snowden Family Band was a 19th-century African American musical group. The children of the Snowden family of Clinton, Knox County, Ohio, comprised the ensemble. The band's career stretched from before the American Civil War into livin ...

, a 19th-century African American musical group * Elsie Suréna (born 1956), Haitian writer and photographer *

Elsie Tu Elsie Tu (; ; 2 June 1913 – 8 December 2015), known as Elsie Elliott in her earlier life, was an English-born Hong Kong social activist, elected member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong from 1963 to 1995, and member of the Legislative Counc ...

(Traditional Chinese characters: 杜葉錫恩) (b. 1913), also known as Elsie Elliot, Hong Kong social activist and former member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong * Elsie Wagg (1876–1949), English philanthropist *

Elsie Wayne Elsie Eleanore Wayne (née Fairweather; April 20, 1932 – August 23, 2016) was a Canadian politician who served as a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Saint John from 1993 to 2004. She was born in Shediac, New Brunswick. Poli ...

(born 1932), Canadian politician *

Elsie Widdowson Elsie Widdowson (21 October 1906 – 14 June 2000), was a British dietitian and nutritionist. She and Dr Robert McCance, a pediatrician, physiologist, biochemist, and nutritionist, were responsible for overseeing the government-mandated additi ...

(1906–2000), British dietitian *

Elsie Jane Wilson Elsie Jane Wilson (7 November 1885 – 16 January 1965) was a cinema actress, director, and writer during the early film era. She took part in the productions of the silent film era and starred in over thirty films. Between the years of 1916 an ...

(1890–1965), New Zealand-born cinema actress, director and writer in the United States * Elsie de Wolfe (1865–1950), pioneering professional interior decorator in the United States *

Elsie and Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau Elsie and Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau (died in 1926, aged 83) were British suffragette sisters: Elsie was arrested for smashing shop windows, went on hunger strike and was awarded the Women's Social and Political Union Hunger Strike Medal 'for Va ...

(''alive in'' 1914), British suffragette sisters * Elsie Wright (1901–1988), Cottingley Fairies photographer and subject

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Elsie Carlisle Elizabeth 'Elsie' Carlisle (28 January 1896 – 5 September 1977) was a popular English female singer both before and during the British dance band era of the 1920s and 1930s, nicknamed "Radio Sweetheart Number One"; according to AllMusic, she w ...

(1896–1977), English female singer * Elizabeth

Elsie MacGill Elsie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Elsie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Lily Elsie (1886–1952), English actress and singer born Elsie Hodder * Robert Elsie (1950–2017), Canadian expert in Albanian ...

(1905–1980), Canadian aeronautical engineer, first woman to earn an aeronautical engineering degree and "Queen of the Hurricanes" (fighter aircraft) * Eliška

Elsie Paroubek Eliška "Elsie" Paroubek (1906–1911) was a Czech American girl who was a victim of kidnapping and murder in the spring of 1911. Her disappearance and the subsequent search for her preoccupied Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota law enforcement ...

(1906–1911), Czech-American girl who was kidnapped and murdered

Fictional characters

Elsie the Cow Elsie the Cow is a cartoon cow developed as a mascot for the Borden Dairy Company in 1936 to symbolize the "perfect dairy product". Since the demise of Borden in the mid-1990s, the character has continued to be used in the same capacity for the ...

, an advertising mascot of the Borden Company * Elsie, a main character in the Playhouse Disney animated television series ''

Stanley Stanley may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Stanley'' (1972 film), an American horror film * ''Stanley'' (1984 film), an Australian comedy * ''Stanley'' (1999 film), an animated short * ''Stanley'' (1956 TV series) ...

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Elsie Dinsmore Elsie Dinsmore is a children's book series written by Martha Finley (1828–1909) between 1867 and 1905. Of Finley's two girls' fiction series, the Mildred Keith books were more realistic and autobiographical in nature, while the Elsie Dinsmore ...

, titular character in the ''Elsie Dinsmore'' series by Martha Finley *

Elsie Hooper ''Elsie Hooper'' is a black and white horror serial that began printing in December 2002. The strip originally appeared in the ''UMass Daily Collegian''. Since August 2003, ''Elsie Hooper'' has been occasionally in the works as a motion picture in ...

, title character of the black and white horror serial of the same name, appearing in the UMass ''Daily Collegian'' *

Elsie Hughes This is a list of characters from ''Downton Abbey'', a British period drama television series created by Julian Fellowes and co-produced by Carnival Films and Masterpiece for ITV and PBS, respectively. Some also appear in two film sequels: Dow ...

, the housekeeper on the series ''Downton Abbey'' * Elsie Hughes, in the television series ''

Westworld ''Westworld'' is an American science fiction-thriller media franchise that began with the 1973 film ''Westworld'', written and directed by Michael Crichton. The film depicts a technologically advanced Wild-West-themed amusement park populate ...

'' played by Shannon Woodward *

Elsie Lappin ''Coronation Street'' is a British television soap opera , soap opera/serial, initially produced by Granada Television. Created by screenwriter Tony Warren, ''Coronation Street'' first broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV on 9 December 1960. The ...

, on the British soap opera ''Coronation Street'' in 1960, the first to speak on the series *

Elsie Tanner Elsie Gregory (also Grimshaw, Howard and Tanner) is a Character (arts), fictional character from the Television in the United Kingdom, British ITV (TV network), ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', played by Pat Phoenix from the series' incept ...

, on the British soap opera ''Coronation Street'' * Elsie Crimson, a supporting character from the manga and anime series ''

Edens Zero ''Edens Zero'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese science fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' since June 2018, with its chapters collected into twen ...

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