Elvira is a female given name. First recorded in

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, it is likely of Germanic (

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) origin. Elvira may refer to:

People

Nobility

Elvira Menéndez (died 921) Elvira Menéndez (Portuguese and Galician: Elvira Mendes; died between 20 February and 12 October 921) was Queen consort of León due to her marriage with King Ordoño II. Biography Elvira was the daughter of Hermenegildo Gutiérrez, a Ga ...

, daughter of Hermenegildo Gutiérrez and wife of Ordoño II of León *

Elvira of Castile, Queen of León Elvira García (–1017), was Queen of Leon by marriage to King Bermudo II, and regent of Leon jointly with Count Menendo González during the minority of her son Alfonso V from 999 until 1008. Life Although the year of her birth is not docum ...

(965–1017) *

Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily Elvira of Castile ( – 6 February 1135) was a member of the House of Jiménez and the first Queen of Sicily as the wife of Roger II of Sicily. Elvira was a legitimate daughter of Alfonso VI, king of León and Castile. Her mother was Ki ...

(c. 1100–1135), wife of Roger II, King of Sicily *

Elvira of Castile, Countess of Toulouse Elvira of Castile (before 1082?–1151) was a countess consort of Toulouse. She was the illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VI of León and Castile, by his mistress Jimena Muñoz, and full sister of Theresa, Countess of Portugal. She married, fir ...

(before 1082?-1151) *

Elvira of Toro Elvira (1038 or 1039 – 15 November 1101) was a Leonese ''infanta'' and the Lady of Toro, Zamora, the daughter of Ferdinand I of León and Castile and Sancha of León, and granddaughter-namesake of Elvira Menéndez, and also an aunt of El ...

(1038/9–1101), daughter of King Ferdinand I of León * Elvira Menéndez (died 1022), Queen of León (1008–1022), wife of Alfonso V of León * Elvira Ramírez (c. 935–after 986), princess and regent of León

Arts and entertainment

* Elvira Amazar (1890s-1971), Serbian-born Russian-American soprano singer and actress * Elvira Barney (1904-1936), English actress and socialite * Elvira Betrone (1881–1961), Italian actress * Elvira Casazza (1887–1965), Italian mezzo-soprano *

Elvira Cristi Elvira Teresa Cristi Bueno (born 26 November 1976) is a Chilean actress and model. Biography Elvira Cristi began her career at age 13, appearing in television commercials. She obtained the title of "Miss Rostro" (Miss Face) from the magazine ' ...

(born 1976), Chilean actress and model * Elvira Gascón (1911-2000), Spanish painter and engraver *

Elvira Godeanu Elvira Godeanu (1904–1991) was a Romanian stage actress.Modorcea p.292 She also appeared in four films. Selected filmography * '' Povara'' (1928) * '' A Lost Letter'' (1953) References Bibliography * Grid Modorcea. ''Istoria gândirii e ...

(1904–1991), Romanian stage actress *

Elvira de Hidalgo Elvira Juana Rodríguez Roglán (December 28, 1891 – January 21, 1980), known professionally as Elvira de Hidalgo, was a prominent Spanish coloratura soprano, who later became a teacher and vocal coach. Her most famous pupil was Maria C ...

(1891-1980), Spanish coloratura soprano and teacher of Maria Callas *

Elvira Kralj Elvira Kralj (born 16 August 1900 in Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two auto ...

(1900-1978), Slovenian actress *

Elvira Kurt Elvira Kurt (born December 9, 1961) is a Canadian comedian, and was the host of the game show '' Spin Off''. She hosted the entertainment satire/talk show ''PopCultured with Elvira Kurt'', which began on The Comedy Network in Canada in 2005. That ...

(born 1961), Canadian comedian *

Elvira Madigan Hedvig Antoinette Isabella Eleonore Jensen (December 4, 1867 July 19, 1889), better known by her stage name Elvira Madigan, was a circus performer who performed as a slack rope dancer, artistic rider, juggler and dancer. She is best known today ...

(1867-1889), Danish tightrope walker and trick rider *

Elvira Natali Elvira Natali (born 25 December 1996), is an Indonesian author, and actress. She is best known for her 2013 novel ''Janji Hati'' ("''Heart Promises''") and the film ''Janji Hati'', in which she appeared as the leading actress. Early life Nata ...

(born 1996), Indonesian actress and author *

Elvira Navarro Elvira Navarro Ponferrada (born 25 March 1978) is a Spanish writer. Career Elvira Navarro holds a licentiate in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2004 she won the City Council of Madrid's Young Creators Competition, and e ...

(born 1978), Spanish writer *

Elvira Nikolaisen Elvira Nikolaisen (born 16 July 1980 in Moi) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter signed for Sony BMG. She released her debut single ''Love I Can't Defend'' in December 2005, it reached the number 3 spot on the Norwegian singles list. She followed u ...

(born 1980), Norwegian singer-songwriter *

Elvira Notari Elvira Notari (born Elvira Coda; 10 February 1875 – 17 December 1946) was an Italian film director, one of the country's earliest and most prolific female filmmaker. She is credited as the first woman who made over sixty feature films and about ...

(1875-1946), Italian filmmaker *

Elvira Pagã Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino (6 September 1920 – 8 May 2003), better known by her stage name Elvira Pagã, was a Brazilian vedette and actress, singer, writer and painter. She was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the first woman to wear a bikini in p ...

(1920-2003), Brazilian actress and singer *

Elvira Popescu Elvira Popescu (; in French, Elvire Popesco; 10 May 1894 – 11 December 1993) was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French comedy films. Life and career Po ...

(1894-1993), Romanian-born French actress and director *

Elvira Quintana Elvira Catalina Quintana Molina (7 November 1935 – 8 August 1968) was a Spanish-Mexican actress and singer. Early life and career Born in Montijo, Spain, Quintana and her family migrated to Mexico when she was 5 years old. She began her c ...

(1935–1968), Spanish-born Mexican actress and singer *

Elvira Rahić Elvira Rahić (born 1 September 1973) is a Bosnian pop-folk singer. Rahić began her professional music career in 1991 and has since released ten studio albums. She lives in Sarajevo and Vienna. Career Rahić will release her eleventh studio ...

(born 1973), Bosnian pop-folk singer *

Elvira Ríos María Elvira Gallegos Ríos (16 November 1913 – 13 January 1987) was a Mexican singer and actress. One of the most notable performers of Agustín Lara's songs, Ríos was the first Mexican singer who achieved international success through ...

(1913-1987), Mexican actress and singer * Elvira T (born 1994), Russian pop singer *

Elvira Travesí Elvira Travesí (December 11, 1919 – July 15, 2009) was an Argentinean actress. Biography Travesí was born in Argentina in December 1919 and moved to Peru with her family as a young child. When she was young, she worked as an actress with he ...

(1919-2009) was a Peruvian-born Argentinean actress * Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, stage name of

Cassandra Peterson Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1951) is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of the horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Peterson gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ-TV in her stage ...

(born 1951)

Politicians

* Elvira Abdić-Jelenović (born 1967), Bosnian politician * Elvira Aitkulova (born 1973), Russian politician * Elvira Badaracco (1911-1994), Italian politician * Elvira Pola Figueroa (born 1957), Mexican politician *

Elvira Kovács Elvira Kovács ( sr-Cyrl, Елвира Ковач, Elvira Kovač; born 18 July 1982) is a politician in Serbia from the country's Hungarian community. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2007 as a member of the Alliance of V ...

(born 1982), Serbian politician * Elvira Olivas (born 1935), Mexican politician * Elvira "Pixie" Palladino (1932-2006), American politician *

Elvira Rodríguez María Elvira Rodríguez Herrer (Madrid, 15 May 1949) is a Spanish economist and politician. She was the president of the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores, a financial regulator, between 2012 and 2016. Previously, as a member of the Par ...

(born 1949), Spanish politician and economist * Elvira Rodríguez Leonardi, Argentine politician *

Maria Elvira Salazar Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...

(born 1961), American journalist and broadcast television anchor, U.S. Representative from Florida.

Sports

* Elvira Guerra (1855–1937), Italian equestrienne *

Elvira Herman Elvira Uladzimirauna Herman ( be, Эльвіра Уладзіміраўна Герман; born 9 January 1997) is a Belarusian athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles. She won the gold medal at the 2018 European Championships At the 2018 Europe ...

(born 1997), Belarusian sprinter * Elvira Holzknecht (born 1973), Austrian retired luger * Elvira Khasyanova (born 1981), Russian synchronized swimmer * Elvira Öberg (born 1999), Swedish biathlete * Elvīra Ozoliņa (born 1939), Latvian and former Soviet javelin thrower *

Elvira Pančić Elvira Pančić (born 14 May 1980) is a Serbian sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( ...

(born 1980), Serbian sprinter * Elvira Possekel (born 1953), German athlete *

Elvira Saadi Elvira Fuadovna Saadi (born January 2, 1952) is a retired gymnast from the former Soviet Union who is now an elite gymnastics coach in Canada. As a member of the Soviet Union's women's gymnastics team, Saadi shared in the team gold medals at the ...

(born 1952), retired artistic gymnast from the former Soviet Union *

Elvira Shatayeva Elvira Shatayeva (1 December 1938 – 8 August 1974) was a Russian professional Mountaineering, mountain climber and professional athlete and the leader of a failed expedition to Lenin Peak, Pik Lenina, Pamir, Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan border in Augus ...

, Russian professional mountain climber * Elvira Stinissen (born 1979), Dutch Paralympic sitting volleyball player * Elvira Todua (born 1986), Abkhazian Russian football goalkeeper * Elvira Urusova (born 1968), Georgian athlete *

Elvira Vasilkova Elvira Vasilkova (born 15 May 1962) is a Belarusian former breaststroke swimmer who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 198 ...

(born 1962), Belarusian former swimmer *

Elvira Ziyastinova Elvira Rinatovna Ziyastinova (russian: Эльвира Ринатовна Зиястинова; born 13 February 1991) is a Russian footballer who plays for FC Minsk on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. She played for Russ ...

(born 1991), Russian footballer

Other

* Elvira Arellano (born 1975), Mexican international activist, undocumented immigrant to the US and ''cause célèbre'' * Elvira Cuevas, Puerto Rican ecologist * Elvira Devinamira, Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder * Elvira Dolinar (1870–1961), Slovenian writer, feminist and teacher * Elvira Fölzer (1868–after 1928), German archaeologist * Elvira Lindo (born 1962), Spanish journalist and writer * Elvira Lobato, Brazilian journalist * Elvira Tânia Lopes Martins (born 1957), Brazilian poet * Elvira Nabiullina (born 1963), head of the Central Bank of Russia *

(1875–1946), Italian filmmaker * Elvira Willman (1875–1925), Finnish playwright, journalist and revolutionary socialist * Elvira Wood (1865–1928), American paleontologist who specialized in vertebrate paleontology

Fictional characters

* Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, portrayed by

in television and film * Elvira Coot (

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), grandmother of Donald Duck * Elvira, the title character of Noël Coward's '' Blithe Spirit'' * Elvira, heroine of the opera ''

I puritani ' (''The Puritans'') is an 1835 opera by Vincenzo Bellini. It was originally written in two acts and later changed to three acts on the advice of Gioachino Rossini, with whom the young composer had become friends. The music was set to a librett ...

'' * Elvira, heroine of the opera ''

Ernani ''Ernani'' is an operatic ''dramma lirico'' in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play '' Hernani'' by Victor Hugo. Verdi was commissioned by the Teatro La Fenice in Venice to write a ...

'' * Elvira, in the opera ''

L'italiana in Algeri ''L'italiana in Algeri'' (; ''The Italian Girl in Algiers'') is an operatic ''dramma giocoso'' in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, based on his earlier text set by Luigi Mosca. It premiered at the Teatro S ...

'' * Donna Elvira, in the opera ''

Don Giovanni ''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spani ...

'' * Elvira, in the 1667 play ''Elvira'' by

George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, (bapt. 5 November 161220 March 1677) was an English politician who as Lord Digby (a courtesy title) sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641, when he was raised to the House of Lords by a writ of acc ...

* Elvira, title character in the 1763 play ''Elvira'' by David Mallet * Elvira Almiraghi, portrayed by

Franca Valeri Alma Franca Maria Norsa (31 July 1920 – 9 August 2020), known professionally as Franca Valeri, was an Italian actress, playwright, screenwriter, author, and theatre director. Life and career Born in Milan as Alma Franca Maria Norsa, she manage ...

in the 1959 film ''

Il vedovo ''Il Vedovo'' (The Widower) is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. Plot Alberto Nardi (Alberto Sordi) is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory (producing lifts and elevators) teet ...

'' * Elvira Dutton, in

Margaret Walker Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. ...

's book on slavery, ''Jubilee'' * Elvira Hancock,

Tony Montana Antonio Montana is a fictional character and the protagonist of the 1983 film ''Scarface''. This character is portrayed by Al Pacino in the film and is voiced by André Sogliuzzo in the 2006 video game '' Scarface: The World Is Yours''. Embod ...

's love interest, portrayed by

Michelle Pfeiffer Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (; born April 29, 1958) is an American actress and producer. A prolific performer whose screen work spans over four decades, she became one of Hollywood's most bankable stars and popular sex symbols during the 1980s ...

in the 1983 film '' Scarface'' * Elvira Stitt, in the novel '' Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?'' and the 1963 film adaptation * Elvira, in the 2005 novel '' Ingo'' by

Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer. Her best known works include the novels '' Zennor in Darkness'', ''A Spell of Winter'' and '' The Siege'', and her last ...

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