Elza is a feminine given name of Hebrew and German origins. A derivation of Elizabeth, and a close variant of the names Elsa,

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 ...

and Aliza, it is Germanic for "noble".

People

* Elza Jeffords (1826–1885), U.S. Representative * Elza Kephart, Canadian film director, producer, writer *

Elza Kolodin Elza Kolodin is a pianist from Poland. She studied in Kraków, Warsaw and Paris. She has gained much acclaim from the international press, who have described her "rapturous playing" as being distinguished by "brilliant virtuosity" and a very "per ...

, Polish pianist * Elza Kungayeva (1982–2000), Chechen woman abducted, beaten, raped and murdered by a Russian Army Colonel *

Elza Leimane Elza Leimane (born 2 July 1984) is a Latvian ballet dancer. She graduated from the Riga Choreography School in 2001 and has been a member of the Latvian National Ballet Company since her graduation. She has been a principal dancer with the co ...

(born 1984), Latvian ballet dancer * Elza Medeiros (1921–2009), Brazilian Army officer and World War II veteran * Elza Radziņa (1917–2005), Latvian actress * Elza Soares (1937–2022), Brazilian samba singer * Elza van den Heever (born 1979), South African opera singer

Fictional characters

*Elza Walker, the beta version of

Claire Redfield is a character in ''Resident Evil'' (''Biohazard'' in Japan), a survival horror video game series created by Japanese company Capcom. She was introduced as one of two player characters in '' Resident Evil 2'' (1998), alongside Leon S. Kennedy ...

, the protagonist of the 1998 survival horror video game,

Resident Evil 2 ''Resident Evil 2'' is a 1998 survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom for the PlayStation. The player controls Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield, who must escape Raccoon City after its citizens are transformed into ...

*Japanese name of Zael, a character from the video game

The Last Story is a Japanese action role-playing game, developed by Mistwalker and AQ Interactive for the Wii video game console. Nintendo published the title in all regions except for North America, where it was published by Xseed Games. Initially released in ...

*Inferno Queen Elza, a character in the Japanese role-playing game, Brave Frontier *Elza Gray, a character that appeared in

Sailor Moon (anime) ''Sailor Moon,'' originally released in Japan as and later as ''Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon'', is a Japanese superheroine anime television series produced by Toei Animation using Super Sentai motifs. It is based on the manga of the same ti ...

References

Elza – Meaning of Elza
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