Ilze is a popular given name in
Latvia
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and
Scandinavia
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, first recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1458. It is a variant of
Elizabeth
Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to:
People
* Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name)
* Empress Elisabeth (disambiguation), lists various empresses named ''Elisabeth'' or ''Elizabeth''
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and is cognate with the German given name
Ilse. Notable people with the name include:
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Ilze Bērziņa (born 1984), Latvian chess player and Woman Grandmaster (2009)
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Ilze Blicavs, former Australian women's basketball player
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Ilze Graubiņa
Ilze Graubiņa (8 November 194124 January 2001) was a Latvian pianist. She was born in Riga and trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Abram Shatskes and Jakov Flier, to whom she subsequently served as an assistant.
Graubiņa won the 1964 Jo ...
(1941–2001), Latvian pianist
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Ilze Gribule (born 1984), Latvia javelin thrower
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Ilze Hattingh
Ilze Hattingh (born 22 April 1996) is a South African former professional tennis player.
Born in Durban, Hattingh was introduced to tennis at the age of seven. On the ITF Junior Circuit, she was ranked as high as world No. 49, which she achi ...
(born 1996), South African tennis player
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Ilze Indriksone
Ilze Indriksone (born 29 October 1974) is a Latvian environmental planner and politician representing the National Alliance (NA) party. From May 2022 to September 2023, she served as the Minister of Economics. She was a member of the 13th Saeim ...
(born 1974), Latvian environmental planner and politician
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Ilze Jākobsone
Ilze Jākobsone (born 19 April 1994) is a Latvian basketball player for Tindastóll and the Latvian national team.
She participated at the EuroBasket Women 2017
The 2017 European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Wo ...
(born 1994), Latvian basketball player
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Ilze Jaunalksne
Ilze Jaunalksne-Rēdere, (born November 19, 1976, in Jūrmala) is a Latvian journalist and an author and anchor of the TV3 Latvia Current affairs (news format), current affairs program ''Nekā personīga'' (Nothing Personal) since 2008. From 2005 ...
(born 1976), Latvian journalist
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Ilze Krontāle
Ilze Krontāle (born 28 November 1986) is a Latvia
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the s ...
(born 1986), Latvian ice hockey player
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Ilze Lankhaar
Candee Jay is a Dutch Eurodance group fronted by lead singer Ilze Lankhaar and produced by Alice Deejay producers Eelke Kalberg and Sebastiaan 'DJ Pronti' Molijn.
Career
Together with Jezebel Zwiers and Elske Cinibulk as background dancers, the ...
or Candee Jay (born 1981), Dutch electronica artist
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Ilze Liepa
Ilze Marisovna Liepa (; born 22 November 1963 in Moscow) is a Russian ballet dancer and actress. She has been a soloist ballerina at the Bolshoi Theatre since 1981. She was invested with the title of Merited Artist of the Russian Federation in ...
(born 1963), Russian ballet dancer and actress
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Ilze Rubene
Ilze Rubene (July 17, 1958, Riga as Ilze Ramane – August 15, 2002 in Riga in a car accident) was a Latvian chess player who held the title of Woman International Master. She won the Latvian Chess Championship for women in 1976 and 1995. Ilze Ru ...
(1958–2002), Latvian chess player and Woman International Master
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Ilze Viņķele
Ilze Viņķele (born Ilze Vidiņa on 27 November 1971 in Rēzekne) is a Latvian politician, and the former Minister for Welfare and Minister for Health of Latvia. Currently, she is a member of the political party Movement For!, formerly a part of ...
(born 1971), Latvian politician, current Minister for Welfare of Latvia
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Ilze Ziedins
Ilze Brigita Ziedins is a New Zealand statistician whose research concerns the queueing theory of stochastic networks, and the use of this theory to model problems in health care, communications, transportation, and climate change. She is an as ...
, New Zealand statistician
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