Lizzie or Lizzy is a nickname for Elizabeth or Elisabet, often given as an independent name in the United States, especially in the late 19th century. Lizzie can also be the shortened version of Lizeth, Lissette or Lizette.

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* Elizabeth Sewall Alcott (1835–1858), real-life model for the character Beth March in the novel ''Little Women'' * Marie Elisabeth Lizzy Ansingh (1875–1959), Dutch painter * Lizzie Arlington, alias of Elizabeth Stroud, regarded by many historians as the first female to play organized baseball in the 19th century * Lizzie Arnot (born 1996), Scottish footballer * Elizabeth Mary Lizzie Deignan (née Armitstead) (born 1988), world champion British track and road racing cyclist * Lizzy Bardsley (born 1973), English media and television personality * Elizabeth Bolden (1890–2006), world's oldest person at the time of her death *

Lizzie Borden Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was Trial, tried and Acquittal, acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her Patricide, father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was c ...

(1860–1927), tried and acquitted for the notorious murder of her parents * Elizabeth Anne Lizzy Caplan (born 1982), American actress * Lizzie Compton (1847–?), woman who disguised herself as a man in order to fight for the Union in the American Civil War * Lizzie Petit Cutler (1831–1902), writer * Lizzie de Greef (born 1990), Dutch wheelchair tennis player * Elisabeth Carolina Lizzy van Dorp (1872–1945), Dutch lawyer, economist, politician and feminist * Lizzie Evans (1864 or 1865 – ?), American vaudeville and musical theatre entertainer * Lizzie Fletcher (born 1975), American politician * Margaret Elizabeth Lizzie Crozier French (1851–1926), American educator, women's suffragist and social reform activist *Lizzy, former stage name of Park Soo-ah (born 1992), former member of Kpop girl group After School * Lizzy Gardiner (born 1966), Australian Academy Award-winning costume designer * Lizzy Greene (born 2003), American actress * Elizabeth Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes, English television presenter *

Lizzie Grey Stephen M. Perry (August 13, 1958 – August 5, 2019), who used the stage name Lizzie Grey, was an American musician. He is perhaps best known for his membership as a guitarist in the heavy metal band London and for co-writing the Mötley Crü ...

, stage name of Stephen Perry, American rock guitarist * Lizzie Grubman (born 1971), American publicist *

Lizzie Holmes Lizzie Holmes (, Hunt; after first marriage, Swank; after second marriage, Holmes; pen name, May Huntley; December 21, 1850 – August 8, 1926) was an American anarchist, writer, and organizer of Chicago's working women during the late 19th cent ...

(1850–1926), American anarchist, editor * Lizzie Hopley, British actress and writer * Lizzie Halliday (1859–1918), Irish-American serial killer * Elizabeth Jane Lizzy Igasan (born 1982), field hockey defender from New Zealand * Lizzie Kiama, Kenyan disability rights activist * Emilie Augusta Louise

Lizzy Lind af Hageby Emilie Augusta Louise "Lizzy" Lind af Hageby (20 September 1878 – 26 December 1963) was a Swedish-British feminist and animal rights advocate who became a prominent anti-vivisection activist in England in the early 20th century. Born t ...

(1878–1963), Swedish feminist and animal rights advocate * Elizabeth Lizzy Lovette, Australian radio presenter and TV presenter * Lizzie Lloyd King (1847–?), American alleged murderer * Elizabeth Magie (1866–1948), inventor of a predecessor of the game of Monopoly * Martine-Elizabeth Lizzy Mercier Descloux (1956–2004), French singer and musician, writer and painter * Elizabeth Lizzie Mickery, British writer and former actress * Lizzie Miles (1895–1963), stage name of Elizabeth Mary Landreaux, African American blues singer * Lizzy Pattinson, English singer and songwriter * Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862), English artists' model, poet and artist * Lizzie Shabalala, South African politician * Lizzie Caswall Smith (1870–1958), British photographer * Lizzie E. D. Thayer (1857–1923), first female train dispatcher in the US * Elizabeth Ann Lizzie Velásquez (born 1989), American motivational speaker, author, and YouTuber * Lizzie Webb, often known as Mad Lizzie, English television presenter of exercise routines * Lizzie West (born 1973), American singer/songwriter * Lizzy Yarnold (born 1988), British skeleton racer * Lizzie Yu Der Ling (1885–1944), better known as Princess Der Ling, Chinese-American writer of several memoirs * Lizzie van Zyl (1894–1901), South African child inmate of the Bloemfontein concentration camp during the Second Boer War

Fictional characters

Elizabeth Bennet Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist in the 1813 novel '' Pride and Prejudice'' by Jane Austen. She is often referred to as Eliza or Lizzy by her friends and family. Elizabeth is the second child in a family of five daughters. Though the circ ...

, from Jane Austen's ''

Pride and Prejudice ''Pride and Prejudice'' is the second published novel (but third to be written) by English author Jane Austen, written when she was age 20-21, and later published in 1813. A novel of manners, it follows the character development of Elizabe ...

'', often called Lizzy by her friends and family * Lizzie, the title character of ''

Lizzie McGuire ''Lizzie McGuire'' is an American television comedy, comedy television series created by Terri Minsky that premiered on Disney Channel on January 12, 2001. The series stars Hilary Duff as the titular character who learns to navigate the person ...

'', a Disney Channel television series * Lizzie, the title character of the 2000 children's novel '' Lizzie Zipmouth'' * Lizzie (''Cars''), a female car from the Disney Pixar animated film ''

Cars A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are around one billio ...

'' and its two sequels * Lizzie Devine, in '' Codename: Kids Next Door'' * Lizzie Griffiths, a nine-year-old girl from the movie '' Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue'' * Lizzie Hearts, the teenage daughter of the Queen of Hearts from the Mattel franchise '' Ever After High'' * Lizzie Lakely, from the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'' * Lizzie McDonald, from the television series ''

Life with Derek ''Life with Derek'' is a Canadian television teen sitcom that aired on Family Channel (English) and VRAK.TV (French) in Canada and on Disney Channel in the United States. The series premiered on Family on September 18, 2005, and ran for four s ...

'' * Lizzie Ramesy, a pirate from the video game '' Age of Empires III'' * Lizzie Saltzman, a witch and one of the daughters of Alaric Saltzman from the TV series '' Legacies'' * Lizzie Samuels, a young psychotic girl from the TV series '' The Walking Dead'' * Lizzie Sparkes, a veterinarian and supporting character in the animated series ''

Fireman Sam ''Fireman Sam'' () is a British animated children's television series about a fireman named Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other residents in the fictional Welsh rural village of Pontypandy (a portmanteau of two real towns, Pontypridd and T ...

'' * Lizzie Spaulding, from the American soap opera ''Guiding Light'' * Lizzy, from the Midway arcade game series '' Rampage'' * Lizzy (''South Park'') * Lizzy Taylor, a girl character that uses a wheelchair in ''

Postman Pat ''Postman Pat'' is a British stop motion animated television series, animated children's television series first produced by Woodland Animations. The series follows the adventures of Pat Clifton, a Mail carrier, postman who works for the Royal ...

'' * Lizzy Watson, the twin sister of Nicki Watson from the 2013 horror film '' Carrie''

Other

Westlothiana ''Westlothiana'' ("animal from West Lothian") is a genus of reptile-like tetrapods that lived about 338 million years ago during the latest part of the Viséan age of the Carboniferous. The genus is known from a single species, ''Westlothiana liz ...

or Lizzie the Lizard, a fossil discovered in Bathgate, West Lothian * Lizzie (mascot), mascot of the 2000 Paralympics * Lizzie (1957 film), film noir about woman with multiple personalities *

Lizzie (2018 film) ''Lizzie'' is a 2018 American biographical thriller film directed by Craig William Macneill, written by Bryce Kass, and starring Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Jay Huguley, Jamey Sheridan, Fiona Shaw, Kim Dickens, Denis O'Hare, and Jeff P ...

, biographical thriller film based on Lizzie Borden * The Lizzie, informal name for the

Elizabeth line The Elizabeth line is a railway line that runs across Greater London and nearby towns, operating similarly to the Réseau Express Régional, RER in Paris and the S-Bahn systems of German-speaking countries. It runs services on dedicated infras ...

, a railway line in London

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