List of Famous people named Elfriede

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power".

Elfriede Ott was an Austrian actress, singer, stage director and instructor. She was born in Vienna, and was married twice; first to Ernst Waldbrunn, and second to Hans Weigel. She was originally educated as watchmaker, in order to take over her father's workshop. She made her stage debut at the Vienna Burgtheater in 1944, which was the start of a long career in theatre. She also occasionally played in operettes and in numerous television productions, and she had assignments as stage director. From 1985 to 2004 she gave theatre lectures at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. Ott received several awards, including the Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria, as well as the titles Kammerschauspielerin and Professor.

Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler was a German painter of the avant-garde whose works were banned as "degenerate art", and in some cases destroyed, by the Third Reich. She was murdered in a former psychiatric institution at Sonnenstein castle in Pirna under Action T4, a forced euthanasia program of Nazi Germany. Since 2000, a memorial center for the T4 program in the house commemorates her life and work in a permanent exhibition.

Elfriede Kaun was a German high jumper.

Elfriede Blauensteiner, dubbed the "Black Widow", was an Austrian serial killer who murdered at least three victims by poison. In each case, she inherited the victim's possessions.

Elfriede Kuzmany (1915–2006) was an Austrian film and television actress.

Elfriede Florin was a German actress who was popular in the 1950s and 1960s, and is best known for featuring in the 1958 film Les Misérables.