List of Famous people named Elisabeth

Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel was an Austrian actress who started her career in Germany during the 1920s. Under the Nazi regime she emigrated to the United States, where she appeared on the Broadway and in a few Hollywood movies. She later returned to Germany, where she worked with numerous successful theatres of Berlin, among them Fritz Kortner's Berliner Bühnen. Neumann-Viertel was also a notable character actress in films and television, although she seldomly played a leading role there. She retired in the late 1980s after nearly 70 years of acting. Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel was the second wife of film director Berthold Viertel.

Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, is a German sociologist. She holds a professorship at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Elisabeth Freundlich was an Austrian Jewish playwright, poet, and journalist who reported on the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials. She is a Holocaust survivor.

Elisabeth Röhl; née Elisabeth Gohlke was one of the first German women politicians.