List of Famous people named Elizabeth
Elizabeth Grigoryevna Temkina
Elizabeth Grigorievna Temkina - the alleged daughter of Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin.
Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry, sometimes referred to as Betsy Fry, was an English prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist. She has been called the "angel of prisons".
Elizabeth Tudor
Elizabeth Tudor was the second daughter and fourth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York.
Elizabeth Berridge
Elizabeth Berridge is an American film and theatre actress. She is best known for playing Charlotte, the maid in The Powers that Be and Constanze Mozart in the Academy Award-winning 1984 film Amadeus. She also played the role of Officer Eve Eggers on The John Larroquette Show (1993–1996), and has performed in the theater.
Elizabeth of Pomerania
Elizabeth of Pomerania was the fourth and final wife of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and king of Bohemia. Her parents were Bogislaw V, Duke of Pomerania, and Elisabeth of Poland. Her maternal grandparents were Casimir III, King of Poland, and Aldona of Lithuania.
Elizabeth Gilels
Elizabeth Gilels was a Soviet violinist and a professor.
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor was an English novelist and short-story writer. Kingsley Amis described her as "one of the best English novelists born in this century". Antonia Fraser called her "one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century", while Hilary Mantel said she was "deft, accomplished and somewhat underrated".
Elizabeth of Hungary, Queen of Serbia
Elizabeth of Hungary, also known as Elizabeth Árpád and Blessed Elizabeth the Widow, was an Hungarian princess member of the Árpád dynasty and Queen consort of Serbia. Since childhood, she was veiled as a nun, but she was married twice, and both times she was kidnapped by her husbands, Bohemian magnate Zavis of Falkenstein and King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia. Both husbands were in an unacceptable degree of kinship with Elizabeth from a canonical point of view: the marriage with Zavis of Falkenstein was not recognized by the Hungarian Church, and the marriage with Stefan Uroš II Milutin was not recognized by the Serbian Church. Nevertless, Elizabeth is was venerated by the Hungarian Church as Blessed, while her scandalous marriage history is almost never mentioned in the later accounts of her life.
Elizabeth G. Volkonskaia
Elizabeth Volkonskaia (1838–1897) was a Russian Empire noble and courtier. She played a leading role within the Catholic movement in Russia and has been referred to as the first woman in Russia to conduct serious historical theological studies.
Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland
Elizabeth Millicent Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland was a Scottish noblewoman. She was the holder of an earldom in the Peerage of Scotland and was chief of Clan Sutherland.