Elsie (given name)
Elsie is a feminine given name, sometimes a diminutive form of Elizabeth. It may refer to:People
Given name
- Elsie Baker, American actress and singer
- Elsie Bowerman, British pioneering female barrister, suffragette and Titanic survivor
- Elsie Dohrmann, New Zealand scholar, teacher and temperance campaigner
- Elsie Ferguson, American stage and film actress
- Elsie Fox, minor screenwriter in the 1930s, married to novelist/screenwriter Paul Hervey Fox
- Elsie Griffin, English opera singer
- Elsie Hall, Australian-born South African classical pianist
- Elsie Hodder, English actress and singer under the stage name Lily Elsie
- Elsie Inglis, innovative Scottish doctor
- Elsie Janis, American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter
- Elsie May Kittredge, American botanist
- Elsie Lefebvre, Quebec politician
- Elsie Lessa, American-Brazilian journalist and writer
- Elsie Leung, member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
- Elsie Locke, New Zealand writer, historian and activist in the feminism and peace movements
- Elsie Lyon, Canadian politician; see Cooperative Commonwealth Federation candidates, 1953 Manitoba provincial election#Elsie Lyon
- Elsie Mackay, British actress, interior decorator and pioneering aviator who died trying to fly across the Atlantic
- Elsie Maréchal, English woman active in the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War
- Elsie Mitchell, American woman killed in Oregon by a Japanese balloon bomb during World War II; see Fire balloon#Single lethal attack
- Elsie Clews Parsons, American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist and feminist
- Elsie Payne, teacher and first indigenous Barbadian principal of Queen's College of Bridgetown
- Elsie Sigel ca. 1890–1909), American murder victim
- Elsie Snowden, member of the Snowden Family Band, a 19th-century African American musical group
- Elsie Suréna, Haitian writer and photographer
- Elsie Tu , also known as Elsie Elliot, Hong Kong social activist and former member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong
- Elsie Wayne, Canadian politician
- Elsie Widdowson, British dietitian
- Elsie Jane Wilson, New Zealand-born cinema actress, director and writer in the United States
- Elsie de Wolfe, pioneering professional interior decorator in the United States
- Elsie Wright, Cottingley Fairies photographer and subject
Short for another name
- Elizabeth Elsie Carlisle, popular English female singer
- Elizabeth Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer, first woman to earn an aeronautical engineering degree and "Queen of the Hurricanes"
- Eliška Elsie Paroubek, Czech-American girl who was kidnapped and murdered
Fictional characters
- Elsie the Cow, an advertising mascot of the Borden Company
- Elsie Dinsmore, titular character in the Elsie Dinsmore series by Martha Finley
- Elsie Hooper, the title character of the black and white horror serial of the same name, appearing in the UMass Daily Collegian
- Elsie Hughes, the housekeeper on the series Downton Abbey
- Elsie Hughes, in the TV series Westworld played by Shannon Woodward
- Elsie the Vampire, in the webcomic Fangs by Sarah Andersen
- Elsie Lappin, on the British soap opera Coronation Street in 1960, the first to speak on the series
- Elsie Tanner, popular soap opera character played by Patricia Phoenix on Coronation Street
