Elihu
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Elihu can refer to:
[edit] People
- Elihu Burritt (1810–1879), a philanthropist, linguist, and social activist
- Elihu Embree (1782–1820), an abolitionist and publisher of the first newspaper in the United States devoted exclusively to that cause
- Elihu Harris, mayor of Oakland, California, U.S.
- Elihu B. Hayes (1848–1903), an American shoe manufacturer, newspaper owner, and politician
- Elihu Emory Jackson, a governor of Maryland, U.S.
- Elihu Katz (born 1926), a sociologist
- Elihu Lauterpacht (born 1928), a British academic and lawyer
- Elihu Palmer, a founder of the Deistical Society of New York
- Elihu Root (1845–1937), an American statesman and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Elihu Thomson (1853–1937), an engineer instrumental in the founding of electrical companies, and acting president of MIT in 1920
- Elihu Vedder (1864–1923), a painter, book illustrator, and poet
- Elihu B. Washburne (1816–1887), a United States politician and a founder of Republican Party
- Elihu S. Williams (1835–1903), an American farmer, lawyer, soldier, and politician
- Elihu Yale (1649–1721), a benefactor of Yale University
[edit] Fictional or biblical characters
- Elihu (Job), a friend of Job in the Book of Job
- Judge Elihu Smails, co-founder of the Bushwood Country Club
- Elihu Willsson, a leading character in Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest
- Elihu Yale, the Atlanta Police Chief in Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full
[edit] Other uses
- Elihu (secret society), a senior society at Yale University
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