Elsie (given name)
Appearance
Elsie is a feminine given name, sometimes a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Elizabeth. It may refer to:
People
Given name
- Elsie Baker (1883–1971), American actress and singer
- Elsie Bertram (1912–2003), English bookseller
- Elsie Bowerman (1889–1973), British pioneering female barrister, suffragette and Titanic survivor
- Elsie Cameron Corbett (1893–1977), volunteer ambulance driver in World War I
- Elsie Cassels (1864–1938), Scottish born naturalist and Canadian ornithologist
- Essie B. Cheesborough (1826-1905), American writer
- Elsie Dohrmann (1875–1909), New Zealand scholar, teacher and temperance campaigner
- Elsie Ferguson (1883–1961), American stage and film actress
- Elsie Fox (c. 1900–1992), minor screenwriter in the 1930s, married to novelist/screenwriter Paul Hervey Fox
- Elsie Gibbons (1903–2003), Canadian politician
- Elsie Griffin (1895–1989), English opera singer
- Elsie Hall (1877–1976), Australian-born South African classical pianist
- Elsie Higgon (1879–1969), English pharmacist
- Elsie Hodder (1886–1952), English actress and singer under the stage name Lily Elsie
- Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), innovative Scottish doctor
- Elsie Janis (1889–1956), American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter
- Elsie May Kittredge (1870–1954), American botanist
- Elsie Lefebvre (born 1979), Quebec politician
- Elsie Lessa (1912–2000), American-Brazilian journalist and writer
- Elsie Leung, member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
- Elsie Locke (1912–2001), 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 (Fisher)
- Elsie Mackay (c. 1893–1928), British actress, interior decorator and pioneering aviator who died trying to fly across the Atlantic
- Elsie Maréchal (1894–1969), English woman active in the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War
- Elsie Mitchell (died 1945), American woman killed in Oregon by a Japanese balloon bomb during World War II; see Fire balloon#Single lethal attack
- Elsie Clews Parsons (1875–1941), American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist and feminist
- Elsie Payne (1927–2004), 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 (born 1956), Haitian writer and photographer
- Elsie Tu (Traditional Chinese characters: 杜葉錫恩) (b. 1913), also known as Elsie Elliot, Hong Kong social activist and former member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong
- Elsie Wagg (1876–1949), English philanthropist
- Elsie Wayne (born 1932), Canadian politician
- Elsie Widdowson (1906–2000), British dietitian
- Elsie Jane Wilson (1890–1965), New Zealand-born cinema actress, director and writer in the United States
- Elsie de Wolfe (1865–1950), pioneering professional interior decorator in the United States
- Elsie and Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau (alive in 1914), British suffragette sisters
- Elsie Wright (1901–1988), Cottingley Fairies photographer and subject
Short for another name
- Elizabeth Elsie Carlisle (1896–1977), English female singer
- Elizabeth Elsie MacGill (1905–1980), Canadian aeronautical engineer, first woman to earn an aeronautical engineering degree and "Queen of the Hurricanes" (fighter aircraft)
- Eliška Elsie Paroubek (1906–1911), Czech-American girl who was kidnapped and murdered
Fictional characters
- Elsie the Cow, an advertising mascot of the Borden Company
- Elsie, a main character in the Playhouse Disney animated television series Stanley
- Elsie Dinsmore, titular character in the Elsie Dinsmore series by Martha Finley
- Elsie Hooper, 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 television series Westworld played by Shannon Woodward
- Elsie Lappin, on the British soap opera Coronation Street in 1960, the first to speak on the series
- Elsie Tanner, on the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Elsie Crimson, a supporting character from the manga and anime series Edens Zero
See also
- Elzie E. C. Segar (1894–1938), American cartoonist, creator of Popeye