Elsie (given name)

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