Elvira
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| Region of origin | Spain |
Elvira is a female given name. First recorded in medieval Spain, it is likely of Germanic (Gothic) origin.
Elvira may refer to:
People
Nobility
- Elvira Menéndez (died 921), daughter of Hermenegildo Gutiérrez and wife of Ordoño II of León
- Elvira of Castile, Queen of León (965–1017)
- Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily (c. 1100-1135), wife of Roger II, King of Sicily
- Elvira of Castile, Countess of Toulouse (before 1082?-1151)
- Elvira of Toro (1038/9–1101), daughter of King Ferdinand I of León
- Elvira of Castile, Countess of Toulouse, daughter of Alfonso VI of León
- Elvira Menéndez (died 1022), Queen of León (1008–1022), wife of Alfonso V of León
- Elvira Ramírez (c. 935–after 986), princess and regent of León
Arts and entertainment
- Elvira Casazza (1887–1965), Italian mezzo-soprano
- Elvira Gascón (1911-2000), Spanish painter and engraver
- Elvira de Hidalgo (1891-1980), Spanish coloratura soprano and teacher of Maria Callas
- Elvira Kralj (1900-1978), Slovenian actress
- Elvira Kurt (born 1961), Canadian comedian
- Elvira Madigan (1867-1889), Danish tightrope walker and trick rider
- Elvira Navarro (born 1978), Spanish writer
- Elvira Nikolaisen (born 1980), Norwegian singer-songwriter
- Elvira Notari (1875-1946), Italian filmmaker
- Elvira Popescu (1894-1993), Romanian-born French actress and director
- Elvira Rahić (born 1973), Bosnian pop-folk singer
- Elvira Quintana (1935–1968), Spanish-born Mexican actress and singer
- Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, stage name of Cassandra Peterson (b. 1951)
- Elvira T, Russian pop singer.
Sports
- Elvira Guerra (1855–1937), Italian equestrienne
- Elvira Holzknecht (born 1973), Austrian retired luger
- Elvira Khasyanova (born 1981), Russian synchronized swimmer
- Elvīra Ozoliņa (born 1939), Latvian and former Soviet javelin thrower
- Elvira Saadi (born 1952), retired artistic gymnast from the former Soviet Union
- Elvira Todua (born 1986), Abkhazian Russian football goalkeeper
- Elvira Vasilkova (born 1962), Belarusian former swimmer
- Elvira Ziyastinova (born 1991), Russian footballer
Other
- Elvira Arellano (born 1975), Mexican undocumented immigrant to the US and cause célèbre
- Elvira Cuevas, Puerto Rican ecologist
- Elvira Devinamira, Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder
- Elvira Fölzer (1868–after 1928), German archaeologist
- Elvira Lobato, Brazilian journalist
- Elvira Nabiullina (born 1963), head of the Central Bank of Russia
Fictional characters
- Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, portrayed by Cassandra Peterson in television and film
- Elvira Coot (Grandma Duck), grandmother of Donald Duck
- Elvira, the title character of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit
- Elvira, heroine of the opera I puritani
- Elvira, heroine of the opera Ernani
- Elvira, in the opera L'italiana in Algeri
- Donna Elvira, in the opera Don Giovanni
- Elvira, in the 1667 play Elvira by George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol
- Elvira, title character in the 1763 play Elvira by David Mallet
- Elvira Almiraghi, portrayed by Franca Valeri in the 1959 film Il vedovo
- Elvira Dutton, in Margaret Walker's book on slavery, Jubilee
- Elvira Hancock, Tony Montana's love interest, portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface (1983 film)
- Elvira Stitt, in the novel Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and the 1963 film adaptation
- Elvira, in the 2005 novel Ingo by Helen Dunmore
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