Elsie
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Family name
- Lily ElsieLily ElsieLily Elsie was a popular English actress and singer during the Edwardian era, best known for her starring role in the hit London premiere of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow....
(1886-1962), born Elsie Bullough, English actress - Robert ElsieRobert ElsieRobert Elsie is a scholar who specializes in Albanian literature and folklore.- Life :Born on June 29, 1950 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Elsie studied at the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1972 with a diploma in Classical Studies and Linguistics...
(born 1950 ), Canadian expert in Albanian culture and affairs
Given name (first name)
- Elsie BakerElsie BakerElsie Baker was an American singer and actress whose career spanned the gamut from vaudeville through silent movies to Victrola to radio to Hollywood and television....
(1883-1971), American actress and singer - Elsie CarlisleElsie CarlisleElsie Carlisle was a popular English female singer.Originally from Manchester, Elsie became extremely popular during the 1920s and 1930s, recording with many of the big dance bands of the time, as well as solo. She recorded very little after the beginning of the Second World War, and retired from...
(1896-1977), popular English female singer - Elsie FergusonElsie FergusonElsie Louise Ferguson was an American stage and film actress.-Early life:Born in New York City, Elsie Ferguson was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Benson Ferguson, a successful attorney...
(1883-1961), American stage and film actress. - Elsie FoxElsie FoxElsie Fox was an American minor screenwriter in the 1930s. She is the biological mother of novelist Paula Fox.-Life and career:...
(c. 1900-1992), minor screenwriter in the 1930s, married to novelist/screenwriter Paul Hervey Fox - Elsie InglisElsie InglisElsie Inglis was an innovative Scottish doctor and suffragist.-Education:She was born in the hill station town of Naini Tal, India, to John Forbes David Inglis who worked in the Indian civil service as Chief Commissioner of Oudh...
(1864-1917), innovative Scottish doctor - Elsie JanisElsie JanisElsie Janis was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as "the sweetheart of the AEF" .-Early career:...
(1889-1956), American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter - Elsie LefebvreElsie LefebvreElsie Lefebvre is a Quebec politician. She was the Member of the National Assembly for the Laurier-Dorion riding from 2004 to 2007, and currently serves on Montreal City Council. She is trilingual, speaking French, Spanish and English.-Background:Lefebvre has been involved in politics, with the...
(born 1979), Quebec politician - Elsie LessaElsie LessaElsie Lessa was a Brazilian journalist and writer of American descent.She was hired as a reporter for the newspaper O Globo in 1946. From 1952 till her death in May 2000, she wrote continuously for the paper...
(1912-2000), American-Brazilian journalist and writer - Elsie LeungElsie LeungElsie Leung Oi-sie, GBM JP, was the Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong from 1997 to 2005, and was a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. She was succeeded by Wong Yan Lung, SC, on 20 October 2005.-Education:...
, member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong - Elsie Lyon, a Canadian politician; see Cooperative Commonwealth Federation candidates, 1953 Manitoba provincial election#Elsie Lyon (Fisher)
- Elsie MacGillElsie MacGillElizabeth Muriel Gregory "Elsie" MacGill, OC , known as the "Queen of the Hurricanes", was the world's first female aircraft designer. She worked as an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War and did much to make Canada a powerhouse of aircraft construction during her years at Canadian...
(1905-1980), a Canadian aeronautical engineer and the first female aircraft designer - Elsie Mitchell (d. 1945), an American woman killed in Oregon by a Japanese balloon bomb during World War II; see Fire balloon#Single lethal attack
- Elsie SigelElsie SigelElsie Sigel, a granddaughter of General Franz Sigel, is notable for her notorious murder at the age of 19 in New York City in 1909....
ca. 1890-1909), an American murder victim - Elsie Snowden, member of the Snowden Family BandSnowden Family BandThe Snowden Family Band was an 19th century African American musical group. The children of the Snowden family of Clinton, Knox County, Ohio, comprised the ensemble. The band's career stretched from before the American Civil War into living memory; no other African American band of their type...
, a 19th-century African American musical group - Elsie TuElsie TuElsie Hume Elliot Tu or Elsie Tu , GBM, CBE, is a prominent social activist, former elected member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong, and former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong...
(Traditional Chinese characters: 杜葉錫恩) (b. 1913), also known as Elsie Elliot nee Hume, a Hong Kong social activist and former elected member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong - Elsie WayneElsie WayneElsie Eleanore Wayne is a Canadian politician, and a former Progressive Conservative MP for Saint John.-Political career:In 1977, she was elected to the Saint John municipal council...
(born 1932), Canadian politician - Elsie Jane WilsonElsie Jane WilsonElsie Jane Wilson was a cinema actress, director and writer.Wilson was born in New Zealand. A professional actress from the age of two, she followed her husband Rupert Julian to United States in 1913, where both found work as actors in Universal silent movies. He turned to directing, with Wilson...
(1890–1965), a New Zealand-born cinema actress, director, and writer in the United States - Elsie de WolfeElsie de Wolfe]Elsie de Wolfe was an American actress, interior decorator, nominal author of the influential 1913 book The House in Good Taste, and a prominent figure in New York, Paris, and London society...
(1865-1950), pioneering professional interior decorator in the United States
Places
United States- Elsie, KentuckyElsie, KentuckyElsie is an unincorporated community in Magoffin County, Kentucky, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 460 northwest of the city of Salyersville, the county seat of Magoffin County...
, an unincorporated community in Magoffin County, Kentucky - Elsie, MichiganElsie, MichiganElsie is a village in Clinton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,055 at the 2000 census.The village consists of two noncontiguous portions within Duplain Township in the northeast portion of Clinton County.-Geography:...
, a village in Clinton County - Elsie, NebraskaElsie, NebraskaElsie is a village in Perkins County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 139 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Elsie is located at ....
, village in Perkins County
Canada
- Elsie IslandElsie IslandElsie Island is a northern Canadian island in eastern Hudson Bay. While situated off the western coast of Quebec's Ungava Peninsula, it's a part of Qikiqtaaluk Region in the territory of Nunavut....
, Nunavut
Fictional characters
- Elsie the CowElsie the CowElsie the Cow has been the spokescow for the Borden Dairy Company since her introduction in 1936.Elsie was created in the 1930s to symbolize the “Perfect Dairy Product,” and made an appearance at the New York World's Fair in 1939. She also starred in a movie, RKO's Little Men, in 1940...
, advertising mascot of the Borden Company - Elsie HooperElsie HooperElsie Hooper is a black and white horror serial that began printing in December of 2002. The strip appears regularly in the UMass Daily Collegian. Since August 2003, Elsie Hooper has been in the works as a motion picture in Hollywood - the first online comic ever to do so - and has gained a...
, black and white horror serial since December 2002, appearing in the UMass Daily Collegian - Elsie TannerElsie TannerElsie Tanner is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Patricia Phoenix from 1960 to 1973 and from 1976 until 1984. Elsie Tanner was one of the original core characters on Coronation Street and appeared in the very first episode...
(1960-1973, 1976-1984), soap opera character played by Patricia Phoenix on Coronation Street - Elsie-DeeElsie-DeeElsie-Dee is a fictional character appearing in Marvel Comics, and an ally of Wolverine. The character first appeared in Wolverine Vol. 2, Issue 37 in an inanimate state suspended in tank of gelatin. Elsie-Dee is a sentient automaton or android...
, fictional character appearing in Marvel Comics, and an ally of Wolverine - Elsie DinsmoreElsie DinsmoreElsie Dinsmore is a children's book series written by Martha Finley between 1867 and 1905.An adapted version has been published, which leaves out several important facts and details.-Original story:...
, titular character in the Elsie Dinsmore series by Martha Finley
Hospitals
- Elsie Inglis Memorial HospitalElsie Inglis Memorial HospitalThe Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital was a hospital in Abbeyhill, Edinburgh, Scotland, and was founded in 1925 as a memorial to Elsie Inglis. Backing onto Holyrood Park just east of Holyrood House, Edinburgh, Scotland, it was well liked for its intimate atmosphere by mothers who often referred to...
, a hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, founded in 1925 and closed in 1988
Ships
- USS Elsie III (SP-708)USS Elsie III (SP-708)USS Elsie III was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.Elsie III was built as a civilian motorboat of the same name in 1912 at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York. The U.S. Navy purchased her from her owner 1917 for World War I service as a patrol vessel...
, a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919 - USC&GS Elsie III (1912)USC&GS Elsie III (1912)USC&GS Elsie III was a launch that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1919 to 1944.Elsie III was built as a civilian motorboat of the same name in 1912 at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York...
, a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey ship in service from 1919 tp 1944
Weapons
- Elsie mine, also known as the C3A1 mineC3A1 mineThe C3A1 and C3A2 are Canadian minimum metal anti-personnel mines. The differences between them are very minor and hard to distinguish visually. They were first deployed circa 1959....
, a type of anti-personnel mine