Elisha (given name)
Elisha is a given name of Hebrew origin.
Elisha is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible, the Quran, and Baha'i writings.
Other persons with the same given name include:
Actors
- Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor
- Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
- Elisha Henig, American actor
- Elisha Kriis, Indian-American actress and television personality
Businessmen
- Elisha S. Converse, American businessman
- Elisha Peck, American businessman
- Elisha Wiesel, American chief information officer of Goldman Sachs; hedge fund manager of the Niche Plus; son of Elie Wiesel
Inventors
- Elisha Gray, American electrical engineer considered by some to be the true inventor of the telephone
- Elisha Otis, American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of an elevator safety device
Politicians and lawyers
- Elisha Hunt Allen, American congressman, lawyer and diplomat, and Chief Justice of the Kingdom of Hawaii Supreme Court and diplomat for the Kingdom of Hawaii
- Elisha W. Baily, American politician and physician from Pennsylvania
- Elisha Baxter, tenth Governor of Arkansas
- Elisha Cooke, Sr., physician, politician, and businessman, elected Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Elisha Cooke, Jr., physician and politician from the Province of Massachusetts Bay; son of the above
- Elisha Dyer, American politician and 25th Governor of Rhode Island
- Elisha Dyer, Jr., American politician and 45th Governor of Rhode Island; son of the above
- Elisha P. Ferry, twice Governor of the Washington Territory and the first Governor of the State of Washington
- Elisha Harris, 20th Governor of Rhode Island
- Elisha Krauss, American journalist, speaker, and radio talk host based in Los Angeles, California
- Elisha Lewis, American politician
- Elisha Litchfield, American merchant and member of the US House of Representatives from New York
- Elisha Mathewson, US Senator from Rhode Island
- Elisha McCallion, Irish female Sinn Féin politician
- Elisha Payne, American businessman and politician
- Elisha Marshall Pease, fifth and thirteenth Governor of Texas
- Elisha Reynolds Potter, Federalist Party US Congressman and Speaker in the Rhode Island State Assembly
- Elisha R. Potter, justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and member of the US House of Representatives; son of the above
- Elisha Williams, Congregational minister, legislator, jurist and rector of Yale College
Sportsmen
- Elisha King, Australian rules footballer
- Eli Manning, American former National Football League quarterback
- Elisha N'Dow, English professional footballer
- Elisha Obed, Bahamian light middleweight boxer
- Elisha Sulola, English professional footballer
- Elisha Scott, Irish association football goalkeeper
- Elisha Thomas, American volleyball player
- Elisha Voren, American taekwondo practitioner
- Elisha Williams (basketball), Canadian paralympic wheelchair basketball player
Other
- Elisha ben Abuyah, Jewish rabbi and religious authority
- Elisha (Nestorian patriarch), patriarch of the Church of the East from 524 to 537
- Elisha Kent Kane, American explorer and medical officer
- Elisha Willis, English ballet dancer