Elsie (given name)
Elsie is a feminine given name, a diminutive form of Elspeth, a Scottish version of Elizabeth. It has been in use in the Anglosphere as an independent name since the 1800s. The name has increased in usage in English-speaking countries in recent years.
It may refer to:
People
Given name
- Elsie Abbot, British civil servant
- Elsie Albert, Papua New Guinean rugby league player
- Elsie Altmann-Loos, Austrian dancer
- Elsie Baker, American actress and singer
- Elsie Barge, American pianist
- Elsie Charles Basque, first Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia to earn a teacher's certificate
- Elsie Bertram, English bookseller
- Elsie Bowerman, British pioneering female barrister, suffragette, and Titanic survivor
- Elsie Bramell, Australian anthropologist
- Elsie Cameron Corbett, British volunteer ambulance driver in World War I
- Elsie Cassels, Scottish-born naturalist and Canadian ornithologist
- Essie B. Cheesborough, American writer
- Elsie Cohen, British entrepreneur
- Elsie Cook, secretary for the Scottish Women's Football Association
- Elsie Cameron Corbett, British suffragist, volunteer ambulance driver World War I, and philanthropist
- Elsie Chamberlain, British minister
- Elsie Corlett, English golfer
- Elsie Dahlberg-Sundberg, Swedish sculptor
- Elsie Louisa Deacon, British railway draughtswoman
- Elsie Dohrmann, New Zealand scholar, teacher, and temperance campaigner
- Elsie Dubugras, Brazilian journalist
- Elsie Spicer Eells, American writer
- Elsie Ferguson, American stage and film actress
- Elsie Fisher, American actor
- Elsie Fox, minor screenwriter in the 1930s, married to American novelist/screenwriter Paul Hervey Fox
- Elsie Herbold Froeschner, American scientific illustrator
- Elsie Gabriel, Indian environmentalist
- Elsie Gibbons, Canadian politician
- Elsie Giorgi, American physician
- Elsie Gledstanes, British artist
- Elsie Griffin, English opera singer
- Elsie Hall, Australian-born South African classical pianist
- Elsie Heiss, Australian indigenous elder and Catholic religious leader
- Elsie Higgon, English pharmacist
- Elsie Hodder, English actress and singer under the stage name Lily Elsie
- Elsie M. Hueffer, British translator
- Elsie Ao Ieong, Macau government minister
- Elsie Inglis, innovative Scottish doctor
- Elsie Janis, American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter
- Elsie Jury, Canadian archaeologist
- Elsie S. Kanza, Tanzanian economist and diplomat
- Elsie May Kittredge, American botanist
- Elsie Caroline Krummeck, American artist and industrial designer
- Elsie Lefebvre, Quebec politician
- Elsie Lessa, American-Brazilian journalist and writer
- Elsie Leung, member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
- Elsie M. Lewis, first African American female historian
- Elsie Locke, 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, British actress, interior decorator and pioneering aviator who died trying to fly across the Atlantic
- Elsie MacLeod, American actress
- Elsie Maréchal, English woman active in the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War
- Elsie Rosaline Masson, Australian photographer
- Elsie Mitchell, American woman killed in Oregon by a Japanese balloon bomb during World War II; see Fire balloon#Single lethal attack
- Elsie Smeaton Munro, Scottish writer
- Elsie Murray, American psychologist
- Elsie Paitai, New Zealand rugby union player
- Elsie Clews Parsons, American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist and feminist
- Elsie Payne, teacher and first indigenous Barbadian principal of Queen's College of Bridgetown
- Elsie Palmer Payne, American painter
- Elsie Dodge Pattee, American painter
- Elsie Pidgeon, Australian hospital matron
- Elsie Quinlan, Irish-born South African Dominican sister
- Elsie Reasoner Ralph, American war correspondent and sculptor
- Elsie Robinson, American syndicated columnist
- Elsie Shrigley, English vegan activist and co-founder of The Vegan Society
- Elsie Sigel, American murder victim
- Elsie Snowden, member of the Snowden Family Band, a 19th-century African American musical group
- Elsie Stevens, British artist
- Elsie Sunderland, Canadian environmental scientist
- Elsie Suréna, Haitian writer and photographer
- Elsie Toles, Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, professor, and author
- Elsie Tu, also known as Elsie Elliot, Hong Kong social activist and member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong
- Elsie Eleanor Verity, British motor engineer
- Elsie Wagg, English philanthropist
- Elsie Wayne, Canadian politician
- Elsie Widdowson, British dietitian
- Elsie Jane Wilson, New Zealand-born cinema actress, director and writer in the United States
- Elsie Wingrove, Canadian baseball player
- Elsie de Wolfe, pioneering professional interior decorator in the United States
- Elsie and Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau, British suffragette sisters
- Elsie Maud White, New Zealand artist
- Elsie Wright, Cottingley Fairies photographer and subject
Short for another name
- Elizabeth Elsie Carlisle, English singer
- Elizabeth Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer, first woman to earn an aeronautical engineering degree and "Queen of the Hurricanes"
- Eliška Elsie Paroubek, 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 2019–2020 Sarah Andersen comic series Fangs
- Elsie, a supporting character in the video game Fields of Mistria
- Elsie, a main character in the Playhouse Disney animated television series Stanley
- Elsie Crimson, a supporting character from the manga and anime series Edens Zero
- Elsie Dinsmore, titular character in the Elsie Dinsmore series by Martha Finley
- Elsie Dyck, a character from the 2020 Andrew Unger novel Once Removed
- 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''