Elvira
Elvira is a female given name. It is believed to have first been recorded in medieval Spain; some sources state that it is likely of Germanic origin.
In the Balkans, Elvira is popular among Bosniaks, Croats, and Slovenes in the former Yugoslav nations. It is also popular among Albanians. The name is also written as Alvira in the region. The region also has a male equivalent to the name: Elvir.
People
Nobility
- Elvira Menéndez (died 921), daughter of Hermenegildo Gutiérrez and wife of Ordoño II of León
- Elvira of Castile, Queen of León
- Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily, wife of Roger II, King of Sicily
- Elvira of Castile, Countess of Toulouse
- Elvira of Toro, daughter of King Ferdinand I of León
- Elvira Menéndez (died 1022), Queen of León, wife of Alfonso V of León
- Elvira Ramírez, princess and regent of León
Arts and entertainment
- Elvira Amazar, Serbian-born Russian-American soprano singer and actress
- Elvira Anderfjärd, Swedish music producer
- Elvira Barney, English actress and socialite
- Elvira Betrone, Italian actress
- Elvira Casazza, Italian mezzo-soprano
- Elvira Cristi, Chilean actress and model
- Elvira Dones, Albanian novelist, screenwriter, and documentary film producer
- Elvira Gascón, Spanish painter and engraver
- Elvira Godeanu, Romanian stage actress
- Elvira de Hidalgo, Spanish coloratura soprano and teacher of Maria Callas
- Elvira Kralj, Slovenian actress
- Elvira Kurt, Canadian comedian
- Elvira Madigan, Danish tightrope walker and trick rider
- Elvira Natali, Indonesian actress and author
- Elvira Navarro, Spanish writer
- Elvira Nikolaisen, Norwegian singer-songwriter
- Elvira Notari, Italian filmmaker
- Elvira Pagã, Brazilian actress and singer
- Elvira Popescu, Romanian-born French actress and director
- Elvira Quintana, Spanish-born Mexican actress and singer
- Elvira Rahić, Bosnian pop-folk singer
- Elvira Ríos, Mexican actress and singer
- Elvira T, Russian pop singer
- Elvira Travesí was a Peruvian-born Argentinean actress
- Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, stage name of Cassandra Peterson
- Elvire de Brissac, French novelist and biographer
- Elvire Murail, French author and screenwriter
Politicians
- Elvira Abdić-Jelenović, Bosnian politician
- Elvira Aitkulova, Russian politician
- Elvira Badaracco, Italian politician
- Elvira Pola Figueroa, Mexican politician
- Elvira Kovács, Serbian politician
- Elvira Olivas, Mexican politician
- Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, American politician
- Elvira Rodríguez, Spanish politician and economist
- Elvira Rodríguez Leonardi, Argentine politician
- Maria Elvira Salazar, American journalist and broadcast television anchor, U.S. Representative from Florida.
Sports
- Elvira Guerra, Italian equestrienne
- Elvira Herman, Belarusian sprinter
- Elvira Holzknecht, Austrian retired luger
- Elvira Khasyanova, Russian synchronized swimmer
- Elvira Öberg, Swedish biathlete
- Elvīra Ozoliņa, Latvian and former Soviet javelin thrower
- Elvira Pančić, Serbian sprinter
- Elvira Possekel, German athlete
- Elvira Saadi, retired artistic gymnast from the former Soviet Union
- Elvira Shatayeva, Russian professional mountain climber
- Elvira Stinissen, Dutch Paralympic sitting volleyball player
- Elvira Todua, Abkhazian Russian football goalkeeper
- Elvira Urusova, Georgian athlete
- Elvira Vasilkova, Belarusian former swimmer
- Elvira Ziyastinova, Russian footballer
- Elvire Gertosio, French gymnast
- Elvire Teza, French gymnast
Other
- Elvira Arellano, Mexican international activist, undocumented immigrant to the US and cause célèbre
- Elvira Chaudoir, Peruvian socialite and a double-agent during the Second World War
- Elvira Cuevas, Puerto Rican ecologist
- Elvira Devinamira, Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder
- Elvira Dolinar, Slovenian writer, feminist and teacher
- Elvira Fölzer, German archaeologist
- Elvira Lindo, Spanish journalist and writer
- Elvira Lobato, Brazilian journalist
- Elvira Tânia Lopes Martins, Brazilian poet
- Elvira Nabiullina, head of the Central Bank of Russia
- Elvira Notari, Italian filmmaker
- Elvira Petrozzi, Italian Roman Catholic nun
- Elvira Willman, Finnish playwright, journalist and revolutionary socialist
- Elvira Wood, American paleontologist who specialized in vertebrate paleontology
Fictional characters
- Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, portrayed by Cassandra Peterson in television and film
- Elvira Coot, 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 the 1983 film Scarface
- Elvira Stitt, in the novel Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and the 1963 film adaptation
- Elvira, in the 2005 novel Ingo by Helen Dunmore
- Elvira "Viri" Gómez García, Vilde's adaptation in Skam España