Leading Figures in History

Discover the people who shaped our world — from rulers and scientists to artists and activists.

21511 persons found

Elisa Rigaudo

b. 1980

Italian race walker (born 1980)

Elisabeth Bergner

German actress (1897–1986)

Elisabeth Bing

20th and 21st-century American physical therapist

Elisabeth Brooke, Marchioness of Northampton

b. 1526

English noblewoman

Elisabeth Domitien

Central African politician

Elisabeth Geleerd

Dutch-American psychoanalyst (1909–1969)

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

b. 1977

American television personality (born 1977)

Elisabeth Hauptmann

b. 1897

German writer (1897–1973)

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

French musician, harpsichordist and composer

Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen

16th-century German noblewoman

Élisabeth of France

b. 1764

French princess, Sister of Louis XVI, Martyr and Servant of God (1764–1794)

Elisabeth of Schönau

German Benedictine visionary

Elisabeth Sladen

British actress (1946–2011)

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

b. 1755

French portrait painter (1755–1842)

Élise Lucet

b. 1963

French journalist (born 1963)

Elisenda of Montcada

Queen of Aragon from 1322 to 1327

Elish Angiolini

b. 1960

Scottish lawyer (born 1960)

Elisha Cook Jr.

American actor (1903–1995)

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Israeli business management guru (1947–2011)

Eliza Acton

b. 1799

English food writer and poet

Eliza Orzeszkowa

Polish novelist (1841–1910)

Eliza Pollock

American archer (1840–1919)

Elizabeth Almira Allen

Elizabeth Bacon (died 1621)

English aristocrat (c. 1541–1621)