Élie

Élie is the French equivalent of "Elie", "Elias" or "Elijah."

French masculine given name

 * Élie Vinet (1509–1587) French Renaissance humanist
 * Élie Diodati (1576–1661) Swiss French jurist
 * Élie Benoist (1640–1728) French Protestant minister and historian of the Edict of Nantes
 * Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719) French Huguenot refugee in Ireland and the first librarian of Marsh's Library
 * Élie, duc Decazes (1780–1860)
 * Élie Bertrand (1713–1797) Swiss French geologist
 * Élie Catherine Fréron (1719–1776) French (male) writer and controversialist
 * Élie Lacoste (1745–1806) French politician during the French Revolution
 * Élie Halévy (Chalfan) (1760–1826) French Hebrew poet and author
 * Élie Frédéric Forey (1804–1872) Marshal of France
 * Élie Berthet (1815–1891) French novelist
 * Élie Lacerte (1821–1898) Quebec physician and political figure
 * Élie Reclus (1827–1904) French anarchist and ethnographer
 * Élie Mailloux (1830–1893) Quebec political figure
 * Élie Ducommun (1833-1906) was winner of the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize
 * Élie Saint-Hilaire (1839–1888) political figure in Quebec
 * Élie Metchnikoff (1845–1916) Russian biologist, known by French name
 * Élie Allégret (1865–1940), French Protestant pastor and missionary
 * Élie Cartan (1869–1951) French mathematician
 * Élie Halévy (1870–1937) French historian
 * Élie Faure (1873–1937) French art historian
 * Élie Lescot (1883–1974) President of Haiti from 1941
 * Élie Bloncourt (1896–1978) Guadeloupe-born French politician of the 1930s.
 * Élie Njoya (19..) African microbiologist, musician, writer
 * Élie Bayol (1914–1995) French racing driver
 * Élie de Rothschild (1917–2007) French banker
 * Élie Wollman (1917–2008) French geneticist
 * Élie Brousse (1921–2019) French rugby league player
 * Élie Fruchart (1922–2003) French football player
 * Élie Hoarau (1938) Réunion politician
 * Élie Castor (1943–1996) French Guiana politician
 * Élie Barnavi (born 1946) Israeli ambassador to France between 2000 and 2002.
 * Élie Doté (1947) Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from June 2005 to January 2008
 * Élie Chouraqui (1950) French film director
 * Élie Lellouche (1952) French horse trainer
 * Élie Baup (1955) French football player and now manager
 * Élie Aboud (1959) Lebanese-French politician
 * Élie Kakou (1960–1999) French comic actor
 * Élie Domota (1963) trade union leader from Guadeloupe
 * Élie Semoun (1963) French comedian
 * Élie Kroupi (1979) French-Ivorian football player
 * Élie Dohin (1983) French football midfielder
 * Élie Ehua (1992) French footballer
 * Élie Dupuis (1994) Canadian actor

Double and middle names

 * François-Élie Vincent (1708–1790) Swiss painter of portrait miniatures.
 * Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Élie de Beaumont (1732–1786) French Protestant
 * Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750–1819) Martinique creole colonist
 * Marguerite-Élie Guadet (1758–1794) French (male) political figure of the Revolutionary period
 * Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798–1874) French geologist
 * Élie-Abel Carrière (1818–1896) French botanist
 * Joseph-Élie Thibaudeau (1822–1878) Quebec businessman and political figure
 * Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828–1891) French painter
 * Marie Joseph Anatole Élie de Riquet (1858–1937) 19th Prince de Chimay, French fencer at the 1900 Summer Olympics
 * Nil-Élie Larivière (1899–1969) Quebec politician
 * Joseph Élie Cholette Canadian politician
 * Jacques Derrida, born Jackie Élie Derrida (1930–2004) Sephardic French-Algerian philosopher

Variant spellings
Hélie and Hélias, also Élias:
 * Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord (cardinal) (1301–1364) also Élie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Bishop of Auxerre
 * Hélias de Saint-Yrieix (died 1367) French Benedictine abbot, bishop and cardinal.
 * Hélie de Bourdeilles (ca. 1423–1484) French Franciscan, Archbishop of Tours and cardinal.
 * Élias Sarkis (1924-1985) President of Lebanon from 1976-1982.

Surname

 * Antonio Élie (1893–1968) Canadian politician
 * Romain Élie (1985) French football defender
 * Louis-Pierre Hélie (1986) Canadian skier

Geographical names

 * Saint-Élie a commune of French Guiana
 * Rock Forest–Saint-Élie–Deauville, borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec
 * Mont-Élie, Quebec, unorganized territory in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec
 * Saint-Élie-de-Caxton municipality in the Mauricie region of the province