Elaine (given name)

Elaine is a given name, a variant of Elaina, Elayne and Helen. It may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Elaine (singer), South African singer


 * Elaine Brown (born 1943), American singer, writer, and former Black Panther Party chairwoman
 * Elaine Crombie, Australian actress
 * Elaine Fifield (1930–1999), Australian ballerina
 * Elaine Fine (born 1959), American musician and composer
 * Elaine Goble (born 1956), Canadian visual artist
 * Elaine M. Goodwin, British mosaic artist
 * Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal (1920–2010), American artist
 * Elaine Hendrix (born 1970), American actress
 * Elaine May (born 1932), American film director, screenwriter and actress
 * Elaine Mukheli (born 1999), South African singer
 * Elaine Murphy (playwright), Irish playwright
 * Elaine Paige (born 1948), English actress and singer
 * Elaine Stritch (1925–2014), American actress
 * Elaine Yiu (born 1980), Hong Kong actress

Others

 * Elaine Brody (1922–2014), American gerontologist and sociologist
 * Elaine Brown (born 1940), involved with a dispute with the US government
 * Elaine Campione, Canadian woman who murdered her two children
 * Elaine Chan, Hong Kong Olympic swimmer
 * Elaine Chao (born 1953), United States Secretary of Labor
 * Elaine Cheris (born 1946), American Olympic fencer
 * Elaine Denniston (born 1939), lawyer, supported the Apollo program
 * Elaine Esposito (1934–1978), American who had held the record for longest coma
 * Elaine Gumbs-Vlaun (born 1944), St Maartener social worker and politician
 * Elaine Iljon Foreman (born 1955), clinical psychologist and CBT specialist who has written several books
 * Elaine Ingham, American microbiologist and soil biology researcher
 * Elaine Luria (born 1975), American politician
 * Elaine E Moura (born 1982), Brazilian football (soccer) player
 * Elaine Marshall, American politician
 * Elaine McCoy, Canadian politician
 * Elaine Murray (born 1954), British politician
 * Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy, British politician
 * Elaine Nolan (born 1981), Irish cricketer
 * Elaine Ron (1943–2010), American epidemiologist
 * Elaine Thompson-Herah (born 1992), Jamaican sprinter

Fictional characters

 * Elaine, the Holy Maiden of the Fountain of Youth in the anime The Seven Deadly Sins
 * Elaine (legend), several Arthurian-legend characters, including:
 * Elaine of Astolat
 * Elaine of Corbenic
 * Elaine Belloc, a character in the Lucifer comic series
 * Elaine Benes, Seinfeld character
 * Elaine Jarvis, EastEnders character
 * Elaine Lefkowitz-Dallas, a character on the TV sitcom Soap
 * Elaine Marley, Monkey Island character
 * Elaine Miller, character in Almost Famous
 * Elaine Nardo, Taxi character
 * Elaine Peacock, EastEnders character
 * Elaine Pownall, recurring character of the 2018–2019 show Siren
 * Elaine Robinson, character in The Graduate
 * Elain Archeron, character from the A Court of Thorns and Roses fantasy series by Sarah J. Maas