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:

Given name

 * Elsie Abbot (1907–1983), British civil servant
 * Elsie Albert (born 1996), Papua New Guinean rugby league player
 * Elsie Altmann-Loos (1899–1984), Austrian dancer
 * Elsie Baker (1883–1971), American actress and singer
 * Elsie Barge (1898–1962), American pianist
 * Elsie Charles Basque (1916–2016), first Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia to earn a teacher's certificate
 * Elsie Bertram (1912–2003), English bookseller
 * Elsie Bowerman (1889–1973), British pioneering female barrister, suffragette, and Titanic survivor
 * Elsie Bramell (1909–1985), Australian anthropologist
 * Elsie Cameron Corbett (1893–1977), British volunteer ambulance driver in World War I
 * Elsie Cassels (1864–1938), Scottish-born naturalist and Canadian ornithologist
 * Essie B. Cheesborough (1826–1905), American writer
 * Elsie Cohen (1895–1972), British entrepreneur
 * Elsie Cook, secretary for the Scottish Women's Football Association
 * Elsie Cameron Corbett (1893–1977), British suffragist, volunteer ambulance driver World War I, and philanthropist
 * Elsie Chamberlain (1910–1991), British minister
 * Elsie Corlett (1902–1988), English golfer
 * Elsie Dahlberg-Sundberg (1916–2005), Swedish sculptor
 * Elsie Louisa Deacon (1897–1984), British railway draughtswoman
 * Elsie Dohrmann (1875–1909), New Zealand scholar, teacher, and temperance campaigner
 * Elsie Dubugras (1904–2006), Brazilian journalist
 * Elsie Spicer Eells (1880–1963), American writer
 * Elsie Ferguson (1883–1961), American stage and film actress
 * Elsie Fisher (born 2003), American actor
 * Elsie Fox (c. 1900–1992), minor screenwriter in the 1930s, married to American novelist/screenwriter Paul Hervey Fox
 * Elsie Herbold Froeschner (1913–2006), American scientific illustrator
 * Elsie Gabriel, Indian environmentalist
 * Elsie Gibbons (1903–2003), Canadian politician
 * Elsie Giorgi (1911–1998), American physician
 * Elsie Gledstanes (1891–1982), British artist
 * Elsie Griffin (1895–1989), English opera singer
 * Elsie Hall (1877–1976), Australian-born South African classical pianist
 * Elsie Heiss, Australian indigenous elder and Catholic religious leader
 * Elsie Higgon (1879–1969), English pharmacist
 * Elsie Hodder (1886–1952), English actress and singer under the stage name Lily Elsie
 * Elsie M. Hueffer (1876–1949), British translator
 * Elsie Ao Ieong, Macau government minister
 * Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), innovative Scottish doctor
 * Elsie Janis (1889–1956), American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter
 * Elsie Jury (1910–1993), Canadian archaeologist
 * Elsie S. Kanza, Tanzanian economist and diplomat
 * Elsie May Kittredge (1870–1954), American botanist
 * Elsie Caroline Krummeck (1913–1999), American artist and industrial designer
 * Elsie Lefebvre (born 1979), Quebec politician
 * Elsie Lessa (1912–2000), American-Brazilian journalist and writer
 * Elsie Leung, member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
 * Elsie M. Lewis (1912–1992), first African American female historian
 * Elsie Locke (1912–2001), 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 Mackay (c. 1893–1928), British actress, interior decorator and pioneering aviator who died trying to fly across the Atlantic
 * Elsie MacLeod, American actress
 * Elsie Maréchal (1894–1969), English woman active in the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War
 * Elsie Rosaline Masson (1890–1935), Australian photographer
 * Elsie Mitchell (died 1945), American woman killed in Oregon by a Japanese balloon bomb during World War II; see Fire balloon
 * Elsie Smeaton Munro (1880–1961), Scottish writer
 * Elsie Murray (1878–1965), American psychologist
 * Elsie Paitai (born 1963), New Zealand rugby union player
 * Elsie Clews Parsons (1875–1941), American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist and feminist
 * Elsie Payne (1927–2004), teacher and first indigenous Barbadian principal of Queen's College of Bridgetown
 * Elsie Palmer Payne (1884–1971), American painter
 * Elsie Dodge Pattee (1876–1975), American painter
 * Elsie Pidgeon (1879–1956), Australian hospital matron
 * Elsie Quinlan (1914–1952), Irish-born South African Dominican sister
 * Elsie Reasoner Ralph (1878–1913), American war correspondent and sculptor
 * Elsie Robinson (1993–1956), American syndicated columnist
 * Elsie Shrigley (1899–1978), English vegan activist and co-founder of The Vegan Society
 * Elsie Sigel (c. 1890–1909), American murder victim
 * Elsie Snowden, member of the Snowden Family Band, a 19th-century African American musical group
 * Elsie Stevens (born 1907), British artist
 * Elsie Sunderland, Canadian environmental scientist
 * Elsie Suréna (born 1956), Haitian writer and photographer
 * Elsie Toles (1888–1957), Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, professor, and author
 * Elsie Tu (Traditional Chinese characters: 杜葉錫恩) (1913–2015), also known as Elsie Elliot, Hong Kong social activist and member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong
 * Elsie Eleanor Verity (1894–1971), British motor engineer
 * Elsie Wagg (1876–1949), English philanthropist
 * Elsie Wayne (1932–2016), Canadian politician
 * Elsie Widdowson (1906–2000), British dietitian
 * Elsie Jane Wilson (1890–1965), New Zealand-born cinema actress, director and writer in the United States
 * Elsie Wingrove (1923–2016), Canadian baseball player
 * Elsie de Wolfe (1865–1950), pioneering professional interior decorator in the United States
 * Elsie and Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau (fl. 1914), British suffragette sisters
 * Elsie Maud White (1889–1978), New Zealand artist
 * Elsie Wright (1901–1988), Cottingley Fairies photographer and subject

Short for another name

 * Elizabeth Elsie Carlisle (1896–1977), English singer
 * Elizabeth Elsie MacGill (1905–1980), Canadian aeronautical engineer, first woman to earn an aeronautical engineering degree and "Queen of the Hurricanes" (fighter aircraft)
 * Eliška Elsie Paroubek (1906–1911), 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 Playhouse Disney animated television series Stanley
 * 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
 * Elsie Crimson, a supporting character from the manga and anime series Edens Zero