Elvira

Elvira is a female given name. First recorded in medieval Spain, it is likely of Germanic (Gothic) origin.

Elvira may refer to:

Nobility

 * Elvira Menéndez (died 921), daughter of Hermenegildo Gutiérrez and wife of Ordoño II of León
 * Elvira of Castile, Queen of León (965–1017)
 * Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily (c. 1100–1135), wife of Roger II, King of Sicily
 * Elvira of Castile, Countess of Toulouse (before 1082?-1151)
 * Elvira of Toro (1038/9–1101), daughter of King Ferdinand I of León
 * Elvira Menéndez (died 1022), Queen of León (1008–1022), wife of Alfonso V of León
 * Elvira Ramírez (c. 935–after 986), princess and regent of León

Arts and entertainment

 * Elvira Amazar (1890s-1971), Serbian-born Russian-American soprano singer and actress
 * Elvira Barney (1904-1936), English actress and socialite
 * Elvira Betrone (1881–1961), Italian actress
 * Elvira Casazza (1887–1965), Italian mezzo-soprano
 * Elvira Cristi (born 1976), Chilean actress and model
 * Elvira Gascón (1911-2000), Spanish painter and engraver
 * Elvira Godeanu (1904–1991), Romanian stage actress
 * Elvira de Hidalgo (1891-1980), Spanish coloratura soprano and teacher of Maria Callas
 * Elvira Kralj (1900-1978), Slovenian actress
 * Elvira Kurt (born 1961), Canadian comedian
 * Elvira Madigan (1867-1889), Danish tightrope walker and trick rider
 * Elvira Natali (born 1996), Indonesian actress and author
 * Elvira Navarro (born 1978), Spanish writer
 * Elvira Nikolaisen (born 1980), Norwegian singer-songwriter
 * Elvira Notari (1875-1946), Italian filmmaker
 * Elvira Pagã (1920-2003), Brazilian actress and singer
 * Elvira Popescu (1894-1993), Romanian-born French actress and director
 * Elvira Quintana (1935–1968), Spanish-born Mexican actress and singer
 * Elvira Rahić (born 1973), Bosnian pop-folk singer
 * Elvira Ríos (1913-1987), Mexican actress and singer
 * Elvira T (born 1994), Russian pop singer
 * Elvira Travesí (1919-2009) was a Peruvian-born Argentinean actress
 * Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, stage name of Cassandra Peterson (born 1951)

Politicians

 * Elvira Abdić-Jelenović (born 1967), Bosnian politician
 * Elvira Aitkulova (born 1973), Russian politician
 * Elvira Badaracco (1911-1994), Italian politician
 * Elvira Pola Figueroa (born 1957), Mexican politician
 * Elvira Kovács (born 1982), Serbian politician
 * Elvira Olivas (born 1935), Mexican politician
 * Elvira "Pixie" Palladino (1932-2006), American politician
 * Elvira Rodríguez (born 1949), Spanish politician and economist
 * Elvira Rodríguez Leonardi, Argentine politician
 * Maria Elvira Salazar (born 1961), American journalist and broadcast television anchor, U.S. Representative from Florida.

Sports

 * Elvira Guerra (1855–1937), Italian equestrienne
 * Elvira Herman (born 1997), Belarusian sprinter
 * Elvira Holzknecht (born 1973), Austrian retired luger
 * Elvira Khasyanova (born 1981), Russian synchronized swimmer
 * Elvira Öberg (born 1999), Swedish biathlete
 * Elvīra Ozoliņa (born 1939), Latvian and former Soviet javelin thrower
 * Elvira Pančić (born 1980), Serbian sprinter
 * Elvira Possekel (born 1953), German athlete
 * Elvira Saadi (born 1952), retired artistic gymnast from the former Soviet Union
 * Elvira Shatayeva, Russian professional mountain climber
 * Elvira Stinissen (born 1979), Dutch Paralympic sitting volleyball player
 * Elvira Todua (born 1986), Abkhazian Russian football goalkeeper
 * Elvira Urusova (born 1968), Georgian athlete
 * Elvira Vasilkova (born 1962), Belarusian former swimmer
 * Elvira Ziyastinova (born 1991), Russian footballer

Other

 * Elvira Arellano (born 1975), 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 (1870–1961), Slovenian writer, feminist and teacher
 * Elvira Fölzer (1868–after 1928), German archaeologist
 * Elvira Lindo (born 1962), Spanish journalist and writer
 * Elvira Lobato, Brazilian journalist
 * Elvira Tânia Lopes Martins (1957–2021), Brazilian poet
 * Elvira Nabiullina (born 1963), head of the Central Bank of Russia
 * Elvira Notari (1875–1946), Italian filmmaker
 * Elvira Willman (1875–1925), Finnish playwright, journalist and revolutionary socialist
 * Elvira Wood (1865–1928), American paleontologist who specialized in vertebrate paleontology

Fictional characters

 * Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, portrayed by Cassandra Peterson in television and film
 * Elvira Coot (Grandma Duck), 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