Elza is a feminine given name of Hebrew and German origins. A derivation of

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, and a close variant of the names Elsa,

Eliza ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between humans and machines, E ...

and Aliza, it is Germanic for "noble".

People

* Elza Jeffords (1826–1885), U.S. Representative *

Elza Kephart Elza Kephart, is a Canadians, Canadian filmmaker, from Montreal, Quebec. She owns her own production company, Midnight Kingdom Films. Career Kephart's first feature film was ''Graveyard Alive, Graveyard Alive: A Zombie Nurse in Love'', which sh ...

, Canadian film director, producer, writer *

Elza Kolodin Elza Kolodin is a pianist from Poland. She studied in Kraków, Warsaw and Paris. She has gained much acclaim from the international press, who have described her "rapturous playing" as being distinguished by "brilliant virtuosity" and a very "per ...

, Polish pianist * Elza Kungayeva (1982–2000), Chechen woman abducted, beaten, raped and murdered by a Russian Army Colonel *

Elza Leimane Elza Leimane (born 2 July 1984) is a Latvian ballet dancer. She graduated from the Riga Choreography School in 2001 and has been a member of the Latvian National Ballet Company since her graduation. She has been a principal dancer with the com ...

(born 1984), Latvian ballet dancer *

Elza Medeiros Elza Cansanção Medeiros, popularly known as Major Elza (October 21, 1921 – December 8, 2009), was a Brazilian Army officer and World War II veteran. She was the highest-ranking female officer in the Brazilian Army with the rank of Major, ...

(1921–2009), Brazilian Army officer and World War II veteran *

Elza Radziņa Elza Radziņa (1917, Kharkiv, Russian Empire — 2005, Riga, Latvia) was a Soviet Latvian theater and cinema actress, and a master of the spoken word (reader). She received People's Artist of the USSR award in 1976 and the Order of the Three Sta ...

(1917–2005), Latvian actress *

Elza Soares Elza da Conceição Soares ( née Gomes; 23 June 1930 – 20 January 2022), known professionally as Elza Soares (), was a Brazilian samba singer. In 1999, she was named Singer of the Millennium along with Tina Turner by BBC Radio. Elza was ...

(1937–2022), Brazilian samba singer *

Elza van den Heever Elza van den Heever (born 1979) is a South African soprano in opera and concert, who began her career as a mezzo-soprano. She has appeared in leading roles at major houses and concert halls of the world. One of her signature roles is Elisabett ...

(born 1979), South African opera singer

Fictional characters

*Elza Walker, the beta version of

Claire Redfield is a character in ''Resident Evil'' (''Biohazard'' in Japan), a survival horror video game series created by Japanese company Capcom. She was introduced as one of two player characters in ''Resident Evil 2'' (1998), alongside Leon S. Kennedy ...

, the protagonist of the 1998 survival horror video game,

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*Japanese name of Zael, a character from the video game

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*Inferno Queen Elza, a character in the Japanese role-playing game, Brave Frontier *Elza Gray, a character that appeared in

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References

Elza – Meaning of Elza
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