Ilse is a common female name, technically a German diminutive of Elisabeth, functioning as a given name in its own right chiefly in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and all of the Scandinavian countries including Finland. It may refer to:

Rivers

Ilse (Bega) Ilse is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Bega near Lemgo. See also *List of rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia A list of rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: A * Aa, left tributary of the Möhne ...

, a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, tributary of the Bega *

Ilse (Lahn) The Lahn is a , right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km). It has its source in t ...

, a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, tributary of the Lahn *

Ilse (Oker) The Ilse is a river of Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony, Germany. It rises at about above sea level on the northern slopes of the Brocken. During its first few kilometres it flows as a narrow brook, almost invisible to the observer, down the sid ...

, a river of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, flowing from the Harz mountains, tributary of the Oker *

Ilse (Weser) Ilse is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It flows into the Weser near Emmerthal. See also *List of rivers of Lower Saxony References

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, a river in Lower Saxony, Germany

People

Princess Ilse Princess Ilse (german: Prinzess Ilse or ''Prinzeß Ilse'') is the name of a popular tourist destination in the Ilse valley near the town of Ilsenburg in the Harz Mountains of central Germany. The spot was named after the River Ilse, which rises on ...

, a legendary princess of the Harz mountains in Germany *

Ilse Aichinger Ilse Aichinger (1 November 1921 – 11 November 2016) was an Austrian writer known for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.

(1921–2016), Austrian writer *

Ilse Everlien Berardo Ilse Everlien Berardo (born 28 December 1955) is a German Lutheran theologian, responsible for the German-speaking Protestant Church on Madeira Island. She is the first woman to become pastor of the Lutheran Church in Madeira, in 500 years of Chri ...

(born 1955), German Lutheran theologian, responsible for the German-speaking Protestant Church on Madeira Island *

Ilse Bing Ilse Bing (23 March 1899 – 10 March 1998) was a German avant-garde and commercial photographer who produced pioneering monochrome images during the inter-war era. Biography Background and early life Bing was born to a wealthy Jewish famil ...

(1899–1998), German avant-garde photographer *

Ilse Braun Ilse Braun (18 June 1909 – 28 June 1979) was one of two sisters of Eva Braun. Born in Munich, Ilse was the oldest daughter of school teacher Friedrich "Fritz" Braun and seamstress Franziska "Fanny" Kronberger. She became the sister-in-law of Naz ...

(1909–1979), one of two sisters of Eva Braun *

Ilse DeLange Ilse Annoeska de Lange (born 13 May 1977), better known as Ilse DeLange, is a Dutch country and pop rock singer-songwriter. As a member of The Common Linnets, she finished in second place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. Biography Ilse An ...

(born 1977), Dutch singer *

Ilse Dörffeldt Ilse Dörffeldt (23 March 1912 – 14 September 1992) was a German sprinter who competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Her 4 × 100 m team set a world record A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever ...

(1912–1992), German Olympic sprinter *

Ilse Fischer Ilse Fischer (born 29 June 1975) is an Austrian mathematician whose research concerns enumerative combinatorics and algebraic combinatorics, connecting these topics to representation theory and statistical mechanics. She is a professor of mathemat ...

(born 1975), Austrian mathematician *

Ilse Fürstenberg Ilse Fürstenberg (12 December 1907, in Berlin – 16 December 1976, in Basel) was a German actress, working on stage, screen, television and as voice actress. Selected filmography * ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) - Raths Wirtschafterin / Maid * '' M ...

(1907–1976), German actress *

Ilse Geldhof Ilse Geldhof (born 9 April 1973) is a former Belgian racing cyclist Cycle sport is Competition, competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mo ...

(born 1973), Belgian racing cyclist *

Ilse Gradwohl Ilse Gradwohl (born 1943 in Gleisdorf, Austria) is a Mexican painter. She was born in Austria, but moved to Mexico in 1973, where she studied art at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1996 she had a solo exhibition at the Museo ...

(born 1943), Mexican painter *

Ilse Hellman Ilse Hellman Noach (28 September 1908 – 3 December 1998) was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst and child development expert. She worked with child evacuees from London with psychological issues in the first two years of the Second World War unde ...

(1908–1998), Austrian-British psychoanalyst *

Ilse Heylen Ilse Heylen (born 21 March 1977, Edegem) is a Belgian judoka. She won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Heylen competed in the Half-lightweight (52 kg). She won her first ...

(born 1977), Belgian judoka *

Ilse Kaschube Ilse Kaschube (later Zeisler, born 25 June 1953 in Altentreptow, Bezirk Neubrandenburg) is an East German sprint canoer who competed in the early 1970s. She won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. ...

(born 1953), East German sprint canoer who competed in the early 1970s *

Ilse Koch Ilse Koch (22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was a German war criminal who was an overseer at Nazi concentration camps run by her husband, commandant Karl-Otto Koch. Working at Buchenwald (1937–1941) and Majdanek (1941–1943), Koch bec ...

, one of the first prominent Nazis to be tried by the U.S. military *

Ilse María Olivo Schweinfurth Ilse María Olivo Schweinfurth (born 28 November 1965) is a Venezuelan- Mexican singer and telenovela actress. Biography Ilse was born in Caracas, Venezuela, when her parents were there in a business trip. She was born to a well-known publicist ...

(born 1965), Venezuelan-born Mexican singer and telenovela actress, stage name *

Ilse Thiele Ilse Thiele (4 November 1920 – 10 January 2010) was an East German politician. She was a member of the powerful Central Committee of the country's ruling SED (party) between 1954 and 1989. She served as the Chair of the national Democrati ...

(1920–2010), East German politician *

Ilse Vaessen Ilse Vaessen (born 15 April 1986) is a Dutch badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (wit ...

(born 1986), Dutch badminton player *

Ilse van der Meijden Ilse Suzanne van der Meijden (born 22 October 1988 in Baarn) is a water polo player of the Netherlands who represents the Dutch national team in international competitions.

(born 1988), water polo player of the Netherlands *

Ilse Werner Ilse Werner (; born Ilse Charlotte Still, 11 July 1921 – 8 August 2005) was a Dutch-German actress, singer, and musical whistler. Life She was born in Batavia (present-day Jakarta, Indonesia) to a Dutch father, merchant and plantation owner, ...

(1921–2005), Dutch actress and singer

Characters

* Ilse Burnley, a major character in the ''

Emily of New Moon ''Emily of New Moon'' is the first in a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery about an orphan girl growing up on Prince Edward Island. Montgomery is also the author of ''Anne of Green Gables'' series. It was first published in 1923. Plot sum ...

'' trilogy and its adaptations. * Ilse Langnar, a character from the ''

Attack on Titan is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. It is set in a world where humanity is forced to live in cities surrounded by three enormous walls that protect them from gigantic man-eating humanoids referred to as ...

'' manga. * Ilse Neumann, character in the play '' Spring Awakening'', and later adaptations * Ilse Witch, character in several books of the '' Shannara series''

Other

249 Ilse Ilse (minor planet designation: 249 Ilse) is a Main belt asteroid. It has an unusually slow rotation period, about 3.5 days. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on August 16, 1885, in Clinton, New York and was named after Ilse, a legendary G ...

, an asteroid named for the legendary German princess of the Harz Mountains * ''Aechmea'' 'Ilse', a plant