Elvira

For other uses, see Elvira (disambiguation).

Elvira

Origin
Region of origin	Spain

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

Elvira may refer to:

People

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