Elphinstone (surname)
Elphinstone is a Scottish surname. It is locational from the lands of Elphinstone in the parish of Tranent.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Elphinstone, 1st Lord Elphinstone, Scottish nobleman
- Alexander Elphinstone, 4th Lord Elphinstone, Scottish nobleman
- Alexander Elphinstone, 19th Lord Elphinstone, Scottish nobleman
- Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerino, Scottish nobleman and Jacobite army officer
- Augustus Elphinstone, Australian businessman
- Cecil Elphinstone, Australian businessman and politician
- Charles Elphinstone Fleeming , British admiral
- David Elphinstone, Australian architect
- Euphemia Elphinstone, mistress of King James V of Scotland
- George Elphinstone, Provost of Glasgow
- George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, British admiral
- Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, British literary correspondent and intellectual
- Howard Elphinstone, several people including
- * Sir Howard Craufurd Elphinstone VC, British Army general
- James Elphinstone, several people
- John Elphinstone, British naval officer
- John Elphinstone, 17th Lord Elphinstone, British nobleman and army officer
- Sir Lancelot Henry Elphinstone, English lawyer, Attorney-General of Ceylon
- Margaret Elphinstone, Scottish writer
- Mary Elphinstone, Lady Elphinstone, British noblewoman
- Mountstuart Elphinstone, Scottish statesman and historian, Lieutenant-Governor of Bombay in British India
- Robert Elphinstone, 3rd Lord Elphinstone, Scottish landowner
- Sidney Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone, Governor of the Bank of Scotland
- William Elphinstone, Scottish statesman, Bishop of Aberdeen and founder of the University of Aberdeen
- William George Keith Elphinstone, British general
- William Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone, Scottish politician