Elvira
Elvira is a female given name. First recorded in medieval Spain, it is likely of Germanic origin.
Elvira may refer to:People
Nobility
- Elvira Menéndez, daughter of Hermenegildo Gutiérrez and wife of Ordoño II of León
- Elvira of Castile, Queen of León
- Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily, wife of Roger II, King of Sicily
- Elvira of Castile, Countess of Toulouse
- Elvira of Toro, daughter of King Ferdinand I of León
- Elvira of Castile, Countess of Toulouse, daughter of Alfonso VI of León
- Elvira Menéndez, Queen of León, wife of Alfonso V of León
- Elvira Ramírez, princess and regent of León
Arts and entertainment
- Elvira Casazza, Italian mezzo-soprano
- Elvira Gascón, Spanish painter and engraver
- Elvira de Hidalgo, Spanish coloratura soprano and teacher of Maria Callas
- Elvira Kralj, Slovenian actress
- Elvira Kurt, Canadian comedian
- Elvira Madigan, Danish tightrope walker and trick rider
- Elvira Navarro, Spanish writer
- Elvira Godeanu, Romanian stage actress
- Elvira Nikolaisen, Norwegian singer-songwriter
- Elvira Notari, Italian filmmaker
- Elvira Popescu, Romanian-born French actress and director
- Elvira Rahić, Bosnian pop-folk singer
- Elvira Quintana, Spanish-born Mexican actress and singer
- Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, stage name of Cassandra Peterson
- Elvira T, Russian pop singer.
- Elvira Cristi, Chilean actress and model
- Elvira Ríos, Mexican actress and singer
- Elvira Barney, English actress and socialite
- Elvira Natali born 1996), Indonesian actress and author
- Elvira Betrone, Italian actress
Politicians
- Elvira Kovač, Serbian politician
- Elvira Badaracco, Italian politician
- Elvira Olivas, Mexican politician
- Elvira Rodríguez, Spanish politician and economist
- Elvira Abdić-Jelenović, Bosnian politician
- Elvira Pola Figueroa, Mexican politician
- Elvira Rodríguez Leonardi, Argentine politician
- Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, American politician
Sports
- Elvira Guerra, Italian equestrienne
- Elvira Holzknecht, Austrian retired luger
- Elvira Khasyanova, Russian synchronized swimmer
- Elvīra Ozoliņa, Latvian and former Soviet javelin thrower
- Elvira Saadi, retired artistic gymnast from the former Soviet Union
- Elvira Todua, Abkhazian Russian football goalkeeper
- Elvira Vasilkova, Belarusian former swimmer
- Elvira Ziyastinova, Russian footballer
- Elvira Pančić, Serbian sprinter
Other
- Elvira Arellano, Mexican international activist who is an undocumented immigrant to the US and cause célèbre
- Elvira Cuevas, Puerto Rican ecologist
- Elvira Devinamira, Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder
- Elvira Fölzer, German archaeologist
- Elvira Lobato, Brazilian journalist
- Elvira Nabiullina, head of the Central Bank of Russia
- Elvira Dolinar, Slovenian writer, feminist and teacher
- Elvira Willman, Finnish playwright, journalist and revolutionary socialist
- Elvira Lindo, Spanish journalist and writer
- Elvira Notari, Italian filmmaker
Fictional characters
- Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, portrayed by Cassandra Peterson in television and film
- Elvira Coot, 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
