Elisha (given name)

Elisha is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible, the Quran, and Baha'i writings.

Other persons with the same given name include:

Actors

• Elisha Cook, Jr. (1903–1995), American actor
• Elisha Cuthbert (born 1982), Canadian actress
• Elisha Henig (born 2004), American actor

Businessmen

• Elisha S. Converse (1820–1904), American businessman
• Elisha Peck (1789–1851), American businessman
• Elisha Wiesel (born 1972), American chief information officer of Goldman Sachs; hedge fund manager of the Niche Plus; son of Elie Wiesel

Inventors

• Elisha Gray (1835–1901), American electrical engineer considered by some to be the true inventor of the telephone
• Elisha Otis (1811–1861), American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of an elevator safety device

Politicians and lawyers

• Elisha Hunt Allen (1804–1883), American congressman, lawyer and diplomat, and Chief Justice of the Kingdom of Hawaii Supreme Court and diplomat for the Kingdom of Hawaii
• Elisha W. Baily (1821–1904), American politician and physician from Pennsylvania
• Elisha Baxter (1827-1899), tenth Governor of Arkansas
• Elisha Cooke, Sr. (1637–1715), physician, politician, and businessman, elected Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Elisha Cooke, Jr. (1678-1837), physician and politician from the Province of Massachusetts Bay; son of the above
• Elisha Dyer (1811-1890), American politician and 25th Governor of Rhode Island
• Elisha Dyer, Jr. (1839–1906), American politician and 45th Governor of Rhode Island; son of the above
• Elisha P. Ferry (1825–1895), twice Governor of the Washington Territory and the first Governor of the State of Washington
• Elisha Harris (1791-1861), 20th Governor of Rhode Island
• Elisha Lewis (died 1867), American politician
• Elisha Litchfield (1785-1859), American merchant and member of the US House of Representatives from New York
• Elisha Mathewson (1767–1853), US Senator from Rhode Island
• Elisha Payne (1731-1807), American businessman and politician
• Elisha McCallion (born 1982), Irish female Sinn Féin politician
• Elisha Marshall Pease (1812–1883), fifth and thirteenth Governor of Texas
• Elisha Reynolds Potter (1764–1835), Federalist Party US Congressman and Speaker in the Rhode Island State Assembly
• Elisha R. Potter (1811–1882), justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and member of the US House of Representatives; son of the above
• Elisha Williams (1694–1755), Congregational minister, legislator, jurist and rector of Yale College

Sportsmen

• Eli Manning (born 1981), American former National Football League quarterback
• Elisha N'Dow (born 1996), English professional footballer
• Elisha Obed (1952–2018), Bahamian light middleweight boxer
• Elisha Scott (1893–1959), Irish association football goalkeeper

Other

• Elisha ben Abuyah (before 70–?), Jewish rabbi and religious authority
• Elisha (Nestorian patriarch), patriarch of the Church of the East from 524 to 537
• Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857), American explorer and medical officer

See also

• Elishah, a person in the biblical book of Genesis
• Elisa (given name)