Lizzie

This article is about the given name. For the 1957 film, see Lizzie (film). For the lake, see Lake Lizzie.

Lizzie or Lizzy is a nickname for Elizabeth and Elisabet, often given as an independent name in the United States, especially in the late 19th century.

People

• Elizabeth Sewall Alcott (1835-1858), real-life model for the character Beth March in the novel Little Women
• Marie Elisabeth Lizzy Ansingh (1875-1959), Dutch painter
• Elizabeth Mary Lizzie Armitstead (born 1988), world champion British track and road racing cyclist
• Lizzy Bardsley (born 1973), English media and television personality
• Elizabeth Bolden (1890–2006), world's oldest person at the time of her death
• Lizzie Borden (1860–1927), tried and acquitted for the notorious murder of her parents
• Elizabeth Anne Lizzy Caplan (born 1982), American actress
• Lizzy Clark (born 1994), English actress
• Lizzie Compton (1847-?), woman who disguised herself as man in order to fight for the Union in the American Civil War
• Elisabeth Carolina Lizzy van Dorp (1872–1945), Dutch lawyer, economist, politician and feminist
• Lizzie Evans (1864 or 1865-?), American vaudeville and musical theatre entertainer
• Margaret Elizabeth Lizzie Crozier French (1851–1926), American educator, women's suffragist and social reform activist
• Lizzy Gardiner (born 1966), Australian Academy Award-winning costume designer
• Elizabeth Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes, English television presenter
• Lizzie Grubman (born 1971), American publicist
• Lizzie Hopley, British actress and writer
• Elizabeth Jane Lizzy Igasan (born 1982), field hockey defender from New Zealand
• Lizzie Lloyd King (born 1847), American alleged murderer deemed mentally unfit to stand trial
• Emilie Augusta Louise Lizzy Lind af Hageby (1878-1963), Swedish feminist and animal rights advocate
• Elizabeth Lizzy Lovette, Australian radio presenter and TV presenter
• Lizzie Lloyd King (1847-?), American alleged murderer
• Elizabeth Magie (1866–1948), inventor of a predecessor of the game of Monopoly
• Elizabeth Lizzie Mickery, British writer and former actress
• Martine-Elizabeth Lizzy Mercier Descloux (1956–2004), French singer and musician, writer and painter
• Lizzy Pattinson, English singer and songwriter
• Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862), English artists' model, poet and artist
• Lizzie Caswall Smith (1870–1958), British photographer
• Lizzie Webb, often known as Mad Lizzie, English television presenter of exercise routines
• Lizzie West (born 1973), American singer/songwriter
• Lizy (actress) or Lizzy, popular Indian actress and wife of director Priyadarsan
• Lizzy (South Korean singer), a member of popular South Korean girl group After School
• Lizzie Arlington, alias of Elizabeth Stroud, regarded by many historians as the first female to play organized baseball in the 19th century
• Lizzie Grey, stage name of Stephen Perry, American rock guitarist
• Lizzie Miles (1895–1963), stage name of Elizabeth Mary Landreaux (1895–1963), African American blues singer

Fictional characters

• Elizabeth Bennet, from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, often called Lizzy by her friends and family
• Lizzie Devine, a character in Codename: Kids Next Door
• Lizzie Griffiths, a nine-year-old girl from the movie Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
• Lizzie Lakely, a fictional character from the British ITV1 soap opera Emmerdale
• Lizzie McGuire, a Disney Channel television series, and its title character, Lizzie McGuire (character)
• Lizzie Ramesy, a pirate from the video game Age of Empires III
• Lizzie Spaulding, a fictional character on the CBS daytime soap opera Guiding Light
• the title character of the 2000 children's novel Lizzie Zipmouth
• Lizzy (South Park)
• Lizzy, a character in the Midway arcade series Rampage
  • See also the fictional female car named Lizzie

Fossil

• Westlothiana or Lizzie the Lizard, a fossil discovered in Bathgate, West Lothian

See also

• Thin Lizzy