Lizzie

This article is about the given name. For other uses, see Lizzie (disambiguation).

Lizzie or Lizzy is a nickname for Elizabeth, Elisabet, Lizbeth, or Lisbeth 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
• Lizzie Arlington, alias of Elizabeth Stroud, regarded by many historians as the first female to play organized baseball in the 19th century
• Elizabeth Mary Lizzie Deignan (née 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 Grey, stage name of Stephen Perry, American rock guitarist
• Lizzie Grubman (born 1971), American publicist
• Lizzie Hopley, British actress and writer
• Lizzie Halliday (1859–1918), Irish-American serial killer
• 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
• Martine-Elizabeth Lizzy Mercier Descloux (1956–2004), French singer and musician, writer and painter
• Elizabeth Lizzie Mickery, British writer and former actress
• Lizzie Miles (1895–1963), stage name of Elizabeth Mary Landreaux, African American blues singer
• Lizzy Pattinson, English singer and songwriter
• Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862), English artists' model, poet and artist
• Lizzie Caswall Smith (1870–1958), British photographer
• Elizabeth Ann Lizzie Velásquez (born 1989), American motivational speaker, author, and YouTuber
• Lizzie Webb, often known as Mad Lizzie, English television presenter of exercise routines
• Lizzie West (born 1973), American singer/songwriter
• Lizzy Yarnold (born 1988), British skeleton racer
• Lizzie van Zyl (1894–1901), South African child inmate of the Bloemfontein concentration camp during the Second Boer War
• Lizzy (singer) (1992–), former stage name of Korean singer and actress.

Fictional characters

• Elizabeth Bennet, from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, often called Lizzy by her friends and family
• Lizzie Devine, in Codename: Kids Next Door
• Lizzie Griffiths, a nine-year-old girl from the movie Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
• Lizzie Hearts, the teenage daughter of the Queen of Hearts from the Mattel franchise Ever After High
• Lizzie Lakely, from the British soap opera Emmerdale
• the title character of Lizzie McGuire, a Disney Channel television series
• Lizzie Ramesy, a pirate from the video game Age of Empires III
• Lizzie Spaulding, from the American soap opera Guiding Light
• Lizzy Watson, the twin sister of Nicki Watson from the 2013 horror film Carrie
• The title character of the 2000 children's novel Lizzie Zipmouth
• Lizzy (South Park)
• Lizzie (Cars), a female car from the Disney Pixar animated film Cars and its two sequels
• Lizzy, from the Midway arcade game series Rampage

Other

• Westlothiana or Lizzie the Lizard, a fossil discovered in Bathgate, West Lothian
• Lizzie (mascot), mascot of the 2000 Paralympics

See also

• Liz