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Lizzie or Lizzy is a nickname for Elizabeth, Elisabet, Lisbeth, or Lizbeth 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.

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