Elvira

Elvira
	Elvira Menéndez, wife of Alfonso V
Gender	Female
Other gender
Masculine	Elvir
Origin
Meaning	Happy, spear, truth
Region of origin	Europe
Other names
Variant form(s)	Alvira

Elvira is a female given name. It is believed to have first been recorded in medieval Spain, while other sources claim that it is likely of Germanic (Gothic) origin.

In the Balkans, Elvira is popular among Bosniaks, Croats, and Slovenes in the former Yugoslav nations. It is also popular among Albanians. The name is also written as Alvira in the region. The region also has a male equivalent to the name: Elvir (for example, Elvir Hadžić).

People

Nobility

Elvira Menéndez (died 921), daughter of Hermenegildo Gutiérrez and wife of Ordoño II of León
Elvira of Castile, Queen of León (965–1017)
Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily (c. 1100–1135), wife of Roger II, King of Sicily
Elvira of Castile, Countess of Toulouse (before 1082?-1151)
Elvira of Toro (1038/9–1101), daughter of King Ferdinand I of León
Elvira Menéndez (died 1022), Queen of León (1008–1022), wife of Alfonso V of León
Elvira Ramírez (c. 935–after 986), princess and regent of León

Arts and entertainment

Elvira Amazar (1890s-1971), Serbian-born Russian-American soprano singer and actress
Elvira Barney (1904-1936), English actress and socialite
Elvira Betrone (1881–1961), Italian actress
Elvira Casazza (1887–1965), Italian mezzo-soprano
Elvira Cristi (born 1976), Chilean actress and model
Elvira Dones (born 1960), Albanian novelist, screenwriter, and documentary film producer
Elvira Gascón (1911-2000), Spanish painter and engraver
Elvira Godeanu (1904–1991), Romanian stage actress
Elvira de Hidalgo (1891-1980), Spanish coloratura soprano and teacher of Maria Callas
Elvira Kralj (1900-1978), Slovenian actress
Elvira Kurt (born 1961), Canadian comedian
Elvira Madigan (1867-1889), Danish tightrope walker and trick rider
Elvira Natali (born 1996), Indonesian actress and author
Elvira Navarro (born 1978), Spanish writer
Elvira Nikolaisen (born 1980), Norwegian singer-songwriter
Elvira Notari (1875-1946), Italian filmmaker
Elvira Pagã (1920-2003), Brazilian actress and singer
Elvira Popescu (1894-1993), Romanian-born French actress and director
Elvira Quintana (1935–1968), Spanish-born Mexican actress and singer
Elvira Rahić (born 1973), Bosnian pop-folk singer
Elvira Ríos (1913-1987), Mexican actress and singer
Elvira T (born 1994), Russian pop singer
Elvira Travesí (1919-2009) was a Peruvian-born Argentinean actress
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, stage name of Cassandra Peterson (born 1951)
Elvire de Brissac (born 1939), French novelist and biographer
Elvire Murail (born 1958), French author and screenwriter

Politicians

Elvira Abdić-Jelenović (born 1967), Bosnian politician
Elvira Aitkulova (born 1973), Russian politician
Elvira Badaracco (1911-1994), Italian politician
Elvira Pola Figueroa (born 1957), Mexican politician
Elvira Kovács (born 1982), Serbian politician
Elvira Olivas (born 1935), Mexican politician
Elvira "Pixie" Palladino (1932-2006), American politician
Elvira Rodríguez (born 1949), Spanish politician and economist
Elvira Rodríguez Leonardi, Argentine politician
Maria Elvira Salazar (born 1961), American journalist and broadcast television anchor, U.S. Representative from Florida.

Sports

Elvira Guerra (1855–1937), Italian equestrienne
Elvira Herman (born 1997), Belarusian sprinter
Elvira Holzknecht (born 1973), Austrian retired luger
Elvira Khasyanova (born 1981), Russian synchronized swimmer
Elvira Öberg (born 1999), Swedish biathlete
Elvīra Ozoliņa (born 1939), Latvian and former Soviet javelin thrower
Elvira Pančić (born 1980), Serbian sprinter
Elvira Possekel (born 1953), German athlete
Elvira Saadi (born 1952), retired artistic gymnast from the former Soviet Union
Elvira Shatayeva, Russian professional mountain climber
Elvira Stinissen (born 1979), Dutch Paralympic sitting volleyball player
Elvira Todua (born 1986), Abkhazian Russian football goalkeeper
Elvira Urusova (born 1968), Georgian athlete
Elvira Vasilkova (born 1962), Belarusian former swimmer
Elvira Ziyastinova (born 1991), Russian footballer
Elvire Gertosio (born 1948), French gymnast
Elvire Teza (born 1981), French gymnast

Other

Elvira Arellano (born 1975), Mexican international activist, undocumented immigrant to the US and cause célèbre
Elvira Chaudoir, Peruvian socialite and a double-agent during the Second World War
Elvira Cuevas, Puerto Rican ecologist
Elvira Devinamira, Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder
Elvira Dolinar (1870–1961), Slovenian writer, feminist and teacher
Elvira Fölzer (1868–after 1928), German archaeologist
Elvira Lindo (born 1962), Spanish journalist and writer
Elvira Lobato, Brazilian journalist
Elvira Tânia Lopes Martins (1957–2021), Brazilian poet
Elvira Nabiullina (born 1963), head of the Central Bank of Russia
Elvira Notari (1875–1946), Italian filmmaker
Elvira Willman (1875–1925), Finnish playwright, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Elvira Wood (1865–1928), American paleontologist who specialized in vertebrate paleontology

Fictional characters

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, portrayed by Cassandra Peterson in television and film
Elvira Coot (Grandma Duck), 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

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