What is "elza"

Elza may refer to:

• Elza (given name)

As a given name

• Elza Jeffords (1826–1885), U.S. Representative from Mississippi
• Elza Kephart, film director, producer, writer
• Elza Kolodin, pianist from Poland
• Elza Kungayeva, 18-year-old Chechen woman abducted, beaten, raped and murdered by a Russian Army Colonel
• Elza Leimane, Latvian ballet dancer
• Elza Maalouf (born 1965), Arab-American futurist and cultural development specialist
• Elza Medeiros (1921–2009), Brazilian Army officer and World War II veteran
• Elza Soares (born 1937), Brazilian samba singer
• Japanese name of the Character known as Zael in the Western release of the video game The Last Story

As a code name

• Elza, the codename of the Soviet spy Elizaveta Mukasei, active from the 1940s through the 1970s

As a place name

• Elza, Tennessee, community that existed before 1942 and is now part of the city of Oak Ridge

Elza is a Slavik and English name of Hebrew and German origins. It is also a derivation of Elizabeth, and a close variant of the names Elsa, Eliza and Aliza.