Lizzie or Lizzy is a diminutive form of Elizabeth, sometimes given as an independent name in the United States, especially in the late 19th century.
Lizzie can also be the shortened version of Lizeth, Lissette or Lizette.
Contents
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
Lizzie Arnot (born 1996), Scottish footballer
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
Lizzie Compton (1847–?), woman who disguised herself as a man in order to fight for the Union in the American Civil War
Lizzie Petit Cutler (1831–1902), writer
Elisabeth Carolina Lizzy van Dorp (1872–1945), Dutch lawyer, economist, politician and feminist
Lizzie May Elwyn, American playwright
Lizzie Evans (1864 or 1865 – ?), American vaudeville and musical theatre entertainer
Lizzie Fletcher (born 1975), American politician
Margaret Elizabeth Lizzie Crozier French (1851–1926), American educator, women's suffragist and social reform activist
Lizzy, former stage name of Park Soo-ah (born 1992), former member of Kpop girl group After School
Lizzy Gardiner (born 1966), Australian Academy Award-winning costume designer
Lizzy Greene (born 2003), American actress
Elizabeth Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes, English television presenter
Lizzie Grey, stage name of Stephen Perry, American rock guitarist
Lizzie Grubman (born 1971), American publicist
Lizzie George Henderson (1863–1937), American clubwoman and philanthropist
Lizzie Holmes (1850–1926), American anarchist, editor
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 Kiama, Kenyan disability rights activist
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 Shabalala, South African politician
Lizzie Caswall Smith (1870–1958), British photographer
Lizzie E. D. Thayer (1857–1923), first female train dispatcher in the US
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 Yu Der Ling (1885–1944), better known as Princess Der Ling, Chinese-American writer of several memoirs
Lizzie van Zyl (1894–1901), South African child inmate of the Bloemfontein concentration camp during the Second Boer War
Fictional characters
Elizabeth Bennet, from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, often called Lizzy by her friends and family
Lizzie, the title character of Lizzie McGuire, a Disney Channel television series
Lizzie, the title character of the 2000 children's novel Lizzie Zipmouth
Lizzie (Cars), a female car from the Disney Pixar animated film Cars and its two sequels
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
Lizzie McDonald, from the television series Life with Derek
Lizzie Ramesy, a pirate from the video game Age of Empires III
Lizzie Saltzman, a witch and one of the daughters of Alaric Saltzman from the TV series Legacies
Lizzie Samuels, a young psychotic girl from the TV series The Walking Dead
Lizzie Sparkes, a veterinarian and supporting character in the animated series Fireman Sam
Lizzie Spaulding, from the American soap opera Guiding Light
Other
Westlothiana or Lizzie the Lizard, a fossil discovered in Bathgate, West Lothian
Lizzie (mascot), mascot of the 2000 Paralympics
Lizzie (elephant), elephant used as draft animal during WW1
Lizzie (1957 film), film noir about woman with multiple personalities
Lizzie (2018 film), biographical thriller film based on Lizzie Borden
The Lizzie, informal name for the Elizabeth line, a railway line in London
