•
Eli Abaev (born 1998), American-Israeli basketball player •
Eli Abarbanel (; born 1976), Israeli footballer •
Eli Abbott (1869–1943), American football player and football and baseball coach •
Eli Alaluf (1945–2026), Israeli politician •
Eli B. Ames (1820–1898), mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota •
Eli Amir ( born 1937), Israeli writer and peace activist •
Eli Arenson (born 1988), Israeli cinematographer •
Eli Arnstad (born 1962), Norwegian civil servant and politician •
Eli Bebout (born 1946), Wyoming politician •
Eli Beeding (1928–2013), US Air Force captain and rocket test subject •
Eli Biham (, born 1960), Israeli cryptographer •
Eli M. Black (Elihu) (1921–1975), American businessman •
Eli Whitney Blake (1795–1886), American inventor •
Eli Whitney Blake Jr. (1836–1895), American scientist •
Eli Bouchard (born 2007), Canadian snowboarder •
Eli Broad (1933–2021), American billionaire, philanthropist, art collector •
Eli Metcalfe Bruce (1828–1866), philanthropist, financier and politician from Kentucky •
Eli Franklin Burton (1879–1948), Canadian physicist •
Eli Bush (fl. 2000s–2020s), American film and theatre producer •
Eli Cohen (disambiguation), multiple people •
Eli Cox (born 2000), American football player •
Eli Dasa (born 1992), Israeli footballer for
Dynamo Moscow and the
Israel national team •
Eli Dershwitz (born 1995), 2023 World Saber Champion, 2015 Under-20 World Saber Champion, U.S. Olympic saber fencer •
Eli Erlick (born 1995), American activist •
Eli Fischer-Jørgensen (1911–2010), Danish professor and member of the Danish resistance movement •
Eli Giannini (born 1956), female Australian architect and director of MGS Architects in Melbourne •
Eli Gorenstein (born 1952), Israeli actor, voice actor, singer and cellist •
Eli Heckscher (1879–1952), Swedish economist •
Eli Heidenreich (born 2003), American football player •
Eli Frank Hollingsworth (1892–1964), justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri •
Eli Huston (Houston, in some sources; c. 1799–1835), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi •
Eli Jones Henkle (1825–1893), U.S. Congressman from Maryland •
Eli Holstein (born 2004), American football player •
Eli Hurvitz (Elihu, 1932–2011), Israeli industrialist •
Eli H. Janney (1831–1912), engineer, Confederate soldier •
Eli King (footballer) (born 2002), Welsh footballer •
Eli C. King (fl. 1820s), American politician who was the third mayor of Columbus, Ohio •
Eli Kristiansen (born 1933), Norwegian politician •
Eli Lancman (1936–2024), Israeli historian •
Eli Langer (born 1967), Canadian artist •
Eli Lilly (1838–1898), American soldier, pharmaceutical chemist, and industrialist, founder of Eli Lilly and Company •
Eli Lilly (industrialist) (1885–1977), American industrialist, grandson of the Colonel •
Eli Long (1837–1903), General in the Union Army in the American Civil War •
Eli Lotar (originally
Eliazar Lotar Theodorescu; 1905–1969), French and Romanian photographer and cinematographer •
Eli Manning (Elisha) (born 1981), American football player, 2-time super bowl MVP •
Eli Mohar (1948–2006), Israeli songwriter and columnist •
Eli Morgan (born 1996), American baseball pitcher for the
Cleveland Indians •
Elie Munk (1900–1981), German-born French rabbi and rabbinic scholar •
Eli Noam (born 1946), professor at Columbia University •
Eli M. Oboler (1915–1983), librarian, Idaho State University and writer •
Eli Ohana (, born 1964), Israeli football player and coach •
Eli Pancol (born 2000), American football player •
Eli Pemberton (born 1997), American basketball player in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League •
Eli Raridon (born 2004), American football player •
Eli "Paperboy" Reed (born 1983), American singer and songwriter •
Eli Thomas Reich (1913–1999), US vice admiral •
Eli Ricks (born 2001), American football player •
Eli Roth (born 1972), American film director •
Eli Rygg (born 1955), Norwegian television personality •
Eli Skolmen Ryg (born 1936), Norwegian television producer •
Eli Salzberger (born 1960), Israeli legal scholar •
Eli Saulsbury (1817–1893), U.S. Senator from Delaware •
Eli Schenkel (born 1992), Canadian Olympic fencer •
Eli Sherbatov (born 1991), Canadian-Israeli ice hockey player •
Eli C. D. Shortridge (1830–1908), Governor of North Dakota •
Eli Siegel (1902–1978), Latvian-American poet, critic and philosopher •
Eli Snyman (born 1996), Zimbabwe-born South African rugby union player •
Eli Sollied Øveraas (born 1949), Norwegian politician •
Eli Soriano (1947–2021), televangelist from the Philippines •
Eli Stefansky (born 1972), American-Israeli lecturer •
Eli Stowers (born 2003), American football player •
Eli Todd Tappan (1824–1888), American educator, mathematician, author, lawyer and newspaper editor •
Eli Terry (1772–1852), inventor and clockmaker in Connecticut •
Eli Thayer (1819–1899), member of the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts •
Eli "Lucky" Thompson (1924–2005), American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist •
Eli Todd (1769–1833), pioneer in the treatment of the mentally ill in Connecticut •
Eli Velder (1925–2020), American academic •
Eli Walker (born 1992), Welsh rugby union player •
Eli Wallach (1915–2014), movie actor •
Eli L. Whiteley (1913–1986), American awarded the Medal of Honor •
Eli Whitney (1765–1825), American inventor of the cotton gin •
Elie Wiesel (אלי ויזל; Eliezer) (1928–2016), Romanian-born American human rights activist, Holocaust writer •
Eli Wolf (born 1997), American football player •
Elihu Yale (1649–1721), benefactor of Yale University, also known as "Eli Yale" •
Eli Yatzpan (born 1965), Israeli television host and comedian •
Eli Yishai (, Eliyahu, born 1962), Israeli politician •
Eli Zeira (, 1928–2025), Israeli general •
Eli Zuckerman (born 1973), Israeli Olympic competitive sailor
Fictional characters • Eli, on
Freaks and Geeks • Eli, from
Xena: Warrior Princess • Eli, the eponymous nomad from the 2009 film
The Book of Eli • Eli, in the Swedish novel
Let the Right One In and its
film adaptation •
Eli Ayase, from the anime
Love Live! • Eli Cash, in
The Royal Tenenbaums • Eli Clark, a survivor in the video game
Identity V •
Elijah "Eli" Dingle, on the British soap
Emmerdale • Eli Ever, in novels by
V.E. Schwab • Eli Gemstone, on
The Righteous Gemstones • Eli Gold, on
The Good Wife •
Eli James, a character from the
Ghost Whisperer • Eli, a character from the novel
Let The Right One In • Eli Loker, on
Lie to Me • Eli Mills, from the film
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom • Eli "Weevil" Navarro on
Veronica Mars • Eli Shane, in
Slugterra • Eli Stone, title character of the American show
Eli Stone • Eli Sunday, in
There Will Be Blood • Elias "Eli" Thompson, on the American television series
Boardwalk Empire • Eli Vance, in the
Half-Life video games • Eli Vanto, in the novel
Star Wars: Thrawn • Eli Wallace, on
Stargate Universe • Eli Watkins, in
Oil! • Eli, known as
Liquid Snake, from video game franchise
Metal Gear Solid ==Surname==