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 Anderfjärd (born 1999), Swedish music producer •
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 Petrozzi (1937–2023), Italian Roman Catholic nun •
Elvira Willman (1875–1925), Finnish playwright, journalist and revolutionary socialist •
Elvira Wood (1865–1928), American paleontologist who specialized in vertebrate paleontology ==Fictional characters==