Elsie is a female name that comes from a shorter form of Elspeth, which is a Scottish version of Elizabeth. People have used Elsie as a name on its own in English-speaking countries since the 1800s. In recent years, the name has become more commonly used in these countries.

People

• Elsie Abbot (1907–1983), British civil servant
• Elsie Albert (born 1996), Papua New Guinean rugby league player
• Elsie Altmann-Loos (1899–1984), Austrian dancer
• Elsie Baker (1883–1971), American actress and singer
• Elsie Barge (1898–1962), American pianist
• Elsie Charles Basque (1916–2016), first Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia to earn a teacher's certificate
• Elsie Bertram (1912–2003), English bookseller
• Elsie Bowerman (1889–1973), British early female lawyer, suffragette, and Titanic survivor
• Elsie Bramell (1909–1985), Australian anthropologist
• Elsie Cameron Corbett (1893–1977), British volunteer ambulance driver in World War I
• Elsie Cassels (1864–1938), Scottish-born naturalist and Canadian ornithologist
• Essie B. Cheesborough (1826–1905), American writer
• Elsie Cohen (1895–1972), British entrepreneur
• Elsie Cook, secretary for the Scottish Women's Football Association
• Elsie Cameron Corbett (1893–1977), British suffragist, volunteer ambulance driver in World War I, and philanthropist
• Elsie Chamberlain (1910–1991), British minister
• Elsie Corlett (1902–1988), English golfer
• Elsie Dahlberg-Sundberg (1916–2005), Swedish sculptor
• Elsie Louisa Deacon (1897–1984), British railway draughtswoman
• Elsie Dohrmann (1875–1909), New Zealand scholar, teacher, and temperance campaigner
• Elsie Dubugras (1904–2006), Brazilian journalist
• Elsie Spicer Eells (1880–1963), American writer
• Elsie Ferguson (1883–1961), American stage and film actress
• Elsie Fisher (born 2003), American actor
• Elsie Fox (c. 1900–1992), screenwriter in the 1930s; married to American novelist and screenwriter Paul Hervey Fox
• Elsie Herbold Froeschner (1913–2006), American scientific illustrator
• Elsie Gabriel, Indian environmentalist
• Elsie Gibbons (1903–2003), Canadian politician
• Elsie Giorgi (1911–1998), American physician
• Elsie Gledstanes (1891–1982), British artist
• Elsie Griffin (1895–1989), English opera singer
• Elsie Hall (1877–1976), Australian-born South African classical pianist
• Elsie Heiss, Australian Indigenous elder and Catholic religious leader
• Elsie Higgon (1879–1969), English pharmacist
• Elsie Hodder (1886–1952), English actress and singer under the stage name Lily Elsie
• Elsie M. Hueffer (1876–1949), British translator
• Elsie Ao Ieong, Macau government minister
• Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), innovative Scottish doctor
• Elsie Janis (1889–1956), American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter
• Elsie Jury (1910–1993), Canadian archaeologist
• Elsie S. Kanza, Tanzanian economist and diplomat
• Elsie May Kittredge (1870–1954), American botanist
• Elsie Caroline Krummeck (1913–1999), American artist and industrial designer
• Elsie Lefebvre (born 1979), Quebec politician
• Elsie Lessa (1912–2000), American-Brazilian journalist and writer
• Elsie Leung, member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
• Elsie M. Lewis (1912–1992), first African American female historian
• Elsie Locke (1912–2001), New Zealand writer, historian, and activist in the feminist and peace movements
• Elsie Lyon, Canadian politician; see Cooperative Commonwealth Federation candidates, 1953 Manitoba provincial election#Elsie Lyon (Fisher)
• Elsie Mackay (c. 1893–1928), British actress, interior decorator, and pioneering aviator who died trying to fly across the Atlantic
• Elsie MacLeod, American actress

Fictional characters

• Elsie the Cow, a symbol used in advertisements for the Borden Company
• Elsie, a main character in the Fangs comic series by Sarah Andersen (2019–2020)
• Elsie, a supporting character in the video game Fields of Mistria
• Elsie, a main character in the Playhouse Disney animated television series Stanley
• Elsie Crimson, a supporting character from the manga and anime series Edens Zero
• Elsie Dinsmore, the main character in the Elsie Dinsmore series by Martha Finley
• Elsie Dyck, a character from the 2020 novel Once Removed by Andrew Unger
• Elsie Hooper, the main character in a black-and-white horror movie series with the same name, featured in the UMass Daily Collegian
• Elsie Hughes, the housekeeper in the television series Downton Abbey
• Elsie Hughes, played by Shannon Woodward in the television series Westworld
• Elsie Lappin, the first person to speak in the British soap opera Coronation Street in 1960
• Elsie Tanner, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street