Eli (name)
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Eli is a common first name in Hebrew. [1]
People with this name include:
- Eli Biham, Israeli cryptogropher
- Eli M. Black, businessman
- Eli Brookim, Honorable King
- Eli Cohen, Israeli spy
- Eli Heckscher, Swedish academic
- Eli Hamilton Janney, engineer, confederate soldier
- Eli Lilly (industrialist), American industrialist
- Eli Manning, football player
- Eli Noam, professor at Columbia University
- Eli Ohana, football player
- Eli Todd, pioneer in the treatment of the mentally ill in Connecticut
- Eli Wallach, movie actor
- Eli Whitney, inventor
- Elie Wiesel, Human rights activist, Holocaust writer
- Eli Yishai, Israeli politician
Fictional characters with this given name are:
- Eli Vance, a fictional character in the video game Half-Life 2
- Eli Anatole Leonard, fictional character from the animated Robotech series
- Eli (Demonology 101), fictional character from the online comic Demonology 101
- Eli, the American version first name of the Cardcaptor Sakura character Eriol Hiiragizawa
- Eli, a fictional character on Children of The Corn: Boy Preachers
- Seaguard Eli, a fictional character from the video game Guild Wars
- Eli Sunday, a character from Paul Thomas Anderson's film There Will Be Blood, adapted from Upton Sinclair's book Oil!
- Eli Stone, a fictional character in the ABC show Eli Stone
- Eli, the Barrow Boy, fictional character from the Decemberists song of the same name.
[edit] References
- ^ However, there is a distinction between Eli spelled with an aleph א, which is a diminutive form of Eliahu (Elijah), Eliezer, etc. and Eli spelled with an 'ayin ע, which is the name of the high priest in the Books of Samuel (see List of Hebrew names). Elya, which is Yiddish for Elijah, is spelled with an ayin in the beginning and end of the name. In English it is pronounced /ˈiːlaɪ/, for example by Eli Whitney and Eli Yale.
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