# Elaine (given name)

Elaine is a feminine given name, an Old French form of the name Helen used for a character in the 15th Century Arthurian romance Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory. However, the name Elaine was popularized in the Anglosphere by its use by Alfred, Lord Tennyson for a character in his 1859 Arthurian romance Idylls of the King. It has also been suggested that the name might actually be derived from a Welsh word meaning 'young deer'.
It may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

* Elaine (singer) (born 1999), South African singer
* Elaine Brown (born 1943), American singer, writer, and former Black Panther Party chairwoman
* Elaine Crombie, Australian actress
* Elaine Duran (born 1998), Filipino singer and actress
* Elaine Fifield (1930–1999), Australian ballerina
* Elaine Fine (born 1959), American musician and composer
* Elaine Goble (born 1956), Canadian visual artist
* Elaine M. Goodwin, British mosaic artist
* Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal (1920–2010), American artist
* Elaine Hendrix (born 1970), American actress
* Elaine May (born 1932), American film director, screenwriter and actress
* Elaine Mukheli (born 1999), South African singer
* Elaine Murphy (playwright), Irish playwright
* Elaine Paige (born 1948), English actress and singer
* Elaine Stritch (1925–2014), American actress
* Elaine Yiu (born 1980), Hong Kong actress

## Others

* Elaine Sweital Avner (1938-2017), American astronomer
* Elaine Brody (1922–2014), American gerontologist and sociologist
* Elaine Brown (born 1940), involved with a dispute with the US government
* Elaine Campione, Canadian woman who murdered her two children
* Elaine Chan, Hong Kong Olympic swimmer
* Elaine Chao (born 1953), United States Secretary of Labor
* Elaine Cheris (born 1946), American Olympic fencer
* Elaine Denniston (born 1939), American lawyer
* Elaine Esposito (1934–1978), American who had held the record for longest coma
* Elaine Gumbs-Vlaun (born 1944), St Maartener social worker and politician
* Elaine Ingham, American microbiologist and soil biology researcher
* Elaine Luria (born 1975), American politician
* Elaine E Moura (born 1982), Brazilian football (soccer) player
* Elaine Marshall (born 1945), American politician
* Elaine McCoy (born 1946), Canadian politician
* Elaine Murray (born 1954), British politician
* Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy (born 1947), British politician
* Elaine Nolan (born 1981), Irish cricketer
* Elaine Ron (1943–2010), American epidemiologist
* Elaine Thompson-Herah (born 1992), Jamaican sprinter

## Fictional characters

* Elaine, the Holy Maiden of the Fountain of Youth in the anime The Seven Deadly Sins
* Elaine (legend), several Arthurian-legend characters, including:
** Elaine of Astolat
** Elaine of Corbenic
* Elaine Belloc, a character in the Lucifer comic series
* Elaine Benes, Seinfeld character
* Elaine Howard, a character in the 1980 American disaster movie The Night the Bridge Fell Down
* Elaine Jarvis, EastEnders character
* Elaine Lefkowitz-Dallas, a character on the TV sitcom Soap
* Elaine Marley, Monkey Island character
* Elaine Miller, character in Almost Famous
* Elaine Nardo, Taxi character
* Elaine Peacock, EastEnders character
* Elaine Pownall, recurring character of the 2018–2019 show Siren
* Elaine Robinson, character in The Graduate
* Elain Archeron, character from the A Court of Thorns and Roses fantasy series by Sarah J. Maas