Famous People with Name Elisha

Elisha Ann Cuthbert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elisha Ann Cuthbert: is a Canadian actress. Cuthbert is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series Popular Mechanics for Kids, and for her role as Kim Bauer in the American action-thriller television series 24. She had her first lead role in the 2004 feature film The Girl Next Door. She has had starring roles in the 2005 House of Wax and the 2007 horror film Captivity.

Elisha Vanslyck Cook Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elisha Vanslyck Cook Jr: was an American actor who made a career out of playing cowardly villains and neurotics, earning him the nickname "Hollywood's lightest heavy". and then became a Broadway actor.In 1936, he settled in Hollywood and, after playing a series of college-aged parts, began a long stint playing weaklings or sadistic losers and hoods. His acting career spanned over sixty years. Cook's characters usually ended up being killed off (strangled, poisoned or shot); he was arguably Hollywood's most notable fall guy for many years. He made a rare appearance in slapstick comedy in the cameo role of The Screenwriter (another of Cook's shy anti-heroes) in Hellzapoppin', 1941. In Universal's Phantom Lady, he portrays a slimy, intoxicated nightclub-orchestra drummer. Other notable roles include Wilmer the "gunsel" in The Maltese Falcon (1941), "pug ugly" Marty Waterman in Born to Kill, Harry Jones in The Big Sleep (1946), Torrey in Shane (1953), and George Peatty, the hen-pecked husband to Marie Windsor, in Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).

Elisha Archibald Manning III            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elisha Archibald Manning III: is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. He is the father of current Indianapolis Colts starting quarterback Peyton Manning, current New York Giants starting quarterback Eli Manning, and former Ole Miss receiver, Cooper Manning.

Elisha Warfield, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elisha Warfield, Jr.: was an American physician and a Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder whom Thoroughbred Heritage calls "one of the most important early figures in Kentucky racing and breeding."

Elisha Embree            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elisha Embree: was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Embree was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1848 to the Thirty-first Congress. He resumed the practice of law and also in