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'''Élie''' is the French equivalent of "[[Elie (given name)|Elie]]", "Elias" or "Elijah."<ref>''The Complete Baby Name Book'' 1989 Page 92  "It was revived in the seventeenth century by the Puritans, and is still used, especially by religious Protestant families. Famous name: Elie Wiesel (novelist) Variations include Elia (Italian), Elias (English), Élie (French), ..."</ref> Related spellings include [[Elia (disambiguation)|Elia]], [[Elias]], [[Élias]], [[Hélie]] and [[Hélias]].
People with the given name include:
* [[Élie, duc Decazes]] (1780–1860), French politician
* [[Élie Aboud]] (born 1959), Lebanese-French politician
* [[Élie Allégret]] (1865–1940), French Protestant pastor and missionary
* [[Élie Barnavi]] (born 1946), Israeli ambassador to France between 2000 and 2002
* [[Élie Baup]] (1955) French football manager and former goalkeeper
* [[Élie Bayol]] (1914–1995), French racing driver
* [[Élie Benoist]] (1640–1728), French Protestant minister and historian of the Edict of Nantes
* [[Élie Berthet]] (1815–1891), French novelist
* [[Élie Bertrand]] (1713–1797), Swiss French geologist
* [[Élie Bloncourt]] (1896–1978), Guadeloupe-born French politician
* [[Élie Bouhéreau]] (1643–1719), French Huguenot refugee in Ireland and the first librarian of Marsh's Library
* [[Élie Brousse]] (1921–2019), French rugby league footballer
* [[Élie Cartan]] (1869–1951), French mathematician
* [[Élie Castor]] (1943–1996), French Guiana politician
* [[Élie Chouraqui]] (1950) French film director
* [[Élie Cohen (conductor)]] ({{fl.|1920–1940}}), French conductor
* [[Élie Diodati]] (1576–1661), Swiss French jurist
* [[Élie Dohin]] (born 1983), French footballer
* [[Élie Domota]] (born 1963), trade union leader from Guadeloupe
* [[Élie Doté]] (born 1948), Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 2005 to 2008
* [[Élie Dupuis]] (1994), Canadian actor
* [[Élie Ducommun]] (1833-1906), Swiss activist awarded the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize
* [[Élie Ehua]] (born 1992), French footballer
* [[Élie Faure]] (1873–1937), French art historian
* [[Élie Frédéric Forey]] (1804–1872), Marshal of France
* [[Élie Catherine Fréron]] (1719–1776), French writer and controversialist
* [[Élie Fruchart]] (1922–2003), French footballer
* [[Élie Halévy]] (1870–1937), French historian
* [[Élie Halévy (Chalfan)]] (1760–1826), French Hebrew poet and author
* [[Élie Hoarau]] (born 1938), politician in Réunion
* [[Élie Kakou]] (1960–1999), Tunisian-French actor and standup comedian born Alain Kakou
* [[Élie Lacerte]] (1821–1898), Québécois/Canadian physician and politician
* [[Élie Lacoste]] (1745–1806), French politician during the French Revolution
* [[Élie Lellouche]] (born 1952), French horse trainer
* [[Élie Lescot]] (1883–1974), President of Haiti from 1941 to 1946
* [[Élie Mailloux]] (1830–1893) Québécois/Canadian politician
* [[Élie Metchnikoff]] (1845–1916), Russian biologist
* [[Élie Reclus]] (1827–1904), French anarchist and ethnographer
* [[Élie de Rothschild]] (1917–2007), French banker
* [[Élie Saint-Hilaire]] (1839–1888), Québécois/Canadian politician
* [[Élie Semoun]] (born 1963), French comedian
* [[Élie Vinet]] (1509–1587), French Renaissance humanist
* [[Élie Wollman]] (1917–2008), French geneticist
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