Our names have the potential to influence our behavior, physical appearance, career path and life choices, popularity, and how others perceive us. If a child has a story behind his name, it can motivate him to be like his namesake and to emulate that person’s good qualities.
Go through the list of popular personalities named Eli:
Eli Abaev (born 1998), American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Be’er Sheva in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Eli Bebout (born 1946), Wyoming politician
Eli Beeding (1928-2013), US Air Force captain and rocket test subject
Eli Whitney Blake (1795–1886), American inventor
Eli Whitney Blake Jr. (1836–1895), American scientist
Eli Broad (1933–2021), American billionaire, philanthropist, art collector
Eli Metcalfe Bruce (1828–1866), philanthropist, financier and politician from Kentucky
Eli Franklin Burton (1879–1948), Canadian physicist
Eli Giannini (born 1956), female Australian architect and director of MGS Architects in Melbourne
Eli Heckscher (1879–1952), Swedish economist
Eli Jones Henkle (1825–1893), U.S. Congressman from Maryland
Eli H. Janney (1831–1912), engineer, Confederate soldier
Eli Langer (born 1967), Canadian artist
Eli Lilly (1838–1898), American soldier, pharmaceutical chemist, and industrialist, founder of Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly (industrialist) (1885–1977), American industrialist, grandson of the Colonel
Eli Long (1837–1903), General in the Union Army in the American Civil War
Eli M. Oboler (1915–1983), librarian, Idaho State University and writer
Eli Mohar (1948–2006), Israeli songwriter and columnist
Eli Thomas Reich (1913–1999), US vice admiral
Eli Salzberger (born 1960), Israeli legal scholar
Eli M. Saulsbury (1817–1893), U.S. Senator from Delaware
Eli Schenkel (born 1992), Canadian Olympic fencer
Eli C. D. Shortridge (1830–1908), Governor of North Dakota
Eli Siegel (1902–1978), Latvian-American poet, critic and philosopher
Eli Snyman (born 1996), Zimbabwe-born South African rugby union player
Eli Soriano (1947-2021), televangelist from the Philippines
Eli Todd Tappan (1824–1888), American educator, mathematician, author, lawyer and newspaper editor
Eli Terry (1772–1852), inventor and clockmaker in Connecticut
Eli Thayer (1819–1899), member of the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts
Eli Todd (1769–1833), pioneer in the treatment of the mentally ill in Connecticut
Eli Velder (1925–2020), American academic
Eli Walker (born 1992), Welsh rugby union player
Eli L. Whiteley (1913–1986), American awarded the Medal of Honor
Eli Whitney (1765–1825), American inventor of the cotton gin
Eli Erlick (born 1995), American activist
Eli Cohen (disambiguation), multiple people
Eli Amir (אלי עמיר born 1937), Israeli writer and peace activist
Eli Biham (אלי ביהם, born 1960), Israeli cryptographer
Eli M. Black (Elihu) (1921–1975), American businessman
Eli Cohen (footballer, born 1951), Israeli soccer player and manager
Eli Dershwitz (born 1995), Under-20 World Saber Champion, U.S. Olympic saber fencer
Eli Gorenstein (born 1952), Israeli actor, voice actor, singer and cellist
Eli Hurvitz (Elihu, 1932-2011), Israeli industrialist
Eli Manning (Elisha) (born 1981), American football player, 2-time super bowl MVP
Eli Morgan (born 1996), American baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Indians
Elie Munk (1900–1981), German-born French rabbi and rabbinic scholar
Eli Noam (born 1946), professor at Columbia University
Eli Ohana (אלי אוחנה, born 1964), Israeli football player and coach
Eli Roth (born 1972), American film director
Eli Sherbatov (born 1991), Canadian-Israeli ice hockey player
Eli Wallach (1915–2014), movie actor
Elie Wiesel (אלי ויזל; Eliezer) (1928-2016), human rights activist, Holocaust writer
Elihu Yale (1649–1721), benefactor of Yale University, also known as “Eli Yale”
Eli Yatzpan (born 1965), Israeli television host and comedian
Eli Yishai (אליהו “אלי” ישי, Eliyahu, born 1962), Israeli politician
Eli Zuckerman (born 1973), Israeli Olympic competitive sailor
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