Elihu
Elihu may refer to:
People
- Elihu Burritt (1811–1879), American philanthropist, linguist, and social activist
- Elihú Chávez (1988), Mexican Environmental Engineer with Renewable Energies Master Degree (ITESM 2019). Safety professional and LGBT+ Activist.
- Elihu Embree (1782–1820), abolitionist and publisher of the first newspaper in the United States devoted exclusively to that cause
- Elihu Goodsell (1806–1880), American politician
- Elihu Harris (born 1947), mayor of Oakland, California, U.S.
- Elihu B. Hayes (1848–1903), American shoe manufacturer, newspaper owner, and politician
- Elihu Emory Jackson (1837–1907), governor of Maryland, U.S.
- Elihu Katz (born 1926), American and Israeli sociologist
- Elihu Lauterpacht (1928–2017), British academic and lawyer
- Elihu Spencer Miller (1817–1879), American Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Elihu Palmer (1764–1806), founder of the Deistical Society of New York
- Elihu Root (1845–1937), American statesman and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Elihu Thomson (1853–1937), engineer instrumental in the founding of electrical companies, and acting president of MIT in 1920
- Elihu Vedder (1836–1923), American painter, book illustrator, and poet
- Elihu B. Washburne (1816–1887), United States politician and a founder of Republican Party
- Elihu Pinson Watkins (1826–1868), American Confederate military officer, politician, and entrepreneur
- Elihu S. Williams (1835–1903), American farmer, lawyer, soldier, and politician
- Elihu Yale (1649–1721), benefactor of Yale University
Characters
- Judge Elihu Smails, co-founder of the Bushwood Country Club, in the film Caddyshack
- Elihu Willsson, a leading character in Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest
- Elihu Yale, the Atlanta Police Chief in Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full
- Elihu "Sam" Nivens, the protagonist in Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters
- Elihu Whipple, one of the two main characters in the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Shunned House"
Biblical figures
- A speaker who challenges Job in the Book of Job (Chapters 32–37)
- an Ephraimite and grandfather to Samuel, mentioned in the First Book of Samuel (1:1)
- a brother of David, king of Israel (1 Samuel 16:6)
- a chief of the Tribe of Manasseh (1 Chronicles 12:21)
- a Korahite (1 Chronicles 26:7)
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