Elfriede

Elfriede Trötschel (1913 – 1958) was a German operatic soprano. She was a versatile singer with a wide-ranging repertoire.

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors writing in German today and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". Next to Peter Handke and Botho Strauss she is considered to be the most important living playwright of the German language.

Elfriede Gerstl (1932 – 2009) was an Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. Gerstl, who was Jewish, was born in Vienna, where her father worked as a dentist.

Elfriede Geiringer was the name of Otto Frank's second wife, whom he married eight years after his first wife and daughters were killed. Thus she was the stepmother of Anne Frank.