Eloise

Eloise Bridgerton in the series Bridgerton.

In what is now known as Westland, Michigan (firstly known as Nankin Township), a poor house would open in 1839. The surrounding land around the poorhouse would soon house many other amenities and buildings, such as school houses, a fire department, a mental asylum, a hospital, a sanatorium, and a post office. The post office (and, by extension, the whole complex) would be named "Eloise" in the 1890s after the daughter of Detroit's postmaster General, Eloise Dickerson Davock. (She, herself would die in 1982). The complex was the site of many pioneering medical technology, including early use of x-rays and music therapy. The complex shut down completely in 1984 and what is left is now used for historical tours and a haunted house around Halloween. A sub-par horror movie from 2017 was filmed at the site and bears the name Eloise as well.

Eloise Midgen (Huffelpuff) is a Harry Potter character.

There's an inaccuracy in the description of this name (very rare for Behind the Name). Heloise du Paraclet, the wife of Peter Abelard, is not actually canonized, nor does she tend to be called "Saint" Eloise. She was a significant proto-feminist scholar and philospher, but not known for her particular holiness or devotion to God. She may have been devout in her later life, but it's likely she joined the convent to recover her reputation from the three scandals of her marriage to Abelard - they only married after he got her pregnant; he was a controversial philosopher who at one point got excommunicated for heresy, though those charges were later lifted; and then there was the whole castration debacle. [noted -ed]

Eloise is the protagonist of the children's book series of the same name.

Eloise Mumford is an American actress known for her roles on the television series Lone Star, The River and the Fifty Shades of Grey films. Mumford, the middle child of parents Tom Mumford and Nancy Smith, was born and raised in Olympia, Washington, where she was home-schooled through fifth grade. She later attended the Annie Wright School in Tacoma, Washington, and Capital High School in Olympia. She has an older sister, Anna, and a younger brother, Kai. Mumford, inspired at age seven by a local production of South Pacific, performed in high-school plays and at Olympia's Capital Playhouse.

"Dear Eloise" is a song written and performed by the Hollies, released 1967.

Eloise Larkin, played by Shaye Cogan, is a princess captured by the Giant in Abbott & Costello's 1952 'Jack and the Beanstalk' film. She calls herself Darlene when pretending not to be a princess.

Eloise is the first name of Eloise Waggoner, the main character in "Kyrie," a 1968 short story by legendary science fiction writer Poul Anderson (1926-2001).

American actress/model Denise Richards adopted a baby girl in 2011 and named her Eloise.

Jennifer Aniston's character in "Love Happens" is named Eloise.

Eloise Hawking (played by Fionnula Flanagan, Alice Evans and Alexandra Krosney) is a character on the TV show "LOST". She is the former leader of the "Others", the mother of Daniel Faraday and is an essential part of the LOST mythos. Of all the leaders of the Others, Eloise is by far the most sympathetic.

Actors Jeffrey Nordling and Francia Dimase have a daughter Eloise Nordling, born 1996.

Eloise Greenfield is a poet.

Eloise Olivia Katherine Taylor is the third child and eldest daughter of Lady Helen (née Windsor) Taylor and Timothy Taylor and granddaughter to the Duke and Duchess of Kent.

Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau is the daughter of prince Constantijn and princess Laurentien of Orange-Nassau (the Netherlands). She is at the moment 5th in the line for the Dutch throne.

Eloise is the main character in Kay Thompson's "Eloise" books.