Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

Eliezer Ben-Rafael is an Israeli sociologist. He is Weinberg Professor of Sociology, emeritus, at Tel Aviv University.

Eliezer Berkovits, was a rabbi, theologian, and educator in the tradition of Orthodox Judaism.

Eliezer Cohen is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu and the National Union between 1999 and 2006.

Eliezer Greenberg was a Bessarabian-born Jewish-American Yiddish poet and literary critic.

Eliezer Schweid was an Israeli scholar, writer and Professor of Jewish Philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was also a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Eliezer Shulman was a biblical scholar and historian. He wrote in Hebrew.

Eliezer Steinman was a Russian-born Israeli writer, journalist and editor.

Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist. She is the author of three books: a memoir, The Possessed, and the novels The Idiot, which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Either/Or. Batuman is a staff writer for The New Yorker.

Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist and activist.