Elihu is a masculine given name. Bearers of the name include:

People

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  • Elihu Abrahams (1927–2018), American theoretical physicist
  • Elihu Anthony (1818–1905), American alcalde, blacksmith, industrialist, abolitionist
  • Elihu Burritt (1811–1879), American philanthropist, linguist, and social activist
  • Elihu Doty (1809–1864), American missionary to China
  • Elihu Embree (1782–1820), American 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, United States
  • Elihu B. Hayes (1848–1903), American shoe manufacturer, newspaper owner, and politician
  • Elihu Emory Jackson (1837–1907), American businessman and politician, 41st governor of Maryland, United States
  • Elihu Katz (1926–2021), American-Israeli sociologist
  • Elihu Lauterpacht (1928–2017), British academic and lawyer
  • Elihu H. Mason (1831–1896), Union Army soldier in the American Civil War awarded the Medal of Honor for his part in the Great Locomotive Chase
  • E. 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 Phillips (1800–1884), American businessman, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer
  • Elihu Roberts (1897–1975), American Negro league baseball outfielder
  • Elihu Root (1845–1937), American statesman and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
  • Elihu Thomson (1853–1937), English-born American engineer and inventor instrumental in the founding of electrical companies
  • Elihu Vedder (1836–1923), American painter, book illustrator, and poet
  • Elihu B. Washburne (1816–1887), American politician and a founder of Republican Party
  • Elihu S. Williams (1835–1903), American farmer, lawyer, soldier, and politician
  • Elihu Yale (1649–1721), British-American colonial administrator and philanthropist, benefactor of Yale University

Biblical figures

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Fictional characters

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  • 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"