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) Other Elihu (secret society), a senior society at Yale University Elihu Island