Liza is the English diminutive of Elizabeth — from the Hebrew *Elisheba* ("my God is my oath"). **A top-300 US baby name from 1962 to 1979**. **Liza Minnelli (born 1946)** — **American actress and singer; **EGOT recipient (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) — one of only 21 people ever to achieve this status**; Academy Award for Best Actress for *Cabaret* (1972), in which she played Sally Bowles; Tony for *Flora the Red Menace* (1965) at age 19 — the youngest Tony winner at the time. **Daughter of Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli — Hollywood royalty by birth**. **Liza Koshy (born 1996)** — American actress and YouTube personality; 17M YouTube subscribers. **Liza with a Z** — her 1972 NBC TV special won four Emmys. **Eliza Doolittle** is the *My Fair Lady* heroine — covered separately as Eliza.
Subject of countless musical theater retrospectives.
Liza reduces to two — the number of EGOT.