Elsie Barge (October 12, 1898 – December 16, 1962) was an American pianist, music educator, and clubwoman.

Her grandfather James Madison Barge was a Confederate States Army veteran of the American Civil War.

[6] She studied piano with Theodor Bohlmann of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music,[7] and with Harold von Mickwitz and Rudolph Ganz in Chicago.

[8] Barge was a concert pianist and performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Eugène Ysaÿe.

[3] Elsie Barge married twice, first to Scottish-born Chicago press agent Gardner Frederick Wilson in 1925.