Ellen is a female
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
, a diminutive of
Elizabeth
Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to:
People
* Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name)
* Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist
Ships
* HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships
* ''Elisabeth'' (sch ...
,
Eleanor
Eleanor () is a feminine given name, originally from an Old French adaptation of the Old Provençal name ''Aliénor''. It is the name of a number of women of royalty and nobility in western Europe during the High Middle Ages.
The name was introd ...
, Elena and
Helen
Helen may refer to:
People
* Helen of Troy, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in the world
* Helen (actress) (born 1938), Indian actress
* Helen (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
Places
* Helen, ...
. Ellen was the 609th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden in 2004.
People named Ellen include:
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Ellen Adarna
Ellen Meriam Go Adarna-Ramsay (born April 2, 1988) is a Filipino actress, model, and former internet celebrity. Her family owns various hotels, condominiums and Queensland, a chain of motels in Cebu, Manila and Davao. They also own a temple in ...
(born 1988), Filipino actress
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Ellen Alaküla
Ellen Alaküla (30 April 1927 – 15 January 2011) was an Estonian stage, radio, television, and film actress and theatre teacher whose career spanned over forty years.
Early life and education
Ellen Alaküla was born in Kohtla-Järve in Id ...
(1927–2011), Estonian actress
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Ellen Palmer Allerton
Ellen Palmer Allerton (October 17, 1835 – August 31, 1893) was an American poet whose inspiration probably came from her life on farms in rural New York State, New York, New York State, Wisconsin, and New York State, Kansas. She is best remembe ...
(1835–1893), American poet
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Ellen Allien
Ellen Fraatz, known professionally as Ellen Allien, is a German electronic musician, music producer, and the founder of BPitch Control music label. Her album ''Stadtkind'' was dedicated to the city of Berlin, and she cites the culture of reunif ...
(born 1969), German electronic musician and music producer
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Ellen Anckarsvärd
Anna Lovisa Eleonora "Ellen" Anckarsvärd née ''Nyström'' (10 December 1833 – 8 December 1898), was a Swedish women's rights activist. She was the co-founder and secretary of the Married Woman's Property Rights Association (1873), co-founder a ...
(1833-1898), Swedish feminist
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Ellen Andersen
Ellen Dorothea Johanna Andersen (1898–1989) was a Danish museum curator who specialized in folk costumes and the history of textiles. In 1929, she joined the Danish Folk Museum where she was the curator from 1936 to 1966. She is remembered for h ...
(1898–1989), Danish museum curator
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Ellen Anderson
Ellen Anderson (born November 25, 1959) is a Minnesota politician, and an advisor to former Governor of Minnesota, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton.
Anderson is a former member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 66, which includes th ...
(born 1959), American politician
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Ellen Auerbach
Ellen (Rosenberg) Auerbach (May 20, 1906 – July 30, 2004) was a German-born American photographer who is best remembered for her innovative artwork for the ringl+pit studio in Berlin during the Weimar Republic.
Early life
Auerbach (born Ell ...
(1906–2004), German-born American photographer
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Ellen Baake
Ellen Baake (born 1961) is a German mathematical biologist who works as a professor of biomathematics and theoretical bioinformatics at Bielefeld University. Her research uses probability theory and differential equations to study biological evolu ...
(born 1961), German mathematical biologist
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Ellen S. Baker
Ellen Louise Shulman Baker, M.D., M.P.H. (born April 27, 1953) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. Baker is a veteran of three shuttle flights and logged more than 686 hours in space. Baker served as Chief of the Education/M ...
(born 1953), American physician and astronaut
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Ellen Barkin
Ellen Rona Barkin (born April 16, 1954) is an American actress and a producer. Her breakthrough role was in the 1982 film '' Diner'', and in the following years, she had starring roles in films such as ''Tender Mercies'' (1983), ''Eddie and the ...
(born 1954), American actress
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Ellen Bass
Ellen Bass (born June 16, 1947) is an American poet and co-author of '' The Courage to Heal''.
Life
Bass grew up in Pleasantville, New Jersey, where her parents owned a liquor store. Her family later moved to Ventnor City, New Jersey. She attend ...
(born 1947), American poet and author
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Ellen A. Dayton Blair
Ellen A. Dayton Blair (December 27, 1837 – 1926) was an American social reformer and art teacher.
Early years and education
Ellen A. Dayton was born near Vernon Center, New York, December 27, 1827. Her parents were Erastus Dayton and
Adeline Lu ...
(1837–1926), social reformer and art teacher
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Ellen Bontje
Petronella Theodora Maria "Ellen" Bontje (born 11 June 1958 in Hilversum, North Holland) is an equestrian from The Netherlands, who won the silver medal in the Team Dressage Event at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. She did so alo ...
(born 1958), Dutch equestrian
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Ellen Burka
Ellen Burka (née Danby; August 11, 1921 – September 12, 2016) was a Canadian-Dutch figure skater and coach. She became Member of the Order of Canada in 1978 and was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
Personal life
Ellen ...
(1921–2016), Dutch and Canadian figure skater and coach
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Ellen Burrell
Ellen Louisa Burrell (June 12, 1850 – December 3, 1938) was an American mathematics professor, head of the Department of Pure Mathematics at Wellesley College from 1897 to 1916.
Early life
Burrell was born in Lockport, New York, the daughte ...
(1850-1938), American mathematics professor
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Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; December 7, 1932) is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complicated women in dramas, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two Primetime Em ...
(born 1932), American actress
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Ellen Carter
Ellen Carter (née Vavasour; 1762 – 22 September 1815) was an English artist and book illustrator.
Carter was the daughter of Walter Vavasour of Weston in Yorkshire, and Ellen, his wife, daughter of Edward Elmsall of Thornhill in the same coun ...
(1762–1815), English artist
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Ellen Cleghorne
Ellen Leslye Cleghorne is an American actress and comedian, best known as a cast member of ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1991 to 1995. Cleghorne was the sketch comedy show's second African-American female repertory cast member, succeeding Danitra ...
(born 1965), American comedian and actress
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Ellen Cobb
Ellen Cobb (born 14 December 1940) is a retired British judoka and a massage therapist.
Career
Cobb began her judo training around 1965. She competed successfully in both national and international judo competitions and primarily ran matches in ...
(born 1940), retired British judoka
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Ellen Corby
Ellen Hansen Corby (June 3, 1911 – April 14, 1999) was an American actress and screenwriter. She played the role of Esther "Grandma" Walton on the CBS television series ''The Waltons'', for which she won three Emmy Awards. She was also ...
(1911–1999), American actress
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Ellen Craft
Ellen Craft (1826–1891) and William Craft (September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900) were American fugitives who were born and enslaved in Macon, Georgia. They escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling by train and steamboat, arriving ...
(1826–1891), American fugitive slave and abolitionist
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Ellen Craswell
Ellen Craswell (May 25, 1932 – April 5, 2008) was an American politician who was a candidate in the 1996 Washington gubernatorial election. She ran as a Republican, but grew disillusioned with the party and later joined the American Heritage ...
(1932–2008), American politician
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Ellen Crocker
Ellen "Nelly" or "Nellie" Crocker (1872–1962) was a British suffragette, and a cousin of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence.
Life and activism
Ellen Crocker (known as Nelly or Nellie) was born in 1872 in Stogumber, Somerset. Her father was a doctor, a ...
(1872–1962), British suffragette
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Ellen ten Damme
Ellen ten Damme (born 7 October 1967) is a Dutch actress, performer, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Ten Damme both sings and acts in four languages (Dutch, English, French and German), and plays piano and keyboards, guitar and violin ...
(born 1967), Dutch actress and musician
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Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( ; born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. She starred in the sitcom ''Ellen'' from 1994 to 1998, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for " The Puppy Episode". Sh ...
(born 1958), American comedian, actress, and talk-show host
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Ellen van Dijk
Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012. Van Dijk is known as a time ...
(born 1987), Dutch road and track cyclist
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Ellen Dissanayake
Ellen Dissanayake (born Ellen Franzen), an American author and scholar focusing on "the anthropological exploration of art and culture". She lives in Seattle, Washington, and is affiliated with the University of Washington.
Biography
Dissanayake's ...
(born c.1935), American anthropologist and author
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Ellen Albertini Dow
Ellen Rose Albertini Dow (November 16, 1913 – May 4, 2015) was an American film and television character actress and drama coach. She portrayed feisty old ladies and is best known as the rapping grandmother Rosie in ''The Wedding Singer'' ( ...
(1913–2015), American actress and drama coach
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Ellen Elzerman
Ellen Louise Elzerman (born 22 January 1971 in Bussum, North Holland) is a former backstroke and freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she was eliminated ...
(born 1971), Dutch swimmer
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Ellen Russell Emerson (1837–1907), American author, ethnologist
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Ellen Estes
Ellen Marie Estes (born October 13, 1978 in Portland, Oregon) is an American water polo player, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She also won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Estes scored three goals dur ...
(born 1978), American water polo player
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Ellen Foley
Ellen Foley (born 1951) is an American singer and actress who has appeared on Broadway and television, where she co-starred in the sitcom ''Night Court'' for one season. In music, she has released five solo albums but is best known for her collab ...
(born 1951), American singer and actress
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Ellen Fries
Ellen Fries (23 September 1855 – 31 March 1900) was a Swedish feminist and writer. She became the first female Ph.D. in Sweden in 1883. She was also involved in founding several women's organizations.
Biography
She born in 1855 at Rödsleg ...
(1855–1900), Swedish feminist and writer, first woman to be awarded a PhD in Sweden
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Ellen Gallagher
Ellen Gallagher (born December 16, 1965) is an American artist. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is held in the permanent collections of many major museums. Her media include painting, works on paper, film and ...
(born 1965), American artist
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Ellen Geer
Ellen Ware Geer is an American actress, professor, and theatre director.
Personal life
Geer was born in New York City, the daughter of actors Herta Ware and Will Geer. Her father was best-known for playing Grandpa Zebulon "Zeb" Walton on ''The ...
(born 1941), American actress, acting teacher and theatre director
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Ellen Gilchrist
Ellen Gilchrist (born February 20, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She won a National Book Award for her 1984 collection of short stories, ''Victory Over Japan''.
Life
Gilchrist was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, a ...
(born 1935), American novelist, short story writer, and poet
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Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel ''In This Our Life''. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical ac ...
(1873–1975), American novelist
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Ellen Greene
Ellen Greene is an American actress and singer. She has had a long and varied career as a singer, particularly in cabaret, as an actress and singer in numerous stage productions, particularly musical theatre, as well as having performed in many ...
(born 1951), American singer and actress
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Ellen Day Hale
Ellen Day Hale (February 11, 1855February 11, 1940) was an American Impressionism, Impressionist painter and printmaker from Boston. She studied art in Paris and during her adult life lived in Paris, London and Boston. She exhibited at the Paris S ...
(1855–1940), American impressionist painter and printmake
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Ellen 't Hoen
Ellen F. M. 't Hoen (born 1960) is an international medical activist. She is an expert in medicines policy and intellectual property law and has been a consultant to a number of countries and international organisations. In 2005 and 2006 she was l ...
(born 1960), Dutch lawyer and Médecins sans Frontières director
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Ellen Hollman
Ellen Hollman (born April 1, 1983) is an American actress.
Biography
Hollman was born in Detroit, Michigan, the oldest of four siblings. She eventually moved to Troy, Michigan, and was an all-star track runner, holding the Michigan state recor ...
(born 1983), American actress
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Ellen Hogerwerf (born 1989), Dutch rower
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Ellen Hoog
Ellen Marijn Hoog (, born 26 March 1986) is a former Dutch field hockey player, who is regarded as one of the best Dutch hockey players of her generation.
Field hockey career
Ellen began playing field hockey at the age of seven and in 2002, age ...
(born 1986), Dutch field hockey player
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Ellen Horn
Ellen Horn (born Ellen Stoesen, 1 February 1951) is a Norwegian actress, theatre director, and politician for the Labour Party.Rossiné
Career
Horn started as a puppet actor at Oslo Nye Teater (1969–70), and was educated at the Teaterhøys ...
(born 1951), Norwegian actress, theater director, and politician
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Ellen Jansen (born 1992), Dutch footballer
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Ellen Jens
Ellen Jens is a Dutch television director and producer, best known for her collaboration with Wim T. Schippers on VPRO television. She has produced and directed a large number of other television shows, especially on literature and art, and is ref ...
(born 1941), Dutch television director and producer
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Ellen Johnson
Ellen Johnson (born 1955) is an American activist for the civil rights of atheists and for the separation of church and state in the United States. She served as the president of the organization American Atheists from 1995 to 2008.
Early life ...
(born 1955), American civil rights activist
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Ellen Kaarma
Ellen Kaarma (2 January 1928 – 4 July 1973) was an Estonian stage and film actress.
Early life and education
Ellen Kaarma was born in Tartu, the only child from the marriage of accountant Artur Kaarma and Elisabeth Kaarma (''née'' Kutsar ...
(1928–1973), Estonian actress
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Ellen Key
Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (; 11 December 1849 – 25 April 1926) was a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was ...
(1849–1926), Swedish feminist writer and suffragette
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Ellen Kooi
Ellen Kooi (born November 7, 1962, in Leeuwarden), is a Dutch artist and photographer, who lives and works in Haarlem, the Netherlands. She is perhaps best known for her scenographic, theatrical imagery merging landscapes and figures–in the trad ...
(born 1962), Dutch artist and photographer,
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Ellen Kuipers
Ellen Marchien Dubbeldam-Kuipers (born 8 April 1971 in Hattem, Gelderland) is a former field hockey forward from the Netherlands, who played a total number of 94 international matches for the Dutch National Women's Team, in which she scored 32 g ...
(born 1971), Dutch field hockey player
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Ellen J. Kullman
Ellen J. Kullman (born January 22, 1956) is a United States business executive. Since November 2019, she has been the chief executive officer of Carbon (company). She was formerly Chair and Chief Executive Officer of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and C ...
(born 1956), American business executive, CEO of DuPont
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Ellen Kuzwayo
Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo (29 June 1914 – 19 April 2006) was a women's rights activist and politician in South Africa, and was a teacher from 1938 to 1952. She was president of the African National Congress Youth League in the 1960s. In 19 ...
(1914–2006), South African women's rights activist and politician
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Ellen van Langen
Ellen Gezina Maria van Langen (born 9 February 1966) is a Dutch former middle distance runner, who specialised in the 800 metres. A talented but injury-ridden athlete, she was the 1992 Olympic Champion for the women's 800 meters. She is now ...
(born 1966), Dutch middle-distance runner
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Ellen Liiger
Ellen Liiger (26 June 1918 – 4 August 1987), was an Estonian stage, television, radio and film actress and theatre teacher. Her stage career began at age six and lasted until she died in 1987.
Early life and education
Ellen Liiger was born ...
(1918–1987), Estonian actress
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Ellen Lumpkin
Ellen Lumpkin is an American neuroscientist and professor of cell and developmental biology and neurobiology at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also co-director of the MBL Advanced Training C ...
, American neuroscientist
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Ellen MacArthur
Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur (born 8 July 1976) is a retired English sailor, from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, Isle of Wight.
MacArthur is a successful solo long-distance yachtswoman. On 7 February 2005, ...
(born 1976), British yachtswoman
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Ellen van Maris (born 1957), Dutch bodybuilder
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Ellen McIlwaine
Ellen McIlwaine (October 1, 1945 – June 23, 2021) was an American-born singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career as a solo singer, songwriter and slide guitarist.
Biography
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, McIlwa ...
(1945–2021), American musician
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Ellen McLain
Ellen McLain (born 1952/1953) is an American voice actress. She is best known for providing the voice of GLaDOS, the primary antagonist of the ''Portal'' video game series, the Combine Overwatch in ''Half-Life 2'', and the Administrator, the an ...
(born 1952), American voice actress
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Ellen Meijers
Ellen Meijers is a Dutch video game music composer who worked for such companies as Apple Inc., LucasArts, Oddworld Inhabitants and Crystal Dynamics.
Education
*The Royal College of Art, England 1994–1995 Master of Arts: Interactive Multi Medi ...
(born c.1971), Dutch video game music composer
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Ellen Muth
Ellen Muth (; born March 6, 1981) is an American former actress best known for her role as Georgia "George" Lass in Showtime's series ''Dead Like Me'' (2003–2004 series, 2009 film).
Early life
Muth was born in Milford, Connecticut, to Eric ...
(born 1981), American actress
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Ellen Torelle Nagler
Ellen Torelle Nagler (, Torelle; June 11, 1870 – August 14, 1965) was an American biologist, author, and lecturer. She originated a method of teaching science whereby her presentation of the subject followed a definite order of procedure; each o ...
(1870–1965), American biologist, author, lecturer
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Ellen Niit
Ellen Niit (born Ellen Hiob; Ellen Niit since 1958) (13 July 1928 – 30 May 2016) was an Estonian children's writer, poet and translator. Over her lifetime, she penned more than forty books of both prose and poetry for children. She also wrot ...
(1928–2016), Estonian children's writer, poet and translator
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(born 1951), Norwegian actress
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Ellen Nisbeth
Ellen Nisbeth (born 1987) is a Swedish violist. She performed on Britta Byström’s CD, “Invisible Cities” and on Ensemble Ernst’s CD, “...BUT...” As part of the European Concert Hall Organisation's "Rising Star" program, Nisbeth per ...
(born 1987), Swedish violist
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Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is an American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993, Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shu ...
(born 1958), American engineer and astronaut
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Ellen O'Doherty
Ellen O'Doherty (1894–1983), known by her religious name as Sister Mary Alphonsus, was an Australian religious who became the superior general of the Sisters of Charity of Australia. She was a skilled nurse and hospital administrator, and wo ...
(1894–1983), Australian religious, superior general of Sisters of Charity
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Ellen Osiier
Ellen Osiier (13 August 1890 – 6 September 1962) was a Danish foil fencer. Osiier was born in Hjørring, Nordjylland, Denmark.
The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris was the first Olympic Games to feature women's fencing. Osiier, then 33, wo ...
(1890–1962), Danish Olympic fencing foil champion
*Ellen Page, former name of
Elliot Page
Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page; born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Elliot Page, various accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award nomination, tw ...
(born 1987), Canadian actor
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Ellen Pao
Ellen Kangourou Pao (born 1970) is an American investor and former CEO of social media company Reddit.
Pao first became known in 2012 for filing a failed gender discrimination suit against her employer, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, a ...
(born 1970), American lawyer, former CEO of Reddit
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Ellen Perez
Ellen Perez (born 10 October 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player.
Perez has won five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as two singles and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. ...
(1868–1954), Australian tennis player
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Ellen Petri
Ellen Petri (born 25 May 1982 in Merksem, Antwerp) is a Belgian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Belgium 2004 on 12 December 2003.
Biography
At nine-years-old, Petri began practicing ballet and is employed as a model and choreo ...
(born 1982), Belgian beauty pageant
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Ellen Pompeo
Ellen Kathleen Pompeo (; born November 10, 1969) is an American actress. She is best known for her role on ''Grey's Anatomy'' as the titular Dr. Meredith Grey. One of the world's highest-paid actors since 2017, she has made multiple appearances ...
(born 1969), American actress
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Ellen Preis
Ellen Müller-Preis, née Preis, (6 May 1912 – 18 November 2007) was German-born Austrian Olympic-champion foil (fencing), foil fencing, fencer.
In 1949, she was named Austrian female athlete of the year.
Fencing career
Preis was born in Ber ...
(Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007), German-born Austrian Olympic champion foil fencer
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Ellen Alida Rose (1843–1???), American agriculturist, suffragist
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Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work in ...
(1842–1911), American industrial and environmental chemist
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Ellen Roche
Ellen Roche is an Irish biomedical engineer and Associate Professor at MIT in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute of Medical Engineering and Science. She has contributed to heart failure prevention with her inventions, th ...
(born 1979), Brazilian actress and model
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Ellen Roosevelt
Ellen Crosby Roosevelt (August 20, 1868 – September 26, 1954) was an American tennis player.
She was the daughter of John Aspinwall Roosevelt, an estate proprietor, and Ellen Murray Crosby. She started playing tennis with her sister Grace in 1 ...
(1868–1954), American tennis player
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Ellen Sauerbrey
Ellen Richmond Sauerbrey (born September 9, 1937) is an American politician from Maryland and the former head of the United States Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. She was nominated to the Bureau in September 2 ...
(born 1937), American politician
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Ellen Browning Scripps
Ellen Browning Scripps (October 18, 1836 – August 3, 1932) was an American journalist and philanthropist who was the founding donor of several major institutions in Southern California. She and her half-brother E. W. Scripps created the E. W. ...
(1836–1932), American journalist and philanthropist
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born Ellen Eugenia Johnson, 29 October 1938) is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa.
Sirleaf was born in Mon ...
(born 1938), President of Liberia
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Ellen Tauscher
Ellen O'Kane Tauscher (November 15, 1951 – April 29, 2019) was an American businesswoman, diplomat, and Democratic Party politician who was the U.S. representative for California's 10th congressional district from 1997 to 2009. From 2009 to 2012 ...
(born 1951), American politician, Under Secretary of State
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Ellen Terry
Dame Alice Ellen Terry, (27 February 184721 July 1928), was a leading English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Born into a family of actors, Terry began performing as a child, acting in Shakespeare plays in London, and tour ...
(1847–1928), English stage actress
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Ellen Travolta
Ellen M. Travolta (born October 6, 1939) is an American actress known for playing Louisa Arcola Delvecchio in ''Happy Days'' and ''Joanie Loves Chachi'' as well as Lillian in '' Charles in Charge'' (1987-1990).
Early years
Ellen M. Travolta wa ...
(born 1940), American actress
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Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954), German photographer and director,
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Ellen Van Loy
Ellen Van Loy (born 16 September 1980) is a Belgian road and cyclo-cross cyclist. She represented her nation in the women's elite event at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
The 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships was the World ...
(born 1980), Belgian cyclo-cross cyclist
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Ellen Venker
Ellen Venker (born 26 November 1983 in Boskoop) is a Dutch softball player, who represents the Netherlands women's national softball team, Dutch national team in international competitions. (born 1983), Dutch softball player
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Ellen Vogel
Ellen Marie Elze Anthing Vogel (; 26 January 1922 – 5 August 2015) was a Dutch film, stage and television actress.
Personal
Born on 26 January 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands as the second child of publicist Louis Albert Anthing Vogel (1 ...
(1922–2015), Dutch actress
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Ellen Voorhees
Ellen Marie Voorhees (born March 13, 1958) is an American computer scientist known for her work in document retrieval, information retrieval, and natural language processing. She works in the retrieval group at the National Institute of Standards ...
, American computer scientist
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Ellen van der Weijden-Bast
Eleonora Johanna "Ellen" van der Weijden-Bast (born 29 August 1971) was a Dutch former water polo player. She was a member of the Netherlands women's national water polo team.
She competed with the team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and also at Wor ...
(born 1971), Dutch water polo player
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Ellen G. White
Ellen Gould White (née Harmon; November 26, 1827 – July 16, 1915) was an American woman author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Along with other Adventist leaders such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, she wa ...
(1827–1915), American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and author
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Ellen Willmott
Ellen Ann Willmott (19 August 1858 – 27 September 1934) was an English horticulturist. She was an influential member of the Royal Horticultural Society, and a recipient of the first Victoria Medal of Honour, awarded to British horticulturists ...
(1858–1934), English horticulturalist
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Ellen Axson Wilson
Ellen Louise Wilson (née Axson; May 15, 1860 – August 6, 1914) was the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson and the mother of their three daughters. Like her husband, she was a Southerner, as well as the daughter of a clergyman. She was ...
(1860–1914), American first lady
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Ellen Whitmore
Ellen Rebecca Whitmore (also Goodale; March 2, 1828 – February 23, 1861) was the first principal teacher at the Cherokee Female Seminary in modern-day Oklahoma and later served as a missionary in Hawaii.
Biography
Ellen Rebecca Whitmore g ...
(1828–1861), American educator and missionary
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Ellen Wilson (born 1976), American judoka
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Ellen Woglom (born 1987), American actress
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Ellen van Wolde
Ellen José van Wolde (born 1954) is a Dutch biblical scholar. In her research she focuses mainly on the Hebrew Bible, applying achievements of semiotics and linguistics. She became known to the general public mainly through her oration (2009) on ...
(born 1954), Dutch biblical scholar
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Ellen Wong
Ellen Wong (born January 13, 1985) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Knives Chau in the 2010 film '' Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'', Jill "Mouse" Chen in The CW's series '' The Carrie Diaries'', and Jenny Chey in the Netflix s ...
(born 1985), Canadian actress
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich ( ; born April 30, 1939) is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, ne ...
(born 1939), American classical music composer
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Ellen Urbani (born 1969), American author
Fictional characters
* Ellen Foxworthy, a fictional character in the webcomic
''Schlock Mercenary''
* Ellen Powell, a character in the American sitcom television series ''
Charles in Charge
''Charles in Charge'' is an American sitcom television series that premiered on October 3, 1984, on CBS. The series was a production of Al Burton Productions and Scholastic Productions in association with Universal Television and starred Scott B ...
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Ellen Ripley
Ellen Louise Ripley, often referred to simply as Ripley, is a fictional Character (arts), character and protagonist of the Alien (franchise), ''Alien'' film series, played by American actress Sigourney Weaver. The character earned Weaver worldwide ...
, a character in the ''Alien'' film series
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Elen (disambiguation) Elen may refer to:
*Elen (saint), a Welsh saint
*Elen ferch Llywelyn (c. 1206–1253)
*Elen Dosia, a French opera singer
*Elen Levon, a Ukrainian singer, actress and dancer
*Elen Shakirova, a Russian former basketball player
*Elen Willard (born 193 ...
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Ellen (disambiguation)
Ellen is a female given name.
Ellen may also refer to:
Places
* Mount Ellen (Utah)
* Mount Ellen (Vermont), in the Green Mountains
* Lake Ellen (Minnesota)
* Lake Ellen (Wisconsin)
* Port Ellen, Argyll, Scotland
* River Ellen, Cumbria, Engl ...
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Eleni (given name)
Eleni is a feminine given name of Greek origin. It is a phonetic spelling of the Modern Greek name "Ελένη", whose ancient version, Ἑλένη, is anglicized as Helen. Popular diminutives and nicknames include: ''Elenitsa'', ''Elenaki'', ''E ...
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Elín (disambiguation)
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Helene (disambiguation)
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Helena (disambiguation)
Helena may refer to:
People
*Helena (given name), a given name (including a list of people and characters with the name)
*Katri Helena (born 1945), Finnish singer
*Helena, mother of Constantine I
Places
Greece
* Helena (island)
Guyana
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Helen (disambiguation)
Helen may refer to:
People
* Helen of Troy, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in the world
* Helen (actress) (born 1938), Indian actress
* Helen (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
Places
* Helen, G ...
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