Ellen (given name)
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Ellen is a female given name
. Ellen can be traced back to Ancient Greece, where it translates as "sun-ray, lightness." Ellen is the 555th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden (2004).
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
. Ellen can be traced back to Ancient Greece, where it translates as "sun-ray, lightness." Ellen is the 555th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden (2004).
People with the name Ellen
- Ellen AnckarsvärdEllen AnckarsvärdEleonora Anckarsvärd, née Nyström , was a Swedish feminist.She was the daughter of the architect Per Axel Nyström. In 1873, she co-founded Föreningen för gift kvinnas äganderätt with Anna Hierta-Retzius, which is considered the first organized Swedish women's movement...
, Swedish feminist - Ellen BarkinEllen BarkinEllen Barkin is an American film, television and theatre actress.-Early life:She was born Ellen Rona Barkin in Bronx, a borough of New York City, New York, the daughter of Evelyn , a hospital administrator who worked at Jamaica Hospital, and Sol Barkin, a chemical salesman...
, American actress - Ellen BurstynEllen BurstynEllen Burstyn is a leading American actress of film, stage, and television. Burstyn's career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next ten years she appeared in several films and television series before joining the Actors Studio in 1967...
, American actress - Ellen CleghorneEllen CleghorneEllen Cleghorne is an American actress and comedian, best known for being a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 1995...
, American comedian and actress - Ellen CraswellEllen CraswellEllen Craswell was an American politician, a former Washington state legislator, and 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 Party, the Washington State affiliate of the...
, Washington state politician - Ellen DeGeneresEllen DeGeneresEllen Lee DeGeneres is an American stand-up comedienne, television host and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and was also a judge on American Idol for one year, having joined the show in its ninth season....
, American comedienne, actress, and talk-show host - Ellen DissanayakeEllen DissanayakeEllen Dissanayake is an independent scholar whose work focuses on the anthropological exploration of art and culture. She is credited for re-defining art as 'making special'; that is, art making involves taking something out of its everyday use and context and making it somehow special.As she...
, anthropologist and author - Ellen EstesEllen EstesEllen Marie Estes 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 during the bronze medal game against Australia.Estes played for Stanford University...
, American water polo player - Ellen FeissEllen FeissEllen Feiss is an American who became an Internet phenomenon after her 2002 Errol Morris-directed television commercial for Apple Computer's Switch campaign grew into a cult hit...
, Internet phenomenon famous for appearing an Apple advertisement - Ellen FoleyEllen FoleyEllen Foley is an American singer and actress, who has appeared on Broadway and television, where she co-starred in the sitcom Night Court. In music, she has released three solo albums but is best known for her collaborations with the singer Meat Loaf.- Early life and career :Foley was born in St....
, singer/actress - Ellen FriesEllen FriesEllen Fries was a Swedish feminist and writer. She became the first female Ph.D. in Sweden in 1883.- Biography :...
, feminist - Ellen KeyEllen KeyEllen Karolina Sofia Key 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...
, feminist writer - Dame Ellen MacArthurEllen MacArthurDame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, DBE is an English sailor, up until 2009, from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in West Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. She is best known as a solo long-distance yachtswoman. On 7 February 2005 she broke the world record for the fastest solo...
, British yachtswoman - Ellen McIlwaineEllen McIlwaineEllen McIlwaine is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career as a slide guitarist.-Biography:...
, American musician - Ellen McLainEllen McLainEllen McLain is an opera singer and voice actress from Nashville, Tennessee, USA. McLain provides voices for many characters in several video games from Valve...
, American voice actress - Ellen MuthEllen MuthEllen Anna Muth is an American actress, known for her role as George Lass in Showtime's series Dead Like Me. Muth is a member of Intertel and Mensa.-Career:...
, American actress - Ellen NikolaysenEllen NikolaysenEllen Helen Nikolaysen is a Norwegian singer/actress. She participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 as part of the Bendik Singers group with the song It's Just A Game and again as backing vocalist for fellow Bendik Singer Anne-Karine Strøm in 1974 before competing in her third...
, Norwegian actress - Ellen PageEllen PageEllen Philpotts-Page , known professionally as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actress. Page received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her role as the title character in the film Juno...
, Canadian actress - Ellen PompeoEllen PompeoEllen Kathleen Pompeo is an American actress, known for playing the title role of Meredith Grey on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy.-Early life:...
, American actress - Ellen SauerbreyEllen SauerbreyEllen Sauerbrey 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 2005 by President George W. Bush. On January 4, 2006, Bush placed her in office by way...
, Maryland politician - Dame Ellen TerryEllen TerryDame Ellen Terry, GBE was an English stage actress who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. Among the members of her famous family is her great nephew, John Gielgud....
, English stage actress - Ellen TravoltaEllen TravoltaEllen Travolta is an American actress, the eldest sibling of John Travolta. She is probably best known for her portrayal of Louisa Arcola Delvecchio, the mother of Chachi Arcola in the 1950s-based sitcom Happy Days, and its unsuccessful spinoff, Joanie Loves Chachi...
(born 1940), American actress - Ellen G. WhiteEllen G. WhiteEllen Gould White was a prolific author and an American Christian pioneer. She, along with other Sabbatarian Adventist leaders, such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, would form what is now known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church.Ellen White reported to her fellow believers her...
, Seventh-day Adventist prophetess - Ellen WillmottEllen WillmottEllen Ann Willmott was an English horticulturalist. She was an influential member of the Royal Horticultural Society, and a recipient of the first Victoria Medal of Honour in 1897. She cultivated more than 100,000 species of plants, and sponsored expeditions to discover new species...
(1858–1934), English horticulturalist - Ellen Wilson (judoka)Ellen Wilson (judoka)Ellen Bernice Wilson is a female judoka from the United States, who won the silver medal in the women's lightweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney,...
, American judoka - Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, classical music composer
See also
- Ellen (disambiguation)
- Eleni (disambiguation)
- Elín (disambiguation)
- Helene (disambiguation)
- Helena (disambiguation)
- Helen (disambiguation)Helen (disambiguation)Helen may refer to:* Helen of Troy, from Greek mythology* Helen * Helen , a play by Euripides* Helen , a fictional supporting character in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance trilogy...