Ely (surname)
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Ely is the surname of:
The following names are also referring to Ely:
- Arthur V. ElyArthur V. ElyArthur V. Ely was a United States Navy officer who received the Navy Cross posthumously for his actions in combat during World War II.-Naval career:...
(1912-1942), United States Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient - Eugene Burton ElyEugene Burton ElyEugene Burton Ely was an aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft take off and landing.-Background:...
, aviation pioneer - Janet ElyJanet ElyJanet Ely is a retired female diver from the United States, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1972 and 1976. In 1975 she claimed the world title in the Women's 10m Platform competition.Janet Ely coaches diving at the Mission Viejo Nadadores in Mission Viejo,...
, American diver - Joe ElyJoe ElyJoe Ely is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on honky-tonk, Texas Country, Tex-Mex and rock and roll....
, honky-tonk/country musician - John Ely (disambiguation), several people
- Melvin ElyMelvin ElyMelvin Anderson Ely is an American professional basketball player who last played in the NBA for the Denver Nuggets....
, American basketball player - Michael ElyMichael ElyMichael Ely is the writer of the trilogy of books surrounding the events in the computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.* Centauri Dawn - ISBN 0-671-04077-4* Dragon Sun - ISBN 0-671-04078-2* Twilight of the Mind - ISBN 0-671-04079-0...
, author - Richard T. ElyRichard T. ElyRichard Theodore Ely was an American economist, author, and leader of the Progressive movement who called for more government intervention in order to reform what they perceived as the injustices of capitalism, especially regarding factory conditions, compulsory education, child labor, and labor...
, American economist - Ron Ely, stage name of American actor Ronald Pierce
- Smith Ely, Jr.Smith Ely, Jr.Smith Ely, Jr. was a Mayor of New York City and member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....
, New York City mayor - William ElyWilliam ElyWilliam Ely was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.-Early life:Ely was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts on August 14, 1765...
, American politician
The following names are also referring to Ely:
- Saint Ermenilda of ElyErmenilda of ElySaint Eormenhild is a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon saint. Later hagiography makes her the daughter of King Eorcenberht of Kent and St. Seaxburh of Ely, and wife to Wulfhere of Mercia, with whom she had a daughter, St. Wærburh, and a son, Coenred...
, daughter of King Eorcenberht of Kent and Saint Seaxburh of Ely. - Nicholas of ElyNicholas of ElyNicholas of Ely was Lord Chancellor of England, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of Winchester, and Lord High Treasurer in the 13th century.-Life:...
, Lord Chancellor of England, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of Winchester, and Lord High Treasurer in the 13th century - Saint Seaxburh of ElySeaxburh of ElySeaxburh ; also Saint Sexburga of Ely, was the queen of King Eorcenberht of Kent, as well as an abbess and a saint of the Christian Church....
, Anglo-Saxon princess, abbess and saint - Marquess of ElyMarquess of ElyMarquess of Ely, of the County of Wexford, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Charles Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely. He was born Charles Tottenham, the son of John Tottenham, who had been created a Baronet, of Tottenham Green in the County of Wexford, in the Baronetage of...
(also Earl of Ely), a title in the peerage of Ireland