Ellen

Ellen
Pronunciation	/ˈɛlən/
Other names
Related names	Elena, Helen, Helena

Ellen is a female given name, a diminutive of Elizabeth, Eleanor, Elena, and Helen. Ellen was the 609th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden in 2004.

People named Ellen include:

Ellen Adarna (born 1988), Filipino actress
Ellen Alaküla (1927–2011), Estonian actress
Ellen Palmer Allerton (1835–1893), American poet
Ellen Allien (born 1969), German electronic musician and music producer
Ellen Anckarsvärd (1833–1898), Swedish feminist
Ellen Andersen (1898–1989), Danish museum curator
Ellen Anderson (born 1959), American politician
Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born American photographer
Ellen Arthur (1837–1880), wife of the 21st president of the United States, Chester A. Arthur
Ellen Arthur jr. (1871–1915), daughter of Chester A. Arthur and First Lady Ellen Arthur
Ellen Baake (born 1961), German mathematical biologist
Ellen S. Baker (born 1953), American physician and astronaut
Ellen Barkin (born 1954), American actress
Ellen Bass (born 1947), American poet and author
Ellen Rae Simpson Beason (died 1985), American murder victim
Ellen A. Dayton Blair (1837–1926), social reformer and art teacher
Ellen Bontje (born 1958), Dutch equestrian
Ellen Burka (1921–2016), Dutch and Canadian figure skater and coach
Ellen Burrell (1850–1938), American mathematics professor
Ellen Bushell (1884-1948), Irish textile artist and political activist
Ellen Burstyn (born 1932), American actress
Ellen Maria Carpenter (1830–1908), American painter
Ellen Cahill (1863 – 1934), Irish-Australian street singer also known as "Killarney Kate"
Ellen Carter (1762–1815), English artist
Ellen Christenson (born 1938), American singer
Ellen Cleghorne (born 1965), American comedian and actress
Ellen Cobb (born 1940), retired British judoka
Ellen Melicent Cobden (1848–1914), British writer and suffragist
Ellen Corby (1911–1999), American actress
Ellen Corkrum, Liberian philanthropist politician and presidential candidate and convicted criminal
Ellen Craft (1826–1891), American fugitive slave and abolitionist
Ellen Craswell (1932–2008), American politician
Ellen Crocker (1872–1962), British suffragette
Ellen ten Damme (born 1967), Dutch actress and musician
Ellen F. Davis (born 1950), American theologian and Old Testament scholar
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958), American comedian, actress, and talk-show host
Ellen van Dijk (born 1987), Dutch road and track cyclist
Ellen Dissanayake (born c. 1935), American anthropologist and author
Ellen Albertini Dow (1913–2015), American actress and drama coach
Ellen Elzerman (born 1971), Dutch swimmer
Ellen Russell Emerson (1837–1907), American author, ethnologist
Ellen Estes (born 1978), American water polo player
Ellen Foley (born 1951), American singer and actress
Ellen Fries (1855–1900), Swedish feminist and writer, first woman to be awarded a PhD in Sweden
Ellen Gallagher (born 1965), American artist
Ellen Geer (born 1941), American actress, acting teacher and theatre director
Ellen Gilchrist (born 1935), American novelist, short story writer, and poet
Ellen Grant (1855–1922), the third child and only daughter of 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant
Ellen Glasgow (1873–1975), American novelist
Ellen Greenberg (1983–2011), American suicide victim
Ellen Greene (born 1951), American singer and actress
Ellen Day Hale (1855–1940), American impressionist painter and printmake
Ellen 't Hoen (born 1960), Dutch lawyer and Médecins sans Frontières director
Ellen Hollman (born 1983), American actress
Ellen Hogerwerf (born 1989), Dutch rower
Ellen Hoog (born 1986), Dutch field hockey player
Ellen Horn (born 1951), Norwegian actress, theater director, and politician
Ellen Jansen (born 1992), Dutch footballer
Ellen Jens (1940–2023), Dutch television director and producer
Ellen Johnson (born 1955), American civil rights activist
Ellen Kaarma (1928–1973), Estonian actress
Ellen Key (1849–1926), Swedish feminist writer and suffragette
Ellen Kooi (born 1962), Dutch artist and photographer,
Ellen Kuipers (born 1971), Dutch field hockey player
Ellen J. Kullman (born 1956), American business executive, CEO of DuPont
Ellen Kuzwayo (1914–2006), South African women's rights activist and politician
Ellen van Langen (born 1966), Dutch middle-distance runner
Ellen Liiger (1918–1987), Estonian actress
Ellen Lumpkin, American neuroscientist
Ellen MacArthur (born 1976), British yachtswoman
Ellen Manderfield (1916–1999), American industrial designer
Ellen Marlow (born 1994), American actress
Ellen van Maris (born 1957), Dutch bodybuilder
Ellen McIlwaine (1945–2021), American musician
Ellen McLain (born 1952), American voice actress
Ellen Meijers (born c.1971), Dutch video game music composer
Ellen Muth (born 1981), American actress
Ellen Torelle Nagler (1870–1965), American biologist, author, lecturer
Ellen Niit (1928–2016), Estonian children's writer, poet and translator
Ellen Nikolaysen (born 1951), Norwegian actress
Ellen Nisbeth (born 1987), Swedish violist
Ellen Ochoa (born 1958), American engineer and astronaut
Ellen O'Doherty (1894–1983), Australian religious, superior general of Sisters of Charity
Ellen Osiier (1890–1962), Danish Olympic fencing foil champion
Ellen Page, former name of Elliot Page (born 1987), Canadian actor
Ellen Pao (born 1970), American lawyer, former CEO of Reddit
Ellen Parker (born 1949), American actress
Ellen Perez (1868–1954), Australian tennis player
Ellen Petri (born 1982), Belgian beauty pageant
Ellen Pompeo (born 1969), American actress
Ellen Preis (Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007), German-born Austrian Olympic champion foil fencer
Ellen Alida Rose (1843–1???), American agriculturist, suffragist
Ellen Swallow Richards (1842–1911), American industrial and environmental chemist
Ellen Roche (born 1979), Brazilian actress and model
Ellen Roosevelt (1868–1954), American tennis player
Ellen Sarjeant (1868 - 1939), New Zealand artist, curator, registrar and philanthropist
Ellen Sergeant Rude (1838-1916), American writer and poet
Ellen Sauerbrey (born 1937), American politician
Ellen Browning Scripps (1836–1932), American journalist and philanthropist
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 1938), President of Liberia
Ellen Stevenson (née Borden, 1907–1972), American socialite and First Lady of Illinois
Ellen Tauscher (1951–2019), American politician, Under Secretary of State
Ellen Terry (1847–1928), English stage actress
Ellen Powell Tiberino (1937–1992), African American visual artist
Ellen Travolta (born 1940), American actress
Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954), German photographer and director
Ellen Urbani (born 1969), American author
Ellen Van Loy (born 1980), Belgian cyclo-cross cyclist
Ellen Venker (born 1983), Dutch softball player
Ellen Vogel (1922–2015), Dutch actress
Ellen Voorhees, American computer scientist
Ellen van der Weijden-Bast (born 1971), Dutch water polo player
Ellen G. White (1827–1915), American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and author
Ellen White (disambiguation), several people
Ellen Willmott (1858–1934), English horticulturalist
Ellen Axson Wilson (1860–1914), American first lady
Ellen Whitmore (1828–1861), American educator and missionary
Ellen Axson Wilson (1860–1914), American First Lady
Ellen Wilson (judoka) (born 1976), American judoka
Ellen Woglom (born 1987), American actress
Ellen van Wolde (born 1954), Dutch biblical scholar
Ellen Wong (born 1985), Canadian actress
Ellen Young (poet) (1810–1872), Australian poet, feminist, fighting for the rights of women and bringing attention to the lifestyle via poems
Ellen Young (politician) (born 1952), American politician, representative in the New York State Assembly
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939), American classical music composer

Fictional characters

Ellen, a character in the post-apocalyptic short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Ellen, one of the two main characters in the book series and animated television series Edgar & Ellen
Ellen, the main character in the American animated television series Ellen's Acres
Ellen, a character in the 1990 American comedy movie Ski Patrol
Ellen, a character in the 1997 American drama television movie Deep Family Secrets
Ellen, a character in the 2000 American fantasy-comedy TV movie Life-Size
Ellen, a character in the 2015 American comedy-drama movie The Breakup Girl
Ellen, a character in the 2016 American workplace teen comedy movie Hickey
Ellen, a character in the American science fiction horror film Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys
Ellen, a character in the American TV sitcom Will & Grace
Ellen Ashland, a character in the movie Sightless
Ellen Bains, a character from the movie Back to the Future
Ellen Berent, a character in the 1988 American made-for-television drama film Too Good to Be True
Ellen Blake, a character played by Loni Anderson in the 1984 TV movie My Mother's Secret Life
Ellen Brody, a character in the Jaws movie franchise
Ellen Foxworthy, a fictional character in the webcomic Schlock Mercenary
Ellen Grant, the main character in the 1949 American comedy movie Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Mrs. Ellen Hartley, a character in the American 1947 Drama movie Seven Were Saved
Ellen Hutter, the main protagonist in the classic silent film Nosferatu
Ellen Joe, a playable character in the video game Zenless Zone Zero
Ellen Johnson, a character in the American teen comedy drama Teenage Bounty Hunters
Ellen Kurokawa, a character in the Japanese anime series Suite PreCure (also called Eren)
Ellen Lamb, character in the 1985 science fiction movie D.A.R.Y.L.
Ellen Lindsey, the main character in the movie 1974 American made-for-television drama Can Ellen Be Saved
Ellen Macauley, in One of Us Is Lying
Ellen Morgan, the main character in the TV series Ellen
Ellen Powell, a character in the American sitcom television series Charles in Charge
Ellen Randall, a character in the Canadian-produced sitcom Learning the Ropes
Ellen Reed, a character who appeared in five episodes of the American TV sitcom Family Ties
Ellen Ripley, a character in the Alien film series
Ellen Rockland, a character in the 1988 American science-fiction horror movie Pulse
Ellen Wilson, a character from the American science fiction web television series For All Mankind

Fictional characters

See also