Ellen
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.
| Pronunciation | Ell-en |
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| Other names | |
| Related names | Elena, Helen, Helena |
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 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 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 Burstyn (born 1932), American actress
- Ellen Carter (1762–1815), English artist
- Ellen Cleghorne (born 1965), American comedian and actress
- Ellen Cobb (born 1940), retired British judoka
- Ellen Corby (1911–1999), American actress
- 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 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 Glasgow (1873–1975), American novelist
- 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 (born 1941), 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 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 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 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 Tauscher (1951–2019), American politician, Under Secretary of State
- Ellen Terry (1847–1928), English stage actress
- Ellen Travolta (born 1940), American actress
- Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954), German photographer and director,
- 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 Willmott (1858–1934), English horticulturalist
- Ellen Axson Wilson (1860–1914), American first lady
- Ellen Whitmore (1828–1861), American educator and missionary
- Ellen Wilson (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 Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939), American classical music composer
- Ellen Urbani (born 1969), American author
Fictional characters
- Ellen, a character in the 2000 American fantasy-comedy TV movie Life-Size
- Ellen, a character in the American TV sitcom Will & Grace
- Ellen Foxworthy, a fictional character in the webcomic Schlock Mercenary
- Ellen Kurokawa, a character in the Japanese anime series Suite PreCure (also called Eren)
- 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 Ripley, a character in the Alien film series
See also
- Elen (disambiguation)
- Ellen (disambiguation)
- Eleni (given name)
- Elín (disambiguation)
- Helena (disambiguation)
- Helen (disambiguation)
- Helene (disambiguation)
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