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Elle King

Elle King (Tanner Elle Schneider, born 1989) is an American singer-songwriter blending country, rock, and blues, daughter of Rob Schneider, known for "Ex's & Oh's," four Grammy nominations, and No. 1s on four Billboard formats.

Elle Logan

Elle Logan (Eleanor Logan, born 1987) is an American rower from Boothbay Harbor, Maine, who won Olympic gold in the women's eight at Beijing 2008, London 2012, and Rio 2016, the first US female rower with three Olympic golds.

Elle Macpherson

Elle Macpherson (born Eleanor Gow, 1964) is an Australian supermodel nicknamed "The Body" by Time in 1986, a record five-time Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model, and founder of Elle Macpherson Intimates and the wellness brand WelleCo.

Elle Woods

Elle Woods is the fictional heroine of Legally Blonde, created by Amanda Brown in the 2001 novel and played by Reese Witherspoon in the 2001 film, a sorority president who attends Harvard Law School, later adapted into a musical, sequels, and the 2026 Prime Video prequel series Elle.

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Elle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers, Kainai (Blackfoot Confederacy) and Sámi filmmaker and actor from Cardston, Alberta; co-director of The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open and director of Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy.

Ellef Ringnes Island

Ellef Ringnes Island (also spelled Ellef Ringnes) is an uninhabited 11,295 km2 island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut, the westernmost Sverdrup Island, discovered in 1901 by Isachsen and Hassel and named for Norwegian brewer Ellef Ringnes.

Ellegarden

Ellegarden (エルレガーデン) is a four-piece Japanese rock band formed in Chiba in 1998, known for topping the Oricon chart while independent and selling out 30,000-seat venues.

Ellen (TV series)

Ellen (originally These Friends of Mine) is the ABC sitcom starring Ellen DeGeneres as bookstore owner Ellen Morgan, 1994–1998, 109 episodes; famous for the 1997 Puppy Episode coming out.

Ellen A. Robey

Ellen A. Robey (Ellen Robey) is an American immunologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for defining Notch signaling's role in T cell lineage choices in the thymus.

Ellen Adair

Ellen Adair is an American actor, writer, and baseball analyst known for Bess McTeer in The Sinner, Janet Bayne in Homeland, and Bridget Saltire in The Slap; also MLB Network analyst and author of Curtain Speech.

Ellen Adarna

Ellen Adarna (Ellen Meriam Go Adarna), Filipina actress and model born 1988 in Cebu City, known for Bubble Gang, Indio, and Pasión de Amor; married Derek Ramsay in 2021, separated 2025.

Ellen Åkesson

Ellen B. Åkesson (Ellen Viking), born 1999, Swedish arm wrestler, powerlifter, strongwoman and streetlifter; 2025 IFA world arm wrestling champion (both hands, 70 kg); signed by WWE in March 2026 and released that September without an official match.

Ellen Albertini Dow

Ellen Albertini Dow (1913–2015), American character actress and drama teacher; rapping granny Rosie in The Wedding Singer, Grandma Cleary in Wedding Crashers, taught 30 years at Pierce College.

Ellen Allien

Ellen Allien is a German techno DJ, producer, and label head born in West Berlin in 1968, founder of BPitch Control and called the matriarch of Berlin techno.

Ellen Allien b2b BADSISTA

Ellen Allien b2b BADSISTA is a back-to-back DJ pairing of Berlin techno veteran Ellen Allien and Brazilian DJ BADSISTA, first documented at The Town festival in 2023.

Ellen Axson Wilson

Ellen Axson Wilson (1860-1914), first wife of President Woodrow Wilson and first lady 1913-1914; Georgia-born artist whose alley-clearance advocacy and Rose Garden design marked her brief tenure.

Ellen Barkin

Ellen Barkin (born 1954, Bronx, New York) is an American actress and producer known for Diner, The Big Easy, Sea of Love, and Animal Kingdom; she won a 1998 Emmy for Before Women Had Wings and a 2011 Tony for The Normal Heart.

Ellen Bird

Ellen Bird (1881–1949), English maid to Ida Straus, survived the Titanic sinking in Lifeboat 8; Ida gave her a fur coat, and Bird later married Edward Beattie and died in Newport, Rhode Island.

Ellen Braumuller

Ellen Braumüller (1910–1991), German track and field athlete of OSC Berlin; 1932 Olympic javelin silver (43.49 m) behind Babe Didrikson, three javelin world records 1930–32, 1930 Women's World Games triathlon gold, six German titles.

Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932, Detroit) is an American actress and Triple Crown of Acting winner: Oscar for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Tony for Same Time Next Year, two Emmys, Actors Studio co-president, and 2026 Venice Golden Lion honoree.

Ellen Corby

Ellen Corby (Ellen Hansen, 1911–1999), American character actress and screenwriter; Grandma Esther Walton on The Waltons, three Emmys, Oscar nominee for I Remember Mama.

Ellen D. Williams

Ellen D. Williams is an American surface physicist, Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland and National Academy member, who served as BP Chief Scientist and ARPA-E director.

Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres, American comedian and talk-show host of Ellen (1994–1998) and The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003–2022); 1997 Puppy Episode coming out, 30 Emmys, 2020 workplace allegations, 2024 final Netflix special.

Ellen Dunham-Jones

Ellen Dunham-Jones is an American architect and urbanist, a professor at Georgia Tech, who with June Williamson wrote Retrofitting Suburbia and maintains a database of over 2,500 suburban retrofit projects.

Ellen Fanning

Ellen Fanning was a biochemist at Vanderbilt University whose research explained how mammalian cells control DNA replication, working on SV40, DNA polymerase alpha-primase, and PCNA until her death in 2013.

Ellen Foley

Ellen Foley is an American singer and actress, born in 1951 in St. Louis, known for singing "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" with Meat Loaf.

Ellen Frank (psychologist)

Ellen Frank is an American clinical psychologist and mood disorders researcher, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, known for the 1990 maintenance-therapy trial and IPSRT.

Ellen G. White

Ellen G. White, born Ellen Gould Harmon (1827–1915), was an American religious leader who co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church, claimed about 2,000 visions, and wrote roughly 100,000 pages.

Ellen Geer

Ellen Geer (born 1941), American actress, director, and writer, daughter of Will Geer and Herta Ware; artistic director of Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon since 1978, known for Harold and Maude and UCLA classical acting teaching.

Ellen Gould Zweibel

Ellen Gould Zweibel is a theoretical astrophysicist, the William L. Kraushaar Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on cosmic rays and astrophysical magnetic fields.