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Elka de Levie
Elka de Levie (1905-1979), Dutch Jewish gymnast with Amsterdam club BATO; won 1928 Olympic team gold in the first women's gymnastics event, and was the only Jewish member of the Dutch team to survive the Holocaust.
Elkan Baggott
Elkan William Tio Baggott (born 2002, Bangkok) is an Indonesian centre-back, Ipswich Town academy graduate, ex-loanee at King's Lynn, Gillingham, Cheltenham, Bristol Rovers and Blackpool, now at Millwall, with 26 Indonesia caps.
Elkan Blout
Elkan Blout was an American biophysical chemist known for research on how amino acid sequence determines protein shape, alongside an industry career at Polaroid and scientific leadership at Harvard.
Elke Barth
Elke Barth (Schmitz), born 1956 in Stolberg, West German 400 m sprinter; 1976 Olympic 4×400 m relay fifth, 1975 4×440 yd relay world record, 1975 European indoor relay silver.
Elke Erb
Elke Erb (1938–2024) was a German poet, editor, and translator, a central figure of East German experimental poetry who received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2020.
Elke Hartleif
Elke Hartleif is a German business executive and daughter of VEKA founder Heinrich Laumann, Chief Human Resources Officer of the PVC window-profile maker VEKA AG since 1997.
Elke Sehmisch
Elke Sehmisch (born 1955, Leipzig) is an East German former freestyle swimmer of SC DHfK Leipzig; 1970 European champion in the 400 m freestyle and 4x100 m relay, 1972 Munich Olympic relay silver medalist, later a Leipzig psychotherapist.
Elke Sommer
Elke Sommer (born Elke Schletz, 5 November 1940, Berlin) is a German actress and painter, Golden Globe winner for The Prize (1963) and star of A Shot in the Dark, with over 70 films and a painting career as E. Schwartz.
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber, born 1957 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, is a psychologist and decision scientist at Princeton University known for research on risk perception and climate decisions.
Elkem
Elkem ASA is a Norwegian industrial company founded by Sam Eyde in 1904, producing silicon products, ferrosilicon alloys, and carbon materials from quartz mining through smelting.
Elkeson
Elkeson (Ai Kesen, 艾克森), born 1989, is a Brazilian-born centre-forward, CSL all-time leading foreign scorer, Guangzhou/Shanghai SIPG star, naturalized Chinese international (19 caps, 4 goals), retired 9 April 2025.
Elkhart County
Elkhart County, Indiana: county seat Goshen, established April 1, 1830; population 207,047 (2020), sixth-largest in Indiana; RV Capital of the World producing about 80% of U.S. recreational vehicles; third-largest Amish settlement; 0.82% effective property tax rate.
Elkhart, Indiana
Elkhart, Indiana: city of about 54,000 at the confluence of the St. Joseph and Elkhart rivers, a railroad hub since 1851 and center of the U.S. RV manufacturing industry.
Elkhorn coral
Elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata, coral cacho de alce) is a large branching Caribbean reef-builder, IUCN Critically Endangered and ESA Threatened, down 97% from white band disease and functionally extinct on Florida's reef after the 2023 heatwave.
Elkhorn Ranch
Elkhorn Ranch was Theodore Roosevelt's principal cattle ranch in the North Dakota Badlands, established in 1884 on the Little Missouri River and now preserved in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Elkie Brooks
Elkie Brooks (Elaine Bookbinder, born 1945, Salford) is an English pop, blues and jazz singer, ex-Vinegar Joe vocalist with Robert Palmer, whose 1981 album Pearls sold over a million and made her the biggest-selling British female album artist of her time.
Elko, Nevada
Elko, Nevada: county seat of Elko County, founded 1868 on the Central Pacific Railroad, population 20,564 (2020). Gold-mining hub near the Ruby Mountains, home of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and National Basque Festival.
Elkview Coal Mine
The Elkview Coal Mine, officially Elkview Operations, is an open-pit steelmaking coal mine in British Columbia's Elk Valley near Sparwood, opened in 1969 and operated by Elk Valley Resources.
Ell
The ell is a former European unit of length used chiefly for measuring cloth, originally a cubit of forearm and hand, standardized in England at 45 inches.
Ella Al-Shamahi
Ella Al-Shamahi, British-Yemeni palaeoanthropologist, evolutionary biologist, National Geographic Explorer, TV presenter, and stand-up comic; Neanderthal specialist, host of BBC/PBS series Human (2025) and author of The Handshake.
Ella Baker
Ella Josephine Baker (1903–1986), American civil rights organizer; NAACP director of branches, SCLC executive secretary, and organizer of the April 1960 Shaw University conference that founded SNCC, advocating group-centered, grassroots leadership.
Ella Balinska
Ella Balinska is a British actress (born 1996, London), daughter of chef Lorraine Pascale, known for Charlie's Angels (2019), Netflix's Resident Evil (2022), Run Sweetheart Run, and voicing Frey Holland in Forspoken.
Ella Beatty
Ella Beatty (born 2000, Los Angeles) is an American actress, daughter of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, a Juilliard graduate known for Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, Broadway's Appropriate, and starring as Lizzie Borden in Netflix's Monster.
Ella Bruccoleri
Ella Bruccoleri (also Ella May Bruccoleri) is a British actress from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, trained at the Oxford School of Drama. Known for Sister Frances in Call the Midwife (2018–2022) and as lead Mary Bennet in the BBC's The Other Bennet Sister (2026), plus Polite Society, Paddington in Peru, and Wicker.
Ella Cara Deloria
Ella Cara Deloria (Anpetu Wastéwin, "Beautiful Day Woman", 1889–1971) was a Yankton Dakota anthropologist and novelist, trained by Franz Boas at Columbia, known for Dakota Texts, Dakota Grammar, and Waterlily.
Ella Chen (陈嘉桦)
Ella Chen (陳嘉樺, born 1981), Taiwanese singer, actress, and host, member of S.H.E (debuted 2001) with Selina Jen and Hebe Tien. Won 宇宙2000 talent contest; Golden Bell nominee; solo albums Why Not (2015), Bad Habits (2024); champion of Ride the Wind 2023.
Ella Edmondson
Ella Edmondson (Eleanor Rose Edmondson, born 1986, Hammersmith) is an English folk singer-songwriter, daughter of Jennifer Saunders and Adrian Edmondson, known for the 2008/2009 debut album Hold Your Horses on Monsoon.
Ella Emhoff
Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris and daughter of Doug Emhoff, is an American model and textile artist. Her beaded Miu Miu coat at the 2021 inauguration led to an IMG Models contract, a Proenza Schouler runway debut, and a Brooklyn knitwear practice.
Ella Enchanted
Ella Enchanted (1997) is Gail Carson Levine's Newbery Honor-winning debut, a Cinderella retelling in which Ella of Frell is cursed at birth with obedience by the fairy Lucinda. Adapted loosely into a 2004 Anne Hathaway film.
Ella Enchanted (film)
Ella Enchanted (2004 film), also known simply as Ella Enchanted, is a Miramax fantasy romantic comedy directed by Tommy O'Haver, starring Anne Hathaway as a girl cursed with obedience; loosely based on Levine's 1997 Newbery Honor novel, released April 9, 2004, grossing $22.9M in the US.