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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.
Ellen Greene
Ellen Greene is an American actress and singer, born in Brooklyn, best known as the original Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors on stage (1982) and in Frank Oz's 1986 film, with a 1977 Tony nomination for Threepenny Opera.
Ellen Hayes
Ellen Hayes, American woman long jumper, set an early world best of 5.00 m (16'5") at Sweetbriar College Field Day, dated 1913 by the IAAF progression and 1916 by another history; a pre-federation reference mark, not a ratified record.
Ellen Hollman
Ellen Hollman (born 1983, Detroit) is an American actress, producer, and writer known for Saxa in Spartacus, Echo in The Matrix Resurrections, and Brenner Baker in Army of One, plus NCIS: New Orleans and Visual Impact Now charity work.
Ellen Holly
Ellen Virginia Holly (1931-2023), American stage and television actress; first African American lead on daytime TV as Carla Gray on One Life to Live from 1968, created by Agnes Nixon; Broadway work in Too Late the Phalarope; autobiography One Life (1996).
Ellen Hoog
Ellen Hoog (Ellen Marijn Hoog, born 1986, Bloemendaal) is a Dutch former field hockey attacker, 232 caps, Olympic gold 2008 and 2012, silver 2016, world champion 2006 and 2014, FIH Player of the Year 2014.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 1938) is a Liberian economist and politician, Africa's first female democratically elected head of state, 24th president of Liberia 2006–2018, and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Ellen Jorgensen
Ellen Jorgensen is an American molecular biologist who co-founded Genspace in Brooklyn in 2010, the first publicly accessible community biotechnology laboratory, and later founded Biotech Without Borders.
Ellen Key
Ellen Key (Ellen Karolina Sofia Key) was a Swedish author and educator whose book The Century of the Child (1900) shaped European debates on childhood and schooling.
Ellen Kuzwayo
Ellen Kuzwayo, full name Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo, was a South African writer and activist whose autobiography Call Me Woman won the 1986 CNA Literary Award.
Ellen L. Hollander
Ellen L. Hollander, also known as Ellen Lipton Hollander, is an American federal judge for the District of Maryland, appointed by Obama in 2011 and senior since 2022.
Ellen Langer
Ellen Langer (born 1947) is an American social psychologist, Harvard professor, and 'mother of mindfulness,' known for the 1975 illusion-of-control paper and the 1979 Counterclockwise aging study.
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft is an American psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health known for research on pediatric bipolar disorder and severe chronic irritability in children.
Ellen MacArthur
Dame Ellen MacArthur, British yachtswoman (Vendée Globe 2001 runner-up; 2005 solo round-the-world record, 71 days), retired 2009 and founded the Ellen MacArthur Foundation for the circular economy.
Ellen Markman
Ellen Markman, born 1947, is an American developmental and cognitive psychologist, the Lewis M. Terman Professor at Stanford, known for research on how young children learn words and build categories.
Ellen McLain
Ellen McLain is an American opera singer and voice actress from Nashville, Tennessee, best known as the voice of GLaDOS, the artificial intelligence antagonist of Valve's Portal games.
Ellen Mosley-Thompson
Ellen Mosley-Thompson is an American glaciologist and paleoclimatologist at Ohio State University who led ice core drilling expeditions to Antarctica and Greenland and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009.
Ellen Muller Preis
Ellen Muller Preis (Ellen Preis, Ellen Sigurd Hildegard Müller-Preis, 1912-2007), Austrian foil fencer; 1932 Olympic gold, 1936 and 1948 bronze, five Games, three world titles.
Ellen Muth
Ellen Anna Muth is an American actress, born in 1981, best known for playing Georgia "George" Lass in the Showtime series Dead Like Me and its 2009 film follow-up.
Ellen Niit
Ellen Niit (born Ellen Hiob, 1928–2016) was an Estonian children's writer, poet, and translator who published more than 40 children's books and was the wife of Jaan Kross.
Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Lauri Ochoa, born 1958, is an American engineer and NASA astronaut who became the first Hispanic woman in space in 1993 and later directed the Johnson Space Center.