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Ellie van den Brom

Ellie van den Brom (Elisabeth Margot van den Brom, born 1949, Amsterdam) is a Dutch former long-track speed skater who competed at the 1968 and 1972 Winter Olympics and held the 1,000 m world record, 1:30.0, from February 1969 to January 1970.

Ellie White

Ellie White (born 1989) is an English actress, writer and comedian; star of Ellie & Natasia with Natasia Demetriou, Princess Beatrice in The Windsors, Katia in Stath Lets Flats, and leads in The Other One and Dick Turpin.

Ellington (Mercurian crater)

Ellington crater, Mercury, IAU-approved 2012, 216.05 km diameter, centered at -12.85°, 333.82°W, quadrangle H-10; named for American composer Duke Ellington (1899-1974).

Elliot

Elliot (also Elliott, Eliot, Eliott) is an English given name and surname from a medieval diminutive of Elias/Elijah, meaning "Yahweh is God"; a Scottish Border clan name, now a popular unisex first name in the US and UK.

Elliot Alpert

Elliot Alpert is an American medical researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who established alpha-fetoprotein as a marker for liver cancer and fetal neural tube defects.

Elliot Anderson (footballer)

Elliot Anderson is an English central midfielder born in 2002 in Whitley Bay who joined Manchester City from Nottingham Forest in 2026 and plays for England.

Elliot B. Tapper

Elliot B. Tapper is an American hepatologist at the University of Michigan who directs the Michigan Cirrhosis Program and is known for work on non-invasive liver fibrosis assessment.

Elliot Brandt

Elliot Brandt (אליוט ברנדט) is CEO of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, since succeeding Howard Kohr in 2024; a Stanford graduate who joined AIPAC in 1994 and led its Western States region. Distinct from attorney Elliot Brandt Gipson and the Great Wolf Resorts manager of the same name.

Elliot Cowan

Elliot Cowan (born 1976, London) is a British actor known as Mr. Darcy in Lost in Austen, Daron-Vex in Krypton, Lewis Pirenne in Foundation, Jack Smurl in The Conjuring: Last Rites, and an award-winning classical stage performer.

Elliot Douglas

Elliot P. Douglas is an American materials scientist and engineering-education researcher at the University of Florida, honored with a 1997 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Elliot Easton

Elliot Easton (born Elliot Steinberg, 1953) is the American left-handed lead guitarist of new wave band the Cars (1976-1988, Rock Hall 2018), known for composed genre-blending solos, the 1985 solo album Change No Change, and signature guitars from Kramer, Gretsch, Gibson, and Martin.

Elliot Fletcher

Elliot Fletcher (born 1996) is an American transgender actor from Los Angeles, known as Noah in Faking It, Aaron Baker in The Fosters, and Trevor in Shameless, plus voice roles in Tekkonkinkreet and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.

Elliot Geidt

Elliot Geidt is a venture capitalist who has been a Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures since 2012, best known for his investment in the Brazilian digital lender Nubank.

Elliot Grainge

Elliot Grainge (born 1993) is a British-born music executive, son of UMG chief Lucian Grainge, founder of 10K Projects (Ice Spice, Trippie Redd), sold 51% to Warner for $102 million, and CEO of Atlantic Music Group since October 2024.

Elliot Handler

Elliot Handler was an American toy designer and business executive who co-founded Mattel with his wife Ruth in 1945 and created Hot Wheels, introduced in 1968.

Elliot Israel

Elliot Israel is an American pulmonary physician-scientist who directs asthma research at Brigham and Women's Hospital and led the PREPARE trial of as-needed inhaled corticosteroids.

Elliot James Reay

Elliot James Reay, also styled Elliot James Reay (born 2002, Bury, England), is an English retro rock and roll singer-songwriter. Known for TikTok kitchen videos and the viral debut single "I Think They Call This Love" (2024), his EP All This to Say I Love You (2025) came via Interscope/EMI.

Elliot Knight

Elliot Knight, English actor born 1990 in Birmingham, trained at Manchester School of Theatre; starred in Sinbad (2012), played Merlin in Once Upon a Time, and voices Kyle 'Gaz' Garrick in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, also starring in The Boys (2024) and Countdown (2025).

Elliot Krane

Elliot J. Krane is an American pediatric anesthesiologist and pain-medicine specialist who led the Pain Management Service at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford from 1994 to 2023.

Elliot L. Chaikof

Elliot L. Chaikof is an American vascular surgeon and bioengineer serving as Surgeon-in-Chief at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Elliot L. Elson

Elliot L. Elson is an American biochemist and biophysicist, professor emeritus at Washington University School of Medicine, who co-developed fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and FRAP and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Elliot Lee

Elliot Robert Lee (born 1994), English attacking midfielder and striker, son of Rob Lee; West Ham, Luton Town, and Wrexham, where he won National League and League Two titles before a Doncaster Rovers loan and 2026 departure.

Elliot M. Frohman

Elliot M. Frohman is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist specializing in multiple sclerosis, who founded the MS program at UT Southwestern and led its optical coherence tomography research.

Elliot M. Meyerowitz

Elliot Meyerowitz is an American plant developmental biologist, the George W. Beadle Professor at Caltech, known for establishing Arabidopsis as a model organism and the ABC model of flower development.

Elliot Moore II

Elliot Moore II is an American electrical and computer engineer and associate professor at Georgia Tech whose voice signal processing research targets depression, aphasia, and Alzheimer's disease.

Elliot Page

Elliot Page, formerly Ellen Page, is a Canadian actor born 1987 in Halifax, known for Juno (Oscar-nominated), Hard Candy, X-Men, Inception, and The Umbrella Academy; came out as trans in 2020, Time cover 2021, memoir Pageboy 2023.

Elliot Reid

Elliot Reid is the fictional internal-medicine doctor in Scrubs (2001-2010 and the 2026 ABC revival), played by Sarah Chalke; J.D. Dorian's on-off love interest, later his wife and then amicable ex-wife.

Elliot Richardson

Elliot Richardson (1920–1999), American Republican official from Massachusetts, held four Cabinet posts under Nixon and Ford. As 69th Attorney General he resigned October 20, 1973 rather than fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in the Saturday Night Massacre.

Elliot Rodger

Elliot Rodger (1991–2014), London-born son of director Peter Rodger, killed six in the 2014 Isla Vista attack after two years of planning; his manifesto and incel canonization as 'The Supreme Gentleman' shaped misogynistic-extremism research.

Elliot S. Vesell

Elliot S. Vesell (1933–2018) was an American pharmacologist who founded and chaired the Department of Pharmacology at Penn State College of Medicine and helped establish pharmacogenetics through twin studies showing that drug response is inherited.