# 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.
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 Rae Simpson Beason (died 1985), American murder victim
* 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 Bushell (1884-1948), Irish textile artist and political activist
* Ellen Burstyn (born 1932), American actress
* Ellen Maria Carpenter (1830–1908), American painter
* Ellen Cahill (1863 – 1934), Irish-Australian street singer also known as "Killarney Kate"
* Ellen Carter (1762–1815), English artist
* Ellen Christenson (born 1938), American singer
* Ellen Cleghorne (born 1965), American comedian and actress
* Ellen Cobb (born 1940), retired British judoka
* Ellen Melicent Cobden (1848–1914), British writer and suffragist
* Ellen Corby (1911–1999), American actress
* Ellen Corkrum, Liberian philanthropist politician and presidential candidate and convicted criminal
* 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 F. Davis (born 1950), American theologian and Old Testament scholar
* 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 Greenberg (1983–2011), American suicide victim
* 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 (1940–2023), 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 Manderfield (1916–1999), American industrial designer
* 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 Parker (born 1949), American actress
* 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 Sarjeant (1868 - 1939), New Zealand artist, curator, registrar and philanthropist
* 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 Stevenson (née Borden, 1907–1972), American socialite and First Lady of Illinois
* 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 Urbani (born 1969), American author
* 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

## Fictional characters

* Ellen, a character in the post-apocalyptic short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
* Ellen, one of the two main characters in the book series and animated television series Edgar & Ellen
* Ellen, the main character in the American animated television series Ellen's Acres
* Ellen, a character in the 1990 American comedy movie Ski Patrol
* Ellen, a character in the 1997 American drama television movie Deep Family Secrets
* Ellen, a character in the 2000 American fantasy-comedy TV movie Life-Size
* Ellen, a character in the 2016 American workplace teen comedy movie Hickey
* Ellen, a character in the American science fiction horror film Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys
* Ellen, a character in the American TV sitcom Will & Grace
* Ellen Ashland, a character in the movie Sightless
* Ellen Bains, a character from the movie Back to the Future
* Ellen Berent, a character in the 1988 American made-for-television drama film Too Good to Be True
* Ellen Blake, a character played by Loni Anderson in the 1984 TV movie My Mother's Secret Life
* Ellen Brody, a character in the Jaws movie franchise
* Ellen Foxworthy, a fictional character in the webcomic Schlock Mercenary
* Ellen Grant, the main character in the 1949 American comedy movie Miss Grant Takes Richmond
* Mrs. Ellen Hartley, a character in the American 1947 Drama movie Seven Were Saved
* Ellen Hutter, the main protagonist in the classic silent film Nosferatu
* Ellen Joe, a playable character in the video game Zenless Zone Zero
* Ellen Johnson, a character in the American teen comedy drama Teenage Bounty Hunters
* Ellen Kurokawa, a character in the Japanese anime series Suite PreCure (also called Eren)
* Ellen Lamb, character in the 1985 science fiction movie D.A.R.Y.L.
* Ellen Lindsey, the main character in the movie 1974 American made-for-television drama Can Ellen Be Saved
* Ellen Macauley, in One of Us Is Lying
* 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 Reed, a character who appeared in five episodes of the American TV sitcom Family Ties
* Ellen Ripley, a character in the Alien film series
* Ellen Rockland, a character in the 1988 American science-fiction horror movie Pulse