Lee Ellington
Lee Simon Ellington( born 3 July 1980) is an English footballer who plays as a striker.
Erik Ellington
Erik Ellington( born August 9, 1977) is an American professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and designer.
Obata Toramori
He was the father of Obata Masamori.
James Ellington (politician)
James Ellington( born December 5, 1943) is an American Republican politician.
From 1988 to 2012 he served as member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 73rd District.
John J. Ellington
John J. Ellington( born October 26, 1960) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia and former Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Mercer Ellington
Mercer Kennedy Ellington (March 11, 1919 – February 8, 1996) was an American musician, composer, and arranger.
His father was Duke Ellington, whose band Mercer led for 20 years after his father's death, and from whose musical shadow he rarely strayed.
Geezil Minerve
Harold" Geezil" Minerve( January 3, 1922- June 4, 1992) was a Cuban- born jazz alto saxophonist and flautist.
Minerve was raised in Florida and began playing music at age 12.
He played with Ida Cox early in his career, then worked as a freelance musician in New Orleans.
Following stints with Clarence Love and Ernie Fields, Minerve served in the Army from 1943 – 46, then returned to play with Fields for a short time.
He worked with Buddy Johnson from 1949- 1957, then with Mercer Ellington( 1960), Ray Charles( 1962 – 64), and Arthur Prysock.
In 1971 he joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra, filling Johnny Hodges's spot after Hodges's death.
Minerve remained with the Ellington Orchestra until 1974, then returned to play with Mercer Ellington.
He remained with the Duke Ellington orchestra under direction of Mercer Ellington( Duke's son).
Following the success of the Broadway hit" Sophisticated Lady" when he played with the orchestra on stage and the touring company, he left the orchestra for a brief time with Ruth Brown's Black and Blue Review in Paris returning to Ellington in the 80's
He did further freelance work later in the 1970s.
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than six decades.
Born in Washington, D.C.,
Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe.
Although widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a liberating principle and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music rather than to a musical genre such as jazz.
Some of the jazz musicians who were members of Ellington's orchestra, such as saxophonist Johnny Hodges, are considered to be among the best players in the idiom.
Ellington melded them into the best-known orchestral unit in the history of jazz.
Some members stayed with the orchestra for several decades.
A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format
, Ellington wrote more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, with many of his pieces having become standards.
Ellington also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, for example Juan Tizol's "Caravan", and "Perdido", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz.
In the early 1940s, Ellington began a nearly thirty-year collaboration with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writing and arranging companion.
With Strayhorn, he composed many extended compositions, or suites, as well as additional short pieces.
Following an appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, in July 1956, Ellington and his orchestra enjoyed a major revival and embarked on world tours.
Ellington recorded for most American record companies of his era, performed in several films, scored several, and composed a handful of stage musicals.
Ellington was noted for his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and for his eloquence and charisma.
His reputation continued to rise after he died, and he was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999.
Charles Ellington
Charles Porter Ellington( born 1952) FRS was a British zoologist, emeritus Fellow Downing College, Cambridge, and professor emeritus at University of Cambridge.
Bruce Ellington
Bruce Ellington( born August 22, 1991) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent.
He played college football at South Carolina and was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the fourth round of the 2014 NFL Draft.

Question: What is the place of birth of Mercer Ellington's father?
Answer: Washington