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 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 Carter (1762–1815), English artist
 * Ellen Cleghorne (born 1965), American comedian and actress
 * Ellen Cobb (born 1940), retired British judoka
 * Ellen Corby (1911–1999), American actress
 * 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 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 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 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 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 2000 American fantasy-comedy TV movie Life-Size
 * 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 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 Foxworthy, a fictional character in the webcomic Schlock Mercenary
 * Mrs. Ellen Hartley, a character in the American 1947 Drama movie Seven Were Saved
 * Ellen Joe, a playable character in the video game Zenless Zone Zero
 * 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 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 Ripley, a character in the Alien film series
 * Ellen Rockland, a character in the 1988 American science-fiction horror movie Pulse