Ellie

For other uses, see Ellie (disambiguation).

Ellie or Elly is a given name, usually feminine, a shortened form of Eloise, Eliana, Elaina, Elena, Eleanor, Emily, Eliza, Emelia, Elspeth, Elissa, Elham, Elliot or Elizabeth, but also a given name in its own right. It is also occasionally a nickname. It may refer to:

People

Women

• Elly Ameling (born 1933), Dutch soprano
• Elly Appel-Vessies (born 1962), Dutch retired tennis player
• Elly Beinhorn (1907-2007), German pilot
• Petronella Elly Blanksma-van den Heuvel (born 1959), Dutch politician
• Elisabeth Ellie van den Brom (born 1949), Dutch retired speed skater
• Ellie Brush (born 1988), Australian footballer
• Ellie Cole (born 1991), Australian Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player
• Ellie Cornell (born 1963), American actress and movie producer
• Ellie Crisell (born 1976), British journalist and television presenter
• Eleanor Ellie Daniel (born 1950), American retired swimmer
• Elissa Ellie Downie (born 1999), British artistic gymnast
• Ellie Drennan (born 1998), Australian singer-songwriter, youngest winner of The Voice Australia
• Elena Ellie Goulding (born 1986), British singer, songwriter and musician
• Eleanor Ellie Greenwich (1940-2009), American pop singer, songwriter and record producer
• Ellie Greenwood (born 1979), British ultramarathon runner
• Els de Groen (born 1949), Dutch author and politician
• Elly Gross (born 1929), Jewish Holocaust survivor and author
• Elly Hakami (born 1969), American retired tennis player
• Ellie Harrison (artist) (born 1979), British artist
• Eleanor Ellie Harrison (journalist) (born 1977), British journalist best known for her television wildlife work
• Elisabeth Elly Heuss-Knapp (1881-1952), German politician, social reformer, author and wife of German president Theodor Heuss
• Ellie Hill (born 1975), American politician
• Elisa Elly van Hulst (born 1959), Dutch retired middle-distance runner
• Eleanor Elly Jackson (born 1988), British singer, songwriter and the sole member of La Roux, a former synthpop duo
• Ellie Kanner, American film and television director
• Ellie Kawamura (born 1993), American figure skater
• Elizabeth Ellie Kemper (born 1980), American actress, comedian and writer
• Eleanor Ellie Kendrick (born 1998), British actress
• Ellie Krieger (born 1965), American nutritionist, author and host of the television show Healthy Appetite
• Ellie Lambeti (1926-1983), Greek actress
• Elly Lieber (born 1932), Austrian former luger, 1959 world champion
• Elly Ney (1882–1968), German romantic pianist
• Elly M. Peterson (1914-2008), American politician
• Pieternella Elly Plooij-van Gorsel (born 1947), Dutch politician
• Ellie Raymond (born 1991), Australian footballer
• Eleanor Ellie Simmonds (born 1994), British Paralympian swimmer
• Elly Stone (born 1927), American singer and actress
• Elly de Waard (born 1940), Dutch poet
• Ellie Watton (born 1989), British field hockey player
• Elly Yunara (1923-1992), Indonesian film actress and producer

Men

• Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor.
• Elrod Hendricks (1940-2005), American Major League Baseball catcher and coach
• Elston Howard (1929-1980), American baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball
• Elly Idris (born 1962), Indonesian football coach and former player
• Eleazer Elly Kadoorie (1867-1944), Jewish businessman and philanthropist in China and Hong Kong
• Elly Kayanja (born 1959), Ugandan brigadier
• Elly Kleinman (born 1952), Jewish-American business executive and philanthropist
• Elly Lefort (born 1987), French and Monegasque bobsledder
• Elly Rono (born 1970), Kenyan former long-distance runner
• Ellie G. Shuler, Jr. (born 1936), retired United States Air Force lieutenant general
• Elly Tumwine (born 1954), Ugandan general and politician
• Elly Wamala (1935-2004), Ugandan musician

Fictional characters

• Ellie Arroway, the main character in Carl Sagan's science fiction novel Contact and the film based on it
• Eleanor Bartlet, the middle daughter of President Jed Bartlet on the television show The West Wing
• Ellie Rebecca Brass, on the American crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Eleanor Elly Conway, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Eleanor Miss Ellie Ewing, on the American soap opera Dallas
• Ellie Fredricksen, in Disney–Pixar's 2009 film Up
• Ellie Linton, the protagonist of the novel Tomorrow When the War Began
• Ellie Miller, a main character on the television crime drama Broadchurch
• Eleanor Ellie Mills, on the British soap opera Hollyoaks
• Ellie Nash, in Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Ellie Riggs, the protagonist of the American sitcom Watching Ellie, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus
• Dr. Ellie Sattler, in Jurassic Park (novel and film), Jurassic Park III and Jurassic Park IV
• Ellie Torres, a main character on the television show Cougar Town
• Elly Van Houten, in the Xenogears video game
• Elinor "Ellie" Walker, from the 1960s television show The Andy Griffith Show
• Ellie Woodcomb, on the American series Chuck'
• Ellie, a female mammoth in the 2006 film Ice Age: The Meltdown, the 2009 film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and the 2012 film Ice Age: Continental Drift
• Ellie, a ghost in Elly & Jools, an Australian children's television series
• Elly, an elephant in Pocoyo, a Spanish-British pre-school animated television series
• Ellie (The Last of Us), a main character from the video game The Last of Us
• Ellie, in the novel The Roar by Emma Clayton

Other uses

• Ellie Awards, the nickname of the US National Magazine Awards

See also

• Elly May Clampett, a main character in the American television series The Beverly Hillbillies
• Elle (disambiguation)
• Elli (disambiguation)
• Elly (disambiguation)
• Elie Rous (1909-?), English football manager, primarily in France