Ellie

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Gender Female Meaning "Pledged To God"		Word/name English
Pronunciation Italian: [ell'ie]French: [ellʼ i]Spanish: [ˈellie] Related names Elisabel, Elisabeth, Élisabeth, Elisabetta, Elise, Élise, Elisheba, Elisheva, Eliza, Elizabeta, Elizabeth, Elize

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:

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 Carpenter (born 2000), 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

Elli Stai (born 1954), Greek journalist and TV presenter

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

References

Ellie Wikipedia

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