Famous People with Name Ellen

Ellen Burstyn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Burstyn: is an American Academy Award-winning actress. Burstyn was born Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Correine Marie (née Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly, who was a building contractor

Ellen DeGeneres            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen DeGeneres: is an American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress. She currently hosts the Emmy Award-winning syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Ellen Philpotts-Page            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Philpotts-Page: is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian actress best known for her role as the title character in the 2007 film Juno. For this performance, Page received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress.

Ellen Rona Barkin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Rona Barkin: is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress.

Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit: was an American senior research astronomer at Yale University.Hoffleit was born in Florence, Alabama and earned her Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College in 1938. Starting as a research assistant at the Harvard College Observatory in 1929, she was hired as an astronomer at Harvard in 1948. She remained there until moving to Yale in 1956, staying until her 1975 retirement.

Heinz Ellenberg            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinz Ellenberg: was a German biologist, botanist and ecologist. Ellenberg was an advocate of viewing ecological systems through holistic means.In 1932 he moved to Montpellier, where he started his studies of ecology under the direction of Swiss ecologist Josias Braun-Blanquet. Later he studied botany, zoology, chemistry and geology in Heidelberg, Hanover and Göttingen, where he obtained a doctorate in 1938 in Göttingen under Franz Firbas.After completing his doctorate he worked at the central office for vegetation mapping in Hannover under the direction of Reinhold Tüxen and during World War II served in a "research relay". Ellenberg successfully worked on developing roof plantings of bunkers that would allow them to blend in with landscape and deceive hostile airplanes.

Henry Clayton Ellenbogen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry Clayton Ellenbogen: was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Ellenbogen was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses and served until his resignation in 1938, having been elected judge of t

Paul Ellender            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Paul Ellender: is an English professional footballer currently playing Central Defender for Boston. He is Boston's Club Skipper and joined Boston in 2001 from Scarborough for £80,000, a Club Record fee. He joined Scunthorpe from school in 1993 but never made a first team appearance so joined Gainsborough in 1994.

Allen Joseph Ellender            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allen Joseph Ellender: was a popular U.S. senator from Houma, Louisiana (Terrebonne Parish), who served from 1937 until his death. He was a Democrat who was originally allied with the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr.. As Senator he compiled a generally conservative record, votin

Meyer C. Ellenstein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Meyer C. Ellenstein: served as Mayor of Newark, New Jersey from 1933 to 1941.Ellenstein assumed the office as Mayor of Newark in 1933. He was a vocal critic of New York City Mayor LaGuardia's attempt to expand North Beach Airport (later known as LaGuardia Airport) for commerc