Famous People with Name Ellen

Ellen Helen Nikolaysen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Ellen Helen Nikolaysen: a Norwegian singer/actor. She participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 as part of the Bendik Singers group with the song It's Just A Game and again as backing vocalist for fellow Bendik Singer Anne Karine Strøm in 1974 before competing in her third consecutive Eurovision this time as a solo artist in 1975 with Touch My Life With Summer. She won the Best Performance Award at the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo in 1974. In the early 1990s she began a new career as actor in musicals on Norwegian theatre stages.

Ellen Muriel Deason,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Muriel Deason,: is an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued

Ellen Foley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Foley: is an American singer and actress, who has appeared on Broadway and television, where she co-starred in the sitcom Night Court. In music, she has released three solo albums but is best known for her collaborations with the singer Meat Loaf.

Ellen Hanley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Hanley: was a musical theater performer best known for playing Fiorello H. LaGuardia's first wife in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello!.In 1952 she had a part in the musical revue Two's Company, introducing the song "Roundabout". In 1959 she took over the leadi

Ellen McIlwaine            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen McIlwaine: a singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career as a slide guitarist.McIlwaine was adopted by missionaries and raised in Kobe, Japan giving her exposure to multiple languages and cultures. She attended Canadian Academy, graduating in 1963. Her

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