Famous People with Name Ellen

Ellen Meloy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Meloy: was an American writer.She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for The Anthropology of Turquoise Meditations on Landscape, Art & Spirit (2003), a moving and humorous exploration of growing up deprived of a swimming pool in the southwest and the draining of wildlife from the southwest

Ellen Churchill Semple            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Churchill Semple: was an American geographer. Ellen was the youngest of five children by Alexander Bonner Semple and Emerine Price. She is most closely associated with work in anthropogeography and environmentalism. In a series of books and papers she communicated certain aspects of the work of German geographer Friedrich Ratzel to the Anglophone community. Standard disciplinary accounts often attribute to Semple a prevailing interest in environmental determinism, a theory that the physical environment determines culture. However, this attribution is questionable at best: much of Semple's research was in fact focused on a much milder form of geographical influences, or ways in which various geographies can potentially affect human society. This being said, t

Ellen Jane Langer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Jane Langer: professor of psychology at Harvard University who has studied the illusion of control, decision making, aging and mindfulness theory.Ellen Langer received her PhD in Social and Clinical Psychology from Yale University in 1974. In the late 1970s, she attained the noteworthy distinction clear cut of becoming the first woman to be tenured in psychology at Harvard University.[1]In 1980 she was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Other honors include the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest of the American Psychological Association, the Distinguished Contributions of Basic Science to Applied Psychology

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.

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