Famous People with Name Ellen

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.

Ellen Greene            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Greene: is an American singer and actress. Greene has had a long and varied career as a singer, particularly in cabaret, as an actor and singer in numerous stage productions, particularly musical theatre, as well as having performed in many films (notably in "Little Shop of Horrors") and television programs. She currently stars as Vivian Charles on the ABC series Pushing Daisies.

Ellen Miriam Hopkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Miriam Hopkins: was an Oscar-nominated American actress.Her first great success was in Ernst Lubitsch's masterpiece Trouble in Paradise (1932), in which she proved her charm and her wit as a beautiful and jealous pickpocket. During the rest of the 1930s she appeared in such films as The Smiling Lieutenant (1931), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Becky Sharp (1935), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, Barbary Coast (1935), These Three (1936) and The Old Maid (1939). Hopkins rejected the role of Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night (1934).

Ellen Lee DeGeneres            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Lee DeGeneres: DeGeneres was born in 1958, in Metairie, Louisiana, the daughter of Elliot DeGeneres, a salesman, and Elizabeth (Betty) Jane Pfeffer.[1] She is of French, English, German and Irish descent. Along with her brother Vance DeGeneres, actor and guitarist for t

Ellen Pompeo            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ellen Pompeo: Determined to succeed in acting, Pompeo moved to Los Angeles in 2001. A turning point came when she was selected by director Brad Silberling in 2002 for a role in his film Moonlight Mile playing Jake Gyllenhaal's sympathetic love interest. She also appear

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