Ellis (given name) explained
Ellis is a given name of Welsh and English origin.
Notable people with the given name include:
Men
- Ellis (Nez Perce) (c. 1810–1848), a Native American leader
- Ellis Amburn (1933–2018), American book editor and biographer
- Ellis Bent (1783–1815), British-Australian lawyer and judge
- Ellis B. Bodron (1923–1997), American lawyer and politician
- Ellis Burks (born 1964), American Major League Baseball player
- Ellis Chapman (born 2001), English footballer
- Ellis R. Dungan (1909–2001), American film director, best known for his work in Indian, particularly Tamil, films
- Ellis Genge (born 1995), English rugby union player
- Ellis Hall (1889–1949), English footballer
- Ellis Hall (musician) (born 1951), American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor and composer
- Ellis Harrison (born 1994), Welsh footballer
- Ellis Hollins (born 1999), English actor
- Ellis Jenkins (born 1993), Welsh rugby union player
- Ellis Stanley Joseph (1872?–1938), Welsh-American animal trainer
- Ellis Kadoorie (1865–1922), Jewish entrepreneur and philanthropist prominent in Hong Kong
- Ellis Marsalis Jr. (1934–2020), American jazz pianist and educator, patriarch of the musical Marsalis family
- Ellis Merriweather (born 1999), American football player
- Ellis Minns (1874–1953), British academic and archaeologist
- Ellis Paul (born 1965), American singer-songwriter and folk musician
- Ellis Rabb (1930–1998), American actor and director
- Ellis Rubin (1925–2006), American attorney famous for handling lost causes
- Ellis Sandoz (1931–2003), American academic and political scientist
- Ellis Short (born 1960), American businessman, former owner and chairman of English football club Sunderland A.F.C.
- Ellis Simms (born 2001), English footballer
- Ellis Taylor (born 2003), English footballer
- Ellis Valentine (born 1954), American Major League Baseball player
Women
- Ellis Avery (1972–2019), American writer
- Ellis Baker (1898–1984), American actress
- Ellis Bendix (1907–1951), Danish actress
- Ellis Bell (1818–1848), English novelist and poet
- Ellis Bermingham, Countess of Brandon (1708–1789), English-Irish aristocrat
- Ellis Credle (1902–1998), American writer
- Ellis Faas (1962–2020), Dutch make-up artist
- Ellis Jeffreys (1868?–1943), English actress
- Ellis Kaut (1920–2015), German author
- Ellis Knight (1757–1837), English gentlewoman, traveller, landscape artist, and writer of novels, verse, journals, and history
- Ellis MacDonnell, Countess of Antrim (c. 1583–1665), Irish aristocrat
- Ellis Meng, American professor
- Ellis Meredith (1865–1955), American suffragist, journalist and novelist
- Ellis Miller (born 2002), British slalom canoeist
- Ellis O'Reilly (born 1998), Irish-English female artistic gymnast
- Ellis Peters (1913–1995), English author
- Ellis Powell, an actress who played the lead role in Mrs Dale's Diary
- Ellis Rowan (1848–1922), Australian artist and botanical illustrator
- Ellis Reynolds Shipp (1847–1939), American doctor
- Ellis Wheeler (born 2001), American professional soccer player
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