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I recognize there are a lot of negative associations with this name celebrity-wise but for me, there are even more positive. Ellen Baker was the first lady of my hometown Bakersfield, and was the first schoolteacher here. My favorite Horror movie, Rose Red was based off the fictional diary, the diary of Ellen Rimbauer, which in turn was based off of the real life of Sarah Winchester, which I find spooky and cool in a gothic sort of way. Ellen Miles (one of my favorite children's authors) as well as Ellen Raskin who wrote the Westing Game which I adore, Ellen Arthur (who went by Nell) was a first lady, as well as Ellen Wilson. My favorite author of all time is Eleanor Hibbert, but I can't use that as we have a Nora in the family and that just sounds too similar to my ear. I just haven't decided if I want to use it as a middle or first name. I love Nell as a nickname. Not as fond of Ellie, though.
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Cecilia Ellen Kallin is a Swedish singer and songwriter.
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Ellen MacDonald is a Scottish Gaelic singer and dubbing actress.
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Ellen Fuwafuwaatama Aureus is a witch from the manga Hatarakimono, though she's better known for her guest appearance in Touhou Yumejikuu ~ the Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream. She's managed to attain immortality, but suffers from amnesia as a result.
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Ellen Kurokawa (formerly known as Siren) is a main character from the 2011 anime series "Suite Pretty Cure♪". Her alter ego is Cure Beat.
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Ellen McCormack was an anti-abortion crusader who attained national prominence running two presidential campaigns solely focused on anti-abortion activism.
McCormack was a self-described Long Island housewife who was inspired to get involved in politics by the fight over abortion legalization. A devout Catholic, she had no political experience when she became a founder and chairwoman of New York’s Right to Life Party in 1970. The party, founded in response to the 1970 legalization of abortion in New York, had one goal: a human life amendment to the Constitution, outlawing abortion nationwide.
The Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade galvanized groups like the Right to Life Party. These groups built coalitions based on their opposition to abortion, often in tandem with opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. The Right to Life Party decided to use electoral politics to further their cause: A woman named Barbara Keating was nominated by the party for the Senate in 1974, running against incumbent Sen. Jacob Javits (R) and challenger Ramsey Clark (D). Keating earned just under 16% of the vote, some 800,000 ballots; though around 1.5 million votes less than winner Javits, it was a respectable sum for a third-party candidate. Encouraged, the party decided to take the fight national in 1976: Right to Life Party chair Ellen McCormack would run for president, not on the Right to Life Party line but on the Democratic Party line.
McCormack’s campaign ran against much of the Democratic Party orthodoxy of the time. Indeed, while nuances abounded among the party faithful and the party’s elected officials, the 1976 Democratic Party platform included an endorsement of the Equal Rights Amendment and of Roe v. Wade. Feminism was not a partisan endeavor, but it seemed to have imbued much of the Democratic establishment.
McCormack used her campaign as a way to demonstrate that this platform, an indeed the feminist movement of the period, did not speak for all women. McCormack was explicit in this goal, declaring she wanted to “neutralize what feminists are doing.”
McCormack did take other positions during the campaign. She favored Soviet-American détente, opposed busing to integrate schools and said neither Israel nor Egypt should be sold American arms. But anti-abortion activism was the primary motivator behind her candidacy.
This proved surprisingly successful for voters in the primary. McCormack won no primaries, but did receive 260,000 votes in 20 state primaries, outperforming multiple senators and a sitting governor. This was only around 1.5% of the vote (winning candidate Jimmy Carter won some 40% of the primary vote), but it was enough for McCormack to receive 22 delegates at the Democratic National Convention. It was, however, just roughly a quarter of the votes Keating had received in the Senate race.
McCormack’s campaign marked several firsts. She appeared on the most primary ballots of any woman running for the presidency to that point. Thanks to shifts in campaign finance law, she was the first to receive federal matching funds, meaning she became the first woman running for the office to run televised national advertisements. One featured McCormack with a baby; another featured McCormack with Dr. Mildred Jefferson, the first Black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School and a prominent anti-abortion activist at the time. (McCormack’s federal funds led to controversy over whether or not her campaign had misused amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, the argument being that single-issue campaigns were never meant to receive such support. Congress amended the act in March 1976 in response to McCormack’s campaign.) She also received round-the-clock Secret Service protection and is often cited as the first woman to receive said protection. (Shirley Chisholm received Secret Service protection in 1972 after the attempted assassination of fellow candidate George Wallace.)
After the 1976 campaign, McCormack decided to only run for office on the Right to Life Party line. She was the party’s nominee for New York’s lieutenant governor in 1978. She also ran again for president on the Right to Life Party line, but by 1980, the party was largely depleted in both energy and resources. Anti-abortion activism had become a central tenant of the rising Moral Majority, a big player in the Republican Party at the 1970s drew to a close. In fact, Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign repeatedly sought McCormack’s endorsement; Reagan himself called her at one point. Nonetheless, she refused. Her campaign received around 34,000 votes in 1980, a fraction of her 1976 support.
McCormack largely disappeared from the political world after 1980. She died in 2011 of heart ailment that originated during one of her pregnancies. Doctors had apparently adamantly suggested abortion; she had refused.
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McCormack was a self-described Long Island housewife who was inspired to get involved in politics by the fight over abortion legalization. A devout Catholic, she had no political experience when she became a founder and chairwoman of New York’s Right to Life Party in 1970. The party, founded in response to the 1970 legalization of abortion in New York, had one goal: a human life amendment to the Constitution, outlawing abortion nationwide.
The Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade galvanized groups like the Right to Life Party. These groups built coalitions based on their opposition to abortion, often in tandem with opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. The Right to Life Party decided to use electoral politics to further their cause: A woman named Barbara Keating was nominated by the party for the Senate in 1974, running against incumbent Sen. Jacob Javits (R) and challenger Ramsey Clark (D). Keating earned just under 16% of the vote, some 800,000 ballots; though around 1.5 million votes less than winner Javits, it was a respectable sum for a third-party candidate. Encouraged, the party decided to take the fight national in 1976: Right to Life Party chair Ellen McCormack would run for president, not on the Right to Life Party line but on the Democratic Party line.
McCormack’s campaign ran against much of the Democratic Party orthodoxy of the time. Indeed, while nuances abounded among the party faithful and the party’s elected officials, the 1976 Democratic Party platform included an endorsement of the Equal Rights Amendment and of Roe v. Wade. Feminism was not a partisan endeavor, but it seemed to have imbued much of the Democratic establishment.
McCormack used her campaign as a way to demonstrate that this platform, an indeed the feminist movement of the period, did not speak for all women. McCormack was explicit in this goal, declaring she wanted to “neutralize what feminists are doing.”
McCormack did take other positions during the campaign. She favored Soviet-American détente, opposed busing to integrate schools and said neither Israel nor Egypt should be sold American arms. But anti-abortion activism was the primary motivator behind her candidacy.
This proved surprisingly successful for voters in the primary. McCormack won no primaries, but did receive 260,000 votes in 20 state primaries, outperforming multiple senators and a sitting governor. This was only around 1.5% of the vote (winning candidate Jimmy Carter won some 40% of the primary vote), but it was enough for McCormack to receive 22 delegates at the Democratic National Convention. It was, however, just roughly a quarter of the votes Keating had received in the Senate race.
McCormack’s campaign marked several firsts. She appeared on the most primary ballots of any woman running for the presidency to that point. Thanks to shifts in campaign finance law, she was the first to receive federal matching funds, meaning she became the first woman running for the office to run televised national advertisements. One featured McCormack with a baby; another featured McCormack with Dr. Mildred Jefferson, the first Black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School and a prominent anti-abortion activist at the time. (McCormack’s federal funds led to controversy over whether or not her campaign had misused amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, the argument being that single-issue campaigns were never meant to receive such support. Congress amended the act in March 1976 in response to McCormack’s campaign.) She also received round-the-clock Secret Service protection and is often cited as the first woman to receive said protection. (Shirley Chisholm received Secret Service protection in 1972 after the attempted assassination of fellow candidate George Wallace.)
After the 1976 campaign, McCormack decided to only run for office on the Right to Life Party line. She was the party’s nominee for New York’s lieutenant governor in 1978. She also ran again for president on the Right to Life Party line, but by 1980, the party was largely depleted in both energy and resources. Anti-abortion activism had become a central tenant of the rising Moral Majority, a big player in the Republican Party at the 1970s drew to a close. In fact, Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign repeatedly sought McCormack’s endorsement; Reagan himself called her at one point. Nonetheless, she refused. Her campaign received around 34,000 votes in 1980, a fraction of her 1976 support.
McCormack largely disappeared from the political world after 1980. She died in 2011 of heart ailment that originated during one of her pregnancies. Doctors had apparently adamantly suggested abortion; she had refused.
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Ellen Andersdatter Oskal is a Norwegian Sámi Singer.
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Ellen Vingren is a Swedish singer, member of the duo Silver.
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Ellen Rosen is the name of a character in the book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.
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Fiona's (from the Swedish duo Rebecca & Fiona) full name is Fiona Ellen Aurora FitzPatrick.
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Ellen Radka Toneff was a Norwegian jazz singer of Bulgarian descent.
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Ellen Tebbits is a character by Beverly Cleary.
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Ellen Kangru Pao is the disgraced former CEO of Reddit.
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Jill Ellen Andrews is an American singer/songwriter.
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Ingrid Ellen Michaelson is an American singer/songwriter.
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Ellen Doty is a Canadian jazz singer.
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Swedish singer Linnea Henriksson's full name is Ellen Linnea Petrea Henriksson.
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Ellen Gleditsch (1879-1968) was a Norwegian radiochemist. She is famous for establishing the half-life of radium and for confirming the existence of isotopes.
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Ellen is the name of a Flemish speech synthesiser created by Scansoft, as well as an English American one created by Nokia for its phones with Symbian.
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Ellen Sofie Hovland is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and psychologist.
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This is seen as a very “queer” name because of many LGBTQ and liberal bearers like Ellen Degeneres and Ellen Page.
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Ellen is the name of one of the household servants in the Mary Poppins film.
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Ellen West is the name of Rose West's older sister in Rainbow Valley. She eventually marries Norman Douglas.
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 24th and current president of Liberia.
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Ellen is the mother in Disney Channel's show, Dog With A Blog.
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Ellen Raskin (1928-1984) is the author of The Westing Game.
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Ellen Ripley is the name of the protagonist from the Alien horror franchise.
I now think of Ellen as the name of a strong, tough woman who keeps a clear head in difficult situations.
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I now think of Ellen as the name of a strong, tough woman who keeps a clear head in difficult situations.
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Ellen is a character in Ken Follett's "Pillars of the Earth". She is a strong and rebellious woman, mysterious to most, but a loving mother and wife.
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Ellen Naomi Cohen was better known as "Mama" Cass Elliot.
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Ellen Willmott (1858 - 1934) was a famous bearer of this name; she was a famous gardener and women's rights activist of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. In effect, she paved the way for women in the horticultural workplace. :)
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Quite a few celebrities have this name. Comedian Ellen DeGeneres and actresses Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, Ellen Muth, Ellen Page and Ellen Pompeo from Grey's Anatomy.
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Another famous bearer is the English sailor Dame Ellen McArthur.
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Ellen Greene (born February 22, 1951) is an American singer and actress. She has appeared in film, television, theater, and cabaret. Among her best known roles including originating the role of Audrey in the stage version of "Little Shop of Horrors" off-Broadway in 1982 and the subsequent 1986 film adaptation. She also appeared in a Broadway productions of "The Threepenny Opera".
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The actress Ellen Muth played the character "Georgia Lass" in the Showtime show titled "Dead Like Me."
I like this name. I think it is simple, yet elegant. One could use the nickname "Ellie" if one so desired. I find the nickname "Ellie" to be very cute and tasteful.
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I like this name. I think it is simple, yet elegant. One could use the nickname "Ellie" if one so desired. I find the nickname "Ellie" to be very cute and tasteful.
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Ellen Hopkins, the author of Crank and Glass, among many other amazing novels.
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Ellen McLain is an actress and operatic soprano who has done extensive voicework for the Valve game corporation. She won an AIAS Interactive Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character Performance for her portrayal of GLaDOS, the AI antagonist from the darkly humorous puzzle game "Portal".
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A famous bearer is American actress Ellen Tyne Daly, better known as Tyne Daly (born February 21, 1946). She is well-known for her many television roles, including Mary Beth Lacey in 'Cagney and Lacey' from 1982 to 1988, Alice Henderson in 'Christy' from 1994 to 1995, and Maxine Gray in 'Judging Amy' from 1999 to 2005. In total, she's won 6 Emmy Awards for these roles, out of 14 nominations. She also won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her role as Mama Rose in the 1989 revival of 'Gypsy,' the second actress to win a Tony for the role. She received an additional nomination in 2006 for a supporting role in 'Rabbit Hole.'
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Countess Ellen Olanski, one of the main characters in "The Age of Innocence" bears this name.
Far less glamourus, but also portrayed by a lovely blonde: Ellen Griswold from the National Lampoon's Vacation movies.
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Far less glamourus, but also portrayed by a lovely blonde: Ellen Griswold from the National Lampoon's Vacation movies.
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Ellen Page is an actress who stars in the movie "Juno".
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Hurricane Ellen struck in 1973.
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The assistant Secretary of state is an Ellen. It's my name too and I love it, it is conventional enough so that people won't think "What were her parents on when they named her" but it isn't so commonplace. I have only met one other Ellen in my life.
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Ellen Dubin is an actress who had roles in Lexx, First Wave and The Collecter.
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Ellen Pompeo stars as Meredith Grey in "Grey's Anatomy."
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A famous bearer is Ellen Foley, an American rock singer of the late 1970s who sang the duet with Meat Loaf "Paradise by the Dashboard Light". Ellen has also worked on Broadway.
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Not so famous, Ellen Lister is Emma Watson's stunt double in GOF.
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Ellen G. White was the most prolific female writer of all time! She wrote information on numerous subjects that were centuries ahead of her time. One of her most famous works that baffle modern scientist is the book, "Counsels on Diet and Foods". She also wrote a prophetic classic entitled, "The Great Controversy".
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Famous bearers: Actresses Ellen Degeneres and Ellen Burstyn.
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Ellen was the name of Scarlett's mother in 'Gone with the Wind.'
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