Ellis

Ellis Achong (1904 – 1986) was a sportsman from Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies. He played cricket for the West Indies and was the first person of known Chinese descent to play in a Test match.

Ellis Carver (played by Seth Gillam) is a fictional detective in the Baltimore Police Department in the TV show "The Wire".

Ellis is the name of the girl from the mountain who befriended an injured wolf pup in the Netflix series The Dragon Prince. She had a well known role in Season 1.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's husband and first son both bore this as a second given name - Calvin Ellis Stowe and Henry Ellis Beecher Stowe, respectively :-)

Ellis was the name of a male character from the zombie game Left 4 Dead 2.

Ellis Albert "Al" Swearengen was an American pimp and entertainment entrepreneur who ran the Gem Theater, a notorious brothel, in Deadwood, South Dakota for 22 years during the late 19th century.

Emily Bronte, sister of Anne and Charlotte Bronte, author of Wuthering Heights, went by Ellis Bell as her pen name because as a woman she could not publish her work. For girls Elise is a better name though.

Ellis Lankster, an American football player.

Ellis is the name of one of the two (female) main characters in the anime series El Cazador de la Bruja.

Ellis de Vries, the assumed name of Jewish member of the Dutch resistance Rachel Stein in the 2006 WWII film Black Book (Zwartboek). Played by Dutch actress Carice van Houten.

Ellis was the name of John McClane's wife's co-worker in the movie "Die Hard".

Ellis Island is the point in New York that many immigrants passed through in order to become United States citizens.
"Give us your tired, your poor."

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I love this connection to a place that was, for so many, a place significant of their hope in a new country of freedom where "the streets are paved with gold".

Ellis Bell was the male pseudonym of Emily Bronte.