Ellery (given name)
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As a first name
- Ellery ClarkEllery ClarkEllery Harding Clark was an American athlete. He was the first modern Olympic champion in high jump and long jump.-Biography:...
, an American athlete - Ellery EskelinEllery EskelinEllery Eskelin American tenor saxophonist. Born in Wichita, Kansas, raised in Baltimore, Maryland from the age of two. His parents, Rodd Keith and Bobbie Lee, were also musicians. Rodd Keith died in 1974 in Los Angeles, California and became a cult figure after his death in the little known...
, a jazz musician - Ellery HanleyEllery HanleyEllery Cuthwyn Hanley MBE is a British former rugby league footballer of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, and former head coach of Great Britain, St. Helens and Doncaster. As a player he played most of his games at /, or /. Over a period of nineteen years, he played for Bradford Northern, Wigan, Balmain,...
, a rugby league player - Ellery HollingsworthEllery Hollingsworth (snowboarder)Ellery Hollingsworth is an American professional snowboarder from Stratton, Vermont.- Biography :Ellery started snowboarding when she was 6 years old. Ellery is a graduate of the Stratton Mountain School where she trained to be a professional snowboarder, and is currently one of the youngest...
, an American professional snowboarder - Ellery SchemppEllery SchemppEllery Schempp is an accomplished physicist and is also famous for being the primary student involved in the landmark 1963 United States Supreme Court case of Abington School District v...
(born Ellory Schempp), a physicist - Ellery QueenEllery QueenEllery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay and Manford Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee , to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction.The fictional Ellery Queen created by...
, pseudonym of authors Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee- Ellery Queen, fictional detective created by Dannay and Lee
As a second name
- William Ellery ChanningWilliam Ellery ChanningDr. William Ellery Channing was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton, one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. He was known for his articulate and impassioned sermons and public speeches, and as a prominent thinker...
, a Unitarian theologian - William Ellery Channing (poet), a Transcendental poet
- George Ellery HaleGeorge Ellery HaleGeorge Ellery Hale was an American solar astronomer.-Biography:Hale was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was educated at MIT, at the Observatory of Harvard College, , and at Berlin . As an undergraduate at MIT, he is known for inventing the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discovery of...
, an American solarSunThe Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...
astronomerAstronomerAn astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
See also
- Ellary PorterfieldEllary PorterfieldEllary Porterfield is an actress from Bend, Oregon most notable for her role as Terry "Tuff" Ryan in the 2005 film The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio.-Background:...
, actor - Eleri , a female character played by Rachel Cairns in the 2006 version of Robin Hood (2006 TV series) on BBC