Ellie
Ellie or Elly is a given name. It is often short for Elizabeth, Eleanor, Elvira, Elaine, Elena, Eliora / Eliorah, Michelle, Elnaz, Amelia, Elham, Elaheh, Eliana, Eloise, Emelia, Elisa, Ellisha, Elisha, Elesha, Shelly, Eleni, Petronella, Eleazer, Elliot, Ellis, Eliseo, Elishama, Elrod, Elron, or Elston. In Greek mythology, Ellie was the daughter of Athamas and Nephele; sister of Phrixus.
Notable people with the name include:
Women
- Elly Akira, Japanese pornographic actress and model
- Ellie Aldridge, British sailor
- Ellie as Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Irish sister singer
- Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano
- Ellie Anderson, English cricketer
- Elly Appel-Vessies, Dutch tennis player
- Ellie Baker, British athlete
- Elly Baker, British politician
- Ellie Bamber, English actress
- Elly Barnes, English activist
- Ellie Beaven, English actress
- Ellie Beer, Australian sprinter
- Elly Beinhorn, German pilot
- Ellie Black, Canadian artistic gymnast
- Ellie Blackburn, Australian rules footballer
- Elly Blanksma-van den Heuvel, Dutch politician
- Ellie Boatman, English rugby union player
- Ellie Boldman, American attorney and politician
- Elly Botbijl, Dutch fencer
- Ellie Brazil, English association footballer
- Ellie van den Brom, Dutch speed skater
- Ellie Brush, Australian association footballer
- Elly Bulkin, American writer
- Ellie Cachette, American technology executive, activist and author
- Ellie Campbell, British singer
- Ellie Carpenter, Australian footballer
- Ellie Challis, British Paralympic swimmer
- Ellie Chowns, British politician
- Ellie Cohanim, American broadcast journalist
- Ellie Cole, Australian Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player
- Elly Cordiviola, Argentine ichthyologist
- Ellie Cornell, American actress and movie producer
- Ellie Coster, Welsh cyclist
- Ellie Crisell, British journalist and television presenter
- Ellie Crowe, author
- Ellie Curson, Welsh footballer
- Ellie Dadd, English actress
- Elly Dammers, Dutch javelin thrower
- Ellie Daniel, American swimmer
- Ellie Darcey-Alden, English actress
- Ellie DeGarmo, American lacrosse player
- Ellie Dehn, American soprano
- Elly Dekker, Dutch physicist and museum curator
- Ellie Diamond, Scottish drag performer
- Ellie Dickinson, British cyclist
- Ellie Dixon, English musician
- Elly Donald, Australian cricketer
- Ellie Downie, British artistic gymnast
- Ellie Drennan, Australian singer-songwriter, youngest winner of The Voice Australia
- Ellie Dylan, executive
- Ellie Emberson, British Labour Party councillor
- Ellie Falconer, Australian cricketer
- Ellie Faulkner, British swimmer
- Ellie Ga, American artist, writer and performer
- Ellie Gall, Australian actress
- Ellie Gavalas, Australian rules footballer
- Ellie Goldstein, English model and actress
- Ellie Goulding, British singer, songwriter and musician
- Ellie Green, English rugby union player
- Ellie Greenwich, American pop singer, songwriter and record producer
- Ellie Greenwood, British ultramarathon runner
- Elly Griffiths, British author
- Elly Gross, Jewish Holocaust survivor and author
- Ellie Guggenheimer, American civic leader, author and philanthropist
- Ellie Haddington, Scottish actress
- Elly Hakami, American tennis player
- Ellie Hampson, Australian rules footballer
- Elly Haney, American feminist theologian and community activist
- Ellie Harrison (artist), British artist
- Ellie Harrison (journalist), British journalist and presenter best known for her television wildlife work
- Ellie Harvie, Canadian actress
- Elly Henes, American athlete
- Elly Heuss-Knapp, German politician, social reformer, author and wife of German president Theodor Heuss
- Ellie Highwood, British climate scientist and academic
- Ellie Hill, American politician
- Ellie Hisama, Japanese-American music theorist
- Ellie Holcomb, American singer
- Ellie Hulsebosch, New Zealand downhill mountain biker
- Elly van Hulst, Dutch middle-distance runner
- Elly Hutton, Australian sprinter
- Ellie Jackson, first wife of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
- Elly Jackson, British singer, songwriter and the sole member of La Roux, a former synthpop duo
- Elly Jannes, Swedish writer and journalist
- Ellie Jean, American soccer player
- Ellie Johnston (rugby league), Australian rugby league footballer
- Ellie Johnston (cricketer), Australian cricketer
- , Danish rapper, comedian and actress sometimes credited as simply "Ellie"
- Ellie Junod, Australian basketball player
- Ellie Kam, American figure skater
- Ellie Kanner, American film and television director
- Ellie Karvoski, American rugby union player
- Ellie Kemper, American actress, comedian and writer
- Ellie Kendrick, British actress
- Ellie Kildunne, English rugby union player
- Ellie Kinnaird, North Carolina politician
- Ellie Kisyombe, Malawian chef and human rights activist
- Elly Kjølstad, Norwegian stage actress
- Elli Kokkinou, Greek singer
- Elly Koot, Dutch model, Miss Europe 1964
- Elly Kouwenhoven, Dutch author and politician
- Ellie Koyander, British freestyle skier
- Ellie Krieger, American nutritionist, author and host of the television show Healthy Appetite
- Elly Lam, Hong Kong actress
- Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress
- Ellie Leach, English actress
- Ellie Leather, British runner
- Ellie Leek, Welsh professional footballer
- Ellie Levenson, British journalist and author
- Elly Lieber, Austrian luger, 1959 world champion
- Ellie Lust, Dutch television presenter
- Ellie MacDowall, Scottish actress
- Ellie Mason, Northern Irish footballer
- Ellie Mathews, American author
- Elly Mayday, Canadian model
- Elly Mazlein, Malaysian female singer, actress, host, comedian and radio presenter
- Ellie McCartney, Irish swimmer
- Ellie McKenzie, Australian rules footballer
- Ellie Miles, English rugby union player
- Ellie Moon, Canadian-British actress, playwright and screenwriter
- Elly Nedivi, American neuroscientist
- Ellie Nesler, American vigilante
- Ellie Newton, Canadian traveler, poet and philanthropist
- Elly Ney, German romantic pianist
- Elly Niland, Guyanese writer
- Ellie Nunn, British actress
- Elly Nurachmah, Indonesian nurse and university administrator
- Ellie Ochowicz, American speed skater
- Ellie Pashley, Australian long-distance runner
- Elly M. Peterson, American politician
- Elly Plooij-van Gorsel, Dutch politician
- Ellie Posadas, Canadian actor
- Elly Pourasef, Iranian-American audiologist
- Ellie Price, British television political journalist
- Ellie Rayer, English ice hockey player
- Ellie Reed, American actress
- Ellie Reeves, British politician
- Ellie Robinson, English Paralympic swimmer
- Ellie Roebuck, English association footballer
- Ellie Rowsell, English singer and musician
- Ellie Sanford, Australian athlete
- Elly Schlein, Italian politician
- Elly Schwab-Agallidis, Greek physicist
- Ellie Scotney, English boxer
- Ellie Scott, Northern Irish footballer
- Ellie Simmonds, British Paralympic swimmer
- Ellie Soutter, British snowboarder
- Elli Stai, Greek journalist and TV presenter
- Ellie Stewart, English footballer
- Ellie Stokes, American-born Saint Kitts and Nevis footballer
- Ellie Stone, British cyclist
- Elly Stone, American singer and actress
- Elly Tanaka, American biochemist
- Ellie Taylor, English comedian
- Ellie Tesher, Canadian journalist
- Elly Vilhjálms, Icelandic singer
- Elly de Waard, Dutch poet
- Ellie Walbruch, American soccer player
- Ellie Watton, British field hockey player
- Ellie Wheeler, American soccer player
- Ellie White, English actress
- Ellie White (musician), Romanian singer
- Ellie Whiteaker, Australian politician
- Ellie Wilson, English footballer
- Elly Winter, German communist and political activist
- Elly Yunara, Indonesian actress
Men
- Elly (dancer), Japanese dancer and rapper
- Ellie Allen, Irish rugby union player
- Elly De La Cruz, Dominican Major League Baseball infielder
- Ellie Diamond, Scottish drag performer
- Ellie Fredericks, American cinematographer
- Ellie Hendricks, American Major League Baseball catcher and coach
- Ellie Howard, American baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball
- Elly Idris, Indonesian football coach and former player
- Elly Ilias, Malaysian motorcycle racer
- Elly Kadoorie, Jewish businessman and philanthropist in China and Hong Kong
- Elly Katunguka, Ugandan veterinarian and academic administrator
- Elly Kayanja, Ugandan brigadier
- Elly Kenner, Israeli film editor, director and producer
- Elly Kitamireke, Ugandan field hockey player
- Elly Kleinman, American business executive and philanthropist
- Elly Lefort, French and Monegasque bobsledder
- Ellie Mannette, Trinidadian musical instrument maker
- Elly Ochola, Kenyan boxer
- Elly Ollarves, Venezuelan sprinter
- Elly Pamatong, Filipino lawyer and politician
- Ellie Pringle, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Elly Randriamampionona, Malagasy basketball player
- Ellie Rodríguez, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball catcher
- Elly Rono, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Elly Rous, English football manager
- Elly Sabiiti, Ugandan professor
- Ellie Salkow, South African entrepreneur
- Elly Savatia, Kenyan entrepreneur and innovator
- Ellie G. Shuler Jr., United States Air Force lieutenant general
- Elly Tumwine, Ugandan general and politician
- Elly Wamala, Ugandan musician
Fictional characters
- Elli, a character and bachelorette in the Story of Seasons video game franchise
- Ellie, a character in Greek mythology who figured prominently in the story of Jason and the Argonauts
- Ellegaard, a supporting character in Minecraft Story Mode
- Ellie Arroway, the main character in Carl Sagan's science fiction novel Contact and the film based on it
- Eleanor Bartlet, the middle daughter of President Jed Bartlet on the television show The West Wing
- Elle Bishop, a character in American television series Heroes
- Ellie Rebecca Brass, on the American crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Elly May Clampett, a main character in the American television series The Beverly Hillbillies
- Eleanor Elly Conway, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Ellie Craft, a.k.a. Onpu Segawa, in the anime series Ojamajo Doremi
- Eleanor Miss Ellie Ewing, on the American soap opera Dallas
- Ellie Fredricksen, in the 2009 Disney-Pixar animated film Up
- Ellie the Octopus, in Pajanimals
- Elly the Elephant, in Pocoyo
- Ellie, the protagonist of the cartoon Blender short film Sprite Fright and Leaf of Life.
- Ellie Linton, the protagonist of the novel Tomorrow When the War Began
- Ellie Miller, a main character on the television crime drama Broadchurch
- Eleanor Ellie Mills, on the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Ellie Nash, in the Canadian television drama Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Ellie Riggs, the protagonist of the American sitcom Watching Ellie, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Dr. Ellie Sattler, in Jurassic Park
- Ellie Torres, a main character on the American television comedy Cougar Town
- Elly Van Houten, in the Xenogears video game
- Elinor "Ellie" Walker, from the 1960s television series The Andy Griffith Show
- Ellie Woodcomb, on the American series Chuck
- Ellie, a ghost in Elly & Jools, an Australian children's television series
- Ellie (The Last of Us), a main character from the video game The Last of Us
- Ellie Appleton, a character from the 2019 film Yesterday
- Ellie Phillips, a character from the video game Lego City Undercover
- Elektra "Ellie" Natchios, a character from the Marvel television series Daredevil
- Ellie, a character from the 2025 action thriller film Havoc, played by Jessie Mei Li
- Ellie, a character from the Ice Age franchise
- Ellie the Elephant, mascot for the WNBA basketball team the NY Liberty
- Ellie the Elephant, a fictional African elephant, originated in the Donkey Kong Country 3 video game