In all the world, Ellis (Ellis 
, אליס 
, إليس 
, and others...) is a common gender-neutral given name. The first name Ellis is habitual in British Virgin Islands, where it is quite a common boy's name, Aland Islands, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in the United States, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom. More frequently, Ellis is the last name as well as the forename.
Ellis is also a prevalent name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Ellis , the player character from the 2009 video game Left 4 Dead 2, Resident Evil 6; Alice , the fictional character from Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"; Ellis Grey , the fictional character from the television series Grey's Anatomy; Ellis Carver , the fictional character from The Wire and Ellis Taylor , the character in The West Wing, and in many other works.
| humphrey ellis English Roman Catholic leader in the Commonwealth period (b. 1605) |
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| rowland ellis American politician, US (b. 1650) |
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| brabazon ellis (1723-1770) (b. 1723) |
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| lewis ellis musician (1761 -1823), GB (b. 1761) |
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ellis owen ellis Welsh artist (1813 -1861), GB (b. 1813) |
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euphania clairborne “fanny” taylor ellis 1819-1897 (b. 1819) |
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sir john whittaker ellis, 1st baronet British politician (b. 1829) |
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robinson ellis British scholar, GB (b. 1834) |
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| wynne ellis British politician (b. 1790) |
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griffith ellis Welsh Calvinistic Methodist minister (1844-1913), GB (b. 1844) |
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wade h. ellis Ohio Politician (1866-1948), US (b. 1866) |
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| barrow helbert ellis British colonial administrator (1823-1887) (b. 1823) |
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| sumner ellis born 1828; died 1886 (b. 1828) |
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aller gustin ellis US (b. 1868) |
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| morgan albert ellis Welsh-American preacher and editor (1832 -1901), GB (b. 1832) |
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