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Ellen (surname)
Ellen is the surname of: * Cliff Ellen (born 1930), Australian actor, nephew of Joff Ellen * Joff Ellen (1915–1999), Australian actor and comedian born Raymond Charles Ellen * Mark Ellen (born 1953), English magazine editor, journalist and broadcaster * Mary Ann Ellen Mary Ann Ellen (18 June 1897 – 19 August 1949) was a New Zealand rural women's advocate, community leader and hairdresser. She was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. C ... (1897–1949), New Zealand rural women's advocate, community leader and hairdresser * Roy Ellen (born 1947), British professor of anthropology and human ecology * Shane Ellen (born 1973), former Australian rules footballer See also * J. Harold Ellens (1932–2018), psychologist and theologian {{surname, Ellen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Ellen
Cliff Ellen (born 22 March 1936, in Melbourne) is an Australian character actor who played a prominent guest role on the soap opera Neighbours as Charlie Cassidy. His first role was in ''Homicide''. His credits include ''Crackerjack'', ''Garbo'', and ''Phar Lap''. A theatre actor of many years, Ellen played the role of Gaston in the Australian touring production of Steve Martin's ''Picasso at the Lapin Agile'' as well as Hannie Rayson's ''Inheritance''. He also appeared in the 2006 Australian film ''BoyTown''. Ellen writes a column for a local newspaper based on the Mornington Peninsula. Cliff Ellen is the nephew of Joff Ellen Joff Ellen (born Raymond Charles Ellen; 20 May 191524 December 1999), was an Australian entertainer, actor and comedian. Career During World War II he performed vaudeville acts to the troops and after the war did comedy shows on Melbourne radi ..., Australian television actor and comedian Filmography References External links *Interviewat Perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joff Ellen
Joff Ellen (born Raymond Charles Ellen; 20 May 191524 December 1999), was an Australian entertainer, actor and comedian. Career During World War II he performed vaudeville acts to the troops and after the war did comedy shows on Melbourne radio station 3XY 1422, now known as Radio Hellas He appeared in various children's television shows as the character ''Joffa Boy'', particularly '' The Tarax Show'', wearing a Carlton Football Club jumper and "Bombay Bloomers" with large suspenders that he would manipulate for comic effect. His entrance song (written by resident star ventriloquist Ron Blaskett) was recorded by the show's girls choir along with musical director Margot Sheridan, and went like this: ''Choir: "Who is that peeping round the corner?'' '' It's not Jack Spratt or Little Johnny Horner."'' '' *(Joffa then peers around the corner of the set entrance and sings the next line)*'' '' "I'm the chap who always has a grin"'' '' Choir: "Joffa Boy! Joffa Boy! Please come in. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Ellen
Mark Ellen (born 16 September 1953) is a British magazine editor, journalist and broadcaster who lives in West London. Early life Ellen was born in Fleet, Hampshire, England. Whilst at Oxford University in the 1970s, he briefly played bass alongside Tony Blair in college band Ugly Rumours, a band that according to Ellen was created primarily to meet women. Career After graduating, he wrote for ''Record Mirror'', '' NME'' and '' Time Out'' before signing up as Features Editor of ''Smash Hits'' in 1981, where he became the editor in 1983. He was the launch editor of '' Q'', the re-launch editor of '' Select'' and the launch managing editor of '' Mojo''. He later became the editor-in-chief of EMAP Metro overseeing 14 consumer magazines, but he left Emap after 16 years to join the independent publishing company Development Hell in 2002. He also has a long broadcasting career which includes contributions to BBC Radio 1 as stand-ins for David "Kid" Jensen and John Peel. He present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ann Ellen
Mary Ann Ellen (18 June 1897 – 19 August 1949) was a New Zealand rural women's advocate, community leader and hairdresser. She was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ... on 18 June 1897. References 1897 births 1949 deaths People from Glasgow New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire {{NewZealand-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Ellen
Roy Frank Ellen, FBA FRAI (born 1947) is a British professor of anthropology and human ecology, with a particular interest in ethnobiology and the cultural transmission of Traditional knowledge, ethnobiological knowledge. Ellen is a professor of environmental anthropology and ethnobiology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He studied anthropology at the London School of Economics and Leiden and is most known for his extensive fieldwork in East Indonesia with the Nuaulu people of Seram. Ellen started his fieldwork in the early 1970s and has remained active in the field of environmental anthropology through publishing, teaching and field research. Throughout Ellen's career, especially in his published works there is a reoccurring theme and emphasis on the transmission of cultural knowledge as well as the importance of the history and knowledge of indigenous people. The British Academy in a 2003 ''Review'' describes him, his work, and his contribution to society as foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Ellen
Shane Ellen (born 1 January 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL). Bulldogs career Ellen, a Footscray local, made his debut with the Bulldogs in 1993, and when he left in 1995 he had played just 11 games for 1 goal. He was then delisted, before being selected by the Adelaide Football Club in the 1996 Pre-season Draft. Adelaide career He arrived at the Crows in 1996 and was a largely unheralded player. That was until the 1997 AFL Grand Final against St Kilda. This proved to be a defining moment in his career, until the journeyman's AFL career ended at the end of 2000, after 54 games and 15 goals with the club. 1997 Grand Final In the 1997 Grand Final, Ellen was considered the unlikely hero for the Crows. In the first half he booted two goals from full-forward, playing there in place of the injured Tony Modra. He was then switched to the half-back line by coach Malcolm Blight, which proved to be an inspired move – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
