This time in “First Names First” **it is all about Ella! **Pick one of the names below, then follow the Wikipedia link to read about that person, and see what if anything she could contribute your life with. Lives lived have all something worthwhile to tell us – let them!

Ella M. S. Marble* (b Smith) educator/ physician/activist – Gorham, ME USA (1850)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox* author/ poet – Johnstown, WI USA (1850)
Ella Giles Ruddy* (b Giles) author/ editor – Dunkirk, WI USA (1851)
Ella Hepworth Dixon* author/ editor – Marylebone, London, England (1857)
Ella Young* poet/Celtic mythologist - Fenagh, County Antrim, Ireland (1867)
Ella Shields* music hall singer/male-impersonator - Baltimore, MD USA (1879)
Ella P. Stewart* one of the first African-American female pharmacists in the United States – Stringtown, VA USA (1893)

Ella Baker* civil and human rights activist - Norfolk, VA USA (1903)

Ella Fitzgerald* jazz singer – Newport News, VA USA (1917) pic

Ella Raines* actress - Snoqualmie Falls, WA USA (1920)
Ella Mae Morse* singer /hired by Jimmy Dorsey at age 14 – Mansfield, TX USA (1924)
Ella Stack* physician/the first female Lord Mayor of an Australian capital city – Sydney, Australia (1929)

Ella Bully-Cummings* first female police chief of Detroit – Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan (1958)

Ella Kanninen* journalist/television host - Vihti, Finland (1974)

Ella Eyre* singer/ songwriter – London, England (1994)
Ella Purnell* actress – London, England (1996)
Ella Hunt* actress - Devon, England (1998)
Ella Junnila* athlete (high jump)/daughter of Ringa Ropo – Espoo, Finland (1998)

Ella Jay Basco* actress – Los Angeles, CA USA (2006)

Updated 26.5.2023