Nell

For other uses, see Nell (disambiguation).

Nell is a traditional nickname for Eleanor. Nell is the name of:

People

Given name

• Nell (artist) (born 1975), Australian artist
• Nell Arthur (1837–1880), American First Lady
• Nell Ballantyne (1898–1959), Scottish actress
• Nell V. Beeby, Indian-born American nurse
• Nell Beecham, British LGBTQ rights activist
• Nell Benjamin, dramatist and composer
• Nell Blaine (1922–1996), American painter
• Nell Bryden (born 1977), American singer
• Nell Campbell, Australian actor and singer
• Nell Carter (1948–2003), American singer and actress
• Nell Craig, American actress
• Nell Dorr (1838‐1988), American photographer
• Nell Dunn (born 1936), English playwright, screenwriter, and author
• Nell Fortner (born 1959), American women's college basketball coach
• Nell Tiger Free (born 1999), English actress
• Nell Freudenberger (born 1975), American novelist
• Nell Gwyn (1650–1687), mistress of King Charles II of England
• Nell Hall Williams (1933–2021), American quilter
• Nell Jackson (1929–1988), American Olympic sprinter and track coach
• Nell Jongeneel, New Zealand football player
• Nell Kenney, Btitish suffragist
• Nell Leyshon, British writer
• Nell Martindale (1891–1976), American physical educator
• Nell McAndrew (born 1973), English glamour model
• Nell McCafferty (born 1944), Irish journalist, playwright, civil rights campaigner, and feminist
• Nell Mescal (born 2003), Irish singer-songwriter
• Nell Miller, British sports player
• Nell Minow, American film reviewer and writer
• Nell I. Mondy (1921–2005), American biochemisf
• Nell Morris-Dalton, Australian rules footballer
• Nell Murbarger (1909–1991), American writer
• Nell O'Day (1909–1989), American equestrian and actress
• Nell Rankin (1924–2005), American opera singer
• Nell Regan, poet and writer
• Nell Reymond, French actress and singer
• Eleanor Harriett (Nell) Rivett (1883–1972), Australian missionary
• Nell Rojas (born 1987), American athalete and coach
• Nell Ryan (1881–1959), Irish nationalist
• Nell Scott, American politician
• Nell Scovell (born 1986), American screenwriter
• Nell Shipman (1892–1970), Canadian actress and screenwriter
• Nell Sigland, Norwegian heavy metal singer
• Nell Sinton (1910–1997), American painter
• Nell Soto, American politician
• Nell Tangeman, American opera singer
• Nell Tenhaaf, Canadian artist, teacher, and writer
• Nell Theobald, American actress
• Nell Truman, British tennis player
• Nell Verlaque, American Actress and singer
• Nell Walden, Swedish painter, art collector, and writer
• Nell Williams (born 1998), english actress
• Nell Zink, American writer and media director
• Nell Znamierowski, American textile artist

Surname

• Jeremy Nell (born 1979), South African cartoonist and blogger
• William Cooper Nell (1816–1874), American abolitionist and author

Fictional characters

• Nell the kitchen wench, in Shakespeare's play Comedy of Errors
• Nell, short for Nellodee, the protagonist in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age
• Nell Fairfax, from the British soap opera Emmerdale
• Nell Fenwick, from the "Dudley Do-Right" segments of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show television series
• Nell Jones, a special agent from the television series NCIS: Los Angeles
• Nell Kellty, the protagonist in the play Idioglossia by Mark Handley and its 1994 film adaptation, Nell
• Nell Mangel, from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Nell Ruggles, a superhuman in the comic book series Squadron Supreme
• Nell Trent, or Little Nell, heroine of Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop

Other uses

• Nell (band), South Korean band
• Mitsubishi G3M, Japanese WWII medium bomber, codenamed "Nell"
• Nell (film), a 1994 film starring Jodie Foster and Liam Neeson

See also

• Nella
• Nelle
• Nelli
• Nelly (given name)
• Neil