Proper noun
A male given name transferred from the surname.
An unincorporated community in Missouri.
An unincorporated community in Minnesota.
An English surname originating as a patronymic from Elis, the Middle English form of Elijah.
A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic] and a male given name from Welsh, an anglicization of Elisedd.
A locale in the United States.
A city in Kansas; named for American Civil War veteran George Ellis.
An unincorporated community in Greene County, Indiana; named for politician William Ellis Niblack.
An unincorporated community in Steuben County, Indiana.
A township in Cheboygan County, Michigan.
An unincorporated community in Nebraska; named for banker John R. Ellis.
An unincorporated community in Ohio; named for a local family.
An unincorporated community in South Dakota; probably named for railroad worker A. B. Ellis.
An unincorporated community in Wisconsin; named for politician Albert G. Ellis.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgThe Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now. Carol Moseley Braun
A case could be made for Mr. Ellis as a covert moralist and closet sentimentalist, the best kind, the kind who leaves you space in which to respond as your predispositions nudge you, whether as a commissar or hand-wringer or, like me, as an admirer of his intelligence and craft. Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis was one of those people who constantly nag others to echo their own opinions. George Orwell
You know, I received an invitation that said "Please come to Ellis Island July 4th for the hundredth birthday celebration of an American institution". Somebody goofed. My birthday is not until February. Ronald Reagan
I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! Kerry Washington
Mr. Ellis is neither a scientist nor an expert on the natural behavior of wolves. L. David Mech