List of Famous people named Nellie

Similar names: Neil, Neal, Nelly, Nell, Nello, Nele, Neill, Nile, Neale, Nella, Nil, Nyle, Neel, Nela, Neelie, Nyla, Nyl, Neely, Nellee, Neile, Neli, Nelli, Nelo, Nilla, Niele, Nelie, Neall, Niell, Neilia, Neele, Nilo. Here are some famous Nellies:

Nellie Bly

Elizabeth Jane Cochran
First Name Nellie
Born on May 5, 1864
Died on January 27, 1922 (aged 57)

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.

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Nellie Campobello

Francisca Ernestina Moya Luna
First Name Nellie
Born on November 7, 1900
Died on July 9, 1986 (aged 85)

Nellie Francisca Ernestina Campobello Luna was a Mexican writer, notable for having written one of the few chronicles of the Mexican Revolution from a woman's perspective. Cartucho chronicles her experience as a young girl in Northern Mexico at the height of the struggle between forces loyal to Pancho Villa and those who followed Venustiano Carranza. She moved to Mexico City in 1923, where she spent the rest of her life and associated with many of the most famous Mexican intellectuals and artists of the epoch. Like her half-sister Gloria, a well-known ballet dancer, she was also known as a dancer and choreographer. She was the director of the Mexican National School of Dance.

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Nellie Bowles

First Name Nellie
Born on November 30, 1999 (age 24)

Nellie Bowles is an American journalist noted for covering the technology world of Silicon Valley. She worked as a journalist for the Argentinian English-language daily the Buenos Aires Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, The California Sunday Magazine, the technology journalism website Recode, the British daily The Guardian beginning in 2016, then for Vice News.

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Nellie Connally

First Name Nellie
Born on February 24, 1919
Died on September 1, 2006 (aged 87)

Idanell Brill Connally was the First Lady of Texas from 1963 to 1969. She was the wife of John Connally, who served as Governor of Texas and later as Secretary of the Treasury.

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Nellie Tayloe Ross

Nellie Davis Tayloe
First Name Nellie
Born on November 29, 1876
Died on December 19, 1977 (aged 101)

Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross was an American politician, the 14th governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 and director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953. She was one of the first women to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state, and remains the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming.

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Nellie May Madison

First Name Nellie
Born on January 1, 1895
Died on January 1, 1953 (aged 58)

Nellie May Madison was an American woman who was convicted of murder in 1934 for killing her husband. She was the first woman to be sentenced to death in the state of California. Due to public outcry, her sentence was later commuted to life in prison and she was eventually released.

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Nellie Melba

Helen Porter Mitchell
First Name Nellie
Born on May 19, 1861
Died on February 23, 1931 (aged 69)

Dame Nellie Melba GBE was an Australian operatic soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian era and the early 20th century, and was the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician. She took the pseudonym "Melba" from Melbourne, her home town.

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Nellie Kim

First Name Nellie
Born on July 29, 1957 (age 67)
Height 152 cm | 5'0

Nellie Vladimirovna Kim is a retired Soviet Tatar gymnast who won three gold medals and a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She was the second woman in Olympic history to earn a perfect 10 score and the first woman to score it on the vault and on the floor exercise, rivaling Nadia Comăneci, Ludmilla Tourischeva, and other strong competitors of the 1970s. Nellie Kim worked for a long time as a coach, training several national teams, and judged many major international competitions. As President of the Women's Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee, she coordinates the introduction of new rules in women's gymnastics, as provided by the new Code of Points, developed by the FIG in 2004–2005 and in effect since 2006. Her gymnastic appearances are remembered for "her strong feminine, temperamental and charismatic appeal".

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Nellie McClung

First Name Nellie
Born on October 20, 1873
Died on September 1, 1951 (aged 77)

Nellie Letitia McClung was a Canadian author, social activist, suffragette, politician, and maternal feminist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s. Her great causes were women's suffrage and temperance. It was because of her hard work and advocacy, along with others involved in the Political Equality League of Manitoba, that in 1916 Manitoba became the first province to give women the right to vote and to run for public office. Nellie McClung was at the forefront of the Suffragist movement in Canada. Through her social justice activism, the issues of temperance, anti-war, Labor and Dower rights were among her most important contributions.

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Nellie Grant

First Name Nellie
Born on July 4, 1855
Died on August 30, 1922 (aged 67)

Ellen Wrenshall "Nellie" Grant was the third child and only daughter of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant. At the age of 16, Nellie was sent abroad to England by President Grant, and was received by Queen Victoria. She was also regarded, popularly, by girls, as a teenager growing up in the White House and so attracted much attention.

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