{{other uses}} '''Nell''' is a traditional nickname for Eleanor. '''Nell''' is the name of: {{TOC right}}

==People== ===Given name=== * Nell (artist) (born 1975), Australian artist * Nell Angloma (born 2006), French basketball player * 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, British 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 biochemist * 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 athlete 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'' * 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, a Japanese WWII medium bomber codenamed "Nell" * Nell (film), a 1994 film

==See also== * Nella * Nelle * Nelli * Nelly (given name) * Neil

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