Nell

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

People

Nell (artist) (born 1975), Australian artist
Nell Blaine (1922–1996), American painter
Nell Bryden (born 1977), American singer
Nell Tiger Free (born 1999), English actress
Nell Carter (1948–2003), American singer and actress
Nell Dunn (born 1936), English playwright, screenwriter, and author
Nell Fortner (born 1959), American women's college basketball coach
Nell Freudenberger (born 1975), American novelist
Nell Gwyn (1650–1687), mistress of King Charles II of England
Nell Martindale (1891–1976), American physical educator
Nell Mescal (born 2003), Irish singer-songwriter
Nell McAndrew (born 1973), English glamour model
Nell McCafferty (born 1944), Irish journalist, playwright, civil rights campaigner, and feminist
Nell O'Day (1909–1989), American equestrian and actress
Nell Rankin (1924–2005), American opera singer
Nell Scott, American politician
Nell Scovell (born 1986), American screenwriter
Nell Sinton (1910–1997), American painter
Nell Shipman (1892–1970), Canadian actress and screenwriter
Nell Sigland, Norwegian heavy metal singer

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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