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Ethel Afamado (born 1940), Uruguayan composer, poet, guitarist, and singer-songwriter •
Ethel D. Allen (1929–1981), the first African-American woman to serve on Philadelphia City Council •
Ethel Anderson (1883–1958), Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter •
Ethel Percy Andrus (1884–1967), educator and founder of AARP •
Ethel Armes (1876–1945), American journalist and historian •
Ethel Armitage (1873–1957), British archer and 1908 Olympic competitor •
Ethel Arnold (1865–1930), English journalist and suffrage lecturer •
Ethel Ayler (1934–2018), American stage and film actress •
Ethel Azama (1934–1984), American jazz and popular singer •
Ethel Barrymore (1879–1959), American stage and screen actress •
Ethel Bentham (1861–1931), English doctor, politician and suffragette •
Ethel Blondin-Andrew (born 1951), Canadian politician and parliamentarian •
Ethel Booba (born 1976), Filipino comedian, TV personality, singer and author •
Ethel Branch, American attorney and politician •
Ethel Cain (born 1998), American singer-songwriter •
Ethel Caterham (born 1909), British supercentenarian •
Ethel Catherwood (1908–1987), Canadian high jump gold medalist in the 1928 Olympics •
Ethel Clay Price (1874–1943), American nurse and socialite •
Ethel Clayton (1882–1966), American silent-film actress •
Ethel Cox (born 1888), British
suffragette •
Ethel Evans (1866–1929), American impressionist painter •
Ethel Harriet Comyns-Lewer (1861–1946), British ornithologist and periodical editor, publisher and owner •
Ethel Dovey (1882–1920), American stage actress and singer •
Ethel McGhee Davis (1899–1990), American educator, social worker, and college administrator •
Ethel Roosevelt Derby (1891–1977), younger daughter of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt •
Ethel de Fraine (1879–1918), British botanist •
Ethel Gilbert, American expert in the risks of radiation-induced cancer •
Ethel Hillyer Harris (1859-1931), American author •
Ethel Mary Hartland (1875–1964), Welsh magistrate and activist •
Ethel Hatch (1869–1975), British muse of Lewis Carroll •
Ethel Hays (1892–1989), American cartoonist and illustrator •
Ethel Haythornthwaite (1894–1986), English environmental campaigner and a pioneer of countryside protection •
E. Ann Hoefly (1919–2003), American brigadier general •
Ethel Johnson (athlete) (1908–1964), English sprinter •
Ethel Johnson (wrestler) (1935–2018), American professional wrestler •
Ethel Kennedy (1928–2024), American widow of Robert F. Kennedy •
Ethel Lang (actress) (1902–1995), Australian actress •
Ethel Lang (supercentenarian) (1900–2015), British supercentenarian and the last Victorian •
Ethel Leach (1850 or 1851–1936), British politician •
Ethel Lote (1920–2024), British World War II nurse and yoga instructor •
Ethel MacDonald (1909–1960), Scottish anarchist, activist and propagandist •
Ethel Merman (1908–1984), American actress and singer •
Ethel Isabel Moody (1905–1941), American mathematician •
Ethel Moore (1872–1920), American civic, education, and national defense work leader •
Ethel Moustacchi (1933-2016), Egyptian-born French chemist and geneticist •
Ethel Rogers Mulvany (1904–1992), Canadian social worker and educator •
Ethel L. Payne (1911–1991), African-American journalist •
Ethel Rosenberg (1915–1953), American executed for espionage •
Ethel Schwabacher (1903–1984), American abstract expressionist painter •
Ethel Shannon (1898–1951), American silent-film actress •
Ethel Smith (organist) (1902–1996), American organist and recording artist •
Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), English composer and women's-suffrage leader •
Ethel Teare (1894–1959), American silent-film actress •
Ethel Grey Terry (1882–1931), American silent-film actress •
Ethel L. M. Thorpe (1908–2001), British-Canadian nurse •
Ethel Turner (1872–1958), Australian novelist and children's writer •
Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864–1960), English novelist and musician == Fictional characters ==