Ella Chafee née Cox (March 4, 1945 – June 16, 2019) was an American wheelchair basketball player and wheelchair fencer who competed at three Paralympic Games.

She and her sister-in-law Hope Chafee, who also has polio, both took part in the 1964 Summer Paralympics where Ella won two medals in swimming and Hope won three medals.

Ella participated in the 1968 Summer Paralympics and won the gold medal in the women's 4x40m relay.

[5] Chafee was inducted into the National Wheelchair Athletic Association (now Move United) Hall of Fame in 1990 and the National Wheelchair Basketball Association Hall of Fame in 2014.

[6] Chafee died of a liver aneurysm aged 74 at a hospital in Oak Lawn on June 16, 2019.