Ellie Victoria Cole, AM (born 12 December 1991) is an Australian retired Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player.

After having her leg amputated due to cancer, she trained in swimming as part of her rehabilitation program and progressed more rapidly than instructors had predicted.

[6][7] At two years of age, she was diagnosed with a rare tumour, a neurosarcoma that was wrapped around the nerves of her right leg.

[4] After unsuccessful attempts to treat her cancer with chemotherapy, her right leg was amputated above the knee on 14 February 1994.

[8] Eight weeks after the surgery, as part of her rehabilitation, Cole's mother Jenny enrolled her in swimming lessons.

Cole's instructors expected her to take up to a year to learn how to swim in a straight line, but it took her two weeks.

[14][15] Cole was featured in the 2020 documentary film Rising Phoenix on Netflix, which focused on the Paralympic Games.

[23] On 12 August 2009 Cole participated in the 100 m freestyle multi-disability event in the 2009 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships in Hobart, where she broke the world record with a time of 1:04:06.

[26] In 2010 at the IPC Swimming World Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands she won bronze medals in the women's 200 m individual medley and 400 m freestyle S9 events.

[34] However, the following night, Cole won the 100 m Backstroke S9, winning her first gold medal of the games in Australian record time.

[35] She told the press that it had "been a goal of mine ever since I was 12 years old to beat Natalie du Toit" who was "kind of like the Michael Phelps of swimming for me, she has been a great mentor and relaxes me in the marshalling room.

[40] Cole capped off the games, surprising even herself with a fourth gold medal, in the 4 x 100 m freestyle relay 34 pts, again in Australian record time.

[49] Cole alongside Maddison Elliott, Lakeisha Patterson and Ashleigh McConnell[50] broke the world record for the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 Points with a time of 4.16.65.

[53][54] At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Cole, together with her team of Emily Beecroft, Isabella Vincent, and Ashleigh McConnell won a silver medal in the Women's 4x100m Freestyle 34 pts with a time of 4:26.82, two seconds behind the winners, Italy.

[55] In claiming the medley bronze, Cole's seventeenth Paralympic medal, she became Australia's most decorated female Paralympian, surpassing the previous record held by swimmer Priya Cooper.

In 2009, she received an Outstanding Sporting Achievement Award from the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

[63] In August 2011, she was voted International Paralympic Committee Athlete of the Month after winning six gold medals in Edmonton.