Ellingen is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany.

At the end of World War II, Ellingen was bombed by US Airforce although it had no military or industrial importance.

Ellingen has a railway station on the Nuremberg - Treuchtlingen - Augsburg line.

By the Bundesstraße 2 and 13, it is well connected to Nuremberg (B2), Augsburg (B2), Ingolstadt (B13) and Ansbach (B13).

The list of the personalities of the city of Ellingen includes the name of Ellingen, a town in the Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, born personalities as well as those who enter the city because, for example, they had their (main) effect here without being born there.