A number of sports celebrities have endorsed Ellesse, including tennis players Tommy Haas, Chris Evert, Guillermo Vilas, Boris Becker, Mats Wilander, Arantxa Sánchez and Anna Kournikova, skiers Marc Girardelli and Jean-Luc Crétier, and Formula 1 driver Alain Prost.
Ellesse also ventured into football sponsorship, and manufactured the kits for the New York Cosmos in the '80s.