Alena
Alena is a feminine given name. It may be either derived from the name Helene or as a diminutive form of Magdalena.
In the Balkans, this spelling of the name is predominantly found among the peoples of the former Yugoslav nations, specifically among the Bosniaks and Croats. This region also has a male equivalent: Alen.
The name is also found in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, also with the spelling Alyona.
Given name
- Saint Alena, Christian saint
- Alena Abramchuk, Belarusian track and field athlete
- Alena Adanichkina, Russian triathlete
- Alena Aladava, Belarusian art historian and curator
- Alena Alekseeva, Russian swimmer
- Alena Amialiusik, Belarusian cyclist
- Alena Andreeva, Russian footballer
- Alena Anisim, Belarusian politician and linguist
- Alena Antalová, Slovak actress
- Alena Arshinova, Russian politician, model and sociologist
- Alena Arzamasskaia, Russian military rebel
- Alena Aurum, Russian video blogger
- Alena Baeva, Luxembourgish violinist
- Alena Bartošová, Czech cross-country skier
- Alena Belyaeva, Russian footballer
- Alena Benešová, Czech swimmer
- Alena Bienz, Swiss association football player
- Alena Bílková, Czech printmaker and glass artist
- Alena Brooks, Trinidad and Tobago middle-distance runner
- Alena Buyx, German medicine ethicist and university teacher
- Alena Černáková, Czech gymnast
- Alena Chadimová, Czech gymnast
- Alena Damitšová, Slovak handball player
- Alena Douhan, Belarusian diplomat
- Alena Dřevjaná, Czech artistic gymnast
- Alena Dylko, Belarusian cyclist
- Alena Evdokimova, Russian wheelchair fencer
- Alena Fedarynchyk, Belarusian volleyball player
- Alena Filipava, Belarusian wrestler
- Alena Fink-Trauschel, German politician
- Alena Fomina-Klotz, Russian tennis player
- Alena Furman, Belarusian rower
- Alena Gerber, German model, actress and television host
- Alena Hájková, Czech activist and historian
- Alena Hanáková, Czech politician and culture minister
- Alena Hanušová, Czech basketball player
- Alena Hatvani, Czech female bodybuilder
- Alena Havrlíková, Czech tennis player
- Alena Holubeva, Belarusian basketball player
- Alena Horalová, Czech handball player
- Alena Hromádková, Czech economist, politician and academic
- Alena Ivanchenko, Uzbekistani cyclist
- Alena Ivanova, Kazakhstani volleyball player
- Alena Kánová, Slovak para table tennis player and wheelchair curler
- Alena Kanysheva, Russian ice dancer
- Alena Kartashova, Russian wrestler
- Alena Kašová, Slovak basketball player
- Alena Kaufman, Russian paralympic biathlete and skier
- Alena Khamulkina, Belarusian diver
- Alena Kholod, Russian acrobatic gymnast
- Alena Kish, Belarusian primitivist painter
- Alena Kiyevich, Belarusian sprinter
- Alena Konečná, Czech cyclist
- Alena Kostornaia, Russian figure skater
- Alena Kovačková, Czech tennis player
- Alena Kováčová, Slovak basketball player
- Alena Krechyk, Belarusian hammer thrower
- Alena Kucera, Swiss slalom canoeist
- Alena Kučerová, Czech printmaker
- Alena Kupchyna, Belarusian diplomat
- Alena Kupčíková, Czech artist
- Alena Kyselicová, Slovak field hockey player
- Alena V. Ledeneva, British sociologist
- Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater
- Alena Marx, Swiss slalom canoeist
- Alena Matejka, Czech sculptor and glass designer
- Alena Matoshka, Belarusian hammer thrower
- Alena Mazouka, Belarusian long-distance runner
- Alena Mihulová, Czech actress
- Alena Mornštajnová, Czech writer and translator
- Alena Mrvová, Slovak chess player
- Alena Murang, Malaysian singer-songwriter, sape player, visual artist and educator
- Alena Nazdrova, Belarusian canoeist
- Alena Newmyarzhytskaya, Belarusian sprinter
- Alena Olsen, American rugby player
- Alena Özel, Belarusian volleyball player
- Alena Palečková, Czech politician and zoologist
- Alena Palmeová-West, Czech professional tennis player
- Alena Pasechnik, Belarusian shot putter
- Alena Paulenková, Slovak tennis player
- Alena Peterková, Czech runner
- Alena Poláčková, Slovak judge
- Alena Polenská, Czech ice hockey player
- Alena Polozkova, Belarusian gymnast
- Alena Popchanka, Belarusian swimmer
- Alena Popova, Kazakhstani volleyball player
- Alena Postlová, Czechoslovak rower
- Alena Potůčková, Czech art historian
- Alena Procházková, Slovak cross-country skier
- Alena Prokopenko, Russian judoka
- Alena Prosková, Czech athlete
- Alena Prouzová, Czechoslovak slalom canoeist
- Alena Reichová, Czech gymnast
- Alena Reji, Indian cyclist
- Alena Rojas, Cuban volleyball player
- Alena Šafářová, Czech table tennis player
- Alena Saili, New Zealand rugby union player
- Alena Sannikova, Belarusian cross-country skier
- Alena Schillerová, Czech politician and lawyer
- Alena Šeredová, Czech model
- Alena Serzhantova, Russian water polo player
- Alena Sharp, Canadian professional golfer
- Alena Shirmanova, Czech singer known as Aiko
- Alena Shishkova, Russian model
- Alena Smith, American screenwriter
- Alena Sobaleva, Belarusian hammer thrower
- Alena Šolcová, Czech mathematician and science historian
- Alena Stellnerová, Czech handball player
- Alena Stolzová, Czech sprinter
- Alena Svobodová, Czech rower
- Alena Tiron, Russian rugby union player
- Alena Trapeznikova, Russian ski-orienteering competitor
- Alena Tseliapushkina, Belarusian equestrian
- Alena Vachovcová, Czech table tennis player
- Alena Varmužová, Czech mathematician
- Alena Vašková, Czech tennis player
- Alena Veselá, Czech organist and music teacher
- Alena Vinnitskaya , Belarusian marathon runner
- Alena Vinnitskaya, Ukrainian singer, songwriter and TV presenter
- Alena Vránová, Czech actress
- Alena Vrzáňová, Czech athlete, figure skater
- Alena Vylegzhanina, Russian water polo player
- Alena Wagnerová, Czech author and journalist
- Alena Analeigh Wicker, American, youngest Black person to be accepted into medical school in the United States
- Alena Zavarzina, Russian snowboarder
Fictional characters
- Alena, a fictional character who possesses the Gem of Water on several Filipino telefantasyas
- Alena Vorshevsky, a fictional character from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
- Alena, a fictional chracter from ''Dragon Quest IV''