Lena (name)
Lena is a feminine given name, a short form of Helena, meaning 'torch' or 'shining light'. It may be a given name by itself or a diminutive of Helena and variants, such as Elena.
People with the given name
- Lena (actress), Malayalam film actress
- Lena Ackebo, Swedish comic creator
- Lena Adler, Swedish gymnast
- Lena Adomat, Swedish gymnast
- Lena Åkesson, Swedish boxer
- Lena Alexander, Scottish painter
- Lena Alhusseini, American activist
- Lena Amsel, German dancer and actress
- Lena Anderson, Swedish children’s book illustrator and author
- Lena Anderssen, Faroese-Canadian singer-songwriter
- Lena Lovato Archuleta, American educator, school librarian and administrator
- Lena Arnoldt, German politician
- Lena Clemmons Artz, American botanist
- Lena Ashwell, British actress
- Lena Asplund, Swedish politician
- Lena Baker, American convicted of murder
- Lena Bergman, Swedish social services employee
- Lena Bergström, Swedish textiles and glass designer
- Léna Bernstein, German aviator
- Lena Berntsson, Swedish athlete
- Lena Beyerling, German actress
- Lena Bickel, Swiss artistic gymnast
- Lena Biolcati, Italian singer
- Lena Blackbird, American Cherokee artist
- Lena Blomkvist, Swedish football defender
- Lena Bogdanović, Serbian actress
- Lena Borislavova, Bulgarian politician and lawyer
- Lena Börjeson, Swedish sculptor, teacher
- Lena Braun, German contemporary artist
- Lena Northern Buckner, American social worker
- Léna Bühler, Swiss racing driver
- Lena Burke, Cuban singer and actress
- Lena Carlzon-Lundbäck, Swedish cross-country skier
- Léna Carrau, French acrobatic gymnast
- Lena Chamamyan, Syrian singer of Armenian origin
- Lena Christ, German writer
- Lena Christensen, Thai-Danish actress, television presenter and singer
- Lena Conradson, Swedish singer
- Lena Constante, Romanian artist, essayist and memoirist
- Lena Cronqvist, Swedish painter and sculptor
- Lena Cruz, New Zealand actress
- Lena Cymbrowitz, American politician
- Lena Dąbkowska-Cichocka, Polish politician
- Lena Degenhardt, German handball player
- Lena Derriecott Bell King, member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
- Lena Diab, Canadian politician
- Lena Doolin Mason, American Methodist preacher and poet
- Lena Dunham, American filmmaker and actress
- Lena Düpont, German politician
- Lena Dürr, German alpine skier
- Lena Düsterhöft, German ice hockey player
- Lena Frances Edwards, American doctor
- Lena Einhorn, Swedish director, writer and physician
- Lena Ek, Swedish politician
- Lena Eliasson, Swedish orienteer and ski-orienteering competitor
- Lena Kristin Ellingsen, Norwegian actress
- Lena Emilsson, Swedish politician
- Lena Endesfelder, German Wine Queen 2016
- Lena Endre, Swedish theatre, film and television actress
- Lena Erdil, Turkish windsurfer
- Lena Eriksson, Swedish breaststroke swimmer
- Lena Estrada, Colombian government official
- Lena Fayre, American singer-songwriter
- Lena Santos Ferguson, American secretary, clubwoman, and civil rights advocate
- Lena Fiagbe, British soul singer-songwriter
- Lena Forsén, Swedish Playboy Playmate
- Lena Frerichs, German field hockey player
- Lena Frier Kristiansen, Danish badminton player
- Lena Jane Fry, Canadian-American writer
- Lena Fujii, Japanese singer
- Lena Gabršček, Slovenian volleyball player
- Lena Ganschow, German journalist and television moderator
- Lena Georgescu, Swiss chess player
- Lena Gercke, German model
- Lena Giudici, American lawyer
- Lena Glaz, Israeli chess player
- Lena Goeßling, German footballer
- Léna Goetsch, French footballer
- Lena Göldi, Swiss Olympic judoka
- Lena Gonzalez, American politician
- Lena Göppel, Liechtensteiner footballer
- Lena Góra, Polish actress
- Lena Gorelik, German writer
- Lena Grabowski, Austrian swimmer
- Léna Grandveau, French handball player
- Lena Grebak, Danish badminton player
- Lena Groeger, American journalist
- Lena Guerrero, American politician
- Lena Gumnior, German politician
- Lena Gurr, American painter
- Lena Häcki, Swiss biathlete
- Lena Hades, Russian painter
- Lena Hallengren, Swedish Social Democratic Party
- Lena Halliday, English actress
- Lena Hallin, Swedish Air Force major general
- Lena Tracy Hanks, American psychologist
- Lena T. Hansson, Swedish actress
- Lena Hasselström, Swedish ski-orienteering competitor
- Lena Culver Hawkins, American major and suffragette
- Lena Headey, British actress
- Lena Henke, German artist
- Lena Hentschel, German diver
- Lena Hill, American academic administrator
- Lena Himmelstein, American clothing designer and retailer
- Lena Hjelm-Wallén, Swedish politician
- Lena Horne, American singer and actress
- Lena Isaksson, Swedish ski-orienteering competitor
- Lena Ivančok, Austrian handballer
- Lena Terrell Jackson, American educator
- Lena Jedwab-Rozenberg, Polish-French Jewish writer
- Lena Jeger, Baroness Jeger, British politician
- Lena Jensen, Norwegian politician
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- Lena Johansson, Swedish politician
- Lena Jordan, Russian gymnast
- Léna Kandissounon, French athlete
- Lena Kapp, German curler
- Lena Kaur, British actress
- Lena Kenin, American physician
- Lena Kennedy, English author
- Lena Khan, film director and writer
- Lena King Lee, American politician
- Lena Klenke, German actress
- Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Polish sociologist, academic and politician
- Lena Kourkoutis, American physicist
- Lena Kovačević, Serbian singer
- Lena Kreck, German politician
- Lena Kreundl, Austrian swimmer
- Lena Küchler-Silberman, Jewish World War II resistance
- Lena Lattwein, German footballer
- Lena Lauzemis, German actress
- Lena Levine, American physician
- Lena Liepe, Swedish art historian
- Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Swedish politician
- Lena Litvak, Ukrainian-born American tennis player
- Lena Lootens, Belgian soprano
- Lena Lotzen, German footballer
- Lena Lowis, British author and scientific illustrator
- Lena Lutz, Swiss ice hockey player
- Lena Machado Native Hawaiian singer, composer, and ukulele player
- Lena Malkus, German long jumper
- Lena Marquise, Russian interdisciplinary artist
- Lena Martell, Scottish singer
- Lena Maryana, Indonesian politician
- Lena B. Mathes, American educator, social reformer, and ordained minister
- Lena McEwan, Australian plastic surgeon
- Lena McLin, American composer
- Lena Mellin, Swedish journalist
- Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010
- Lena Micheel, German field hockey player
- Lena Micko, Swedish politician
- Lena Miculek, American professional competitive shooter, firearms educator and product developer
- Lena Mihailovic, Australian water polo player
- Léna Mill-Reuillard, Canadian cinematographer and photographer
- Lena Moi, First Lady of Kenya
- Lena Möller, Swedish sprinter
- Lena Möllers, German volleyball player
- Lena L. Moore, American politician
- Lena Moreno, Spanish taekwondo practitioner
- Lena Morrow Lewis, American orator and politician
- Lena Beatrice Morton, American educator and literary scholar
- Lena Mukhina, Russian diarist
- Lena Müller, German rower
- Lena Nazaryan, Armenian journalist and politician
- Lena Neudauer, German violinist
- Lena Neumann, German film editor
- Lena Niang, Senegalese basketball player
- Lena Nilsson, Swedish actress
- Lena Noreses, Namibian footballer
- Lena Nyadbi, Australian artist
- Lena Nyman, Swedish actress
- Lena Nymark, Norwegian jazz musician
- Lena Oberdorf, German footballer
- Lena Olin, Swedish actress
- Lena Ostermeier, German association footballer
- Lena Papadakis, German tennis player
- Lena Pappa, Greek poet
- Lena Pauels, German footballer
- Lena Persson Herlitz, Swedish Amphibious Corps officer
- Lena Petermann, German footballer
- Lena Madesin Phillips, American lawyer and clubwoman
- Lena Piękniewska, Polish singer
- Lena Platonos, Greek musician, pianist, and composer
- Lena Plesiutschnig, Austrian beach volleyball player
- Lena Prewitt, American academic
- Lena Prima, American jazz singer
- Lena Rådström Baastad, Swedish politician
- Lena Raine, American video game composer and producer
- Lena Rea, Irish badminton player
- Lena Charlotte Reißner, German cyclist
- Lena Repinc, Slovenian biathlete
- Lena Richard, American cookbook author and restaurateur
- Lena Röhlings, German canoeist
- Lena Rosenthal, birthname of American businesswoman Leona Helmsley
- Lena Sadick, lawn and indoor bowler
- Lena Samuelsson, Swedish ski-orienteering competitor
- Lena Sandin, Swedish tennis player
- Lena Sandlin-Hedman, Swedish politician
- Lena Saradnik, American politician
- Lena Schilling, Austrian climate activist
- Lena Schöneborn, German modern pentathlete
- Lena L. Severance, American mathematician, author, world traveler and activist
- Lena Silano, American soccer player
- Lena Sjöholm, Swedish archer
- Lena Smedsaas, Swedish journalist and writer
- Lena O. Smith, American lawyer and civil rights advocate
- Lena B. Smithers Hughes, American botanist
- Lena Söderblom, Swedish actress
- Lena Solli-Reimann, Norwegian hurdler
- Lena Sommestad, Swedish politician and economic historian
- Lena Spoof, Finnish archaeologist and hurdler
- Lena Springs, American politician
- Lena Ruth Stefanovic, Montenegrin author and poet
- Lena Stigrot, German volleyball player
- Lena Stöcklin, German canoeist
- Lena Stojković, Croatian taekwondo practitioner
- Lena Stolze, German actress
- Lena Strömdahl, Swedish actress
- Lena Sulkanen, Swedish bowler
- Lena Sundström, Swedish journalist and author
- Lena Swanson, American politician and activist
- Lena Taylor, American politician
- Lena Teunissen, Dutch canoeist
- Lena Townsend, British Conservative politician
- Lena Trent Gordon, American social worker, orator, government official and poet
- Lena Triendl, Austrian footballer
- Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, American poet
- Lena Tyriberget, Norwegian football coach
- Lena Uebach, German association football player
- Lena Urbaniak, German shot putter
- Lena Urzendowsky, German actress
- Lena Valaitis, Lithuanian-German singer
- Lena Valaoritou, Greek tennis player
- Lena Videkull, Swedish footballer
- Lena Waithe, American screenwriter, producer, and actress
- Lena Wermelt, German footballer
- Lena Werner, German politician
- Lena Willemark, Swedish musician
- Lena Wilson, American blues singer
- Lena Wilson (executive), Scottish businessperson
- Lena Wisborg, Swedish actress
- Lena Wood, British violist
- Lena Yada, Japanese-American model
- Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer
- Lena Żelichowska, Polish actress
Nickname
- Jennie Lena, stage name of Jennie Willemstijn, Dutch singer and songwriter
- Lena Asmus, nickname of Helene Asmus, Russian and German rhythmic gymnast
- Lena Belkina or Olena Leser, Ukrainian mezzo-soprano
- Lena Blackburne, nickname of Russell Aubrey Blackburne, American baseball infielder, manager, coach, and scout
- Lena Brogren, nickname of Ulla-Britt Brogren, was a Swedish actress
- Lena Margareta Wilton, nickname of Lena Carlsson, Swedish sailor
- Lena Chettiar, stage name of S. M. Letchuman Chettiar, Indian film producer
- Lena Connell, stage name of Adelin Beatrice Connell, also known professionally as Beatrice Cundy,, British suffragette and a well-known photographer
- Lena Crittenden/Lee Crittenden, pennames of Lela E. Buis, American speculative fiction writer, playwright, poet and artist
- Lena d'Água, stage name of Helena Maria de Jesus Águas, Portuguese singer
- Lena Farugia, stage name of Nicolina Elizabeth Farruggia, American-born South African actress, screenwriter, director and producer
- Lena Guilbert Ford, American poet
- Lena Granhagen, Swedish actress
- Lena Hall, stage name of Celina Consuela Gabriella Carvajal, American actress and singer
- Lena Herzog, stage name of Elena Herzog, Russian-American visual artist and photographer
- Lena Kang, stage name of Kang Re-Na, South Korean singer, former member of K-pop group GWSN
- Lena Katina, stage name of Elena Sergeevna Katina, Russian singer
- Lena Lakomy stage name of Helena Lakomy, survivor of Nazi concentration camps
- Anna Karolina Larsson, nickname of Lena Larsson, Swedish ballad singer
- Lena Michaëlis, nickname of Helena Cornelia Michaëlis, Dutch discus thrower
- Lena Milman, nickname of Angelena Frances Milman, British translator, critic and architectural historian
- Lena Neuner, nickname of Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
- Lena Ovchynnikova, nickname of Oléna Serhíyivna Ovchýnnikova, Ukrainian kickboxer and mixed martial artist
- Lena Oxton, fictional Overwatch character, known as Tracer (Overwatch)
- Lena Park, stage name of Park Jung-hyun, Korean singer, also known as Park Jung Hyun
- Lena Pedersen, stage name of Elizabeth Magdalena Pedersen or Lena Pederson, Canadian Inuk politician
- Lena Philipsson, stage name of Maria Magdalena Philipsson, Swedish singer, also known as "Lena Ph"
- Lena Piskun, nickname of Elena Mikhaylovna Piskun, Belarusian artistic gymnast
- Lena Purcell, nickname of Samuelene Purcell, New Zealand shop assistant and trade unionist
- Lena Rice, nickname of Helena Bertha Grace Rice, Irish tennis player
- Lena Ruru, nickname of Rina Matewai Ruru, New Zealand community leader, sportswoman, pianist and Māori welfare worker
- Lena Scissorhands, stage name of Elena Cataraga, Moldovan heavy metal singer and songwriter
- Léna Situations, stage name of Léna Mahfouf, French vlogger
- Lena Stein-Schneider stage name of Helene Meyerstein, German composer, singer and pianist
- Lena Styles, nickname of William Graves Styles, American baseball catcher
- Lena Svedberg, nickname of Aina-Lena Bernice Svedberg, Swedish artist
- Lena Thomson, stage name of Helena Agnes Thomson, Scottish amateur golfer
- Lena Tretyakova, stage name of Elena Nikolaevna Tretyakova, Russian singer
- Lena Ustymenko, nickname of Olena Ustymenko Sokolowski, Ukrainian volleyball player
Disambiguation
- Lena Andersson, several people
Fictional characters
- The female protagonist in an Ole and Lena joke
- Lena, in the 1996 anime Shamanic Princess
- Lena, played by Marion Cotillard in the 2006 film Toi et Moi
- Lena, played by Emma Levie in the 2011 film Lena
- Lena, played by Natalie Portman in the 2018 film Annihilation
- Lena, in the book series Fablehaven
- Lena Adams, in the Grant County, Georgia series of books
- Lena Duchannes, in the Beautiful Creatures series of books
- Lena Dupree, an antagonist in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
- Lena Adams Foster, in American TV series The Fosters
- Lena Grove, in the William Faulkner novel Light In August
- Lena Haloway, in the Delirium series of books by Lauren Oliver
- Lena Hatun, in Turkish TV series Kuruluş: Osman
- Lena Kaligaris, in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series of books
- Lena Luthor, Lex Luthor's sister in DC Comics
- Lena Milizé, in 86: Eighty Six, short for Vladilena
- Lena "Tracer" Oxton, in the video games Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm
- Lena Seguret, in The Returned television show
- Lena De Spell, in the DuckTales television show
- Lena Tikhonova in the Everlasting Summer game
- Lenna Charlotte Tycoon, one of the main characters of Final Fantasy V
- Lena Younger, in the A Raisin In The Sun play
People with the surname
- Jeffrey Lena, American lawyer
- Jennie Lena, Dutch singer-songwriter
- Emanuel Melkiades Laka Lena, Indonesian politician who currently serves as Governor of East Nusa Tenggara
- Nijaz Lena, Macedonian footballer