Vilen (given name)
Vilen, feminine: Vilena are given names originated in the early Soviet Union as an acronym for "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin". Notable people with the name include:
- Vilen Barskyi, Ukrainian Soviet and German painter and graphic artist
- Vilen Galstyan, Armenian actor
- Vilen Ivanov, Russian sociologist
- Vilen Kalyuta, Ukrainian cinematographer
- Vilen Komissarov, Russian linguist and translator
- Vilen Künnapu, Estonian architect
- Vilen Prokofyev, Kazakh hockey player
- Vilen Strutinsky, Soviet nuclear physicist
- Vilen Tokarev, birth name of Willi Tokarev, Russian-American singer-songwriter
- , Armenian psycho- and neurophysiologist
- , Soviet and Russian orientalist, expert in Tibet