Yelena


Yelena or Jelena is a feminine given name. It is the Russian form of Helen, written Елена in Russian.

Notable people called Yelena

  • Jelena Abbou, Serbian fitness competitor
  • Jelena Adzic, Canadian on-air personality
  • Yelena Afanasyeva, multiple people
  • Jelena Agbaba, Serbian handball player
  • Yelena Akhaminova, former volleyball player for the Soviet Union
  • Yelena Andreevna, play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov
  • Yelena Andreyeva, Russian sprinter
  • Yelena Andreyuk, former volleyball player for the USSR
  • Yelena Andrienko, Russian ballet dancer
  • Yelena Anokhina, Soviet diver
  • Jelena Antić, Macedonian basketball player
  • Yelena Antonova, several people
  • Yelena Arshintseva, retired female race walker from Russia
  • Yelena Avdeyeva, Russian politician
  • Yelena Azarova, Russian Synchro-swimmer
  • Jelena Balšić, medieval Serbian princess, daughter of Prince Lazar of Serbia and Princess Milica Nemanjić
  • Yelena Baranova, Russian professional basketball player
  • Yelena Baturina, Russian oligarch, Russia's richest woman
  • Jelena Begović, Serbian molecular biologist
  • Jelena Behrend, Serbian-American jewelry designer
  • Yelena Bekman-Shcherbina, Russian pianist, composer and teacher
  • Jelena de Belder-Kovačič, Slovenian-Belgian botanist and horticulturist
  • Yelena Belevskaya, retired athlete who represented the USSR until 1991 and Belarus since 1992
  • Yelena Belyakova, former pole vaulter from Russia
  • Yelena Bet, Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed in the early to mid-2000s
  • Yelena Bibikova, Russian politician
  • Yelena Biserova, Soviet-Russian track and field hurdler
  • Jelena Blagojević, Serbian volleyball player
  • Jeļena Blaževiča, Latvian athlete
  • Yelena Bobrova, Russian ice hockey player
  • Jelena Bodražić, Serbian singer
  • Yelena Bogomazova, Russian swimmer
  • Yelena Bolsun, Russian female sprint athlete
  • Yelena Bondarchuk, Soviet and Russian stage and film actress
  • Yelena Bonner, human rights activist in the former Soviet Union, wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov
  • Jelena Bradic, Serbian-American statistician
  • Jelena Brajša, Croatian humanitarian and social worker
  • Jelena Brooks, Serbian basketball player
  • Yelena Budnik, Belarusian sprinter
  • Jeļena Buraja, Latvian banker
  • Yelena Burukhina, former Russian cross country skier who has competed since 1996
  • Yelena Byalkovskaya, Russian ice hockey player
  • Jelena Čanković, Serbian footballer
  • Jelena Ćetković, national hero of Yugoslavia
  • Yelena Chebukina, Soviet, Russian and Croatian volleyball player
  • Yelena Chernetsova, Kazakhstani cross-country skier
  • Yelena Chernykh, Russian theatre actress
  • Yelena Churakova, Russian track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles
  • Jelena Čubrilo, Serbian footballer
  • Jelena Ćulafić, Montenegrin basketball player
  • Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast
  • Yelena Dembo, Greek International Master of chess
  • Yelena Dendeberova, medley swimmer from the Soviet Union, Olympic silver medallist
  • Yelena Dergachyova, Russian ice hockey player
  • Jelena Despotović, Montenegrin handball player
  • Jelena Dimitrijević, Serbian writer
  • Jelena Dimitrijević , Serbian footballer
  • Yelena Dmitriyeva, Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team
  • Jelena Dokic, Australian tennis player
  • Jelena Đokić, Serbian actress
  • Yelena Donskaya, Soviet sport shooter
  • Yelena Drapeko, Russian actress
  • Jelena Dubljević, Montenegrin basketball player
  • Yelena Dubok, Kazakhstani biathlete
  • Yelena Dudina, Soviet sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1980s
  • Yelena Dudnik, Russian sport shooter
  • Yelena Dudochkin, American singer
  • Jelena Ðurović, Montenegrin journalist, writer and political activist
  • Jelena Džankić, political scientist
  • Yelena Eckemoff, Russian-American pianist, composer, L & H Production record label co-founder, and producer
  • Jelena Erić, multiple people
  • Yelena Ezau, Kazakhstani volleyball player
  • Yelena Gagarina, Russian art historian
  • Jelena Gavrilović, Serbian actress
  • Jelena Genčić, Serbian tennis and handball player
  • Jelena Glebova, Estonian figure skater
  • Yelena Glikina, Soviet fencer
  • Yelena Godina, Russian volleyball player
  • Yelena Golesheva, Russian track and field sprinter
  • Yelena Gorchakova, Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the javelin throw event
  • Yelena Granaturova, Soviet tennis player
  • Yelena Greshnyakova, Russian politician
  • Yelena Grigoryeva, Russian LGBT rights activist
  • Yelena Grigoryeva , Russian figure skater
  • Yelena Grishina, Soviet fencer
  • Jelena Grkovic, Hungarian-Serbian ice hockey player
  • Jelena Grubišić, Croatian handball player
  • Yelena Grudneva, Russian gymnast
  • Yelena Gruzinova, retired female race walker from Russia
  • Yelena Gulyayeva, née Rodina, retired Russian high jumper
  • Yelena Guryeva, field hockey player and Olympic medalist
  • Yelena Hahn, Russian writer
  • Yelena Ilyina, Soviet speed skater
  • Yelena Ilyukhina, Kazakhstani handball player
  • Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
  • Jelena Ivezić, Croatian handball player
  • Jelena Janićijević, Serbian boxer
  • Jelena Janković, Serbian former tennis player
  • Yelena Jemayeva, Azerbaijani fencer
  • Jelena Jensen, American former pornographic film actress and screenwriter
  • Jelena Jerinić, Serbian academic and politician
  • Jelena Jovanova, Macedonian actress
  • Jelena Jovanović, multiple people
  • Jelena Jovčić, Serbian documentary filmmaker
  • Yelena Kalugina, Belarusian cross-country skier
  • Jelena Karleuša, Serbian singer and media personality
  • Jelena Karličić, Montenegrin footballer
  • Yelena Kashcheyeva, Kazakhstani long jumper
  • Jelena Katić, Serbian politician
  • Yelena Katishonok, Russian-language writer
  • Yelena Khanga, author of Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black Russian American Family: 1865–1992
  • Yelena Khloptseva, Russian rower and Olympic champion
  • Yelena Khudashova, Russian basketball player
  • Yelena Kiselyova, Russian painter
  • Yelena Klimenko, Kazakhstani handball player
  • Jelena Kocić, Serbian politician
  • Yelena Kolesova, Soviet partisan
  • Yelena Komarova, Azerbaijani wrestler
  • Yelena Kondakova, the third Soviet/Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space
  • Yelena Kondulainen, Soviet singer and actor
  • Yelena Konevtseva, female hammer thrower from Russia
  • Yelena Konshina, Russian composer and music educator
  • Yelena Korban, track and field sprinter from the Soviet Union
  • Yelena Koreneva, Russian actress
  • Yelena Korobkina, Russian middle-distance runner
  • Yelena Korolyova, Russian freestyle skier
  • Yelena Kosolapova, Soviet diver
  • Jelena Kostanić Tošić, Croatian tennis player
  • Yelena Kotelnikova, Russian judoka
  • Jelena Kovačević, Serbian-American engineering professor
  • Yelena Krivoshey, Russian gymnast
  • Yelena Kruglova, Soviet swimmer
  • Yelena Ksenofontova, Russian stage and film actress, Honored Artist of Russia
  • Yelena Kurzina, Belarusian slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-1990s
  • Yelena Alexandrovna Kuzmina, Soviet actress
  • Yelena Kuznetsova, race walker from Kazakhstan
  • Yelena Lanskaya, American film director, producer and editor
  • Yelena Lapuga, Soviet speed skater
  • Yelena Lapushkina, Russian politician
  • Jelena Lavko, Serbian handball player
  • Yelena Lebedenko, Russian heptathlete and triple jumper
  • Yelena Lebedeva, Uzbekistani sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1990s
  • Jelena Lengold, Serbian poet, novelist and journalist
  • Yelena Leonova, Soviet pair skater
  • Yelena Leuchanka, Belarusian professional women's basketball player
  • Jelena Lolović, Serbian alpine skier
  • Yelena Lyubimova, Soviet geologist known for her geothermal research
  • Yelena Maciel, Venezuelan actress
  • Yelena Maglevannaya, Russian free-lance journalist for the newspaper Svobodnoye Slovo, Free Speech, in Volgograd
  • Yelena Makarova, Russian swimmer
  • Yelena Maksimova, Soviet actress
  • Jelena Maksimović, Serbian basketball player
  • Yelena Malysheva, Russian physician and TV presenter
  • Yelena Maryassova, Kazakhstani rhythmic gymnast
  • Jelena Mašínová, Czech screenwriter
  • Yelena Masyuk, Russian television journalist, covered the First and Second Chechen Wars and her 1997 abduction
  • Yelena Matiyevskaya, Russian former rower who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics
  • Yelena Matyushenko, Soviet diver
  • Jelena McWilliams, Serbian-American business executive
  • Yelena Medvedeva, Soviet rowing coxswain
  • Yelena Melnikova, Russian biathlete
  • Yelena Migunova, Russian sprint athlete
  • Jelena Miholjević, Croatian actress
  • Jelena Mijatović, Serbian politician
  • Yelena Mikulich, Belarus rower
  • Jelena Milić, Serbian engineer and political analyst
  • Jelena Milivojčević, Serbian karateka
  • Jelena Miloš, Croatian politician
  • Yelena Miroshina, diver from Russia
  • Jelena Mišić, Yugoslav-Canadian computer scientist
  • Yelena Mizulina, Russian politician
  • Jelena Mladjenović, Bosnian volleyball player
  • Yelena Motalova, long-distance runner from Russia
  • Jelena Mrdjenovich, Canadian boxer
  • Jelena Muhhina, Estonian figure skater
  • Yelena Mukhina, Soviet gymnast
  • Yelena Nagovitsyna, Russian long-distance runner
  • Yelena Naimushina, Soviet gymnast
  • Yelena Nanaziashvili, Kazakhstani long-distance runner
  • Yelena Nazemnova, Russian swimmer
  • Yelena Nechayeva, Russian fencer
  • Jelena Nikolić, Serbian volleyball player
  • Jelena Nišavić, Serbian handball player
  • Yelena Oblova, Russian sailor
  • Jelena Obradovic, developmental psychologist
  • Jelena Obradović, Serbian politician
  • Yelena Oleynikova, Russian triple jumper
  • Yelena Sidorchenkova Orlova, Russian long-distance runner
  • Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
  • Yelena Ovchinnikova, Russian competitor in synchronized swimming
  • Yelena Paducheva, Russian linguist
  • Jelena Pandžić, Croatian tennis player
  • Yelena Panova, several people
  • Jelena Pantović, Montenegrin sport shooter
  • Yelena Parfenova, Kazakhstani triple jumper
  • Yelena Parkhomenko, Azerbaijani volleyball player
  • Yelena Partova, Kazakhstani handball player
  • Jelena Pavičić Vukičević, Croatian politician
  • Yelena Pavlova, female volleyball player from Kazakhstan
  • Jelena Pavlović, Serbian politician
  • Jelena Peeters, Belgian speed skater
  • Jelena Perčin, Croatian actress
  • Yelena Perminova, Russian politician
  • Yelena Pershina, retired female long jumper from Kazakhstan
  • Jelena Petrova, Estonian swimmer
  • Yelena Petrova, Russian former judoka who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics
  • Yelena Petushkova, Russian and former Soviet equestrian who won three Olympic medals
  • Jelena V. Pia-Comella, Andorran diplomat
  • Yelena Piraynen, Belarusian cross-country skier
  • Jelena Pirsl, Croatian handball player
  • Yelena Piskunova, Uzbekistani sprinter
  • Yelena Plotnikova, volleyball player from Russia
  • Yelena Plotnikova , Kazakhstani archer
  • Yelena Podkaminskaya, Russian actress
  • Yelena Polenova, Russian painter and designer, sister of Vasily Polenov
  • Yelena Polenova , Russian handball player
  • Jelena Poljakova-Všivtseva, Estonian biathlete
  • Jelena Popović, Serbian handball player
  • Jelena Porsanger, Russian-born Norwegian Sami ethnographer
  • Yelena Portova, Kazakhstani handball player
  • Yelena Posevina, Russian gymnast and Olympic champion
  • Yelena Potapenko, Kazakhstani modern pentathlete
  • Yelena Priyma, hammer thrower from Russia
  • Yelena Produnova, also known as Elena, Russian gymnast
  • Yelena Prokhorova, Russian heptathlete who won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  • Yelena Prokopcuka, Latvian long-distance runner, won the New York City Marathon in 2005 and 2006
  • Yelena Protsenko, Ukrainian-born Russian politician
  • Yelena Provorova, Russian ice hockey player
  • Yelena Rabaya, Russian sport shooter
  • Jelena Radan, Croatian singer
  • Yelena Rigert, Russian hammer thrower
  • Yelena Rojkova, Turkmen swimmer
  • Yelena Romanova, Russian middle distance runner
  • Jelena Rowe, American high jumper
  • Jeļena Rubļevska, Latvian modern pentathlete
  • Yelena Rudkovskaya, Belarusian swimmer and Olympic champion
  • Yelena Ruzina, retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres
  • Yelena Ryabova, Turkmenistan short-distance runner
  • Yelena Safonova, Russian actress
  • Yelena Samarina, Spanish actor
  • Yelena Sayko, retired female race walker from Russia
  • Yelena Serova, Russian cosmonaut and politician
  • Yelena Shalamova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
  • Yelena Shalina, Russian cross-country skier
  • Yelena Shalygina, Kazakh wrestler
  • Yelena Shatkovskaya, Soviet and Russian scientist
  • Yelena Shchapova, Italian-Russian model, writer and poet
  • Yelena Sheremeteva, 16th-century Russian noblewoman
  • Yelena Shevchenko, multiple people
  • Yelena Shidyanskaya, Greek-Russian military commander
  • Yelena Shtelmaister, Kazakhstani ice hockey player
  • Yelena Shubina, Russian former swimmer who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics
  • Yelena Shulman, Russian voice actress
  • Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast, World, European, and Olympic Champion
  • Yelena Shvaybovich, Belarusian basketball player
  • Yelena Sidorchenkova, Russian long-distance runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase
  • Jelena Silajdžić, Bosnian film producer and human rights activist
  • Yelena Silina, Russian ice hockey player
  • Jelena Simić, Bosnian tennis player
  • Yelena Sinchukova, Russian long and triple jumper
  • Yelena Sinitsina, Kazakhstani speed skater
  • Yelena Sinkevich, Belarusian cross-country skier
  • Yelena Sipatova, retired long-distance runner from the Soviet Union
  • Yelena Skalinskaya, Kazakhstani swimmer
  • Jelena Skerlić Ćorović, Serbian writer, translator, literary critic and French language professor
  • Jelena Škerović, Montenegrin basketball player
  • Yelena Skrynnik, First female Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation between March 2009 and May 2012
  • Yelena Skulskaya, Estonian journalist and writer
  • Yelena Slesarenko, née Sivushenko, Russian high jumper
  • Yelena Smurova, Russian water polo player, who won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  • Yelena Soboleva, Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres
  • Yelena Solovey, Soviet film actress
  • Yelena Soya, Russian Synchro-swimmer
  • Jelena Špirić, Serbian basketball player
  • Jelena Stanisavljević, Serbian sprinter
  • Jelena Stanković, Serbian basketball player
  • Yelena Stempkovskaya, Soviet radio operator
  • Yelena Stepanenko, Russian stand-up comic and actor
  • Yelena Struchayeva, Kazakhstani sport shooter
  • Jelena Sturanović, Montenegrin footballer
  • Jelena Subotić, political scientist
  • Yelena Suyazova, team handball player from Kazakhstan
  • Yelena Svezhentseva, javelin thrower from Uzbekistan
  • Yelena Syuzeva, Russian sailor
  • Jelena Tanasković, Serbian politician
  • Yelena Taranova, Azerbaijani paralympic sport shooter, silver medalist of 2000 Summer Paralympics
  • Yelena Tereshina, Soviet rower
  • Yelena Terleyeva Russian singer, best known for her hit "Solntse"
  • Yelena Tikhanina, Russian speed skater
  • Yelena Timoshenko, Russian swimmer
  • Yelena Tissina, Russian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s
  • Jelena Tomašević, Serbian pop singer
  • Yelena Tregubova, Russian journalist, a critic of the president Vladimir Putin and his environment
  • Jelena Trifunović, Serbian handball player
  • Yelena Tripolski, Israeli Olympic sport shooter
  • Jelena Trivan, Serbian politician
  • Jelena Trivić, Bosnian Serb politician
  • Yelena Trofimenko, Belarusian film director, producer, screenwriter, author, actress, poet
  • Yelena Tsukhlo, Belarusian marathon runner
  • Yelena Tumanova, Soviet speed skater
  • Yelena Turysheva, Russian cross-country skier
  • Yelena Tyurina, retired female volleyball player from Russia
  • Yelena Tyushnyakova, Russian speed skater
  • Yelena Ubiyvovk, Soviet partisan
  • Yelena Usievich, Russian writer and literary critic
  • Yelena Välbe, née Trubitsyna, Russian former cross-country skier
  • Yelena Vasilevskaya, Russian volleyball player
  • Yelena Velikanova, Russian actress
  • Jelena Veljača, Croatian actress and screenwriter
  • Jelena Vermilion, Canadian sex worker advocate
  • Jelena Vicković, Montenegrin pioneer educator
  • Yelena Vinogradova, female track and field athlete who represented the Soviet Union
  • Yelena Volchetskaya, Soviet and Belarusian artistic gymnast
  • Yelena Volkova, several people
  • Yelena Vorona, Russian freestyle skier
  • Jelena Vučetić, Montenegrin Serb basketball player
  • Jelena Vučković, Serbian physicist
  • Jelena Vujadinović, Montenegrin footballer
  • Jelena Vujić Obradović, Serbian politician
  • Jelena Vujičić, Montenegrin alpine skier
  • Jelena Vuković, Croatian Paralympic athlete
  • Yelena Yefimova, Russian artist and sculptor and a member of the National Association of Art crafts and Guild masters
  • Yelena Yelesina, female high jumper from Russia
  • Yelena Yemchuk, professional photographer, painter and film director, known for her work with The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Yelena Yevtyukhova, Russian politician
  • Yelena Yudina, Russia skeleton racer who has been competing since 2005
  • Yelena Zadorozhnaya, Russian runner who specializes in the 3000, 5000 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase
  • Yelena Zakharova, Russian actress
  • Jelena Zanevskaja, Lithuanian artistic gymnast
  • Yelena Zgardan, Russian handball player
  • Yelena Zhukova, Russian artist
  • Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova, retired female track and field athlete from Ukraine
  • Jelena Žigon, Serbian and Yugoslav actress
  • Yelena Zlenko, Russian politician
  • Jelena Zrnić, Croatian basketball player