Yelena

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

Notable people called Yelena

• Yelena Afanasyeva (athlete) (born 1967), former Russian athlete who competed in the 800 metres
• Yelena Vladimirovna Afanasyeva (born 1975), member of the State Duma of Russia
• Yelena Akhaminova, former volleyball player for the Soviet Union
• Yelena Andreevna, play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov
• Yelena Andreyuk, former volleyball player for the USSR
• Yelena Antonova (rower) (born 1952), rower from the Soviet Union
• Yelena Arshintseva (born 1971), retired female race walker from Russia
• Yelena Azarova (born 1973), Russian Synchro-swimmer
• Yelena Baranova (born 1972), Russian professional basketball player
• Yelena Baturina (born 1963), Russian oligarch, Russia's richest woman
• Yelena Bekman-Shcherbina (1882–1951), Russian pianist, composer and teacher
• Yelena Belevskaya (born 1963), retired athlete who represented the USSR until 1991 and Belarus since 1992
• Yelena Belova (biathlete) (born 1965), Russian former biathlete who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics
• Yelena Belyakova (born 1976), former pole vaulter from Russia
• Yelena Bet (born 1976), Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed in the early to mid-2000s
• Yelena Bolsun (born 1983), Russian female sprint athlete
• Yelena Bondarchuk (1962–2009), Soviet and Russian stage and film actress
• Yelena Bonner (1923–2011), human rights activist in the former Soviet Union, wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov
• Yelena Burukhina (born 1977), former Russian cross country skier who has competed since 1996
• Yelena Leonova (born 1973), former Soviet pair skater
• Yelena Chernykh (1979–2011), Russian theatre actress
• Yelena Churakova (born 1986), Russian track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles
• Yelena Prokopcuka (born 1976), Latvian long-distance runner, won the New York City Marathon in 2005 and 2006
• Yelena Smurova (born 1974), Russian water polo player, who won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Yelena Soboleva (born 1982), Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres
• Yelena Davydova (born 1961), former Soviet gymnast
• Yelena Dembo (born 1983), Greek International Master of chess
• Yelena Dendeberova (born 1969), former medley swimmer from the Soviet Union, Olympic silver medallist
• Yelena Dmitriyeva (born 1983), Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team
• Yelena Drapeko (born 1948), Russian actress
• Yelena Dudina, Soviet sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1980s
• Yelena Glikina (born 1969), Soviet fencer
• Yelena Godina (born 1977), Russian volleyball player
• Yelena Gorchakova (1933–2002), Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the javelin throw event
• Yelena Grishina (born 1968), Soviet fencer
• Yelena Gruzinova (born 1967), retired female race walker from Russia
• Yelena Gulyayeva, née Rodina (born 1967), retired Russian high jumper
• Yelena Guryeva (born 1958), field hockey player and Olympic medalist
• Yelena Ilyukhina (born 1982), Kazakhstani handball player
• Yelena Isinbayeva (born 1982), Russian pole vaulter
• Yelena Jemayeva (born 1971), Azerbaijani fencer
• Yelena Sokolova (long jumper) (born 1986), Russian long jumper
• Yelena Kashcheyeva (born 1973), Kazakhstani long jumper
• Yelena Khanga (born 1961), author of Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black Russian American Family: 1865 - 1992
• Yelena Khloptseva (born 1960), Russian rower and Olympic champion
• Yelena Kondakova (born 1957), the third Soviet/Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space
• Yelena Konevtseva (born 1981), female hammer thrower from Russia
• Yelena Konshina (born 1950), Russian composer and music educator
• Yelena Korban (born 1961), retired track and field sprinter from the Soviet Union
• Yelena Koreneva (born 1953), Russian actress
• Yelena Krivoshey (born 1977), Russian gymnast
• Yelena Kruglova (born 1962), former Soviet swimmer
• Yelena Ksenofontova (born 1972), Russian stage and film actress, Honored Artist of Russia (2006)
• Yelena Kurzina (born 1960), Belarusian slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-1990s
• Yelena Alexandrovna Kuzmina (1909–1979), Soviet actress
• Yelena Kuznetsova (born 1977), female race walker from Kazakhstan
• Yelena Lanskaya, American film director, producer and editor
• Yelena Lebedenko (born 1971), retired Russian heptathlete and triple jumper
• Yelena Lebedeva (born 1977), Uzbekistani sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1990s
• Yelena Leuchanka (born 1983), Belarusian professional women's basketball player
• Yelena Maglevannaya (born 1981), Russian free-lance journalist for the newspaper Svobodnoye Slovo, Free Speech, in Volgograd
• Yelena Masyuk (born 1966), Russian television journalist, covered the First and Second Chechen Wars and her 1997 abduction
• Yelena Matiyevskaya (born 1961), Russian former rower who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics
• Yelena Melnikova (born 1971), Russian former biathlete who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics
• Yelena Migunova (born 1984), in Kazan is a Russian sprint athlete
• Yelena Mikulich (born 1977), Belarus rower
• Yelena Miroshina (1974–1995), female diver from Russia
• Yelena Motalova (born 1971), long-distance runner from Russia
• Yelena Mukhina (born 1960), Soviet Gymnast
• Yelena Nechayeva (born 1979), Russian fencer
• Yelena Nikolayeva (born 1966), Russian race walker
• Yelena Nikolayeva (journalist) (born 1985)
• Yelena Ovchinnikova (born 1982), Russian competitor in synchronized swimming
• Yelena Alexandrovna Panova, often Elena Panova (born 1979), professional female bodybuilder from Voronezh, Russia
• Yelena Viktorovna Panova also Elena Panova (born 1977), Russian actress from Arkhangelsk
• Yelena Parfenova (born 1974), Kazakhstani triple jumper
• Yelena Parkhomenko (born 1982), Azerbaijani volleyball player
• Yelena Partova (born 1985), Kazakhstani handball player
• Yelena Pavlova (born 1978), female volleyball player from Kazakhstan
• Yelena Pershina (born 1963), retired female long jumper from Kazakhstan
• Yelena Petrova (born 1966), Russian former judoka who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Yelena Petushkova (1940–2007), Russian and former Soviet equestrian who won three Olympic medals
• Yelena Plotnikova (born 1978), female volleyball player from Russia
• Yelena Polenova (1850–1898), Russian painter and designer, sister of Vasily Polenov
• Yelena Posevina (born 1986), Russian gymnast and Olympic champion
• Yelena Priyma (born 1983), female hammer thrower from Russia
• Yelena Produnova, also known as Elena, (born 1980), female Russian gymnast
• Yelena Prokhorova (born 1978), Russian heptathlete who won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Yelena Romanova (1963–2007), Russian middle distance runner
• Yelena Rudkovskaya (born 1973), Belarusian swimmer and Olympic champion
• Yelena Sokolova (long-distance runner) (born 1979), Russian long-distance runner
• Yelena Ruzina (born 1964), retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres
• Yelena Safonova (born 1956), Russian actress
• Yelena Sayko (born 1967), retired female race walker from Russia
• Yelena Shalamova (born 1982), Russian rhythmic gymnast
• Yelena Shalygina (born 1986), Kazakh wrestler
• Yelena Shubina (born 1974), Russian former swimmer who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Yelena Shushunova (1969–2018), Russian (former Soviet) gymnast, World, European, and Olympic Champion
• Yelena Sidorchenkova (born 1980), Russian long-distance runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase
• Yelena Sipatova (born 1955), retired long-distance runner from the Soviet Union
• Yelena Skrynnik, First female Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation between March 2009 and May 2012
• Yelena Slesarenko, née Sivushenko (born 1982), Russian high jumper
• Yelena Soboleva (born 1982), Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres
• Yelena Solovey (born 1947), Soviet film actress
• Yelena Soya, Russian Synchro-swimmer
• Yelena Suyazova (born 1989), team handball player from Kazakhstan
• Yelena Svezhentseva (born 1968), retired female javelin thrower from Uzbekistan
• Yelena Antonova (synchronised swimmer) (born 1974), Russian Synchro-swimmer
• Yelena Taranova (born 1961), Azerbaijani paralympic sport shooter, silver medalist of 2000 Summer Paralympics
• Yelena Tereshina (born 1959), Soviet rower
• Yelena Terleyeva (born 1985), USSR) Russian singer, best known for her hit "Solntse"
• Yelena Tissina (born 1977), Russian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s
• Yelena Tregubova (born 1973), Russian journalist, a critic of the president Vladimir Putin and his environment
• Yelena Tripolski (born 1967), Israeli Olympic sport shooter
• Yelena Trofimenko (born 1964), Belarusian film director, producer, screenwriter, author, actress, poet
• Yelena Tyurina (born 1971), retired female volleyball player from Russia
• Yelena Välbe, née Trubitsyna (born 1968), Russian former cross-country skier
• Yelena Vasilevskaya (born 1978), Russian volleyball player
• Yelena Vinogradova (born 1964), female track and field athlete who represented the Soviet Union
• Yelena Volkova (swimmer) (born 1968), Soviet swimmer and world champion
• Yelena Volkova (volleyball) (born 1960), former Soviet volleyball player and Olympic gold medalist
• Yelena Yefimova (born 1948), Russian artist and sculptor and a member of the National Association of Art crafts and Guild masters
• Yelena Yelesina (born 1970), female high jumper from Russia
• Yelena Yemchuk (born 1970), professional photographer, painter and film director, known for her work with The Smashing Pumpkins
• Yelena Yudina (born 1988), Russia skeleton racer who has been competing since 2005
• Yelena Zadorozhnaya (born 1977), Russian runner who specializes in the 3000, 5000 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase
• Yelena Zakharova (born 1975), Russian actress
• Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova (born 1960), retired female track and field athlete from Ukraine

Fictional characters

• Yelena (Attack on Titan), a character in the manga series Attack on Titan
• Yelena Belova, a character in the Marvel Comics universe using the codename Black Widow

See also

• Jelena, a given name

External links

• Yelena at Behind the Name
• Yelena at Thinkbabynames