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