Zeleny

Zeleny or Zelenyi (in Zelený or Зелений, meaning "green") is a surname. The feminine form is Zelena (in Zelená). The Russian-language equivalent is Zelyony, sometimes transliterated as Zeliony. Notable people with this surname include:

People

 * Charles Zeleny (1878–1939), Czech-American zoologist and professor at the University of Illinois
 * Charlie Zeleny, American metal rock drummer
 * Daniell Zeleny, Australian footballer
 * Jaroslav Zelený, Czech footballer
 * Jeff Zeleny, Pulitzer Prize-winning Czech-American journalist for CNN and the New York Times
 * John Zeleny (1872–1951), Czech-American physicist at the University of Minnesota, inventor of the Zeleny electroscope
 * Jindřich Zelený (1922–1997), Czech philosopher
 * Josef Zelený (1824–1886), Moravian artist
 * Lawrence Zeleny (1904–1995, American biochemist and ornithologist, founder of North American Bluebird Society
 * Lev Zeleny, Russian physicist
 * Leslie Day Zeleny, American educator and militar
 * Milan Zeleny (1942–2023), American economist
 * Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny (born 1973), Mexican novelist
 * Václav Zelený, Czech botanist