Jelena

Jelena is a Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Belarussian female given name. (Originally russian) The name is slavicised version of Greek name Ελένη (gr. Eleni, eng. Helen)

Notable people

old-world

• Jelena Zrinski, Princess Consort of Transylvania and Croatian noblewoman
• Jelena Urošević Vukanović, Queen consort of Hungary
• Jelena Anžujska, Serbian Queen
• Jelena Wladimirowna Romanowa, grand princess of Russia
• Jelena of Bulgaria, Empress consort of Serbia
• Jelena of Serbia, Yugoslav princess

modern

• Jelena Vladimirovna Afanasyeva (born 1975), member of the State Duma of Russia
• Jelena Akhaminova, former volleyball player for the Soviet Union
• Jelena Andreevna, play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov
• Jelena Andreyuk, former volleyball player for the USSR
• Jelena Dokić, Australian tennis player of Croatian and Serbian origin'
• Jelena 'Gigi' Hadid, American model
• Jeļena Prokopčuka, Latvian long-distance runnter
• Jelena Sergejewna Wesnina, Russian tennis player
• Jelena Alexandrowna Lichowzewa, Russian tennis player
• Jelena Olegowna Serowa, Russian Cosmonaut
• Jelena Gadschijewna Issinbajewa, Russian pole vaulter
• Jelena Wjatscheslawowna Dementjewa, Russian tennis player
• Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
• Jelena Jensen, American glamour model and pornstar
• Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
• Jelena Belova (biathlete) (born 1965), Russian former biathlete who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics
• Jelena Belyakova (born 1976), former pole vaulter from Russia
• Jelena Bet (born 1976), Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed in the early to mid-2000s
• Jelena Batorina, Richest woman in Russia
• Jelena Karleuša, Serbian singer
  • Jelena (album), her 1998 album
• Jelena Nikolić, Serbian volleyball player
• Jelena Tomašević, Serbian singer

Diminutives

Jelica, Jelka, Jele, Jela, Lena, Lenotschka, Jeca, Alena

Related names

Helen, Helena, Yelena, Elena, Elaine, Ellen, Eleanor, Alyona, Alyena, Aliena, Olyena