Eleni (given name)

People

• Eleni of Ethiopia, Ethiopian empress
• Eleni Andriola, Greek gymnast
• Eleni Artymata, Greek sprinter
• Eleni Avlonitou, Greek swimmer
• Eleni Bakopanos, Greek-born Canadian politician
• Eleni Benson, Greek footballer
• Eleni Christofi, Greek tennis player
• Eleni Cubitt, Greek-born British film maker
• Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
• Eleni Doika, Greek gymnast
• Eleni Donta, Greek marathon runner
• Eleni Filandra, Greek runner
• Eleni Foskett, British actress
• Eleni Foureira, Greek singer and fashion designer
• Eleni Giokos, Greek-born journalist at CNN
• Eleni Goula, Greek water polo player
• Eleni Kapogianni, Greek basketball coach
• Eleni Karaindrou, Greek composer
• Eleni Kounalakis, 50th Lieutenant Governor of California
• Eleni Konsolaki, Greek archaeologist
• Eleni Kosti, Greek swimmer
• Eleni Kouvdou, Greek water polo player
• Eleni Lambiri, Greek conductor and composer
• Eleni Mandell, American singer-songwriter
• Eleni Markou, Greek footballer
• Eleni Mavrou, Greek Cypriot politician
• Eleni Memetzi, Greek volleyball player
• Eleni Menegaki, Greek talk show presenter
• Eleni Oikonomopoulou, Greek artist
• Eleni Ourani, Greek writer
• Eleni Papadaki, Greek stage actress
• Eleni Patsiou, Greek judoka
• Eleni Poimenidou, Greek handball player
• Eleni Rantou, Greek actress
• Eleni Skoura, Greek politician
• Eleni Stroulia, Greek-Canadian computer scientist
• Eleni Tampasi, Greek judoka
• Eleni Teloni, Cypriot hammer thrower
• Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, American diplomat
• Eleni Tsaligopoulou, Greek singer
• Eleni Tzoka, Polish singer
• Eleni Vakalo, Greek poet, art critic and art historian
• Eleni Vasileiou, Greek basketball player
• Eleni Vitali, Greek singer
• Eleni Xenaki, Greek water polo player
• Eleni Zafeiriou, Greek film actress

  Fictional characters

• Eleni Andros Cooper, fictional character on the soap opera Guiding Light
• Eleni, fictional vampire in Anne Rice's novel The Vampire Lestat
• Eleni Petraki, fictional character in Victoira Hislop's novel The Island
• Eleni Cooper, mother of Baron George Cooper in the Legends of Tortall novels by Tamora Pierce

  Songs about Eleni

• "Anoixe Lenio tin porta", traditional
• "Eleni" by Thanos Mikroutsikos and Babis Tsikliropoulos, originally sung by Haris Alexiou
• "Fevgo, Lenio" by Spyros Peristeris and Minos Matsas
• "I Eleni i zontochira" by Iovan Tsaous, originally sung by Antonis Kalyvopoulos
• "I Lenio i koutsobola" by Michalis Genitsaris
• "Nitsa-Elenitsa" by Giorgos Mitsakis, originally sung by Stelios Kazantzidis
• "To tango tis Elenis" by Antonis Vardis and Vasilis Papakonstantinou
• "Eleni" by Nikos Karvelas, originally sung by Anna Vissi - later covered by Turkish pop folk singer Hülya Avşar as "Sevdim"