Yelena

Notable people called Yelena

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

  Fictional characters

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