Elena (given name)

Elena is a popular female given name of Greek origin. The name means "shining light". Nicknames of the name Elena are Lena, Lennie, Ella, Ellie, Nellie or Nena (less common).^[1]

Other common variants are Alena (German, Czech, Russian, Belarusian, Serbo-Croatian); Alenka (Slovenian); Alyona (Russian); Elene (Georgian); Helen (English); Hélène (French); Helena; Eliana (Portuguese); Eline (Dutch, Norwegian, Sranan Tongo); Ileana (Romanian, Italian, Spanish); Ilona (Hungarian, Finnish, Latvian); Olena (Ukrainian); and Elena/Yelena (Russian, Serbo-Croatian).^[2]

Notable people[]

Given name[]

A–K[]

• Elena Altieri, Italian actress
• Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
• Elena Arzhakova (born 1989), Russian runner who specializes in the middle distance events
• Elena Asimakopoulou, Greek model
• Elena Baltacha (1983–2014), British tennis player, born in Kiev
• Elena Berezhnaya, Russian pair skater
• Elena Bogdan (born 1992), Romanian tennis player
• Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo, (born 1963), Infanta of Spain and Duchess of Lugo
• Elena Bovina (born 1983), Russian tennis player
• Elena Brambilla (1942–2018), Italian historian
• Elena Braverman, Russian, Israeli, and Canadian mathematician
• Elena Carapetis, Greek-Australian actress
• Elena Ceaușescu (1916–1989), wife of former Romanian head of state Nicolae Ceaușescu
• Elena Dahl (born 1947), Russian-Swedish author and translator.
• Elena Delle Donne (born 1989), American basketball player
• Elena Dementieva (born 1981), Russian former tennis player
• Elena Eremina (born 2001), Russian artistic gymnast
• Elena Eskina (born 1976), retired Russian field hockey player and umpire
• Elena Ferrante (active 1992–present), pseudonymous Italian novelist
• Elena Fiore, Italian actress
• Elena Gerasimova (born 2004), Russian artistic gymnast
• Elena Gheorghe, Romanian singer; known for her hits "The Balkan Girls" and "Disco Romancing"
• Elena Goode (born 1983), American actress
• Ellie Goulding (born 1986), British singer-songwriter, born Elena Jane Goulding
• Elena Grushina, Ukrainian figure skater
• Elena Hila, Romanian shot putter
• Elena Ierodiakonou, Cypriot model
• Elena Kagan (born 1960), former United States Solicitor General and current Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957), Australian composer
• Elena Khatzisavva, Cypriot gymnast
• Elena Kosmina, Ukrainian beauty queen and model
• Elena Kountoura, Greek ex-model and politician

L–Z[]

• Elena Ledda, Sardinian singer
• Elena Liashenko, Ukrainian figure skater
• Elena Likhovtseva (born 1975), Russian tennis player
• Elena Lobsanova, Russian-Canadian ballet dancer
• Elena Manuele (born 2003), Italian singer
• Elena Mousikou, Cypriot archer
• Elena Nathanael, Greek actress
• Elena Nikolaidi, Greek-American opera singer
• Elena Nikoli, Greek handball player
• Elena Obraztsova (1930–2015), Russian operatic mezzo-soprano
• Elena Pampoulova (born 1972), Bulgarian tennis player
• Elena Panaritis, Greek economist
• Elena Paparizou, Greek singer
• Princess Elena of Montenegro (Princess Elena Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro, 1873–1952), wife of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
• Elena Poniatowska, Mexican journalist and author
• Elena Moldovan Popoviciu, Romanian mathematician
• Elena Rigas (born 1996), Danish speed skater
• Elena Salgado (born 1949), Spanish politician
• Elena Shimko (born 1982), Russian badminton player
• Elena Siegman, American singer
• Elena Skordelli, Cypriot television presenter
• Elena Souliotis, Greek opera singer
• Elena Stasova, Russian communist revolutionary
• Elena Tatarkova (born 1976), Ukrainian former tennis player
• Elena Udrea, Romanian politician; Minister of Tourism
• Elena Urlaeva (born 1961), Uzbek human rights activist
• Elena Vesnina (born 1986), Russian tennis player
• Elena Votsi, Greek designer
• Elena Waiss (1908-1988), Chilean pianist
• Elena Zamolodchikova, Russian gymnast
• Elena Zelenskaya, Russian soprano

Middle name[]

• Maria Elena Camerin (born 1982), Italian tennis player
• Maria Elena Kyriakou (born 1984), Greek Cypriot singer
• Flor Elena González, Venezuelan telenovela actress

In fiction[]

• Elena Tyler, a character portrayed by Tangi Miller on the 1998–2002 Warner Bros. series Felicity
• Elena, a Soviet scientist in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Elena, a fictional character played by Hazera Ambce in the British web series Corner Shop Show
• Elena Fisher, a character in the Uncharted series
• Elena Gilbert, from The Vampire Diaries
• Elena Michaels, in the Women of the Otherworld series
• Elena Ramos, from Dallas
• Elena of Turks, from Final Fantasy VII
• Elena (Street Fighter), from Street Fighter III
• Elena Potato, from the comic book and animated series Monster Allergy
• Elena a priestess from Grandia II
• Elena, a lord and the illegitimate daughter of Thomas Covenant
• Elena, an 18-year-old girl from the Wii game Pandora's Tower
• Elena Castillo Flores, a Disney princess from the animated television series Elena of Avalor
• Elena Alvarez, teenage daughter on One Day at a Time (2017 TV series)
• Elena Bothari-Jesek, a childhood friend of Miles' and later a leader of the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet from the Vorkosigan Saga
• Elena, played by Vera Filatova, is a resident of Apollo House and one of Jez's love interests in Peep Show (British TV series)
• Elena Greco, character in the Neapolitan Novels, a 4-part series by the Italian author Elena Ferrante
• Elena de la Vega, character from "The Mask of Zorro," a 1998 motion picture
• Elena Cañero-Reed, the main character from the tv show Diary of a Future President

See also[]

• All pages with titles containing Elena
• Elena (disambiguation)
• Lena (name)

Notes[]

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