List of Famous people named Elena
Elena Highton de Nolasco
Elena Inés Highton de Nolasco is an Argentine lawyer, judge and a member of Supreme Court of Justice of Argentina since 2004.
Elena Sanayeva
Elena Vsevolodovna Sanayeva is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress and social activist. She is an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1990).
Elena Iparraguirre Revoredo
Elena Albertina Iparraguirre Revoredo, also known as Comrade Míriam, is a high-ranking member of the Peruvian Maoist revolutionary party Sendero Luminoso.
Elena Furiase
Elena Furiase González is a Spanish actress. She is a daughter of Spanish singer Lolita Flores and Guillermo Furiase, an Argentinean.
Elena Ballesteros
María Elena Ballesteros Triguero is a Spanish actress.
Elena Ochoa
Elena Ochoa, Lady Foster of Thames Bank is a Spanish publisher and art curator, and formerly a professor of psychopathology. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Ivorypress.
Elena Poniatowska
Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska, known professionally as Elena Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers, books in both fiction and nonfiction form. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her leftwing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.
Elena Berezhnaya
Elena Viktorovna Berezhnaya is a Russian former pair skater. With partner Anton Sikharulidze, she is the 1998 and 1999 World champion, 1998 Olympic silver medalist and 2002 Olympic champion.
Elena Rivera
Elena Rivera Villajos is a Spanish actress. She became popular for her long-lasting role as Karina in Cuéntame cómo pasó.
Elena Kondulainen
Yelena Ivanovna Kondulainen is a Russian actress, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2002), and pop singer.