List of Famous people named Yelena

Yelena Vsevolodovna Safonova is a former Soviet and a Russian actress. She is an Honored Artist of Russia (2011). She was made famous by the 1985 melodrama Winter Cherry and its two sequels. In 1988, she was awarded the David di Donatello for her starring turn in Nikita Mikhalkov's film Dark Eyes.

Yelena Valeryevna Välbe is a Russian former cross-country skier. She won a record-high 14 gold, including all five golds at the 1997 World Championships. She also won three Olympic gold medals and four bronze medals in various Winter Olympic Games as well as four World Cup Crystal Globes.

Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva is a Russian former pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, a three-time World Champion, the current world record holder in the event, and is widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time. Isinbayeva was banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics after the appearance of an independent report about an extensive state-sponsored doping program in Russia, thus dashing her hopes of a grand retirement winning the Olympic gold medal. She retired from athletics in August 2016 after being elected to serve an 8-year term on the IOC's Athletes' Commission.

Yelena Abdulaevna Khanga, also transliterated as Elena Hanga, is a Russian journalist who was raised in Moscow, USSR, and came to the United States in 1990 to write Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black Russian American Family: 1865–1992. Khanga divides her time between New York City and Moscow.

Yelena Vasilyevna Malysheva is a Russian physician, internist, cardiologist, teacher, and television host. She has been educating Russians on healthy lifestyles for two decades.

Yelena Viktorovna Panova also Elena Panova is a Russian actress. A noted stage actress at the Moscow Art Theater, she has been active in film and television since 1997. She is a recipient of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2001).

Yelena Grigorevna Drapeko is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1972. She is also a member of the State Duma since 2003.

Yelena Yuryevna Ksenofontova is a Russian stage and film actress, Honored Artist of Russia (2006).

Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina is a Russian billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist, based in London, and was married to Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow, until his death in 2019.

Yelena Alekseyevna Koreneva is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, writer.