List of Famous people named Yelena

Yelena Borisovna Mizulina is a Russian politician serving as a member of the Russian Parliament between 1995 and 2003 and again since 2007. Since 2012, she has been the center of attention in regard to a set of controversial laws concerning the rights of the LGBT community in Russia and the adoption of Russian orphan children by foreigners. She is currently Chairman of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs. She has changed her political affiliation several times, having served public office on behalf of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the liberal Yabloko and Union of Right Forces parties and is currently representing the region of Omsk in the Duma as a representative of the social democratic A Just Russia party.

Elena Borisovna Skrynnik is a Russian politician who served as the first female minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation between March 2009 and May 2012.

Yelena Sergeyevna Produnova, also known as Elena, is a Russian former competitive gymnast. Her senior international career lasted from 1995 to 2000 and earned her multiple world and Olympic medals. She was known for her innovative and powerful skills on the vault and floor exercise. One of the most difficult vault in women's gymnastics, the Produnova, is named after her. The Produnova shares with the Biles as the two vaults with the single highest D-score of 6.4 in women's vault in the 2017–2020 quad.

Yelena Georgievna Bonner was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic blunt honesty and courage.

Elena Anatolievna Gremina was a Russian writer and playwright who was one of the founders of the documentary theatre Teatr.doc. The fact-based approach to creating theatre that Gremina fostered made Teatr.doc a prominent place in the Moscow theatre scene and the New Drama movement in Russian theatre.

Yelena Vladimirovna Terleyeva is a Russian singer, best known for her hit Sun. She was born in the family of a serviceman. Soon her family moved to Urengoy, where she spent her childhood. Because of that, she has a very strong and purposeful character. Her mother was a teacher of music, so Terleyeva followed her mother's example. At first she played piano, but a few years later she began to sing.

Yelena Sergeevna Shchapova de Carli is an Italian-Russian model, writer and poet.

Elena Andreevna Nikolaeva is a Russian actress.

Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova was the third Soviet/Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on October 4, 1994. She returned to Earth on March 22, 1995 after a five-month stay at the Mir space station. Kondakova's second flight was as a mission specialist on the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-84 in May 1997. She was the last Russian female in space until her successor cosmonaut Elena Serova flew to the International Space Station (ISS) on September 25, 2014.

Alena Leuchanka is a Belarusian professional women's basketball player who plays for Panathinaikos.