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Elena Buenavida
Elena Buenavida (born 2004, Santa Cruz de Tenerife) is a Spanish guard for Valencia Basket and Spain; EuroBasket 2025 silver, 2026 World Cup bronze, Minnesota Lynx development contract for 2027.
Elena Cattaneo
Elena Cattaneo is an Italian pharmacologist and neuroscientist, a professor at the University of Milan, known for research on Huntington's disease and neural stem cells.
Elena Ceaușescu
Elena Ceaușescu (Elena Petrescu, 1916–1989), Romanian communist politician, wife of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu; First Deputy Prime Minister and nominal chemist whose doctorate and papers were written by others; executed December 25, 1989.
Elena Conti
Elena Conti (born 1967) is an Italian structural biologist who studies RNA degradation and transport, directing structural cell biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.
Elena Cornaro Piscopia
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), Venetian noblewoman and philosopher; first woman in the world to earn a university degree, a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Padua on 25 June 1678 after a theology doctorate was refused.
Elena Cuza
Elena Cuza, known as Elena Doamna, was a Romanian noblewoman, princess consort of the United Principalities, and philanthropist who founded a home for poor girls in 1862.
Elena Delle Donne
Elena Delle Donne (born 1989, Wilmington, DE) is a retired American WNBA forward, 2015 and 2019 MVP, 2019 champion with Washington, first 50/40/90 player, 2016 Olympic gold medalist, and Naismith Hall of Fame Class of 2026 inductee.
Elena F. Brachtel
Elena F. Brachtel is a German-trained breast cancer pathologist and cytopathologist, Professor of Clinical Pathology at the University of Miami, known for NEJM Case Records and circulating tumor cell research.
Elena Farago
Elena Farago, born Elena Paximade (1878–1954), was a Romanian poet, translator, and publicist best known for her children's poetry and for directing the Aman Foundation in Craiova.
Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of an anonymous Italian novelist, author of Troubling Love (1992) and the Neapolitan Quartet (2011–2014), translated into 50 languages; her identity remains unconfirmed despite Claudio Gatti's 2016 claim naming translator Anita Raja.
Elena Fisher
Elena Fisher is a fictional journalist and deuteragonist of Naughty Dog's Uncharted series, played by Emily Rose; Nathan Drake's on-off partner, wife between Uncharted 2 and 3, and mother of Cassie in Uncharted 4's epilogue.
Elena Garro
Elena Garro, born Elena Delfina Garro Navarro (1916–1998), was a Mexican novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose first novel, Los recuerdos del porvenir (1963), became an early landmark of magical realism.
Elena Gigli
Elena Gigli is an Italian water polo goalkeeper who won gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics, becoming the youngest Italian woman to win an Olympic medal.
Elena Gilbert
Elena Gilbert, also known as Elena Salvatore, is the central protagonist of The Vampire Diaries, created by L. J. Smith in her 1991 novel series and portrayed on television by Nina Dobrev.
Elena Glinskaya
Elena Glinskaya (Елена Глинская), died 1538, was grand princess of Moscow as Vasily III's second wife and regent for the young Ivan IV, carrying out a monetary reform.
Elena Gracheva
Elena Gracheva is a sensory neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine known for identifying the ion channels that let snakes and vampire bats sense infrared heat.
Elena Horvat
Elena Horvat (Ilona Horváth, later Florea), Romanian rower born 1958, Olympic gold in coxless pair with Rodica Arba at Los Angeles 1984 (3:32.60) and 1985 world champion at Hazewinkel; distinct from taekwondo's Lena Horvat and skier Leonarda Horvat.
Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan (born 1960) is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 2010, formerly the first woman U.S. Solicitor General and dean of Harvard Law School, known for accessible opinions and defense of precedent.
Elena Kampouris
Elena Kampouris (born 1997) is a Greek-American actress who plays Paris Miller in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 and 3, starred as Minnow Bly in Sacred Lies and Chloe Sampson in Jupiter's Legacy, made her Broadway debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and leads Muccino's bilingual Here Now / Fino alla fine (2024).
Elena Kostyleva
Elena Kostyleva (Елена Костылева), Russian junior women's singles figure skater; two-time Russian junior champion training under Evgeni Plushenko; known for quad toe loop, quad salchow, and triple axel at a young age.
Elena Kountoura
Elena Kountoura is a Greek politician and former tourism minister who has served as a Member of the European Parliament for SYRIZA since 2019, and as Vice-Chair of its Transport and Tourism Committee since 2024.
Elena Mukhina (Елена Вячеславовна Мухина)
Elena Mukhina (Елена Вячеславовна Мухина), Soviet artistic gymnast, 1978 world all-around champion in Strasbourg; quadriplegic after a Thomas salto training accident on 3 July 1980, two weeks before the Moscow Olympics; died 2006.
Elena of Avalor
Elena of Avalor, also known as Disney's Elena of Avalor, is an American animated Disney Junior series that premiered in 2016, starring Elena Castillo Flores, Disney's first Latina princess.
Elena Ottolenghi Nightingale
Elena Ottolenghi Nightingale is an Italian-born American physician and microbial geneticist at George Washington University, known for work on health and human rights and adolescent health policy.
Elena Pantazi
Elena Pantazi is a venture capital executive who is Partner and Head of Platform at Northzone in London, the firm's first partner focused on talent rather than deal-making.
Elena Parent
Elena Parent is an American Democratic politician and attorney in the Georgia State Senate's 44th district since 2015, elected caucus chairwoman in 2020, who announced in 2026 she would not seek re-election.
Elena Pavlovna
Elena Pavlovna (Елена Павловна; 1784–1803) was a Russian grand duchess, the second daughter of Tsar Paul I, who in 1799 married Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Elena Poniatowska
Elena Poniatowska (Hélène Poniatowska Amor), Mexican journalist and writer born in Paris in 1932; author of La noche de Tlatelolco (1971) and about 50 books; first Mexican woman to win the Premio Cervantes (2013).
Elena Pridankina (Елена Ивановна Приданкина)
Elena Pridankina (Елена Ивановна Приданкина), Russian tennis player born 2005; right-handed, WTA doubles champion at Jiujiang 2025, career-high singles No. 168, 2026 French Open main-draw debutant.
Elena Richter
Elena Richter (Elena Luise Senta Richter), German recurve archer born 1989 in Berlin; 2012 Olympian (=17), 2011 European individual champion, 2018 World Indoor double gold medalist, retired 2020.