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Elements of Harmony
Elements of Harmony: six magical artifacts in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Honesty, Loyalty, Generosity, Laughter, Kindness, Magic), worn by the Mane 6, kept at the Tree of Harmony, used against Nightmare Moon and Discord.
Elements of music
The elements of music, also known as the rudiments of music or musical parameters, are basic sound characteristics, including melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, timbre, texture, and form, that composers and performers manipulate to create music.
Elen Bunatyants Shakirova
Elen Bunatyants-Shakirova (Элен Бунатьянц-Шакирова), born 1970 in Mary, Turkmenistan, is a Russian center, 1992 Olympic basketball gold medalist with the Unified Team, three-time Olympian, EuroBasket medalist, and former WNBA player with Houston and Charlotte.
Elena (musician)
Elena Gheorghe, born 1985 in Bucharest, is a Romanian pop singer who represented Romania at Eurovision 2009 with "The Balkan Girls" and later scored Romanian number-one singles like "Disco Romancing".
Elena (Street Fighter)
Elena (Street Fighter): Kenyan capoeira fighter debuting in Street Fighter III: New Generation (1997), known for her Healing super art, kick-only moveset, and 2025 Street Fighter 6 DLC debut.
Elena (Эле́на) (2011 film)
Elena (Эле́на) is Andrey Zvyagintsev's 2011 Russian drama, his third feature, in which former nurse Elena (Nadezhda Markina) murders her wealthy husband Vladimir (Andrey Smirnov) to secure her son's inheritance; it won the Cannes Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize.
Elena A. Levashina
Elena A. Levashina is a Russian-born immunologist who studies mosquito immunity to malaria and heads the Vector Biology Unit at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology.
Elena Anaya
Elena Anaya Gutiérrez, Spanish actress born in Palencia in 1975, star of Lucía y el sexo and La piel que habito, 2012 Goya winner, villain of Wonder Woman, and lead of Jaula, Las largas sombras, and Netflix's Innato.
Elena Aprile
Elena Aprile, born 1954, is an Italian experimental physicist at Columbia University who founded the XENON dark matter search in 2002 and leads it as spokesperson.
Elena B. Pasquale
Elena B. Pasquale is an American-based molecular biologist known for her work on Eph receptors and ephrins at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California.
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.