Jelena
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Female |
| Origin |
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Montenegrin, Croatian, Serbian |
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Light |
Jelena is the Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian variant of the female given name Helen. The Serbian Cyrillic version is Јелена.
- Jelena of Zadar, wife of King Mihajlo Krešimir II, Queen of Croatia from 946 to 969
- Jelena Lijepa, wife of King Zvonimir, became Queen of Croatia in 1075
- Helena of Rascia (Jelena Urošević Vukanović), Queen consort of Hungary; Béla II of Hungary (1131–1141)
- Jelena Anžujska was a Serbian Queen, wife of Serbian king Stefan Uroš I and mother of kings Dragutin and Milutin.(1230 - February 8, 1314)
- Helena of Bulgaria (Jelena, Elena), Empress consort of Serbia; Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia (1332-1355)
- Jelena Zrinska, Croatian countess, daughter of Petar Zrinski, Croatian ban (viceroy), and wife of Francis I Rákóczi, a Hungarian aristocrat, elected prince of Transylvania
- Princess Jelena of Serbia was the daughter of King Peter I of Yugoslavia (November 4, 1884 - October 16, 1962)
- Jelena Dokić, Australian tennis player of Serbian and Croatian origin
- Jelena Gruba, Queen of Bosnia
- Jelena Jensen, an American glamour model and pornstar
- Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
- Jelena Karleuša, Serbian singer. Jelena is also the title of her 1998 album.
- Jelena Kostanić Tošić, Croatian tennis player
- Jelena Nikolić, Serbian volleyball player
- Jelena Rozga, Croatian singer
- Jelena Šubić, Croatian princess from the noble Šubić family and mother of Bosnian King Tvrtko
- Jelena Tomašević, Serbian singer
- Jelena Veljača, Croatian actress
- Archduchess Eleonore Jelena Maria del Pilar Iona of Austria, daughter of Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, member of the House of Habsburg
- A nickname given to Hollywood couple Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez by tabloids
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