Jelena

Jelena

Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Montenegrin, Croatian, Serbian
Meaning	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

See also

• Elena (given name)