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Lena, a short form of Helena or Magdalene which developed into a distinct female first name, may refer to:
Places
- Lena River, in Russia
- Lena Department of Burkina Faso in West Africa
- Lena, Norway
- Lena, Russia, name of several rural localities in Russia
- Lena, Asturias, a municipality in Spain
- Lena, Illinois, United States
- Lena, Louisiana, United States
- Lena, Mississippi, United States
- Lena, Nebraska
- Lena, Ohio
- Lena, Oregon, United States
- Lena (town), Wisconsin, United States
- Lena, Wisconsin, a village in the United States
- Lena, South Carolina, an unincorporated community in the United States
People
- Lena (name), given name
- Lena, an Indian actress of Malayalam films
- Lena Horne (1917–2010), an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer
- Lena Zavaroni, (1963–1999), a Scottish singer and child star
- Lena Söderberg (b. 1951), a Swedish model whose portrait (from a 1972 Playboy magazine) is still widely used as a test image for image processing algorithms
- Lena Headey, an English actress
- Lena Burke (b. 1978), Cuban singer and actress
- Lena Yada (b. 1978), a Japanese-American model, actress, professional tandem surfer, former WWE Diva and professional wrestler
- Lena Dunham (b. 1986), American creator and star of the HBO TV series Girls
- Lena Meyer-Landrut (b. 1991), a German singer (stagename Lena)
- Lena Hades (b. 1959), a Russian painter
- Lena Fiagbe, British singer/songwriter
Fictional characters
- Lena (Dragon Ball) or Bulma, a character in Dragon Ball media
- Lena the Hyena, a character in the Li'l Abner universe
- Lena Sayers, in the anime series My-Otome
- Lena Kaligaris, in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books and films
- Lena Grove, in Light in August
Other uses
- Lena or Lenna, a standard test image, used in digital image processing
- Lena massacre in Russia 1912
- Lena, a rove beetle genus established by Casey in 1886; nowadays included in Sunius
- Lena, a moth genus invalidly established by Herz in 1903; nowadays included in Xestia
- Lena, a LTE-EPC Network Simulator (official web page)
- LENA, the Leading European Newspaper Alliance, set up by seven European newspapers in March 2015, to improve journalism in Europe.
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