Yelena Skulskaya is an Estonian journalist, translator and writer who mainly writes in the Russian language.

Yelena Grigorievna Stepanenko is a Soviet and Russian entertainer, actress, humorist, TV presenter, parodist, singer.

Yelena Tregubova is a Russian journalist. Her book The Tales of a Kremlin Digger detailed her work in the Kremlin pool.

Yelena Feliksovna Usievich was a Soviet and Russian literary critic and editor of Literaturnyi kritik.

Yelena Aleksandrovna Yampolskaya is a Russian politician, journalist, writer and theater critic. She is a member of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the VII and VIII convocations since 2016. Yampolskaya is the Chair of the Committee for Culture of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation since 25 July 2018. She served as Chief editor of the newspaper Culture (2011-2019).

Yelizaveta Nikolayevna Kovalskaya was a Russian revolutionary, narodnik, and founding member of Black Repartition.

Yelizaveta Yakovlevna Tarakhovskaya was a Russian poet, playwright, translator, and author of children's books. She is most known for her play By the Pike's Wish (1936).

The Yellow Emperor, also known as the Yellow Thearch or by his Chinese name Huangdi, is either an individual deity (shen) in Chinese religion, one of the legendary Chinese sovereigns and cultural heroes included among the mytho-historical Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, or a part of the Five Regions' Highest Deities. Calculated by Jesuit missionaries, who based their work on various Chinese chronicles, and later accepted by the twentieth-century promoters of a universal calendar starting with the Yellow Emperor, Huangdi's traditional reign dates are 2697–2597 or 2698–2598 BC.

Yelysei Pletenetskyi, or Yelysei Pletenetsky, also known as Elizeusz Pletenecki, was a Ukrainian archimandrite. He served as archimandrite of a monastery in the Pinsk region from 1595 to 1599, and of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra from 1599 until his death. During the latter tenure he worked hard at reforming the monastery, and secured the right of stauropegion for it. He established a hospital for the poor, a printing house, and the Radomysl paper mill.

Yemelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Communist Party functionary, journalist and historian.