Vilen, feminine: Vilena are given names originated in the early Soviet Union as an acronym for "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin". Notable people with the name include:

• Vilen Barskyi (1930–2012), Ukrainian Soviet and German painter and graphic artist
• Vilen Galstyan (1941–2021), Armenian actor
• Vilen Ivanov (born 1934), Russian sociologist
• Vilen Kalyuta (1930–1999), Ukrainian cinematographer
• Vilen Komissarov (1924–2005), Russian linguist and translator
• Vilen Künnapu (born 1948), Estonian architect
• Vilen Prokofyev (2001–2020), Kazakh hockey player
• Vilen Strutinsky (1929–1993), Soviet nuclear physicist
• Vilen Tokarev, birth name of Willi Tokarev (1934–2019), Russian-American singer-songwriter

• Vilena Grigoryan  [ ru ] (born 1937), Armenian psycho- and neurophysiologist
• Vilena Dylykova  [ ru ] (born 1938), Soviet and Russian orientalist, expert in Tibet

See also

• All pages with titles containing Vilen
• All pages with titles containing Vilena

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