Alenka is a popular
Slovene female given name. It ranks among the top 30 most common female names in
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...
. Another version of the same name is Lenka. In Slavic languages, both versions are often treated as diminutive names of
Alena and
Lena
Lena or LENA may refer to:
Places
* Léna Department, a department of Houet Province in Burkina Faso
* Lena, Manitoba, an unincorporated community located in Killarney-Turtle Mountain municipality in Manitoba, Canada
* Lena, Norway, a village in ...
, respectively.
The name may refer to:
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Alenka Bernot
Alenka Bernot is a former slalom canoeist who competed for Yugoslavia in the early-to-mid 1960s. She won a gold medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal.
ReferencesICF medalists for Olympic and ...
, Yugoslav/Slovenian slalom canoeist who competed in the early 1960s
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Alenka Bikar
Alenka Bikar (born 7 January 1974) is a retired female sprinter from Slovenia, born in Ljubljana. She specialised in the 200 metres, competing in three Olympic games from 1996 to 2004. She was also named Slovenian Sportswoman of the Year in 20 ...
(born 1974), Slovenian former sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres
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Alenka Bratušek
Alenka Bratušek (; born 31 March 1970) is a Slovenian politician. She was Prime Minister of Slovenia from March 2013 until May 2014, the first woman in Slovenia to hold this position. She was president ''pro tempore'' of the Positive Slovenia pa ...
(born 1970), Slovenian Prime Minister
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Alenka Čebašek
Alenka Čebašek (born 24 April 1989) is a Slovenian cross-country skier. She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated ...
(born 1989), Slovenian cross-country skier
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Alenka Cuderman
Alenka Cuderman (born June 13, 1961) is a former Yugoslav/Slovenian handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an ...
(born 1961), former Yugoslav/Slovenian handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics
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Alenka Dovžan
Alenka Dovžan (born 11 February 1976) is a retired Slovenian alpine skier
Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-coun ...
(born 1976), retired Slovenian alpine skier
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Alenka Godec
Alenka Godec (born 5 November 1964, in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian jazz and pop singer.(1 January 2007)Alenka Godec ''Cosmopolitan (magazine)'' (Slovenian edition, in Slovenian)
Albums Trova
Festivals
Pop workshop
* 1988: ''Tvoja'' - membe ...
(born 1964), Slovenian jazz and pop singers
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Alenka Gotar
Alenka Gotar is a Slovene soprano singer, born in Rodica, Domžale, Rodica in 1977. With the song "Cvet z juga" ("Flower of the South"), she represented Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. Achieving seventh place ...
(born 1977), Slovene soprano singer
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Alenka Kejžar
Alenka Kejžar is an Olympic Games, Olympic class swimmer. She was born on 15 February 1979 in Kranj, Slovenia. Kejžar attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Her coaches were Ciril Globočnik and Steve Collins. Her swimming ...
(born 1979), Olympic class swimmer
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Alenka Puhar
Alenka Puhar (born 4 February 1945) is a Slovenian journalist, author, translator, and historian. In 1982, she wrote a groundbreaking psychohistory-inspired book ''"The Primal Text of Life"'' (in Slovene: ''Prvotno besedilo življenja'') about t ...
(born 1945), Slovenian journalist, author, translator, and historian
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Alenka Sottler (born 1958), Slovene painter and illustrator
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Alenka Zupančič
Alenka Zupančič (born 1 April 1966) is a Slovenian philosopher whose work focuses on psychoanalysis and continental philosophy.
She is a Slovenian psychoanalytic theorist and philosopher who along with Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Žižek have in l ...
(born 1966), Slovenian philosopher whose work focuses on psychoanalysis and continental philosophy
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