Zeleny Explained
Zeleny or Zelenyi (in Czech: Zelený or Ukrainian: Зелений, meaning "green") is a surname. The feminine form is Zelena (in Czech: Zelená). The Russian-language equivalent is Zelyony, sometimes transliterated as Zeliony. Notable people with this surname include:
People
- Charles Zeleny (1878–1939), Czech-American zoologist and professor at the University of Illinois
- Charlie Zeleny, American metal rock drummer
- Daniell Zeleny, Australian footballer
- Jaroslav Zelený, Czech footballer
- Jeff Zeleny, Pulitzer Prize-winning Czech-American journalist for CNN and the New York Times
- John Zeleny (1872–1951), Czech-American physicist at the University of Minnesota, inventor of the Zeleny electroscope
- Jindřich Zelený (1922–1997), Czech philosopher
- Josef Zelený (1824–1886), Moravian artist
- Lawrence Zeleny (1904–1995, American biochemist and ornithologist, founder of North American Bluebird Society
- Lev Zeleny, Russian physicist
- Milan Zeleny (1942–2023), American economist
- Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny (born 1973), Mexican novelist
- Václav Zelený, Czech botanist
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