Elena Catena López (12 November 1920 – 19 January 2012) was a Spanish university professor, philologist, publisher, and feminist.
She was one of the first women to obtain a doctorate in Philosophy and Literature at the Complutense University of Madrid, and the first to reach the position of vice dean of that same faculty.
In 1960 she co-founded the Seminar on Women's Sociological Studies.