Helena (given name)

Helena is a given name. It is the Latin form of Helen. Notable people with this name include:

Ancients

Mononyms

Helen of Troy, ak. in Latin as Helena, a figure in Greek mythology
Helena of Egypt, 4th century BC painter
Helena of Adiabene, Assyrian queen
Helena, mother of Constantine I, Roman empress and a Christian saint
Helena (wife of Julian), Roman empress
Helena (niece of Justin II), niece of Empress Sophia of the Byzantine Empire
Helena (daughter of Alypius), Byzantine empress consort
Helena (daughter of Robert Guiscard), fiancée of Constantine Doukas
Saint Helena of Serbia, Serbian queen

Full names

Helena Lekapene,, daughter of Romanos I Lekapenos and empress consort of Constantine VII
Helena Kantakouzene, daughter of John VI Kantakouzenos and empress consort of John V Palaiologos
Helena Dragaš daughter of Konstantin Dejanović and empress consort of Manuel II Palaiologos
Helena Scheuberin, Austrian defendant of 1485 witch trial

Modern

Lucia Helena Galvão Maya Philosopher, teacher, writer, poet, speaker and volunteer for over 30 years at New Acropolis
Helena Bonguela Abel, Angolan teacher and politician
Helena Åberg, Swedish swimmer
Helena Adler, Austrian writer
Helena Charlotta Åkerhielm, Swedish dramatist and translator
Helena Aksela, Finnish physicist
Helena Almeida, Portuguese photographer
Helena Alterby, Swedish golfer and administrator
Helena Alviar Garcia, Colombian legal academic
Helena Amutenya, Namibian military officer
Helena André, Portuguese politician
Helena Andresen, Danish politician
Helena Andrews, American writer
Helena Anhava, Finnish writer and translator
Helena Anliot, Swedish tennis player
Helena Antipoff, Brazilian psychologist
Helena Araújo, Colombian writer
Helena Arizmendi, Argentine opera singer
Helena Arnell, Finnish artist
Helena Asamoah-Hassan, Ghanaian librarian
Helena Rosendahl Bach, Danish freestyle swimmer
Héléna Bailly, Belgian singer
Helena Barbagelata, Italian-Israeli multidisciplinary artist, writer, researcher and activist
Helena Bargholtz, Swedish politician
Helena Barlow, English actress
Helena Basilova, classical pianist
Helena Beatson, Scottish artist
Helena Bell, American accountant
Helena Benitez, Filipino senator and civic leader
Helena Benítez de Zapata, Colombian songwriter, politician, teacher, and journalist
Helena Bergman, Swedish orienteer
Helena Bergström, Swedish actress
Helena Bešović, Bosnian tennis player
Helena Blackman, British musical theatre actress
Helena Blavatsky, Russian writer
Helena Błażusiakówna, Polish World War II prisoner
Helena Bleicher, German beauty queen
Helena Bliss, American actress
Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, Czech illustrator, graphic novelist and painter
Helena Boettcher, Polish luger
Helena Boguszewska, Polish writer
Helena Bonet Rosado, Spanish archaeologist
Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
Helena Born, British-American anarchist
Helena Bouveng, Swedish politician
Helena Božić, Montenegrin footballer
Helena Brander, Finnish politician
Helena Braun, German soprano
Helena Breck, British actor
Helena Brodin, Swedish actress
Helena Brodin (sailor), Swedish sailor
Helena Brown (politician), American politician
Helena Brunner, Australian Paralympic swimmer
Helena Buczyńska, Polish actress
Helena Bukowska-Szlekys, Polish sculptor
Helena Bulaja, Croatian multimedia artist, director and animator
Helena Buljan, Croatian actress
Helena Bušová, Czech actress
Helena Carr, Australian businesswoman
Helena Carreiras, Portuguese politician, academic and sociologist
Helena Carrión, Spanish actress
Helena Carroll, Scottish stage, film and television actress
Helena Carter, American actress
Helena Casas, Spanish cyclist
Helena Catt, UK-born New Zealand public servant
Helena Cehak-Holubowiczowa, Polish archaeologist
Helena Černohorská, Czech biathlete
Helena Chagas, Brazilian journalist
Helena Chan, Hong Kong-Swedish presenter and fashion model
Helena Modjeska Chase, American artist and writer
Helena Cholewicka, Polish "prima ballerina assoluta"
Helena Christensen, Danish model
Héléna Ciak, French basketball player
Helena Citrónová, Slovak holocaust survivor
Helena B. Cobb, American educator and missionary
Helena Cobban, British-born American writer
Helena Coleman, Canadian poet, music teacher and writer
Helena Concannon, Irish politician and writer
Helena Cooper-Thomas, New Zealand academic
Helena Corbellini, Uruguayan writer and producer
Helena Corrêa de Barros, Portuguese photographer
Helena Cortesina, Spanish film director, actor, producer and theatrical entrepreneur
Helena Costa, Portuguese football manager
Helena Crevar, American submission grappler
Helena Cronin, British Darwinian philosopher and rationalist
Helena Dąbrowska, Polish actress
Helena Dahlbäck, Swedish author
Helena Dahlström, Swedish tennis player
Helena Dalli, Maltese politician
Helena Dam á Neystabø, Faroese politician
Héléna Arsène Darmesteter, British painter
Helena Deland Canadian songwriter, composer, singer and musician
Helēna Demakova, Latvian politician
Helena Demczuk, Australian painter
Helena Deneke, English Germanist
Helena Dix, Australian opera soprano
Helena Dollimore, British politician
Helena Dow, American fencer
Helena Dretar Karić, Croatian para table tennis player
Helena Duailibe, Brazilian physician and politician
Helena Dudley, American social worker, labor organizer and pacifist
Helena Dunicz-Niwińska, Polish violinist
Helena Dunlap, American maritime painter
Helena Dvořáková, Czech actress
Helena Dyrssen, Swedish jurist and politician
Helena Early, first woman solicitor to practice in Ireland
Helena Edlund, Swedish professor
Helena Ehrenmalm, Finnish landowner
Helena Maria Ehrenstråhle, Swedish noblewoman and poet
Helena Ejeson, Swedish tennis player
Helena Ekblom, Swedish preacher
Helena Ekholm, Swedish biathlete
Helena Eldrup, Swedish educator
Helena Elinder, Swedish fencer
Helena Elver, Danish handball player
Helena Emingerová, Czech painter
Helena Engman, Swedish shot putter
Helena Erbenová, Czech skier and triathlete
Helena Eriksson, Swedish poet
Helena Errington, New Zealand footballer
Helena Espinosa Berea, Mexican academic
Helena Espvall, Swedish-American musician
Helena Faucit, English actress
Helena Fernandes, Brazilian actress
Helena Fibingerová, Czech shot putter
Helena Flam, Polish-born sociologist
Helena Fliśnik, Polish sprinter
Helena M. L. Forbes, Scottish botanist
Helena Forti, German opera singer
Helena Foulkes, American businessperson
Helena Fourment, second wife of Peter Paul Rubens
Helena Frisk, Swedish politician
Helena Fromm, German taekwondo practitioner
Helena Fuchsová, Czech runner
Helena Gąsienica Daniel, Polish cross-country skier
Helena Gasson, New Zealand swimmer
Helena Gellerman, Swedish politician
Lady Helena Gleichen, English painter
Helena Gloag, Scottish actress
Helena da Gloria, Mozambican politician
Helena Theresa Goessmann, American lecturer, academic and writer
Helena Elisabeth Goudeket, Dutch painter and illustrator
Helena Groot, Colombian scientist
Helena Grossówna, Polish actress and dancer
Helena Grozer, Czech volleyball player
Helena Grundberg, Swedish figure skater
Helena Gualinga, Ecuadorian activist
Helena Guergis, Canadian politician
Helena Gutteridge, Canadian labor activist
Helena Hamerow, British archaeologist
Helena Hansen, American psychiatrist
Helena Hauff, German DJ
Helena Hayes, American politician
Helena R. Hellwig Pouch, American tennis player
Helena Helmersson, Swedish business executive
Helena Henschen, Swedish designer and writer
Helena Hernmarck, Swedish tapestry artist
Helena Heuser, Danish model
Helena Hietanen, Finnish artist
Helena Hill Weed, American suffragette and geologist
Helena Höij, Swedish politician
Helena Horká, Czech volleyball player
Helena Houdová, Czech model
Helena Howard, American actress
Helena Hummasten, Swedish Muslim leader
Helena Ignez, Brazilian actress and filmmaker
Helena Isdell, New Zealand nurse
Helena Jaczek, Canadian politician and physician
Helena Jäderblom, Swedish jurist and civil servant
Helena Jaklitsch, Slovenian historian
Helena Janeczek, author
Helena Javornik, Slovenian long-distance runner
Helena Jessie, Irish singer
Helena Jiranová, Czech athletics competitor
Helena Jobim, Brazilian writer
Helena Johansson, Swedish singer-songwriter
Helena Jones, British suffragette
Helena Jonsson, Swedish county governor
Helena Josefsson, Swedish singer
Helena Jungwirth, Swedish opera singer
Helena Juntunen, Finnish operatic soprano
Helena Kadare, Albanian author
Helena Kagan, Israeli pediatrician
Helena Kallenbäck, Swedish actress
Helena Kallianiotes, Greek-American film actress
Helena Kannus, Estonian para athletics competitor
Helena Kara, Finnish actress
Helena Kaut-Howson, British theatre director
Helena de Kay Gilder, American illustrator and artist
Helena Keith-Falconer, Countess of Kintore, American heiress
Helena Kekkonen, Finnish peace activist and pioneer
Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, Scottish barrister, broadcaster and Labour member of the House of Lords
Helena Khan, Bengali educationalist and writer
Helena Kida, Mozambican judicial magistrate
Helena Kirkorowa, Polish actress
Helena Kirop, Kenyan long-distance runner
Helena Klakocar, Croatian artist alternative cartoonist
Helena Klange, Swedish curler
Helena Kmieć, Polish missionary
Helena Knyazeva, Russian philosopher
Helena Kolody, Brazilian writer and poet
Helena Konanz, Canadian politician and tennis player
Helena Konttinen, Finnish prophet
Helena van der Kraan, Czechoslovak-born Dutch photographer
Helena Chmura Kraemer, American biostatistician
Helena Krajčiová, Slovak actress and singer
Helena Krasowska, Polish slavist
Helena Kružíková, Czech actress
Helena Krzemieniewska, Polish botanist and microbiologist
Helena Kuipers-Rietberg, Dutch resistance fighter
Helena Kuo, Chinese-American writer and translator
Helena Kurnatowska, Polish politician
Helena Kuusisto, Finnish karateka
Helena Laine, Finnish athlete
Helena Langšádlová, Czech politician
Helena Larsdotter Westerlund, Swedish educator
Helena Blach Lavrsen, Danish curler
Helena Leander, Swedish politician
Helena Lefroy, Irish botanist
Helena Legido-Quigley, Spanish public health researcher
Helena Lehtinen, Finnish jeweller and teacher
Helena Lewczynska, English badminton player
Helena Lewyn, American pianist
Helena Lindahl, Swedish politician
Helena Lindelia, Swedish artist
Helena Lingham, Swedish curler
Helena Lisická, Czech ethnographer and writer of fairy tales and legends
Helena Lloret, Spanish water polo player
Helena Znaniecki Lopata, Polish-born American sociologist, author and researcher
Helena Lopes da Silva, Cape Verdean surgeon and anti-colonialist activist
Helena Lucas, British Paralympic sailor
Helena Luke, Indian actress
Helena Lumbreras, Spanish filmmaker and screenwriter
Helena Lundbäck, Swedish equestrian
Helena Macher, Polish luger
Helena Magenbuch, German pharmacist
Helena Majdaniec, Polish singer and film actor
Helena Makowska, Polish actress
Helena Maleno, Spanish Moroccan human rights defender
Helena Malheim, Swedish midwife
Helena Malikova, European civil servant and academic
Helena Malířová, Czech writer, journalist and translator
Helena Maliszewska, Polish dancer
Helena Mannervesi, Finnish orienteering competitor
Héléna Manson, French actress
Helena Marfell, Australian politician
Helena Markson, British printmaker
Helena Mas, Andorran psychologist and politician
Helena Apolonia Massalska, Polish aristocrat and diarist
Helena Matheopoulos, Greek journalist, author and opera authority
Helena Mattsson, Swedish actress
Helena McAuliffe-Ennis, Irish politician
Helena Meirelles, Brazilian musician
Helena de Menezes, Brazilian sprinter
Helena Mercier, Dutch social-liberal feminist
Helena Merriman, British journalist and broadcaster
Helena Merten, Australian high diver
Helena Merzin-Tamm, Estonian actress
Helena Mesa, American poet
Helena van der Meulen, Dutch screenwriter, film critic and TV writer
Helena Miagian Papilaya, Indonesian judoka
Helena Iren Michaelsen, Norwegian singer
Helena Michell, English actress
Helena Mikołajczyk, Polish biathlete
Helena Millais, English actress, comedienne and writer
Helena Minić, Croatian actress
Helena Modjeska, Polish actress
Helena Molony, Irish labor activist
Helena Montalban, Argentine Puerto Rican theater, film and telenovela actress, producer and talk show host
Helena Moreno, American television reporter
Helena Moreno (actress), Angolan actress
Helena Moreno (swimmer), Costa Rican swimmer
Helena Morrissey, Baroness Morrissey, British financier and campaigner
Helena Morsztynkiewiczowa, Polish architect
Helena Cidade Moura, Portuguese teacher, researcher, activist, politician and poet
Helena Munktell, Swedish composer
Helena Nader, Brazilian biomedical scientist
Helena Ndume, Namibian ophthalmologist
Helena Nelson, British poet
Helena Neves, Portuguese feminist and communist
Helena Noguerra, Belgian actress and singer
Helena Norberg-Hodge, Swedish linguist and writer
Helena Nordheim, Dutch artistic gymnast
Helena Normanton first female barrister in the United Kingdom
Helena Nussenzveig Lopes, Brazilian mathematician
Helena Nyblom, Swedish author
Helena Ólafsdóttir, Icelandic footballer and former player
Helena Olsson, Swedish tennis player
Helena Oma, Spanish basketball player
Helena Örvarsdóttir, Icelandic handball player
Helena Östlund, Swedish writer
Helena Paderewska, Polish social activist
Helena Janina Pajzderska, Polish writer and women’s rights activist
Helena Paparizou, Greek-Swedish singer and songwriter
Helena Parente Cunha, Brazilian educator and writer
Helena Pasierbska, Polish writer
Helena Pato, Portuguese communist and union leader
Helena Patursson, Faroese actress and writer
Helena Paulo, Angolan handball player
Helena Percas, Argentine writer and scholar
Helena Perez Garcia, Spanish illustrator
Helena Perheentupa, Finnish designer
Helena Peterson, Swedish swimmer
Helena Pickard, British actress
Helena Pietraszkiewicz, Polish politician and psychologist
Helena Pihl, Swedish sprinter
Helena Pilejczyk, Polish speed skater
Helena Polaczkówna, Polish historian, archivist, sigillologist and authority in the field of heraldry
Helena Ponette, Belgian sprinter
Helena Langhorne Powell, English historian and educationalist
Helena Pueyo, Spanish basketball player
Helena Rakoczy, Polish gymnast
Helena Ramsay, one of the 17 victims who was killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
Helena Ranaldi, Brazilian actress
Helena Randáková, Czech ski-orienteering competitor
Helena Ranta, Finnish forensic dentist
Helena Rasiowa, Polish mathematician
Helena Rees-Mogg, British television personality
Helena Resano, Spanish journalist
Helena Revoredo, Spanish chairman
Helena Riggs, American neuropathologist
Helēna Ringa, Latvian long jumper
Helena Ripken, German rhythmic gymnast
Helena Rivière, Swedish politician
Helena Rizzo, Brazilian chef and restaurateur
Helena Rodrigues, Portuguese canoeist
Helena Roerich, Russian philosopher
Helena Rojo, Mexican actress
Helena Romanelli, Brazilian judoka
Helena Romer-Ochenkowska, Polish writer
Helena Roque Gameiro, Portuguese watercolourist and painter
Helena Rosenblatt, Swedish intellectual historian
Helena Hillar Rosenqvist, Swedish politician
Helena Roseta, Portuguese architect and politician
Helena Rowland, English rugby union player
Helena Rubinstein, Polish industrialist
Helena Rüegg, German bandoneonist and actress
Helena Rutherfurd Ely, American amateur gardener
Helena Růžičková, Czech actress
Helena Ryšánková, Czech handball player
Helena Sá e Costa, Portuguese pianist
Helena Salles, Brazilian swimmer
Helena Salonius, Finnish actress and operatic soprano
Helena Sampaio, several people
Helena af Sandeberg, Swedish actress
Helena Sanders, Cornish humanitarian, cultural activist, politician and poet
Helena Sångeland, Swedish diplomat
Helena Schilizzi, Greek British philanthropist
Helena Dorothea von Schönberg, German business person
Helena Scott, Australian artist
Helena Scott (politician), American politician
Helena Scutt, American sailor
Helena Shearer, Irish socialist and suffragist
Helena Sinervo, Finnish poet, novelist and translator
Helena Skirmunt, Belarusian artist and sculptor
Helena Skłodowska-Szalay, Polish educator, activist and school inspector
Helena Slizynska, Polish geneticist
Helena Olsson Smeby, Norwegian ski jumper
Helena Smith Dayton, American animator and painter
Helena Christina van de Pavord Smits, Dutch botanical illustrator
Helena Snoek, Dutch actress
Helena Solberg, Brazilian-born documentarian
Helena Sousa, Angolan handball player
Helena Spajić, Croatian footballer
Helena Spinacuta, Swedish actress, acrobat and tightrope artist
Helena Springs, American singer-songwriter
Helena Squires, Newfoundland politician
Helena Štáchová, Czech actress and puppeteer
Helena Amélia Oehler Stemmer, Brazilian civil engineer and university professor
Helena Stenbäck, Swedish model
Helena Štěrbová, Czech handball player
Helena Stetkiewicz, Ukrainian politician
Helena Stjernholm, Swedish business executive
Helena Stollenwerk, German Catholic religious sister
Helena Stone Torgerson, American harpist and composer
Helena Storckenfeldt, Swedish politician
Helena Straková, Czech swimmer
Helena Sturtevant, American artist
Helena Suková, Czech tennis player
Helena Svensson, Swedish golfer
Helena Sverrisdóttir, Icelandic basketball player
Helena Swanwick, British suffragist, pacifist, internationalist and writer
Helena Syrkus, Polish architect, urban planner and educator
Helena Szafran, Polish botanist
Helena Takalo, Finnish cross-country skier
Helena Tattermuschová, Czech operatic soprano
Helena Thorfinn, Swedish novelist
Helena Alexandrovna Timofeeff-Ressovsky, Russian biologist
Gelena Topilina, Russian competitor in synchronized swimming
Helena Třeštíková, Czech film director
Helena Tulve, Estonian composer
Helena Tuuri, Finnish diplomat
Helena Tynell, Finnish glass designer
Helena Unierzyska, Polish artist and sculptor
Helena Margaretha Van Dielen Dutch painter
Helena Vašáková, Czechoslovak sprint canoer
Helena Vatanen, Finnish politician
Helena Vaz da Silva, Portuguese journalist, writer and translator
Gelena Velikanova, Soviet pop singer
Helena Vierikko, Finnish actress
Helena Vildová, Czech tennis player
Helena Vilhelmsson, Swedish politician
Helena Maria Viramontes, American novelist
Helena Vondráčková, Czech singer
Helena Vuković, Croatian judoka
Helena Waldmann, German choreographer and theatre director
Helena Waller, Swedish freestyle skier
Helena M. Weiss, American museum administrator
Helena Wells, American novelist
Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer
Helena Whitbread, English writer
Helena Wiewiórska, Polish lawyer
Helena Willis, Swedish illustrator and author
Helena Willman-Grabowska, Polish indologist
Helena Wilsonová, Czech photographer
Helena Winkelman, Swiss composer
Helena Wiśniewska, Polish canoeist
Helena Wolińska-Brus, Polish military prosecutor
Helena Wong, several people
Helena Wood Smith, American painter
Helena Rosa Wright, British pioneer of birth control
Helena Wulff, anthropologist
Helena Zachos, American college professor and elocutionist
Helena Zarembina, Polish actress
Helena Zengel, German actress
Helena Zeťová, Czech singer
Helena Zmatlíková, Czech illustrator
Helena von Zweigbergk, Swedish journalist, author and film critic
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria
Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
Heloísa Helena (politician), Brazilian politician
Princess Helena of Nassau, Princess consort of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany
Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1899–1948), Hereditary Grand Duchess of Oldenburg
Lady Helena Gibbs, relative of the British royal family

Fictional characters

Helena, character in the 1921 science fiction play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek
Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream), character in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Helena, character in the 1993 film Boxing Helena
Helena Adams, a survivor in the video game Identity V
Helena Cassadine, character in the television series General Hospital
Helena Douglas, a character in the Dead or Alive video game series
Helena (Encantadia), character in the television series Encantadia
Helena Handbasket, the drag-queen alter-ego of Chandler Bing's father in NBC sitcom Friends
Helena Harper, character in the video game Resident Evil 6
Helena Kurcewicz, character in the 1884 novel With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Helena Peabody, character in the television series The L Word
Helena Ravenclaw, also known as the Grey Lady, character in the Harry Potter series
Helena Russell, character in the television series Space: 1999
Queen Helena Targaryen, character in the book by George R.R. Martin, Fire and Blood, and in the HBO television show, House of the Dragon.
Helena Wu, character in the mystery teen drama The Society
Helena, girlfriend to Hercules in The Mighty Hercules animated series from the 1960s
Helena Manning, character in the television series Orphan Black
Helena, a vampire in the Hellsing animated TV-series from 2001
Huntress (Helena Wayne), DC comics superhero
Huntress (Helena Bertinelli), DC comics superhero
Helena Eagan, character in the television series ''Severance (TV series)''