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)''