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Heldua
Heldua (Hildua, Hedua; Akkadian Ḫildua) was an ancient settlement near Sidon, Lebanon, identified with Khalde; captured by Esarhaddon in 677 BCE and listed in his annals.
Hele-Shaw cell
A Hele-Shaw cell is an experimental device with two parallel transparent plates separated by a narrow gap, used to study fluid flow and viscous fingering.
Heleen Herbert
Heleen Herbert, born in 1972, is a Dutch CDA politician who has served as Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy in the Jetten government since February 2026.
Helen (2019 film)
Helen (ഹെലൻ) is a 2019 Malayalam survival thriller, Mathukutty Xavier's debut, produced by Vineeth Sreenivasan, starring Anna Ben as a nursing graduate trapped in a freezer; it won the National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director.
Helen (actress)
Helen (Helen Ann Richardson Khan, born 21 November 1938, Rangoon) is a Burma-born Indian actress and dancer of Hindi cinema, the famed Cabaret Queen and vamp of 1950s-1980s Bollywood, known for "Mera Naam Chin Chin Chu" and the Filmfare-winning Lahu Ke Do Rang.
Helen Atkinson-Wood
Helen Atkinson-Wood (born 1955) is an English actor and comedian known as Mrs Miggins in Blackadder the Third and for Radio Active/KYTV, and a patron of the INK Festival.
Helen B. Taussig
Helen Brooke Taussig (1898-1986), American physician at Johns Hopkins, founder of pediatric cardiology, co-developer of the Blalock-Taussig blue baby operation (1944), Lasker Award and Medal of Freedom recipient, first woman president of the American Heart Association.
Helen Bauer
Helen Bauer is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and writer who started in Berlin's comedy scene, was a 2018 BBC New Comedy Award finalist, earned a 2019 Edinburgh Best Newcomer nomination, and hosts the Trusty Hogs podcast.
Helen Baxendale
Helen Victoria Baxendale is an English actress known for Rachel Bradley in Cold Feet (1997–2003) and Emily Waltham in Friends (1998–99). Birth year disputed (1969 vs 1970); won 1998 Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actress.
Helen Blau
Helen M. Blau is an American stem cell biologist at Stanford University known for showing that cell differentiation is reversible and for work on muscle regeneration.
Helen Boiardi
Helen Boiardi (1905–1995) was an Italian-American businesswoman who co-founded the Chef Boiardi Food Company, later known as Chef Boyardee, with her husband Hector and his brothers in 1928.
Helen Burstin
Helen Burstin is an American physician and health services researcher who serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Helen Chamberlain
Helen Chamberlain, also known as Helen Marie Chamberlain, is a British television presenter best known for hosting Sky Sports' Soccer AM from 1995 to 2017.
Helen Clark
Helen Clark (born 1950) is a New Zealand politician, Prime Minister 1999–2008 (first woman elected to the office) and UNDP Administrator 2009–2017, its first female leader; now Gavi Board Chair from 2026.
Helen Crump
Helen Crump, also Helen Crump Taylor, is the fictional Mayberry schoolteacher on The Andy Griffith Show played by Aneta Corsaut from 1963, who became Andy Taylor's wife in the Mayberry R.F.D. pilot.
Helen Czerski
Helen Czerski is a British physicist at University College London who studies bubbles and breaking waves at the ocean surface, and presents BBC science documentaries.
Helen Duncan
Helen Duncan was a Scottish materialisation medium whose 1944 Old Bailey conviction under the Witchcraft Act 1735 made her the last person imprisoned under it.
Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore (1952–2017), British poet, novelist, and children's author; winner of the inaugural Orange Prize for A Spell of Winter (1996); wrote The Siege, The Betrayal, the Ingo series, and posthumous Costa-winning Inside the Wave.
Helen E. Fisher
Helen E. Fisher (1945–2024) was an American biological anthropologist who used fMRI to study romantic love and rejection and advised Match.com on the science of dating.
Helen E. Heslop
Helen E. Heslop is a New Zealand-trained physician-scientist in pediatric oncology at Baylor College of Medicine who pioneered virus-specific T cell therapy for EBV lymphomas and CAR-T immunotherapy.
Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding (born 1958) is the British novelist and journalist who created Bridget Jones, first in a 1995 Independent column, then in four novels including Bridget Jones's Diary (1996), credited with founding chick lit.
Helen Flanagan
Helen Joyce Gabriel Flanagan (born 1990, Bury) is an English actress and TV personality who played Rosie Webster in Coronation Street 2000-2012 and 2017-2018, later appearing on I'm a Celebrity and Celebs Go Dating.
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), American abstract painter, invented the soak-stain technique of pouring thinned paint onto unprimed canvas; her Mountains and Sea (1952) bridged Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, influencing Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.
Helen Gandy
Helen W. Gandy, J. Edgar Hoover's personal and executive secretary at the FBI from the early 1920s until his 1972 death; sole keeper, with Hoover, of the Official and Confidential files, and destroyer of about 30 file drawers of his personal papers after his death.
Helen Garner
Helen Garner, born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1942, is an Australian writer whose novel Monkey Grip became a classic and whose nonfiction follows Australian court trials, winning the Baillie Gifford Prize in 2025.
Helen George
Helen George (born 1984) is an English actress and Royal Academy of Music-trained singer, best known as Nurse Trixie Franklin in BBC One's Call the Midwife since 2012; also a Strictly 2015 semi-finalist and 2026 Tracy Lord in High Society.
Helen Glover
Helen Glover is a British rower who won Olympic gold in the women's pair at London 2012 and Rio 2016, the first ever won by British female rowers.
Helen Godwin
Helen Godwin is a British Labour Party politician serving as the directly elected Mayor of the West of England since May 2025, after winning the 1 May election.
Helen H. Hobbs
Helen H. Hobbs is an American physician-scientist at UT Southwestern whose discovery that PCSK9 mutations lower LDL cholesterol led to a new class of cholesterol drugs.
Helen Hansma
Helen Hansma is an American biophysicist, born in 1945, at UC Santa Barbara known for imaging DNA with atomic force microscopy and proposing the mica hypothesis of life's origin.