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Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes (Helen Hayes Brown, 1900–1993), American actress called the First Lady of the American Theatre; two-time Oscar winner (The Sin of Madelon Claudet, Airport), EGOT holder, Broadway debut at age nine in Old Dutch.
Helen Horton
Helen Virginia Horton (1923–2007), American actress based in Britain; voice of Mother, the Nostromo's computer, in Alien (1979); also Superman III, Phase IV, The Benny Hill Show; grandmother of actress Lily James.
Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt, born 1963 in Culver City, California, is an American actress and director who won four Emmys for Mad About You and the 1998 Best Actress Oscar for As Good as It Gets.
Helen Hunt filmography
Helen Hunt filmography: full credits of American actress Helen Hunt (Helen Elizabeth Hunt), from Pioneer Woman (1973) and Mad About You (four Emmys) to As Good as It Gets (1997 Oscar), The Sessions, Then She Found Me, and Hacks.
Helen J. Shen
Helen J. Shen (born 2000, Basking Ridge, NJ) is an American actor, singer and writer, she/they, who originated Claire in Broadway's Tony-winning Maybe Happy Ending (2024), earning Theatre World and Clive Barnes Awards and a 2026 Grammy nomination.
Helen Johns
Helen Johns (Helen Eileen Johns-Carroll, 1914–2014), American swimmer who won gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics in a world record 4:38.0; later a coach and special education teacher.
Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig
Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig (Helena Sternlicht, 1925-2018), Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, enslaved as maid to Płaszów commandant Amon Göth, saved on Schindler's list, testified at his 1946 trial, later met his daughter in the film Inheritance.
Helen K. Reddel
Helen K. Reddel is an Australian respiratory physician and asthma researcher at Macquarie University and the Woolcock Institute who chairs the GINA Science Committee and directs ACAM.
Helen Kane
Helen Kane (Helen Schroeder, 1904-1966), American singer and actress, the "Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl" of 1920s vaudeville whose baby-voice style inspired Betty Boop; she lost her 1932-1934 lawsuit against Fleischer Studios after Baby Esther testimony.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller (1880–1968), American deafblind author and activist; first deafblind person to earn a BA (Radcliffe, 1904); Socialist Party member from 1909, IWW supporter, ACLU co-founder in 1920; wrote The Story of My Life with teacher Anne Sullivan.
Helen Kerwin
Helen Kerwin, Republican Texas House District 58 representative from Glen Rose since 2025, who unseated incumbent DeWayne Burns in the 2024 runoff and serves on the Culture, Recreation & Tourism and Public Education committees.
Helen L. Smits
Helen L. Smits is an American physician who served as Deputy Administrator of Medicare's HCFA from 1993 to 1996 and chaired the Joint Commission board.
Helen L. Yin
Helen L. Yin, also published as Helen Yin, is an American cell biologist who discovered gelsolin, the first actin filament-severing protein, and is Professor of Physiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Helen Ladd
Helen "Sunny" Ladd is an American education economist and Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emerita at Duke University, known for research on school finance, teacher labor markets, and school choice.
Helen Lederer
Helen Lederer (born 1954) is a British comedian, actor, and writer, best known as Catriona in Absolutely Fabulous and for Naked Video; founder of the Comedy Women in Print Prize and author of Losing It and Not That I'm Bitter.
Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt (1913–2009) was an American photographer and cinematographer noted for street photography of New York City, especially children at play in working-class neighborhoods and her later color work.
Helen Lewis (journalist)
Helen Lewis (born 1983) is a British journalist and broadcaster, staff writer at The Atlantic since 2019 and former New Statesman deputy editor; author of Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025), host of BBC Radio 4 shows, and writer of The Bluestocking newsletter.
Helen Longino
Helen Longino is an American philosopher of science, emerita professor at Stanford University, known for critical contextual empiricism, holding that scientific objectivity comes from community criticism rather than individual method.
Helen M. Berman
Helen M. Berman is an American structural biologist and X-ray crystallographer who helped create the Protein Data Bank in 1971 and directed its US operation from 1998 to 2014.
Helen M. Colhoun
Helen M. Colhoun, also published as Helen Colhoun, is a clinical epidemiologist at the University of Edinburgh known for leading the CARDS and SELECT diabetes trials.
Helen M. Ranney
Helen M. Ranney (1920–2010) was an American hematologist who first separated normal from sickle-cell hemoglobin and became the first woman to chair a US department of medicine.
Helen Maroulis
Helen Maroulis (born 1991, Rockville, Maryland) is an American freestyle wrestler, first U.S. woman to win Olympic wrestling gold (Rio 2016, 53 kg, beating Saori Yoshida), with Tokyo and Paris bronzes and four world titles.
Helen Martin
Helen Dorothy Martin (1909–2000), American actress, founding member of Harlem's American Negro Theater, Broadway debut in Welles's Native Son (1941), best known as Pearl Shay on 227.
Helen Martins
Helen Martins (1897–1976) was a South African self-taught artist who, with craftsman Koos Malgas, transformed her Nieu-Bethesda home into the Owl House and Camel Yard, now a National Heritage Site.
Helen McCrory
Helen McCrory (1968–2021), English stage and screen actress; Polly Gray in Peaky Blinders and Narcissa Malfoy in the final three Harry Potter films; OBE 2017; died of cancer aged 52.
Helen McEntee
Helen McEntee is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Minister for Defence since November 2025.
Helen McNeill
Helen McNeill is a Canadian cell and developmental biologist at Washington University School of Medicine known for her research on Fat cadherins and the Hippo pathway.
Helen Meany
Helen Meany (1904–1991), American diver, first U.S. woman diver at three Olympics; 5th in plain high 1920 and 1924, 1928 Amsterdam springboard gold; 13–17 AAU titles; ended by Miami Beach water show.
Helen Menken
Helen Menken (Helen Meinken, 1901-1966) was an American Broadway and radio actress, Humphrey Bogart's first wife, star of Seventh Heaven and The Old Maid, and organizer of the Stage Door Canteen and the Tony Awards.
Helen Milner
Helen Milner is an American political scientist who holds the B. C. Forbes Professorship at Princeton University, studies the politics of trade and globalization, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.