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Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren, born Ilyena Lydia Mironoff, is an English actor who won the Academy Award for The Queen and played DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect.
Helen Muir
Helen Muir, christened Isabella Helen Mary Muir, was a British biochemist who established the molecular biology of cartilage proteoglycans and directed the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology from 1977 to 1990.
Helen Neville
Helen J. Neville (1946–2018) was a Canadian-born cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oregon known for research on how experience reshapes the human brain, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
Helen O'Hara
Helen O'Hara (born Helen Bevington, 1956, Bristol) is an English violinist, Dexys Midnight Runners member 1982–1987 on Come On Eileen and Don't Stand Me Down, later with Tanita Tikaram; distinct from Kelli O'Hara and Mary O'Hara.
Helen of Greece and Denmark (Ελένη)
Helen of Greece and Denmark (Ελένη, 1896–1982), Queen Mother of Romania, wife of Carol II and mother of Michael I; exiled at Villa Sparta, Florence, and honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations in 1993.
Helen of Troy (Ἑλένη)
Helen of Troy (Ἑλένη), or Helen of Sparta, the mythological queen whose departure with Paris sparked the Trojan War; wife of Menelaus, subject of Homer's Iliad, of the rival Egyptian-phantom tradition in Stesichorus, Herodotus, and Euripides' Helen, and of cult at Therapne.
Helen Pitts Douglass
Helen Pitts Douglass (1838–1903), American feminist and Mount Holyoke graduate, second wife of Frederick Douglass; married him in 1884 amid controversy and later founded the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association to preserve Cedar Hill.
Helen Piwnica‐Worms
Helen Piwnica-Worms is an American cancer biologist at MD Anderson known for showing how the CDK1 kinase drives mitosis and how checkpoints hold it off.
Helen Planitia
Helen Planitia is a 4,360 km-wide lowland plain in the southern hemisphere of Venus, IAU-named in 1982 for Helen of Troy, lying at the southern edge of the Beta-Atla-Themis volcanic-tectonic province.
Helen Prejean
Helen Prejean, also Sister Helen Prejean, is an American Catholic nun (Sisters of St. Joseph) and death penalty abolitionist; author of Dead Man Walking (1993), spiritual advisor to Louisiana death row inmates, and advocate behind Catholic Catechism changes.
Helen Quinn
Helen Rhoda Quinn (born 1943) is an Australian-born American theoretical particle physicist, Professor Emerita at SLAC, known for the Peccei–Quinn symmetry behind the axion and for the Georgi–Quinn–Weinberg calculation.
Helen R. Saibil
Helen R. Saibil is a Canadian-born structural biologist and Fellow of the Royal Society, Bernal Professor at Birkbeck, London, known for cryo-EM studies of chaperones and amyloid fibrils.
Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy (1941-2020), Australian-born singer and actress, best known for "I Am Woman," the 1972 feminist anthem; also had No. 1 hits "Delta Dawn" and "Angie Baby" and 14 Top 40 hits.
Helen Richardson Walsh
Helen Richardson-Walsh, born 1981 in Hitchin, is a retired English field hockey midfielder with four Olympics for Team GB, bronze at London 2012, and gold at Rio 2016, where she scored in the shootout; married to teammate Kate Richardson-Walsh, MBE 2017.
Helen Rizos
Helen Rizos (H. Rizos) is an Australian cancer cell biologist and professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, known internationally for research on melanoma senescence and targeted therapy.
Helen S. Mayberg
Helen S. Mayberg, also known as Helen Mayberg, is an American neurologist and neuropsychiatrist who pioneered deep brain stimulation of the subcallosal cingulate for treatment-resistant depression.
Helen Schucman
Helen Schucman (1909, New York City) was a Columbia University research psychologist who scribed A Course in Miracles (1965-1972) from an inner Voice she identified as Jesus, publishing anonymously; copyright assigned to the Foundation for Inner Peace.
Helen Serafinowicz
Helen Serafinowicz (born 1974), formerly Helen Linehan, is a British comedy writer and producer, sister of Peter Serafinowicz, co-creator of Motherland and creator of Nova Jones and Amandaland.
Helen Shapiro
Helen Shapiro, born 1946 in Bethnal Green, London, is a British singer whose 1961 hits "You Don't Know" and "Walkin' Back to Happiness" topped the UK chart when she was 14; later a jazz and gospel singer.
Helen Sharman
Helen Sharman is a British chemist who became the first Briton in space and the first woman to visit Mir, flying there in May 1991.
Helen Shaver
Helen Shaver, born 1951 in St. Thomas, Ontario, is a Canadian actress and director known for In Praise of Older Women, Desert Hearts, and The Color of Money, and for directing Vikings, Station Eleven, and The Penguin.
Helen Skaletsky
Helen Skaletsky is a bioinformatics specialist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, first author of the 2003 Nature paper reporting the finished sequence of the human Y chromosome.
Helen Skelton
Helen Skelton (born 1983) is an English TV presenter from Cumbria, a Blue Peter host 2008–2013, Amazon-kayaking Sport Relief record holder, Countryfile and Morning Live presenter, and Strictly 2022 runner-up.
Helen Slater
Helen Slater (Helen Rachel Schlacter), American actress and singer-songwriter born 1963; starred in Supergirl (1984), The Legend of Billie Jean, City Slickers, and played Eliza Danvers on the CW's Supergirl; also a recording artist with six albums.
Helen Stephens
Helen Stephens, nicknamed the Fulton Flash, was an American sprinter who won two gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and was never defeated in sprint competition.
Helen Suzman
Helen Suzman, born Helen Gavronsky, was a South African parliamentarian who opposed apartheid from within the white Parliament for 36 years, often as its lone liberal voice.
Helen Thom Edwards
Helen Thom Edwards (1936–2016) was an American accelerator physicist at Fermilab who led the Tevatron, the first superconducting proton synchrotron and the world's most powerful collider for 27 years.
Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas (Helen Amelia Thomas, 1920-2013) was an American UPI White House correspondent and later Hearst columnist who covered ten presidents, broke barriers for women journalists, and resigned in 2010 over remarks about Israel.
Helen Toner
Helen Toner is an Australian AI policy researcher who leads Georgetown's CSET and was an OpenAI board member who voted to remove Sam Altman in 2023.
Helen Vlassara
Helen Vlassara is a biomedical researcher known for her work on advanced glycation end products in diabetes and aging, including the discovery of a macrophage receptor for AGE proteins in 1986.