All articles starting with H
20,046 articles
Helen W. Gillmor
Helen W. Gillmor, born 1942, is a senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994.
Helen Wagner
Helen Wagner (1918-2010), American actress, played Nancy Hughes on CBS's As the World Turns from its April 2, 1956 premiere until her death, holding the Guinness record for the longest same-role television run, 54 years.
Helen Wainwright
Helen Wainwright (Helen E. Wainwright-Stelling, 1906-1965), American diver and swimmer; Olympic silver in 1920 springboard diving and 1924 400 m freestyle; 1,500 m freestyle world record holder.
Helen Whately
Helen Whately, Conservative MP for Faversham and Mid Kent since 2015, former Minister for Care and Exchequer Secretary, now Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Helen Wills
Helen Wills (Helen Wills Moody, Helen Newington Wills Roark, 1905-1998), American tennis champion; won 31 majors including 8 Wimbledon singles titles; lost her only 1926 match to Suzanne Lenglen at Cannes.
Helen Wood (television personality)
Helen Wood, born 1986, is a British reality television personality from Bolton, England, best known as the winner of Big Brother UK's fifteenth series in 2014.
Helen Worth
Helen Worth, born Cathryn Helen Wigglesworth, is the English actress who played Gail Platt (Gail Rodwell) in Coronation Street from 1974 to 2024, about 4,450 episodes, leaving on Christmas Day 2024; MBE for services to drama.
Helen Zille
Helen Zille (Otta Helene Zille, born 1951), South African politician: Rand Daily Mail journalist who exposed Steve Biko's death, Cape Town mayor 2007–2009, Western Cape Premier 2009–2019, Democratic Alliance leader 2007–2015, later DA federal chair.
Helen-Ann Hartley
Helen-Ann Macleod Hartley, born 1973, is a British Anglican bishop and New Testament scholar who has been Bishop of Newcastle since 2023, after serving Waikato and Ripon.
Helen, Georgia
Helen, Georgia: small White County city on the upper Chattahoochee River, remodeled in 1968–1972 into a Bavarian alpine village. Third most visited destination in Georgia; known for tubing, Oktoberfest, waterfalls, and wineries.
Helena Blavatsky (Елена Петровна Блаватская)
Helena Blavatsky, or H.P. Blavatsky, was a Russian-born occultist who co-founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875 and wrote Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine.
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter (born 1966, London), also credited as Helena B. Carter, is an English actress known for A Room with a View, Fight Club, her Tim Burton collaborations, and Princess Margaret in The Crown, with two Oscar nominations and a CBE.
Helena Christensen
Helena Christensen (born 1968, Copenhagen) is a Danish-Peruvian supermodel of the 1990s, original Victoria's Secret Angel, face of "Wicked Game," and later a photographer, Nylon co-founder, strangelove nyc co-founder, and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.
Helena Crevar
Helena Crevar (born 2007) is an American submission grappler and BJJ black belt under John Danaher at Kingsway; youngest ADCC champion ever (2026, +65 kg) and 2024 silver medalist.
Helena Dollimore
Helena Dollimore (born 1994) is the Labour and Co-operative MP for Hastings and Rye, elected in 2024 with a majority of 8,653; former Save the Children and Unilever worker, Treasury PPS and select committee member.
Helena Douglas (エレナ・ダグラス)
Helena Douglas (エレナ・ダグラス), "Fortune's Heiress", is the DOATEC leader in Dead or Alive, daughter of Fame Douglas, a Pi Gua Quan fighter with the bokuho stance, and Christie's rival.
Helena Edlund
Helena Edlund is a Swedish molecular developmental biologist and diabetes researcher, professor at Umeå University, known for showing that Pdx1 is required for pancreas development.
Helena Fibingerova
Helena Fibingerová (Helena Fibingerová-Šmídová), Czechoslovak shot putter born 1949: 1983 world champion, 1976 Olympic bronze, and holder of the 22.50 m indoor world record set in 1977, still unbroken.
Helena Foulkes
Helena Buonanno Foulkes is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for Governor of Rhode Island in 2026, after losing the 2022 primary to Dan McKee.
Helena Island
Helena Island: uninhabited island of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, at 76.65 N, 101.07 W, elevation 117 m; distinct from St Helena (South Atlantic) and St. Helena Island, South Carolina.
Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws (born 1950), Scottish barrister, Labour peer, and human rights lawyer; founding member of Doughty Street Chambers, QC in 1991, author of Eve Was Framed and Just Law, Order of the Thistle 2024.
Helena Kivioja Takalo
Helena Kivioja Takalo (Anni Helena Kivioja-Takalo), Finnish cross-country skier born 1947 in Nivala; 1976 Olympic 5 km gold champion, five Olympic and ten World Championship medals, Holmenkollen Medal 1977.
Helena Legido‐Quigley
Helena Legido-Quigley is a health systems and public health researcher who holds the Chair in Health Systems Science at Imperial College London, jointly with The George Institute.
Helena Luke
Helena Luke was an Indian-American actress and model who worked in Hindi cinema, best known for Mard (1985) opposite Amitabh Bachchan and as Mithun Chakraborty's first wife.
Helena Mattsson
Helena Mattsson, born 1984 in Stockholm, is a Swedish actress based in Hollywood, known for Species: The Awakening, 666 Park Avenue, Nikita, Iron Man 2, and Seven Psychopaths; distinct from the KTH architecture professor of the same name.
Helena Moreno
Helena Moreno is an American Democratic politician and Mayor of New Orleans, elected in 2025 with 55% of the vote after serving on the City Council.
Helena of Adiabene
Helena of Adiabene was queen mother of Adiabene, a Parthian vassal kingdom on the upper Tigris, who converted to Judaism around 30 CE and sent famine relief to Jerusalem.
Helena Rasiowa
Helena Rasiowa (1917–1994) was a Polish mathematician and logician who established algebraic methods for studying classical, intuitionistic, modal, and many-valued logics, heading mathematical logic at the University of Warsaw.
Helena Rees-Mogg
Helena Rees-Mogg (Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair), British heiress, daughter of Somerset de Chair and Lady Juliet Tadgell, wife of Jacob Rees-Mogg since 2007, mother of six, and cast member of the 2024 documentary Meet the Rees-Moggs.
Helena Rubinstein
Helena Rubinstein, born Chaja Rubinstein in Kraków, was a Polish-born entrepreneur who built a worldwide cosmetics company from a Melbourne salon and pioneered modern beauty marketing.