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Helena Rubinstein Incorporated
Helena Rubinstein Incorporated was the cosmetics and beauty-salon company founded by Helena Rubinstein with a Melbourne salon in 1902 and sold to Colgate-Palmolive in 1973; the name survives as an L'Oréal luxury skincare brand.
Helena Special Investments
Helena Special Investments is a Los Angeles venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Henry Elkus, investing in early-stage US companies through funds and special-purpose vehicles.
Helena Zengel
Helena Zengel, German actress born 2008 in Berlin, broke through as Benni in System Crasher (2019), won the Lola as youngest Best Actress, and earned a Golden Globe nomination for News of the World with Tom Hanks.
Helena, Montana
Helena is the capital city of Montana and the county seat of Lewis and Clark County. Founded as a gold-mining camp in 1864, it had 32,091 residents in 2020.
Helena, mother of Constantine I
Helena (Flavia Julia Helena Augusta, c. 248/9–328/9), mother of Emperor Constantine I; wife or consort of Constantius Chlorus. Made Augusta in 324, toured the eastern provinces after 326; famed chiefly through the later, post-4th-century legend of her discovery of the True Cross, not a historically attested act.
Helene (moon)
Helene is a small Trojan moon of Saturn that shares Dione's orbit, staying 60 degrees ahead of it at a stable Lagrange point. It was discovered in 1980.
Hélène Carabin
Hélène Carabin is a Canadian veterinary epidemiologist at Université de Montréal who studies zoonotic diseases and was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse was a French historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, famous for predicting the USSR's dissolution in her 1978 book L'Empire éclaté.
Helene Engelmann
Helene Engelmann (Jaroschka), Austrian pair skater (1898–1985); 1924 Chamonix Olympic gold with Alfred Berger; three-time World pairs champion (1913 Mejstrik, 1922, 1924 Berger); youngest pairs world champion at 15.
Helene Fischer
Helene Fischer, born 1984 in Krasnoyarsk, is a German Schlager-pop singer and entertainer, debut album 2006, over ten million albums sold, 16 Echo awards, and a 2026 360° stadium tour drawing nearly 750,000 fans.
Helene Fize
Hélène Fize (later Devèze), 1914-2014, French middle-distance runner; set the 3x800m relay world record (7:22.6, Monaco 1939) and held the French 800m record 2:21.2 for nine years; five French titles; SMUC Marseille.
Heléne Fritzon
Heléne Fritzon, born 1960, in Kristianstad, is a Swedish Social Democratic politician and former government minister who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Hélène Joy
Hélène Joy, Australian-Canadian actress born in Perth, trained at WAAPA and Bell Shakespeare; known as Dr. Julia Ogden in Murdoch Mysteries and Audrey Sweeney in Durham County; 2008 Gemini winner.
Hélène Langevin-Joliot
Hélène Langevin-Joliot (born 1927) is a French nuclear physicist, director of research at CNRS, known for her work at Orsay and as the granddaughter of Marie and Pierre Curie.
Hélène Laporte
Hélène Laporte (born 1978) is a French politician of the Rassemblement National, deputy for Lot-et-Garonne since 2024 and Vice-President of the National Assembly since 2025.
Helene Leni Junker
Helene "Leni" Junker (1905–1997) was a German sprinter and hurdler who won a relay bronze at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and set three world best 100 meter marks.
Helene Madison
Helene Madison (1913-1970), American freestyle swimmer from Seattle, won three gold medals at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics (100m, 400m, 4x100m relay) and held 23 world records; first woman to swim 100 yards freestyle in one minute.
Helene Marie Fossesholm
Helene Marie Fossesholm (born 2001) is a Norwegian former cross-country skier, 2021 world relay champion and two-time World Cup runner-up who retired in October 2025 to study medicine.
Helene Mayer
Helene Mayer (1910–1953), German foil fencer; 1928 Olympic gold, 1936 silver as Nazi Germany's only Jewish-ancestry athlete; world champion 1929, 1931, 1937; eight US titles.
Hélène Mercier-Arnault
Hélène Mercier-Arnault, born 1960 in Montreal, is a Canadian concert pianist, duo partner of Louis Lortie, wife of LVMH chief Bernard Arnault, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, with Chandos and Warner Classics recordings.
Helene N. White
Helene N. White, born 1954, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 2008.
Helene Rey
Hélène Rey is a French economist known for the global financial cycle and recasting the Mundellian trilemma as a dilemma, and became BIS Economic Adviser in 2026.
Helene Schjerfbeck
Helene Schjerfbeck (born Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck, 1862–1946) was a Finnish painter celebrated as Finland's most important figure and portrait painter, known above all for her late self-portraits.
Hélène Surgère
Hélène Surgère, born Hélène Marcelle Simone Collet, was a French stage and film actress who appeared in Pasolini's Salò and joined the Comédie-Française in 2010.
Helene Udy
Helene Udy (born 1962, Albuquerque; raised in Montreal) is an actress, producer, director, and clown known for Sylvia in My Bloody Valentine (1981), the first female Ferengi Pel on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Myra on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Heléne Yorke
Heléne Yorke (born 1985, Vancouver) is a Canadian-born actress known as Brooke Dubek on The Other Two and for Broadway roles in Bullets Over Broadway, American Psycho, and Wicked's tour as Glinda.
Helene, Comtesse de Pourtales
Hélène, Comtesse de Pourtalès (Helen Barbey, 1868-1945), Swiss-American countess and sailor; first woman to compete at the Olympics and first female Olympic medalist, winning gold and silver in the 1-2 ton class aboard Lérina at Paris 1900.
Helenio Herrera
Helenio Herrera, "il Mago", Argentine-born football manager (died Venice 1997) who led Inter's Grande Inter to three Serie A titles, two European Cups, and two Intercontinental Cups, and defined catenaccio.
Helensburgh Glow Worm Tunnel
The Helensburgh Glow Worm Tunnel, officially the Metropolitan Tunnel, is a disused 1888 railway tunnel at Helensburgh, Australia, home to a large glow worm colony.
Helenus of Cyrene
Helenus of Cyrene was a Ptolemaic governor of Cyprus who held the island's civil, military, and priestly command in the late second century BC, known from inscriptions.