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Helmut Recknagel
Helmut Recknagel (born 1937, Steinbach-Hallenberg), East German ski jumper; 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic champion, 1962 world champion, three-time Four Hills winner, first non-Scandinavian Holmenkollen champion (1957).
Helmut Schelling
Helmut Schelling is a German electrical engineer who co-founded Vector Informatik in 1988 near Stuttgart, growing it into an automotive software firm with over 4,500 employees.
Helmut Schmidt
Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015), German SPD politician, fifth Chancellor of West Germany 1974–1982; crisis manager of the 1962 Hamburg flood, the 1977 German Autumn, and the 1979 NATO Double-Track Decision; later co-publisher of Die Zeit.
Helmut Schwarz
Helmut Schwarz, born in 1943, is a German chemist at TU Berlin known for gas-phase mass spectrometry, two-state reactivity, and methane activation; he won the 2025 Wolf Prize.
Helmut Wielandt
Helmut Wielandt (1910–2001) was a German mathematician trained in Berlin under Issai Schur, known for the Wielandt inequality, the Collatz–Wielandt formula, and his 1950 proof of the Perron–Frobenius theorem.
Helmut Zeisel
Helmut Zeisel is an Austrian mathematician and industrial researcher known for the Zeisel numbers, squarefree integers whose prime factors follow a linear recurrence, introduced in 1994.
Helmut Zemo
Helmut Zemo, also known as Baron Helmut Zemo, is a Marvel Comics supervillain, the thirteenth Baron Zemo, who has fought Captain America and led the Masters of Evil.
Helmuth Fischer
Helmuth Fischer (Helmut Paul Wilhelm Fischer, 1911–1996) was a German freestyle swimmer from Bremerhaven: German 100 m champion 1933 and 1935–39, fifth at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, European record holder over 100 m and in the 4×100 m relay.
Helmuth Glaser
Helmuth Glaser (1906–1985) was a German refrigeration engineer and professor active in Göttingen and Stuttgart, known for the Glaser method, a graphical procedure for assessing interstitial condensation in buildings standardized in DIN 4108-3.
Helmuth Möhwald
Helmuth Möhwald (1946–2018) was a German physicist and physical chemist, founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, known for layer-by-layer film assembly and hollow capsule templating.
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800–1891) was a Prussian field marshal who led the general staff for 31 years and directed the wars against Denmark, Austria, and France.
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (Moltke der Juengere), 1848-1916, German Chief of the General Staff 1906-1914, nephew of Moltke the Elder; led the 1914 invasion of France, ordered the Marne retreat, and is central to the Schlieffen Plan controversy.
Helmuth Weidling
Helmuth Weidling (1891–1955), German General der Artillerie; LVI Panzer Corps commander at Seelow Heights, then combat commander of Berlin from 24 April 1945; surrendered the city to Soviet forces on 2 May 1945 and died in Soviet captivity in Vladimir.
Helmuth Wilberg
Helmuth Wilberg (1880–1941), German General der Flieger; headed the Reichswehr's secret air staff 1919–1927 and wrote the 1926 Directives and LDv 16, the Luftwaffe's founding doctrine; killed in an air crash near Dresden.
Helmy Eltoukhy
Helmy Eltoukhy is an American scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Guardant Health, a liquid biopsy company in Redwood City, California, in 2012 and has led it as CEO since 2013.
Heloderma
Heloderma is the sole genus of the venomous lizard family Helodermatidae, with five species including the Gila monster and beaded lizards of the southwestern US, Mexico, and Guatemala, known for grooved-tooth venom delivery and the diabetes drug exenatide.
Heloha Fluctus
Heloha Fluctus is a 375-km-diameter lava flow field (fluctus) on Venus at 77°N, 344°E, named for a Choktaw female thunderbird and adopted by the IAU in 2009.
Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda
Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda, known after 2023 as Heloisa Teixeira, was a Brazilian literary critic and professor who shaped the study of marginal poetry and feminism in Brazil.
Heloise
Heloise (c. 1101–1164; French Héloïse) was a French abbess, scholar, and writer, wife of philosopher Peter Abelard and abbess of the Paraclete from 1129 until her death.
Helon Habila
Helon Habila is a Nigerian novelist born in 1967 in Kaltungo, Nigeria, author of Waiting for an Angel, Oil on Water, and Travellers, and winner of the Caine Prize.
Helorine Hodos
Helorine Hodos (Helorine Road): ancient road linking Syracuse with its first subcolony Heloros (Eloro) in southeastern Sicily, mentioned by Thucydides, in use from Archaic Greek times through late Antiquity.
Helorus Fossa
Helorus Fossa is a 105-km tectonic trough (fossa) on Saturn's moon Dione at 31.84S, 76.48, IAU-approved February 25, 2011 and named for a river in southeastern Sicily; the crater Caieta sits atop it.
Helots
Helots (εἵλωτες), the serf-like state slaves of ancient Sparta, tilled Spartan estates and freed citizens for war; Messenian helots revolted repeatedly until Epaminondas freed them after Leuctra, 371 BC.
Help Me Eros (帮帮我爱神)
Help Me Eros (幫幫我愛神, Bangbang wo aishen) is a 2007 Taiwanese drama by Lee Kang-sheng, his second feature, about a ruined stockbroker, a suicide hotline, and a betel-nut seller; Golden Lion nominee at Venice 2007.
Help Me Make It Through the Night
"Help Me Make It Through the Night" (Kris Kristofferson, 1970, album Kristofferson) is a country standard made famous by Sammi Smith's 1971 #1 country, #8 pop single, which won two Grammys and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.
Help point
A help point is a fixed, clearly marked communication unit at a railway station that lets a passenger speak to a human operator, typically by pressing a button.
Help Wanted (SpongeBob SquarePants)
"Help Wanted" is the 1997-produced pilot of SpongeBob SquarePants, aired May 1, 1999 after the Kids' Choice Awards; written by Hillenburg, Drymon, and Hill, famous for its Tiny Tim song and DVD omission.
HELP-Vets study
HELP-Vets (Helping Veterans Experience Less Pain) study, NCT00230932, a VA cross-sectional cohort study (2006-2007, 528 veterans, VISN 22) evaluating the reliability of pain as the fifth vital sign and gaps in pain care.
Help!
Help! is the Beatles' fifth UK album and soundtrack to their second film, released 6 August 1965 on Parlophone (PMC 1255/PCS 3071), featuring the title track, Ticket to Ride, and Yesterday.
Help! (film)
Help! (1965) is the Beatles' second feature film, a Richard Lester musical comedy in which Ringo's stuck sacred ruby ring sends the band fleeing a Thuggee-style cult across the Alps, Bahamas, and London, with seven songs including the chart-topping title track.