Helen (Helene) Johnson (1906 – 1995) was an African-American poet during the Harlem Renaissance. She is remembered today for her poetry that captures both the challenges and the excitement of this era during her short-lived career.
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Helen Sung is an American jazz pianist.
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Helen Keller aka American Author whom advocated for the blind and for women's suffrage and more importantly cofounded the American Civil Liberties Union... biblical name which means LIGHT...
Helen Milroy, AM, is a consultant psychiatrist with the Western Australia Department of Health, specialising in child and adolescent psychiatry, and director of the Western Australian Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health. She is recognised as the first Indigenous Australian to become a medical doctor. She is also a storyteller who has written three books for children. She traces her ancestral lineage to the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. In 2018, Milroy was appointed as the first Indigenous commissioner to the Australian Football League.
Helen Richardson Khan (born as Helen Richardson), known mononymously as Helen, is an Indian actress and dancer of Anglo-Indian and Burmese descent. She has appeared in over 1000 films, making her a prolific performer in Hindi cinema. She is known for her supporting, character roles and guest appearances in a career spanning seventy years.
Helen Bierce, simply known as Bierce, is one of the characters in the first-person horror maze game Dark Deception. She's the person who appoints the main character Doug Houser to collect the pieces of the Riddle of Heaven ring by sending him through nightmare realms. She's often seen making snarky remarks at the player, laughing when they die, giving them new powers, and bickering with the game's main antagonist Malak.
Dame Helen Mirren (b.1945) is a British actress, she has won 26 awards as of 2018, since the beginning of her career in 1966. She is most known for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 film "The Queen" and also for her role as Mrs Wilson in "Gosford Park".
Helen of Greece and Denmark was the ex-wife of Carol II of Romania and Queen Mother of Romania. She was named Righteous Among the Nations for helping Jews during World War 2.
There was a character in the syndicated show "Cleopatra 2525" who was named Helen but nicknamed Hel. As a bit of a mythology nerd, I think both "Helen" as a name and "Hel" as a nickname are very cool!
A famous bearer of this name is American classical violinist Helen Armstrong (March 16, 1943 – April 28, 2006). Besides her classical music profession, she was the founder and artistic director of Armstrong Chamber Concerts.
Helen was, I believe, the name of the first Queen of Narnia in C. S. Lewis' books.
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Helen Fielding; author of crazily popular "Bridget Jones' Diary" and "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason". Both of these have been made into movies starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and (gags) Hugh Grant.
Helen is the first friend of Jane in the novel by Charlotte Bronte, 'Jane Eyre'. Helen is an intelligent, but 'slattern' girl that took her discipline with strength.
And how could anyone forget Helen of Troy, "the face that launched a thousand ships"? The most beautiful woman in the world! Maybe the name does not mean beautiful, but it can be taken to be.