Helena

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Helena is a first name.

People known by the first name Helena

• Helena of Adiabene (d. 56), Queen of Adiabene who converted to Judaism
• Helena (Empress) (d. 330), mother of Emperor Constantine the Great
• Helena, wife of Julian (d. 360), daughter of Emperor Constantine and wife to Emperor Julian Apostata
• Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846–1923), daughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain
• Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870–1948), daughter of Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and Helena of the United Kingdom
• Helena Bonham Carter (b. 1966), English actress
• Helena Christensen (b. 1968), Danish model
• Helena Laine (b. 1955), Finnish javelin thrower
• Helena Mattsson (b. 1984), Swedish actress
• Helena Moreno (b. 1977), American television reporter
• Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder and director of International Society for Ecology and Culture
• Helena Paparizou (b. 1982), Greek-Swede singer and songwriter
• Helena Rasiowa (1917-1994), Polish mathematician

Fictional characters

• Helena, a Robotess character in the science fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek. It premiered in 1921, and is noted for introducing the term "robot."
• Helena (Dead or Alive), a character from the Dead or Alive video game series
• Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream), a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Helena, a character in the 1993 film Boxing Helena
• Helena Ravenclaw, also known as the Grey Lady, a character in the Harry Potter series.
• Helena Peabody, a character in the Showtime The L Word series, played by Rachel Shelley.
• Helena (Encantadia), a character in the 4th installment of Encantadia.

Arts and literature

• Helena, an 1876 novel by Machado de Assis
• Helena (1950 novel), by Evelyn Waugh
• "Helena (song)", a single by My Chemical Romance from their album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
• "Helena (Nickel Creek)", a song by Nickel Creek
• "Helena", a song by the band The Misfits from their album Famous Monsters
• "Helena", song by Will Haven on The Hierophant (album)
• Helen of Troy From the Greek Etymology
• "Helena's Theme", a song by the band Kamelot, in their album "Epica"

Places

United States

• Helena, Montana, the state capital and most well known city with this name
• Helena, Alabama
• Helena, Arkansas
• Helena, Georgia
• Helena, Ohio
• Helena, Oklahoma
• Helena, Wisconsin
• Helena, Texas

Ships

• HMS Helena, the name of various ships of the British Royal Navy
• USS Helena, the name of various United States Navy ships
• USS Helena I (SP-24), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919

Other uses

• "Helena", a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup H (mtDNA)
• "Helena", a name used in ancient Greece for the phenomenon now referred to as St. Elmo's fire
• 101 Helena, an asteroid

See also

• Saint Helena (disambiguation), people and places called Saint Helena
• Helen (disambiguation)
• Helene
• Hellen
• Eleni

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