Helene
Helene is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Helene is a form of " Helena "; see there for meaning and variants.
distribution
In the last years of the 19th and first of the 20th centuries, Helene was one of the ten most common female first names of the respective year in Germany several times. Then its popularity gradually declined, sharply from the mid-thirties. Since the new millennium, however, an upward trend can be observed with this name.
Name and memorial days
Well-known namesake
- Hélène, artist or role name of Hélène Rollès (* 1966), French actress and singer
- Helene Abusdal (* 1978), Norwegian badminton player
- Helene Adams (1865–1943), German Holocaust victim
- Helene Adler (1849–1923), German writer and teacher
- Helene Aeckerle (1875–1940), German author and translator
- Hélène Ahrweiler (* 1926), German Byzantinist
- Helene Anton (1859–1931), German writer
- Helene Arnau (1870–1958), Austrian painter
- Helene Aronheim (1858–1943), German philanthropist and Holocaust victim
- Helene Auer (* 1945), Austrian politician (SPÖ)
- Helene Balmer (* 1924), Swiss sculptor
- Helene Bauer (1871–1942), Austrian social scientist and journalist
- Helene Bechstein (1876–1951), German admirer of Hitler
- Helene Beer (1895–1965?), German politician (LDP)
- Helene Behrendt (1894–1941?), German Holocaust victim
- Helene Benndorf (1897–1984), German librarian
- Helene Bensberg-Mauthner (1853–1940), German theater actress
- Helene Berg (1885–1976), wife of the composer Alban Berg
- Helene Berg (1906-2006), German university professor and official (SED)
- Helene Bergsholm (* 1992), Norwegian actress
- Helene Berner (1904–1992), German resistance fighter and functionary (SED)
- Helene Bernhardt (1873 – after 1908), German writer
- Hélène Berr (1921–1945), French contemporary witness of the Holocaust
- Helene Berthold (1855–1925), German writer
- Helene Bettelheim (1857–1946), Austrian writer
- Hélène Binet (* 1959), Swiss photographer
- Helene Blechinger (* 1989), Austrian actress
- Helene Bockhorst (* 1987), German cabaret artist and author
- Helene Böhlau (1856–1940), German writer
- Helène Alina Bondy-Glassowa (1865–1935), Polish painter
- Helene Bonfort (1854–1940), German teacher and women activist
- Hélène Boschi (1917–1990), Swiss-French pianist
- Hélène Boucher (1908–1934), French pilot
- Helene Braun (1914–1986), German mathematician
- Helene Brehm (1862–1932), German teacher and local poet
- Hélène Breschand (* 1966), French harpist and composer
- Helene Bresslau (1879–1957), Swiss activist and wife of Albert Schweitzers
- Helene Butenschön (1874–1957), German writer
- Helene Christaller (1872–1953), German writer
- Helene Croner (1885–1943), German violinist
- Helene von Damm (* 1938), American politician (Republican)
- Helene Demuth (1820–1890), Karl Marx's housekeeper
- Helene Deutsch (1884–1982), Austrian-American psychoanalyst
- Helene Dietrich (* 1960), German national soccer player
- Helene von Druskowitz (1856–1918), Austrian philosopher
- Helene Fischer (* 1984), German pop singer
- Helene Flöss (* 1954), Austrian writer
- Helene Funke (1869–1957), German painter and graphic artist
- Helene Glatzer (1902–1935), German resistance fighter
- Helene Goldbaum (1883 – after 1939), Austrian writer
- Helene Hanff (1916–1997), American writer
- Helene Holzman (1891–1968), German painter
- Helene Hübener (1843–1918), German writer
- Helene Elisabeth von Isenburg (1900–1974) founded an aid organization for prisoners of war and internees
- Helene Jacobs (1906–1993), German resistance fighter
- Helene Kafka (1894–1943), Austrian resistance fighter and Nazi victim
- Helene Luise Köppel (* 1948), German writer
- Helene Amalie Krupp (1732–1810), co-founder of the Krupp empire
- Helene Kynast (* 1942), German children's book author
- Helene Lange (1848–1930), German educator and women's rights activist
- Helene von Lerber (1896–1963), Swiss writer
- Helene Lieser (1898–1962), Austrian political scientist and economist
- Helene Lohmann (1784–1866), German entrepreneur
- Helene Madison (1913–1970), American swimmer
- Helene Mardicke (* 1997), German actress
- Helene Mayer (1910–1953), German fencer
- Helene Mira (* 1954), Austrian actress
- Helene von Mülinen (1850–1924), Swiss women's rights activist
- Helene Nickel (1848–1894), founder of a monastery
- Helene von Nostitz (1878–1944), German writer
- Helene Olafsen (* 1990), Norwegian snowboarder
- Helene Pagés (1863–1944), German writer
- Helene Partik-Pablé (* 1939), Austrian judge
- Helene Roth (artist) (1887–1966), Swiss painter and graphic artist
- Helene Sansoni-Balla (1892–1982), German painter
- Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946), Finnish painter
- Helene Schwärzel (1902 – after 1992), German informer
- Helene Sedlmayr (1813–1898), her portrait is one of the most famous in the beauty gallery of King Ludwig I.
- Helene Stöcker (1869–1943), German women's rights activist
- Helene Thimig (1889–1974), Austrian actress
- Helene Tursten (* 1954), Swedish writer
- Helene Vetsera (1847–1925), Greek-Austrian nobleman and mother of Mary von Vetsera
- Helene Weber (1881–1962), German politician
- Helene Weigel (1900–1971), wife of Bertolt Brecht
- Helene Wessel (1898–1969), German politician
- Hélène d'Anjou (1230–1314), Serbian queen
- Hélène Louise Françoise Henriette d'Orléans (1871–1951), Princess of Orlèans, Princess of France, Duchess of Aosta
- Helene in Bavaria (1834–1890), Bavarian princess
- Helene of Austria (1903–1924), Duchess of Württemberg
- Helene von Weimar-Orlamünde , abbess of the Hof monastery from 1435 to 1465
Helen
- Helen Barnes (1895–1925), American musical actress and dancer
- Helen Dunmore (1952-2017), British writer
- Helen Escobedo (1934-2010), Mexican sculptor and installation artist
- Helen Fouché Gaines (1888–1940), American cryptologist
- Helen Hunt (born 1963), American actress
- Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig (1925-2018), Holocaust survivor
- Helen Keller (1880–1968), deaf-blind American writer
- Helen Levitt (1913–2009), American photographer and filmmaker
- Helen Langehanenberg (* 1982), German dressage rider
- Helen Mirren (born 1945), British actress
- Helen Preece (1895–1990), British horsewoman
- Helen Richardson (born 1939), Indian dancer and actress, see Helen (actress)
- Helen Schneider (* 1952), American singer and actress
- Helen Simpson (1897-1940), Australian writer, see Helen de Guerry Simpson
- Helen Simpson (writer, 1959) (born 1959), British writer
- Helen Sjöholm (* 1970), Swedish singer
- Helen Slater (* 1963), American actress and singer-songwriter
- Helen Suzman (1917–2009), South African politician
- Helen Thomas (1920–2013), American journalist
- Helen Woigk (* 1991), German actress
Others
- Pear Helene , a dessert
- Helene , name of a painting by the painter Marianne von Werefkin
- Helene , a fairy tale by Ludwig Bechstein
- The pious Helene , picture story by Wilhelm Busch
- Mare Helene , the horse of King Friedrich I of Württemberg
- Helene (also Saturn XII), one of the smallest known moons on the planet Saturn .
- Helenental in the Vienna Woods
- Helenental near Bad Boll
- Sainte-Hélène
- Colliery Helene , disambiguation