Helms
Helms is a German - Scandinavian family name. The name Helms is widespread in Germany, especially in Oldenburg and Braunschweig . Derivations or other spellings of the name are: Helmts, Helmer, Helmerich (s), Helmes, Helmers, Helmsen.
Helms is the family name of the following people:
- Adam Helms (pastor) (1579–1653), German clergyman
- Adam Helms (publisher) (1904–1980), Swedish publisher
- Adam Helms (Vice Admiral) (1912–2011), Danish Vice Admiral
- Adam Helms (artist) (born 1974), American artist
- August Helms (1847–1920), Hamburg merchant, Harburg senator and co-founder of the Harburg Helms Museum
- Bobby Helms (1933–1997), American singer
- Chester Leo Helms (1942–2005), American music manager
- Detlef Helms (* 1960), German football player (GDR)
- Dietrich Helms (* 1933), German graphic artist, painter, object artist and university professor
- Ed Helms (* 1974), American actor
- Emil Helms (1884–1965), German SPD politician and mayor
- Gregory Helms (* 1974), American professional wrestler
- Hans G Helms (1932–2012), German writer, composer, social and economic historian
- Hans von Helms (1899–1980), German NSDAP politician and SA leader
- Hermann Helms (Shipowner, 1868) (1868–1942), German shipowner
- Hermann Helms (chess player) (1870–1963), American chess player
- Hermann Helms (politician) (1871–1921), German politician (SPD), MdHB
- Hermann Helms (shipowner, 1898) (1898–1983), German shipowner
- Hermann Helms (shipowner, 1928) (1928–2005), German shipowner
- Jan Helms (* 1937), German medic
- Jesse Helms (1921–2008), American politician, Senator for North Carolina
- Johannes Helms , historian and writer
- Kyle Helms (* 1986), Canadian-German ice hockey player
- Marianne Helms (* 1936), German musicologist
- Paul Helms (1884–1971), German painter, graphic artist, draftsman and illustrator
- Reimund Helms (1954–2005), German politician
- Richard Helms (1913–2002), American secret service official, head of the CIA from 1966 to 1973
- Siegmund Helms (* 1938), German musicologist and music teacher
- Susan Helms (* 1958), American astronaut
- Tobias Helms (* 1968), German lawyer and university lecturer
- Wilhelm Helms (1923–2019), German politician
- William Helms († 1813), American politician
Helms is the name for
- of the Helms Museum, the forerunner of the Hamburg Archaeological Museum in Hamburg-Harburg
- The Café Helms in Berlin, which existed from 1883 to 1893, is mentioned in several novels of Theodor Fontane.
- A gorge in Tolkien's fantasy world, see Regions and Places in Tolkien's World
- Hermann Helms (ship)
- Thomas Helms Verlag , specialist publisher for North German culture, monument preservation, local and regional studies, history, church and art history
- Helms Bluff , rocky cliffs in Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Mount Helms , mountain in Ellsworthland, Antarctica
