Top Celebrity Names Starting With Helen

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   Helen Mirren

   Age 66 Female
   

   Actress

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   Dame Helen Mirren, DBE is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.… read more

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   Helen Hunt

   Age 48 Female
   

   Actress

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   Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom, Mad About You, for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good as It Gets (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress). Some of her other Hollywood credits include Twister, Cast Away, What Women Want, Pay It Forward, and Soul Surfer. She made her directorial debut in 2007 with Then She Found Me.… read more

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   Helen Shiller

   Age 65 Female
   

   Politician

   
   

   Helen Shiller is a former member of the Chicago City Council, where she represented the 46th ward from 1987 to 2011. Shiller has been described as "committed to liberal causes" appropriate for the lakefront district she represents. Among her most significant impacts on Chicago were her advocacy for diverse, inclusive, affordable housing and helping craft Chicago's response to the HIV/AIDS crisis.… read more

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   Helen Zille

   Age 61 Female
   

   Premier of the Western Cape

   
   

   Helen Zille is the Premier of the Western Cape, a member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, leader of South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance political party, and a former Mayor of Cape Town. Zille is a former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, and famously exposed the truth behind the death of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko while working for the Rand Daily Mail in the late 1970s.… read more

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   Helen Clark

   Age 62 Female
   

   Prime Minister of New Zealand, Politician, Academic

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   Helen Elizabeth Clark, ONZ was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand serving three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2008. She has been Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the third-highest UN position, since 2009. Clark was first elected as MP for the Mount Albert electorate in 1981, and she led the Labour Party from 1993 until it lost the 2008 general election.… read more

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   Helen Reddy

   Age 70 Female
   

   Singer, Actress, Musician

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   Helen Reddy, often referred to as "The Queen of 70s Pop", is an Australian-American singer and actress. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed fifteen singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six of those 15 songs made the Top 10 and three of those songs reached No. 1, including her signature hit "I Am Woman. " She also placed 25 singles on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts.… read more

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   Helen Storrow

   1864 - 1944 Female
   

   Girl Scouting Leader

   
   

   Helen Osborne Storrow was a prominent American philanthropist, early Girl Scout leader, and chair of the World Committee of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) for eight years. She founded the First National Girl Scout Leaders' Training in Long Pond, Massachusetts; headed the leaders' training camp at Foxlease, UK; and donated the first of the WAGGGS World centres, Our Chalet. She was married to James J.… read more

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   Helen Hayes

   1900 - 1993 Female
   

   Actress

   
   

   Helen Hayes Brown was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.… read more

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   Helen Hill

   1970 - 2007 Female
   

   Filmmaker, Animator, Activist

   
   

   Helen Hill was an American animation filmmaker and social activist who lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. When her final film, The Florestine Collection, was released in 2011, curators and critics described her as "one of the most well-regarded experimental animators of her generation. " In the pre-dawn hours of January 4, 2007, Hill was murdered by a random intruder in her New Orleans home.… read more

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    Helen Thomas

    Age 91 Female
    

    Journalist

    
    

    Helen Thomas is an American author and former news service reporter, member of the White House Press Corps and opinion columnist. She worked for the United Press and post-1958 successor United Press International (UPI) for 57 years, first as a correspondent, and later as White House bureau manager. She was a columnist for Hearst Newspapers from 2000 to 2010, writing on national affairs and the White House.… read more

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    Helen Slater

    Age 48 Female
    

    Singer, Actress, Songwriter

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    Helen Rachel Schlachter is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She appeared in the title role in the 1984 film Supergirl. In the following years she starred in several successful comedy-drama films such as Ruthless People, The Secret of My Success, and City Slickers. Since then she has found work as an actress in film, television, and stage projects, including guest appearances on the series Smallville.… read more

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    Helen Skelton

    Age 28 Female
    

    Sports Person, Stand In, Actor

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    Helen Skelton is an English television presenter. She has worked on the BBC children's programme Blue Peter since 2008. In 2010 she kayaked over 2,000 miles along the Amazon River and in 2012 she finished a 500-mile (800km) trek to the South Pole both for Sport Relief, making her a double world record holder.… read more

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    Helen Carter

    1927 - 1998 Female
    

    Singer, Musician

    
    

    Helen Myrl Carter was an American country music singer. The eldest daughter of Maybelle Carter, she performed with her mother and her younger sisters, June Carter and Anita Carter, as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, a pioneering all female country/folk music group. The group was also known as The Carter Family.… read more

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    Helen Magnus

    Female
    

    Doctor, Scientist

    
    

    Doctor Helen Magnus is the series protagonist and central character of the Canadian fantasy-science fiction television series Sanctuary. She is portrayed by Amanda Tapping. In the series, Magnus is a scientist from Victorian era England, who currently runs the global Sanctuary Network, an organization tasked with finding a series of creatures called "abnormals", and later bring them to a Sanctuary base for refuge to protect them from the human population.… read more

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    Helen Coonan

    Age 64 Female
    

    Australian Politician; Senator For New South Wales

    
    

    Helen Lloyd Coonan is a former Australian politician, who was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing New South Wales from July 1996 to August 2011.

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    Helen Keller

    1880 - 1968 Female
    

    Author and Activist

    
    

    Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.… read more

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    Helen McElhone

    Age 79 Female
    

    Member of Parliament, Politician

    
    

    Helen Margaret McElhone is a Scottish politician. She worked together with her husband, Frank McElhone, during his time as a Member of Parliament (MP) representing Glasgow from 1969. After his sudden death, McElhone was elected as his successor; but within a year her Glasgow Queen's Park constituency was abolished in boundary changes and she lost out to a neighbouring MP in the selection for a new seat. She continued her political activity after leaving Parliament.… read more

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    Helen Chenoweth-Hage

    1938 - 2006 Female
    

    Politician

    
    

    Helen P. Chenoweth-Hage, born Helen Margaret Palmer was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Idaho, the first Republican woman to represent that state in the United States Congress. No woman has served in congress from Idaho since she left office.… read more

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    Helen Erickson

    Age 76 Female
    

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    Helen Lorraine Erickson (born 1936) is the primary author of the theory, Modeling and Role-Modeling. Her work, co-authored with Tomlin, E. and Swain, M.A. , was derived from years of clinical practice, was first published in 1983 by Prentice Hall and later by the EST Company. In 2006 she edited a book that provides additional, in-depth information that describes relations among soul, spirit, and human form.… read more

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    Helen Jones

    Age 57 Female
    

    Member of Parliament, Politician, Solicitor

    
    

    Helen Mary Jones is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Warrington North since 1997. She is described as an "intelligent, battle hardened leftwing solicitor built into the Labour machine" She was Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 2009 to 2010.… read more

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    Helen

    Age 72 Female
    

    Actor

    
    

    Helen Jairag Richardson is an Indian film actress and dancer of Anglo-Burmese descent, working in Hindi films. She is often cited as the most popular dancer of the item number in her time. She was the inspiration for four films and a book.… read more

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    Helen Wagner

    1918 - 2010 Female
    

    Actress

    
    

    Helen Wagner was an American actress. Born in Lubbock, Texas, she is best known for her long-running role as Nancy Hughes McClosky on the soap opera As the World Turns. Wagner also played the role of Trudy Bauer during the initial TV years of Guiding Light in the early 1950s. She also appeared on the early soap Valiant Lady, as well as on 1950s primetime programs including The World of Mr.… read more

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    Helen Shapiro

    Age 65 Female
    

    Singer, Actress, Musician

    
    

    Helen Kate Shapiro is an English singer and actress. She is best known for her 1960s UK chart toppers, "You Don't Know" and "Walkin' Back to Happiness".

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    Helen Mack

    1913 - 1986 Female
    

    Actress

    
    

    Helen Mack was an American actress. Mack started her career as a child actress in silent films, moving on to Broadway plays, and touring the vaudeville circuit. Her greater success as an actress was as a leading lady in the 1930s. Eventually Mack transitioned into performing on radio, and then into writing, directing, and producing some of the best known radio shows during the Golden Age of Radio.… read more

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    Helen Jane Long

    Age 38 Female
    

    Composer, Musician, Pianist

    
    

    Helen Jane Long is a British composer, musician and pianist, best known for various advertisement contracts, her work on several film projects in a variety of genres, and, most recently, her contemporary-classic piano album, Embers (2010) (BLE) and Porcelain. In 2003, Long worked as music assistant to Howard Shore on the film score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Long composed the original music for the movie thrillers The Only Hotel and Surveillance 24/7.… read more