Helena

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Helena Given Name
Gender	Female
Related names	Helen, Helene
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Helena

Helena is a given name. It may refer to:

Contents 1 People known by the given name Helena 1.1 Fictional characters 2 Arts and literature 3 Places 4 Other uses 5 See also

[edit] People known by the given name Helena

• Helena of Constantinople aka Flavia Iulia Helena, Saint Helena, Saint Helen
• Helena of Adiabene, Queen of Adiabene in northern Mesopotamia during the first century CE
• Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria
• Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, daughter of the above
• Helena Bonham Carter, Academy Award-nominated English actress, Mrs.Lovett in Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Helena Christensen, supermodel
• Saint Helena (disambiguation), people and places called Saint Helena
• Helena, (d. 360) - Roman empress, wife of Julian the Apostate and daughter of Constantine I
• Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder and director of International Society for Ecology and Culture

[edit] Fictional characters

• 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 Paparizou, greek singer born in Sweden who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005

[edit] Arts and literature

• Helena, an 1876 novel by Machado de Assis
• Helena (1950 novel), by Evelyn Waugh
• "Helena", a single by My Chemical Romance from their album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
• "Helena", 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

[edit] Places

United States

• Helena, Montana, the state capital
• Helena, Alabama
• Helena, Arkansas
• Helena, Georgia
• Helena, Ohio
• Helena, Wisconsin
• Helena, Texas

Outer space

• 101 Helena, an asteroid

[edit] 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
• "Helena", a word for very beautiful or gorgeous

[edit] See also

• Helen (disambiguation)
• Helene
• Hellen
• Eleni