Helena

Helena

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Helena is a given name.

People known by the given name Helena

*Helena Paparizou, Greek singer born in Sweden who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005
*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, wife of Julian, (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

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"

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

Places

;United States
*Helena, Montana, the state capital
*Helena, Alabama
*Helena, Arkansas
*Helena, Georgia
*Helena, Ohio
*Helena, Wisconsin
*Helena, Texas

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

ee also

*Helen (disambiguation)
*Helene
*Hellen
*Eleni


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  • Helena — puede referirse a: Contenido 1 Mitología griega 2 Historia 3 Nombre 4 Divisiones administrativas 4.1 …   Wikipedia Español

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  • Helena — {{Helena}} Tochter des Zeus* und der Leda* – oder der Nemesis* –, wegen ihrer außergewöhnlichen Schönheit noch als Kind von Theseus* geraubt, aber von ihren Brüdern, den Dioskuren*, befreit und in ihre Heimat Sparta zurückgebracht. Um… …   Who's who in der antiken Mythologie

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  • Helena [1] — HELĔNA, æ, (⇒ Tab. XXXI.) des Paris und der Helena Tochter, über deren Namen sich Vater und Mutter nicht vergleichen konnten, weil sie ersterer nach sich Alexandra, sie aber Helena genannt wissen wollte, bis sie endlich darum würfelten, und… …   Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon

  • Helena —     Helena     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Helena     (Helenensis)     Erected from the Vicariate of Montana, 7 March, 1884. It comprises the western part of the State of Montana, U.S.A., and is made up of Lewis and Clark, Teton, Flathead, Missoula …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Helena, AL — U.S. city in Alabama Population (2000): 10296 Housing Units (2000): 3983 Land area (2000): 17.074678 sq. miles (44.223210 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.019633 sq. miles (0.050850 sq. km) Total area (2000): 17.094311 sq. miles (44.274060 sq. km)… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Helena, AR — U.S. city in Arkansas Population (2000): 6323 Housing Units (2000): 2710 Land area (2000): 8.896456 sq. miles (23.041713 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000926 sq. miles (0.002399 sq. km) Total area (2000): 8.897382 sq. miles (23.044112 sq. km) FIPS …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

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