List of Famous people named Helene

Helene Antonia von Damm is a former United States diplomat and Ambassador to Austria who also worked as an assistant to President Ronald Reagan.

Countess Hélène de Pourtalès, born Helen Barbey, was an American-born sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics representing Switzerland and became the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal. She was also the first woman to represent Switzerland at the Olympics.

Helene Weber was a German politician and was known as a women's rights activist. In the Weimar Republic she rose to prominence in the Catholic Centre Party. In 1945 she was among the founders of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). In 1948 she was a co-founder of the CDU Women's Task Force, a precursor of the party's Women's Union, which she chaired from 1951 to 1958. Weber is one of four women who, alongside 61 men, drafted Germany's constitution, the Basic Law, in 1948-49. After initial hesitation, she closed ranks with the women delegates of the Social Democratic Party to successfully fight for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women shall have equal rights" in Article 3 of the Basic Law. She is often cited for her anti-war statement: "The entirely male-run state is the ruin of nations".

Hélène Lipietz is a French politician. She serves as a Senator for Seine-et-Marne.

Hélène de Cressac Martini was a Polish-born French striptease artist turned businesswoman and nightclub owner associated with the Folies Bergère, and nicknamed "The Countess" and "The Empress of the Night".

Hélène Geoffroy is a French politician who was elected to the French National Assembly on 17 June 2012 representing the department of Rhône.

Helene Jacobs was a member of the Confessing Church and of the German Resistance against National Socialism.

Hélène de Mandrot (1867-1948), née Hélène Revilliod de Muralt, was an artist and Swiss patron of modern art and architecture.

Hélène Châtelain was a French actress who appeared as "the woman" in Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962), and later worked with playwright Armand Gatti and Iossif Pasternak. She was also a translator, writer and filmmaker (Goulag).

Hélène d'Almeida-Topor was a French historian and university professor of contemporary history.