Helle (name)
{{Short description|Female given name and family name}}
{{Wiktionary|Helle|helle}}
Helle is both a feminine given name and a surname. In Scandinavia, it is a variant of the feminine given name Helga.{{cite book
|author1=Nancy L. Coleman|author2=Olav Veka|title=A Handbook of Scandinavian Names|year=2010|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press
|location=Madison, WI|isbn=9780299248338|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/1163|page=7}} Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Helle (mythology) who gave her name to the Hellespont
- Helle Aro (born 1960), Estonian heptathlete
- Helle Crafts (1947–1986), Danish murder victim
- Helle Fagralid (born 1976), Danish actress
- Helle Frederiksen (born 1981), Danish professional triathlete
- Helle-Reet Helenurm (1944–2003), Estonian actress
- Helle-Moonika Helme (born 1966), Estonian musician and politician
- Helle Kalda (born 1950), Estonian politician
- Helle Klein (born 1966), Swedish journalist
- Helle Kuningas (1949–2014), Estonian actress
- Helle Meri (born 1949), Estonian actress, former First Lady of Estonia
- Helle Metslang (born 1950), Estonian linguist
- Helle Michaelsen (born 1968), Danish model
- Helle Rotbøll (born 1963), Danish footballer
- Helle Stangerup (1939–2015), Danish novelist
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt (born 1966), Prime Minister of Denmark (2011–2015)
- Helle Trevino (born 1975), Danish IFBB professional bodybuilder
- Helle Virkner (1925–2009), Danish actress
Surname
- Henri Helle (1873–1901), French archer
- Soini Helle (1914–1992), Finnish chess player
- Veikko Helle (1911–2005), Finnish politician