Famous People with Name Helen

Helen Hull Jacobs            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Hull Jacobs: was an American female tennis player who won ten Grand Slam titles. She was born in Globe, Arizona, United States.

Helen Flanders Dunbar            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Flanders Dunbar: is an important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine and psychobiology, as well as being an important advocate of physicians and clergy co-operating in their efforts to care for the sick.

Helen Brooke Taussig            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Brooke Taussig: was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. Notably, she helped develop the Blalock-Taussig shunt in cooperation with Dr. Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, to treat blue baby syndrome.

Helen Lundeberg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Lundeberg: was an American Post-Surrealist, hard-edge painter. She married California artist Lorser Feitelson, her former teacher. In 1933 they co-founded an art movement called "New Classicism."Lundeberg considered herself a less strict hard-edger as her work was not strictly abstract but contained architectural elements and often represents architectural space.

Helen Frankenthaler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Frankenthaler: an American post-painterly abstraction artist. Born in New York City, she was influenced by Jackson Pollock's paintings and by Clement Greenberg. She was the youngest daughter of a justice on the New York State Supreme Court. She studied at the Dalton School under Rufino Tamayo and also at Bennington College in Vermont. She later married fellow artist Robert Motherwell.