Famous People with Name Hilma

Hilma Granqvist            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Hilma Granqvist: was a Swedish-speaking Finnish anthropologist who conducted long field studies of Palestinians. She was a student of Edward Westermarck.In the 1920s Granqvist arrived at the village of Artas, just outside Bethlehem in the then British Mandate of Palestine as part of her research on the women of the Old Testament. She had gone to Palestine "in order to find the Jewish ancestors of Scripture. What she found instead was a Palestinian people with a distinct culture and way of life. She therefore changed the focus of her research to a full investigation of the customs, habits and ways of thinking of the people of that village. Granqvist ended up staying till 1931 documenting all aspects of village life. In so doing she took hundreds of photographs."[1]

Hilma Aparecida Caldeira            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Hilma Aparecida Caldeira: is a retired volleyball player from Brazil, who represented her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she claimed the bronze medal with the Women's National Team. She also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Atli Hilmarsson            Origin/Culture/Country: Norse

Atli Hilmarsson: is an Icelandic former handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics.