Heike is a given name of Germanic origin, most commonly but not exclusively female. The male form is
Heiko. Heike is also a surname.
Notable persons with this name include:
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Feminine
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Heike Blaßneck (born 1971), German hurdler
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Heike Balck
Heike Balck (born 19 August 1970 in Schwerin) is a retired German high jumper.
Biography
Her personal best jump of 2.01 metres, achieved in Karl-Marx-Stadt, and her world junior record stood since 1989 until being broken by Yaroslava Mahuchikh in ...
(born 1970), German high jumper
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Heike Klippel (born 1960), German film and media studies scholar.
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Heike Dähne (born 1961), German swimmer
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Heike Drechsler
Heike Gabriela Drechsler (; ; born 16 December 1964) is a German former track and field athlete who represented East Germany and later Germany. One of the most successful long jumpers of all-time, she is a former world record holder and ranks ...
(born 1964), German track and field athlete
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Heike Faber (born 1965), German television actress
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Heike Fassbender
Heike Fassbender is a German mathematician specializing in numerical linear algebra. She is a professor in the Institute for Computational Mathematics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, and the president for the 2017–2019 term of the G ...
, German mathematician
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Heike Fischer (born 1982), German diver
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Heike Friedrich
Heike Friedrich (born 18 April 1970 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Saxony) is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () an ...
(born 1970), German freestyle swimmer
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Heike Henkel
Heike Henkel (; born Heike Redetzky; 5 May 1964) is a German former athlete competing in high jump. She was Olympic, World and European champion. She won the high jump gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Biography
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(born 1964), German athlete
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Heike Hennig (born 1966), German choreographer and director
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Heike Heubach (born 1979), German politician
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Heike Kemmer (born 1962), German equestrian gold medalist
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Heike Koerner (born 1973), Mexican backstroke swimmer
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Heike Langguth (born 1979), German vice-champion in Muay Thai
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Heike Lätzsch (born 1973), German field hockey striker
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Heike Lehmann (born 1962), German volleyball
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Heike Makatsch
Heike Makatsch (; born 13 August 1971) is a German actress. She is known for her roles as Lisa Addison in ''Resident Evil'' (2002), Mia in ''Love Actually'' (2003), as Liesel's mother in ''The Book Thief'' (2013), and as Carlotta Klatt in '' Whe ...
(born 1971), German actress
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Heike Meißner (born 1970), German athlete
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Heike Popel, East German luger
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Heike Rabenow is an East German sprint canoer
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Heike Riel (born 1971), German nanotechnologies
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Heike Schulte-Mattler (born 1958), German athlete
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Heike Schwaller (born 1968), German-Swiss curler
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Heike Tischler (born 1964), German heptathlete
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Heike Warnicke (born 1966), German speed skater
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Heike Wezel (born 1968), German cross country skier
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Heike Wilms-Kegel (born 1952), German physician and politician
Masculine
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (; 21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch Experimental physics, experimental physicist. After studying in Groningen and Heidelberg, he became Professor of Experimental Physics at Leiden University, where he tau ...
(1853–1926), Dutch physicist
Surname
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Georg Heike (1933–2023), German phonetician and linguist
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Jürgen W. Heike (1949–2022), German politician
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Michiyo Heike
, (born (same reading) on April 6, 1979, married name unknown) is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter from Osaka Prefecture and raised in Nabari, Mie. She first become known after her appearance on the Japanese talent show ''Asayan'' in the late 19 ...
(born 1979), Japanese singer-songwriter
See also
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Heike (disambiguation)
{{given name, type=both
German unisex given names