Helmut is a German name. Variants include Hellmut,
Helmuth, and
Hellmuth.
From
old German, the first element deriving from either ''heil'' ("healthy") or ''hiltja'' ("battle"), and the second from ''muot'' ("spirit, mind, mood").
Helmut may refer to:
People
A–L
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Helmut Angula (born 1945), Namibian politician
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Helmut Ashley (1919–2021), Austrian director and cinematographer
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Helmut Bakaitis (born 1944), Australian director and actor
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Helmut Berger (born 1944), Austrian actor
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Helmut Dantine (1917–1982), Austrian actor
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Helmut Deutsch
Helmut Erich Deutsch (born 24 December 1945) is an Austrian classical pianist, specialising in chamber music and lieder accompaniment.
Deutsch was born in Vienna, where he studied piano, composition and musicology at the Vienna Music Academy fro ...
(born 1945), Austrian classical pianist
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Helmut Ditsch (born 1962), Argentine painter
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Hellmut Diwald (1924–1993), German historian
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Helmut Donner (born 1941), Austrian high jumper
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Helmut Fischer (1926–1997), German actor
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Hellmut von Gerlach (1866–1935), German journalist
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Helmut Goebbels (1935–1945), only son of Joseph Goebbels
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Helmut Griem (1932–2004), German actor
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Helmut Gröttrup (1916–1981), German rocket scientist
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Helmut Haller (1939–2012), German football player
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Helmut Hasse (1898–1979), German mathematician
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Hellmut Hattler (born 1952), German musician
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Helmut Haussmann (born 1943), German academic and politician
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Helmut Hirsch (born 1916) German student executed for opposing the Nazi government
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Helmut Jahn (1940–2021), German-born American architect
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Helmut Kohl
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (; 3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longes ...
(1930–2017), German politician
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Helmut Köllen (1950–1977), German musician
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Helmut Krieger (born 1958), Polish shot putter
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Helmut Lachenmann (born 1935), German composer
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Helmut Landsberg (1906–1985), German scientist
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Helmut Lang (artist) (born 1956), German fashion designer
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Helmut Lemke (1907–1990), German politician
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Helmut Lotti (born 1969), Belgian singer
M–Z
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Helmut Marko (born 1943), Austrian racing driver
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Helmut Newton (1920–2004), German-born Australian photographer
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Helmut Norpoth
Helmut Norpoth (born 1943) is an American political scientist and professor of political science at Stony Brook University. Norpoth is best known for developing the Primary Model to predict US presidential elections.
Education and career
Norpoth ...
(born 1943), German-born political scientist
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Helmut Oberlander (born 1924), Ukrainian former Canadian who was a member of the Einsatzgruppen death squads of Nazi Germany in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II
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Helmut Rahn (1929–2003), German football player
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Helmut Rohde (1925-2016), German politician
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Helmut Schelsky
Helmut Schelsky (14 October 1912 – 24 February 1984), was a German sociologist, the most influential in post-World War II Germany, well into the 1970s.
Biography
Schelsky was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. He turned to social philosophy and eve ...
(1912–1984), German sociologist
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Helmut Schmidt
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; 23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.
Before becoming C ...
(1918–2015), German politician, chancellor
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Helmut Schoeck (1922–1993), Austrian sociologist
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Helmut Schön (1915–1996), German football player and manager
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Helmut Sick (1910–1991), Brazilian ornithologist
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Helmut Sonnenfeldt (1926–2012), American foreign policy expert
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Helmut Vetter
Helmuth Vetter (21 March 1910 in Rastenberg – 2 February 1949) was an ''Schutzstaffel, SS-Hauptsturmführer'' and a Nazism, Nazi war criminal.
Vetter was a doctor at the Auschwitz extermination camp, appointed chief doctor by ''Reichsführer-SS ...
(1910–1949), German Nazi SS officer at Auschwitz concentration camp executed for war crimes
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Helmut Walcha (1907–1991), German organist
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Helmut Zahn (1916–2004), German chemist
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Helmut Zilk (1927–2008), Austrian politician
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Cacau (born 1981), German-Brazilian football player, nicknamed ''Helmut''
Fictional characters
*Helmut Grokenberger, fictional character in the 1991 film ''
Night on Earth''
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Iron Cross (Helmut Gruler), fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
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Baron Helmut Zemo
Helmut Zemo is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly as an adversary of the superhero Captain America and the Avengers. He is the son of Baron Heinrich Zemo and the thirteenth Baron Zem ...
, fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
*Helmut Heindenburg, fictional character in 1996 Colombian telenovela ''
Guajira''
*Helmut, fictional character in the video game ''
Road Rash''
*Helmut Kruger, fictional fashion model in the video game
''Hitman'' (2016)
*Baron Helmut Schnitzelnazi, from the comedy skit ''
Key & Peele''
*Helmut Spargle, a character from
Futurama
See also
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Hellmuth
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Helmuth
References
{{given name
German masculine given names