Helmut

Helmut is a German masculine given name. Variants include Hellmut, Helmuth, and Hellmuth.¹ 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:

• Hellmut Diwald (1924–1993), German historian
• Hellmut Hattler (born 1952), German musician
• Hellmut von Gerlach (1866–1935), German journalist
• Helmut Angula (born 1945), Namibian politician
• Helmut Ashley (1919–2021), Austrian director and cinematographer
• Helmut Bakaitis (born 1944), Australian director and actor
• Helmut Berger (1944–2023), Austrian actor
• Helmut Cacau (born 1981), German-Brazilian football player, nicknamed Helmut
• Helmut Dantine (1917–1982), Austrian actor
• Helmut Deutsch (born 1945), Austrian classical pianist
• Helmut Ditsch (born 1962), Argentine painter
• Helmut Donner (born 1941), Austrian high jumper
• Helmut Duckadam (1959–2024), Romanian footballer
• Helmut Fischer (1926–1997), German actor
• Helmut Goebbels (1935–1945), only son of Joseph Goebbels
• Helmut Graeb, German electrical engineer
• Helmut Griem (1932–2004), German actor
• Helmut Gröttrup (1916–1981), German rocket scientist
• Helmut Haller (1939–2012), German football player
• Helmut Hasse (1898–1979), German mathematician
• Helmut Haussmann (born 1943), German academic and politician
• Helmut Hirsch (1916–1937) German student executed for opposing the Nazi government
• Helmut Holzapfel (tenor) (born 1941), South African tenor
• Helmut Holzapfel (urban planner) (born 1950), German academic
• Helmut Jahn (1940–2021), German-born American architect
• Helmut Kiderlen (1905–1995), German geologist
• Helmut Kohl (1930–2017), German statesman
• Helmut Koinigg (1948–1974), Austrian racing driver
• Helmut Köllen (1950–1977), German musician
• Helmut Krieger (born 1958), Polish shot putter
• Helmut Lachenmann (born 1935), German composer
• Helmut Landsberg (1906–1985), German scientist
• Helmut Lang (artist) (born 1956), German fashion designer
• Helmut Lemke (1907–1990), German politician
• Helmut Lotti (born 1969), Belgian singer

• Helmut Marko (born 1943), Austrian racing driver
• Helmut Newton (1920–2004), German-born Australian photographer
• Helmut Norpoth (born 1943), German-born political scientist
• Helmut Oberlander (1924–2021), Ukrainian former Canadian who was a member of the Einsatzgruppen death squads of Nazi Germany in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II
• Helmut Rahn (1929–2003), German football player
• Helmut Rohde (1925–2016), German politician
• Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984), German sociologist
• Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015), German politician, chancellor
• Helmut Schoeck (1922–1993), Austrian sociologist
• Helmut Schön (1915–1996), German football player and manager
• Helmut Sick (1910–1991), Brazilian ornithologist
• Helmut Sonnenfeldt (1926–2012), American foreign policy expert
• Helmut Vetter (1910–1949), German Nazi SS officer at Auschwitz concentration camp executed for war crimes
• Helmut Walcha (1907–1991), German organist
• Helmut Zahn (1916–2004), German chemist
• Helmut Zilk (1927–2008), Austrian politician

• Baron Helmut Schnitzelnazi, from the comedy skit Key & Peele
• Baron Helmut Zemo, fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
• Helmut Grokenberger, fictional character in the 1991 film Night on Earth
• Helmut Heindenburg, fictional character in 1996 Colombian telenovela Guajira
• Helmut Kruger, fictional fashion model in the video game Hitman (2016)
• Helmut Spargle, a character from Futurama
• Helmut, fictional character in the video game Road Rash
• Iron Cross (Helmut Gruler), fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe