Hela may refer to:

Ethnography

Hela (people) Sinhalese people ( si, සිංහල ජනතාව, Sinhala Janathāva) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to the island of Sri Lanka. They were historically known as Hela people ( si, හෙළ). They constitute about 75% of t ...

, a name for the Sinhala people of Sri Lanka *

Hela (caste) The Hela are a Hindu caste found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. They are a sub-group within the larger Bhangi community of North India.People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part Two edited by A Hasan & J C Das page 603 to 605 Manohar ...

, a Hindu caste found in North India **

Hela Mehtar The Hela are a community found in the state of Rajasthan in India. They are Muslim converts from the Hindu Hela caste. Origin The Hela are a community of musicians. They claim to have come from Arabia, sometime in the distant past. The Hela ar ...

, Muslim members of this caste *

Hela language Eḷu, also Hela or Helu, is a hypothesized language Middle Indo-Aryan language or Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE. It is ancestral to the Sinhalese and Dhivehi languages. R. C. Childers, in the ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society'', states: ...

, or Elu

Fiction and mythology

Hela (Blake) Tiriel led by Hela

In the William Blake's mythology, mythological w ...

, daughter of Tiriel in a poem by William Blake * Hel (being), Queen of Hel and daughter of Loki in Norse mythology * Hela (comics), Asgardian goddess from the Marvel Universe

Places

* Hela Province, a new province being formed from 4 districts of Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea * Hela, the German name for

Hel, Poland Hel; german: Hela (; formerly ) is a seaside resort town in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, located on the tip of the Hel Peninsula, some from the Polish mainland. History Early developments The territory became ...

699 Hela 699 Hela is a Mars crossing asteroid. It was discovered on 5 June 1910 at Heidelberg by German astronomer Joseph Helffrich, and may have been named after Hel, the Norse ruler of the underworld. This asteroid is orbiting the Sun at a distance of ...

, an asteroid

Other uses

* HeLa, a line of cells derived from deceased American cancer patient Henrietta Lacks, notable for being the first immortalised cell line * SMS ''Hela'', a light cruiser of the Imperial German Navy * Ȟéla, native Lakota name of Kyrie Irving {{disambiguation, geo Language and nationality disambiguation pages