Heller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Ágnes Heller Ágnes Heller (12 May 1929 – 19 July 2019) was a Hungarian philosopher and lecturer. She was a core member of the Budapest School philosophical forum in the 1960s and later taught political theory for 25 years at the New School for Social Res ...

(1929–2019), Hungarian philosopher *

Amalia Heller Amalia del Carmen Heller Gómez (born 13 April 1951) is a Venezuelan broadcaster, entertainer, and former beauty queen known for her participation in Miss Venezuela 1972. Biography Amalia Heller was born on 13 April 1951 in Caracas, Venezuela. S ...

(born 1951), Venezuelan television presenter and beauty pageant winner *

Amos Arthur Heller Amos Arthur Heller (March 21, 1867 – May 19, 1944) was an American botanist. Early life Heller was born in Danville, Pennsylvania, Danville, Pennsylvania. In 1892, Heller received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Franklin & Marshall College. ...

(1867–1944), American botanist *

André Heller Franz André Heller (; born 22 March 1947 as Francis Charles Georges Jean André Heller-Hueart) is an Austrian artist, author, poet, singer, songwriter and actor. Biography Heller was born in Vienna into a wealthy Jewish family of sweets manufac ...

(born 1947), Austrian artist, musician, entertainer *

André Heller (volleyball) André Heller (born 17 December 1975 in Novo Hamburgo) is a former volleyball player from Brazil. A three-time Olympian (2000, 2004 and 2008), he played as a middle-blocker. He won the gold medal with the men's national team at the 2003 FIVB Me ...

(born 1975), Brazilian volleyball player * Arnold Krumm-Heller (1876–1949), Gnostic archbishop *

Becca Heller Rebecca Heller is a lawyer specializing in human rights. She is known for her opposition to the Trump travel ban, and for her work providing legal assistance to refugees through the International Refugee Assistance Project, which she co-founded an ...

, American human rights lawyer *

Ben Heller Benjamin Heller (born August 5, 1991) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees from 2016 to 2017, and 2019 to 2020. Career H ...

, American baseball player *

Bill Heller Harold William Heller (September 3, 1935 – September 11, 2020) was an American politician and educator. Heller served as the Dean, College of Education and Director of the Wally and Louise Bishop Center for Ethical Leadership and Civic Engagem ...

(1935–2020), American politician and educator *

Bruno Heller Bruno Heller (born 13 January 1960) is an English screenwriter, producer and director. He is known for creating the HBO television series ''Rome'' and CBS television series ''The Mentalist''. He has produced the TV series '' Gotham'', based on ...

(born 1960), British television and film writer *

Camill Heller Camill Heller (26 September 1823 – 25 February 1917) was a zoologist and anatomist. Heller was born in Sobochleben ( Soběchleby) near Teplitz in Bohemia (now Teplice, part of the Czech Republic). He received a doctorate in medical studies in Vie ...

(1823–1917), Czech / Austrian zoologist *

Carlos Heller Carlos Heller (born October 17, 1940) is an Argentine executive, cooperative banking leader and politician, currently serving as member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, representing the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, since 2019. He is the ...

(born 1940), Argentine executive and politician *

Carol Heller +44 (read as Plus Forty-four) was an American rock supergroup formed in Los Angeles, California in 2005. The group consisted of vocalist and bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker of Blink-182, lead guitarist Shane Gallagher of The Nervous ...

, vocalist, guitarist: +44 (band) * Craig Heller (physiologist), physiologist and biologist at Stanford University * Craig Heller (writer), American television soap opera script writer *

Dean Heller Dean Arthur Heller (born May 10, 1960) is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator for Nevada from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 15th secretary of state of Nevada from 1995 ...

(born 1960), American Senator *

Edmund Heller Edmund Heller (May 21, 1875 – July 18, 1939) was an American zoologist. He was President of the Association of Zoos & Aquariums for two terms, from 1935-1936 and 1937-1938. Early life While at Stanford University, he collected specimens in the ...

(1875–1939), American zoologist *

Eric J. Heller Eric Johnson "Rick" Heller (born January 10, 1946) is the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University. Heller is known for his work on time-dependent quantum mechanics, and also for producin ...

(born 1946), American theoretical chemist *

Erich Heller Erich Heller (27 March 1911 – 5 November 1990) was a British essayist, known particularly for his critical studies in German-language philosophy and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Biography Heller was born at Chomutov ...

(1911–1990), European thinker and essayist * Fanya Heller (1924–2017),

Holocaust survivor Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no universally accep ...

George Heller George Heller is a Canadian businessperson. He was the president and CEO of Hudson's Bay Company from 1999 to 2006, when the company was acquired by Jerry Zucker. He continued to serve as Senior Director of the Board until late 2008. He was Presi ...

, president and CEO of Hudson's Bay Company * Guy Heller, vocalist (aka Dickie Moist): Moistboyz *

H. Robert Heller Heinz Robert Heller (born Heinz Robert Heller) was born January 8, 1940, in Cologne, Germany. He has served as a governor of the Federal Reserve System and as president of VISA U.S.A. Inc. Education After an early education in Cologne, he emig ...

, economist, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board and CEO of Visa *

Hermann Heller (legal scholar) Hermann Heller (17 July 1891 – 5 November 1933) was a German legal scholar and philosopher of Jewish descent. He was active in the non- Marxist wing of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic. He attempted t ...

(1891–1933), German philosopher * Hermann Heller (Swiss politician) (1850–1917) *

Isaac Heller Isaac "Ike" Heller (July 23, 1926 – March 7, 2015) was an American toy manufacturer, the co-founder of Remco, with his cousin Saul Robbins. Personal life Isaac Heller was born on July 23, 1926, in Ellenville, New York, the son of Russian Jewis ...

(1926–2015), American toy manufacturer, co-founder of Remco *

Jean Heller Jean Heller is an American writer and former investigative journalist. She is best known for publishing the news of the Tuskegee syphilis study in 1972, and reporting that the claims by the United States of an Iraqi buildup on the Saudi Arabian bo ...

, American journalist and writer * Jehiel Heller (1814–1861), Imperial Russian rabbi *

Jerry Heller Gerald Elliot Heller (October 6, 1940 – September 2, 2016) was an American music manager and businessman. He was best known for his management of West Coast rap and gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A and Eazy-E. He rose to prominence in the 1960s a ...

, music manager *

John R. Heller Jr. Dr. John Roderick 'Rod' Heller (born February 27, 1905, Fair Play, S.C., died May 4, 1989, Bethesda, Md., age 84), was the head in 1943–1948 of what was then called the "Venereal Disease" section of the United States Public Health Service (PHS ...

, head of the U.S. National Cancer Institute in 1948-1960 * Josef Heller, Czechoslovakian luger *

Joseph Heller Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel ''Catch-22'', a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for ...

(1923–1999), author of ''Catch-22'' *

Joseph Heller (historian) Joseph Heller, transcribed also as Yosef Heller ( he, יוסף הלר) (born January 6, 1937, Tel Aviv) is an Israeli historian. He is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Published works *''The Birth of Israel, 1945–1949 ...

(born 1937), Israeli historian * Joseph Heller (zoologist) (born 1941), Israeli zoologist * Karl Bartholomaeus Heller (1824–1880), Austrian botanist and naturalist *

Karl Borromaeus Maria Josef Heller Karl Borromaeus Maria Josef Heller (21 March 1864, Rappoltenkirchen, Tulln (district) – 25 December 1945, Dresden), was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He was a Professor and Section leader in the Staatliches Museum für T ...

(1864–1945), Austrian entomologist *

László Heller Heller László (1907–1980) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian professor and mechanical engineer credited with inventing the Heller–Forgó cooling system for power stations. Biography Born in Nagyvárad, Heller took a degree in mechanical e ...

(1907–1980), Hungarian inventor *

Lisa Heller Lisa Heller (born April 16, 2000) is an American singer and songwriter from Simsbury, Connecticut. She achieved global recognition after the release of her song "Hope" along with its video, which after premiering on ''Twist'' Magazine trended f ...

(born 1996), singer and songwriter *

Lukas Heller Lukas Heller (21 July 1930 – 2 November 1988) was a German-born screenwriter. Biography Heller was born to a Jewish family in Kiel. His father was political philosopher Hermann Heller. He was known for writing the screen adaptions for several ...

(1930–1988), screenwriter * Marcel Heller (born 1986), German footballer * Max Heller (1919–2011), Austrian refugee, American businessman, South Carolina politician *

Maximilian Heller Maximilian Heller (January 31, 1860 – March 30, 1929) was a Czech-born American rabbi. Life Heller was born on January 31, 1860, in Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire, the son of well-to-do wool merchant Simon Heller and Mathilde Kassowitz. He c ...

(1860–1929), Czech-American rabbi * Maxwell Elias Heller, American drag queen known as Miz Cracker * Mervin Heller Jr., president, United States Tennis Association *

Meshullam Feivush Heller Reb Meshullam Feivush Heller of Zbarazh (c. 1742– 12 December 1794) was the author of several Hasidic ''sefarim'' including the Yosher Divrei Emes. Biography Rabbi Meshullam Feivush was born to a rabbinic family. His father Harav Aharon Moshe ...

(1740s–1794), Hasidic author *

Michael Heller (law professor) Michael A. Heller is a Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School. He concentrates on property law. Heller coined the term ''"tragedy of the anticommons"'' while working as a law professor at University of Michigan Law School in a 1998 ' ...

, law professor *

Michał Heller Michał Kazimierz Heller (born 12 March 1936 in Tarnów) is a Polish professor of philosophy at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland, and an adjunct member of the Vatican Observatory staff. He also serves as a lecture ...

, scientist and priest *

(born 1936), Polish philosopher *

Pete Heller Pete Heller is an English electronic and house music producer from Brighton, England. Biography He is recognised in the dance community for his solo work, and his remixes with frequent collaborator Terry Farley. As a duo, they have rel ...

, English electronic and house music producer *

Rick Heller Rick Heller is an American baseball coach and former shortstop, who is the current head baseball coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes. Heller played college baseball at Upper Iowa for head coach Bill Prochaska from 1982 to 1986. He then served as the head ...

, American baseball coach *

Robert Heller Robert Heller, also Joseph Heller, (born William Henry Palmer; 1826–1878) was an English magician, mentalist, and musician. The year of his birth is the subject of some speculation; some sources list it as 1829 while others claim 1830. ...

(1826–1878), British magician *

Robert Heller (journalist) Robert Heller (10 June 1932 – 28 August 2012) was a British management journalist, management consultant, author of a series of management books, and the founding editor of ''Management Today''. Biography Born in London, Heller attended Chri ...

(1923–2010), British management journalist, consultant and author *

Seligmann Heller Seligmann Heller was an Austrian poet and journalist; born at Raudnitz, Bohemia, July 8, 1831; died in Vienna January 8, 1890. After completing his course at the University of Vienna, where he studied philology and law, he engaged in business wit ...

(1831–1890), Jewish Bohemian-Austrian poet and journalist * Stanislav Heller (1924–2000), Czech harpsichordist *

Stephen Heller Stephen Heller (15 May 1813 – 14 January 1888) was a Hungarian pianist, teacher, and composer whose career spanned the period from Schumann to Bizet. Heller was an influence for later Romantic composers. He outlived his reputation, and was a ...

(1813–1888), Hungarian pianist, composer *

Steven Heller (design writer) Steven Heller (born July 7, 1950) is an American art director, journalist, critic, author, and editor who specializes in topics related to graphic design. Biography Steven Heller was born July 7, 1950, in New York City to Bernice and Milton H ...

(born 1950), American art director and journalist * Steven Heller (music producer) (born 1949), American music composer and producer *

Tziporah Heller Tziporah Heller Gottlieb is an American-born Haredi educator, author, and speaker based in Jerusalem. She is a senior faculty member at the Neve Yerushalayim College for Women, principal of the Bnos Avigail seminary on the Neve campus, and a lectur ...

, Jewish studies educator, author, and speaker * Walter E. Heller (1891–1969), financier *

Will Heller Will Sanders Heller (born February 28, 1981) is a former American football tight end He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2003. He played college football at Georgia Tech. Heller has also played for the Miami ...

(born 1981), American football player *

Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller Rabbi Gershon Shaul Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller (c. 157919 August 1654), was a Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist, best known for writing a commentary on the Mishnah called the ''Tosefet Yom-Tov'' (1614–1617). Heller was one of the major ...

(1579–1654), rabbi * Yosef Heller, American Jewish Orthodox rabbi *

Zoë Heller Zoë Kate Hinde Heller (born 7 July 1965) is an English journalist and novelist long resident in New York City. She has published three novels, ''Everything You Know'' (1999), ''Notes on a Scandal'' (2003), and ''The Believers'' (2008). ''Notes o ...

(born 1965), English journalist and novelist

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