Helsing (surname)
Helsing or Hellsing is a Swedish surname referring to the Swedish province (landskap) Hälsingland.[1] Someone from Hälsingland is called a "Hälsinge", with the old (from the 17th to the 18th century) spelling that is "Helsing" or "Hellsing" (from Helsingland/Helsingeland). Notable people with the surname include:
- Anna-Maria Helsing (born 1971), Finnish-Swedish conductor
- Elisabet Helsing (1940–2019), Norwegian nutritional physiologist
- Johnny Helsing (born 1955), Swedish weightlifter
- Lennart Hellsing (1919–2015), Swedish writer and translator
- Tullik Helsing (1918–1994), Norwegian sports diver
Fictional characters
- Abraham Van Helsing, vampire hunter in Dracula-fiction
- Stan Helsing, Canadian-American horror comedy film and its protagonist
See also
- All pages with titles containing Helsing
- Van Helsing (disambiguation)
References
- ^ Helsing Surname Meaning, citing Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022