Helen Irene Bernhard (July 7, 1921 – April 19, 1998) was an American tennis player.

Bernhard was born in Manhattan, New York, to a Russian father and Polish mother, both war time immigrants to the United States.

[1] Only active on tour in the early 1940s, Bernhard was ranked as high as fourth in the country and made the quarter-finals or better of the U.S national championships three times.

She reached the quarter-finals for the first time in 1940 after saving match points in her round three win over Margaret Osborne, before falling to Alice Marble.

[3] Bernard, a graduate of Cornell University, married Navy officer James Whiteaker in 1945.