Helen Milligan (born Helen Scott; 25 August 1962) is a Scottish-New Zealand chess player holding the FIDE titles of Candidate Master (CM) and Woman FIDE Master (WFM), and three-time Asian senior women's champion.

Helen Milligan gained a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of St Andrews in 1989; her thesis was on the pulsation of Delta Scuti stars.

[7] Milligan became Oceania women's champion at the Queenstown Chess Classic tournament in January 2012.

[8] She also competed in Women's Zonal Chess Championships in Bath 1987, Blackpool 1990, Delden 1993, Saint Vincent 1999, and Gold Coast 2009.

[citation needed] She won the Asian senior women's champion title in 2015 in Larestan, Iran,[9] 2016 in Mandalay, Myanmar[10] and 2017 in Auckland.