Helen Miller (30 June 1925 – 2 February 2006) was an American songwriter. She collaborated with several lyricists, notably Howard Greenfield in the early 1960s, and with him wrote several pop hits, including "Foolish Little Girl" by The Shirelles, and "It Hurts To Be In Love" by Gene Pitney.
She started as a songwriter in New York City in the late 1940s, working in particular with lyricist and poet Fay Manus. She had some success at that time, but following her marriage to Irving Miller she left the music business for several years and brought up three children.
In 1961, she met Don Kirshner of Aldon Music, and restarted work as a songwriter in the Brill Building, working mainly on pop songs for a teenage audience. Around the same time, she also managed a doo-wop group, The Quotations, and won them a recording contract with Verve Records. At Aldon Music, she collaborated with Howard Greenfield - who was over ten years her junior - and they co-wrote a number of chart hits, including "Foolish Little Girl" by The Shirelles and "Charms" by Bobby Vee, both in 1963. The pair wrote "It Hurts To Be In Love" and recorded it with Neil Sedaka, but his record company, RCA, refused to release it as it had not been recorded in their own studios. Greenfield and Miller then had Gene Pitney record new vocals over the original backing track; the record was issued on Pitney's Musicor label, and became a top ten hit in 1964.