Helgi Hirv was an Estonian graphic artist and book illustrator. She studied at the Pallas Higher Art School from 1943, and after the end of the Second World War and the liquidation of Pallas by the Soviet authorities, she completed her studies at the Tartu State Art Institute in 1951. Her teacher there was Ado Vabbe, a former Pallas student.
Helgi Hirv is the mother of the poet Indrek Hirv, and was the partner of the artist Louis Pavel.