The manga ran for eleven years, from 1997 up to 2008 (Wikipedia).
Out of all Hirano's series only "Hellsing" was released worldwide: in North America, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, England (Wikipedia).
Many Hellsing characters, or their prototypes, appered in Hirano's earlier works (Alexander Anderson, the Captain, Bernadotte, Integra, Yumiko/Yumie) (Wikipedia).
Hirano has admitted he drew inspiration for Alucard's appearance off of Vash the Stampede from the manga and anime series Trigun (notice the similar coat and glasses). This is most notable in Volume 1, when Alucard's art design was vastly different from the rest of the Manga (link)
"Alucard" is "Dracula" spelt backwards
Alucard was tamed by Abraham Van Hellsing. The name is taken from Bram Stoker's novel, "Dracula".
"The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame" is a line from the Ripley Scroll, a 15th centure alchemy treatise.
The physical model for Father Anderson seems to be Edward Van Sloan, the actor who played Van Hellsing in the Bela Lugosi version of the film Dracula. This includes his short thinning hair, facial structure, and small circular glasses (link).
Maxwell and Schroedinger's names probably come from the famous scientific experiments of James Clerk Maxwell and Erwin Schroedinger.
Rip Van Winle's name is taken from Washington Irving's novel.
In several scenes Rip Van Winkle is seen with an umbrella, which could be a reference to the practice of World War II German snipers to use umbrellas with camouflage foliage woven between the arms as light, adaptable and mobile personal camouflage (link)
Integra Hellsing uses Walther PPK and .455 Webley (link).
Firearm cartridge .454 Casull's caliber is 11,5 mm, not 13 (link).
Alucard's Jackal is probably a modified Gyrojet pistol (link).
During WWII Alucard uses Thompson Model 1928 (link).
Seras uses MG-42 machine guns against the Captain (link).
The Harkonnen cannon Walter equips Seras Victoria with was named for the evil Baron Harkonnen, from Frank Herbert's novel 'Dune'. This is evidenced in the manga, as the "Spirit of the Harkonnen" appears in a dream sequence as, indeed, the villain from the David Lynch movie, Dune (IMDb).
Bernadotte uses AK-74 (link).
The Wild Geese use AK-74 и CAR-15 ((link).
Heinkel Wolfe uses The Dragunov sniper rifle against Walter (link).
The Major uses Walther P38 (link).
The Captain uses modified Mauser C-96 (link).
Millennium vampires use StG 44, Panzerschrecks, Panzerfausts and MG-42 (link).
While in Brazil (vol 3) Alucard stayed is Copacabana palace (link).
The plane from chapter 31 (vol 5) is Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (link).