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Beth Rodden

Beth Rodden, American rock climber, Yosemite first ascensionist of Lurking Fear (FFA with Tommy Caldwell) and Meltdown 5.14c, 2000 Kyrgyzstan kidnapping survivor, author of A Light Through the Cracks.

Beth Rogan

Beth Rogan (Jennifer Puckle, 1931–2015), English actress groomed at the Rank charm school; played Elena Fairchild in Mysterious Island (1961), also Compelled (1960) and Salt and Pepper (1968).

Beth Seidenberg

Beth Seidenberg is an American physician-scientist turned venture capitalist, founding managing director of Westlake Village BioPartners and a general partner at Kleiner Perkins known for incubating biotech companies.

Beth Shapiro

Beth Shapiro is an American evolutionary biologist and paleogenomicist who is Chief Science Officer of the de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences and a professor at UC Santa Cruz.

Beth Shean stelae

The Beth Shean stelae are Egyptian victory stelae of Seti I and Ramesses II, set up at Beth Shean in the Jordan Valley in the early 13th century BCE.

Beth Shemesh

Beth Shemesh, also known as Tel Beth-Shemesh or 'Ain Shems, is an ancient Canaanite and Israelite archaeological mound in the Sorek Valley of Israel, 20 km west of Jerusalem.

Beth Shriever

Beth Shriever (Bethany Kate Shriever, born 1999, Leytonstone) is a British BMX racer, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist and three-time elite world champion (2021, 2023, 2025).

Beth Simmons

Beth Simmons is an American political scientist, the Andrea Mitchell University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for her landmark 2009 book Mobilizing for Human Rights.

Beth Simone Noveck

Beth Simone Noveck is an American scholar and government official who served as the first US Deputy Chief Technology Officer under Obama and directs The GovLab at Northeastern University.

Beth Stevens

Beth Stevens is an American neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for showing how complement proteins and microglia eliminate synapses in development and disease.

Beth Tweddle

Beth Tweddle (born 1985) is a British retired artistic gymnast who won three world titles and six European championships, taking Olympic bronze on the uneven bars at London 2012.

Beth Van Duyne

Beth Van Duyne (born 1970), Republican U.S. Representative for Texas's 24th District since 2021; first woman mayor of Irving (2011-2017), HUD Southwest regional administrator (2017-2019), Ways and Means and Small Business committee member.

Beth Wilkinson

Beth Wilkinson (born 1962) is an American trial lawyer, Princeton and UVA Law graduate, former Army and Oklahoma City bombing prosecutor, and co-founder of the trial boutique Wilkinson Stekloff, known for the NFL Sunday Ticket and Microsoft-Activision defenses.

Beth-Anath

Beth-Anath (בֵּית עֲנָת), meaning "temple of the goddess Anat", was a walled Canaanite town of Naphtali in Upper Galilee, named in Joshua, Judges, and Egyptian records; its site is unidentified.

Beth-zur

Beth-zur was an ancient fortress town in the Judean hill country, on the road between Jerusalem and Hebron, identified with Khirbet et-Tubeiqah north of Hebron.

Bethanechol

Bethanechol is a synthetic choline ester and direct-acting muscarinic agonist that increases smooth muscle tone in the bladder and gut, resistant to cholinesterase, first synthesized in 1935.

Bethanidine

Bethanidine (betanidine, B.W. 467C60, Esbatal) is a guanidinium sympatholytic antihypertensive, C10H15N3, half-life 9 hours, approved in the UK in 1963 and later discontinued; it resembled guanethidine but caused no diarrhea.

Bethanie Mattek-Sands

Bethanie Mattek-Sands, American tennis player, WTA doubles world No. 1 (January 2017), 30 doubles titles, five women's doubles Slams with Lucie Safarova, five mixed doubles titles, 2016 Rio Olympic mixed doubles gold with Jack Sock.

Bethany (ܒܝܬ ܥܢܝܐ)

Bethany (ܒܝܬ ܥܢܝܐ; Arabic al-Eizariya), village on the Mount of Olives two miles from Jerusalem, home of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, site of the raising of Lazarus and the traditional Tomb of Lazarus.

Bethany C. Meyers

Bethany C. Meyers (born 1990), also Bethany Meyers, is an American fitness entrepreneur in New York City, founder and CEO of the be.come project, author of I Am More Than My Body (2023), and spouse of actor Nico Tortorella.

Bethany College (West Virginia)

Bethany College (West Virginia): private liberal arts college in Bethany, Brooke County, founded by Alexander Campbell and chartered March 2, 1840; the oldest degree-granting institution in West Virginia, non-sectarian with Disciples of Christ ties, NCAA Division III Bison.

Bethany Hamilton

Bethany Hamilton (born 1990), American professional surfer from Kauai, Hawaii, who lost her left arm to a tiger shark in 2003, returned a month later, won the 2005 NSSA national title, and inspired Soul Surfer.

Bethany Joy Lenz

Bethany Joy Lenz (formerly Galeotti), American actress, singer-songwriter, and author born 1981 in Hollywood, Florida; best known as Haley James Scott on One Tree Hill (2003–2012), star of Hallmark movies, and author of the cult memoir Dinner for Vampires.

Bethany Mann

Bethany Mann is an American Democratic politician and environmental chemist from St. Peters, Missouri, the Democratic nominee for Missouri's 3rd Congressional District in the 2026 US House election.

Bethany Mota

Bethany Mota, also known as MacBarbie07, is an American YouTuber born in 1995 who started her beauty and fashion channel in 2009, reached about 9.5 million subscribers, launched Aéropostale clothing lines, competed on Dancing with the Stars, and later founded Atom&Matter jewelry.

Bethany Platt

Bethany Britney Platt is a fictional Coronation Street character born on screen 2000 to 13-year-old Sarah Platt; played by Lucy Fallon from 2015, known for the 2017 Nathan Curtis grooming storyline.

Bethe ansatz

The Bethe ansatz is an exact method for finding the eigenstates and energies of certain one-dimensional quantum many-body systems, introduced by Hans Bethe in 1931.

Bethe Correia

Bethe Correia, "Pitbull", Brazilian UFC women's bantamweight from Campina Grande, Paraíba; challenged Ronda Rousey at UFC 190 (2015, 34-second KO loss), retired 2021 with an 11-6-1 record.

Bethe formula

The Bethe formula, or Bethe–Bloch formula, is a physics equation for the rate, or stopping power, at which fast charged particles lose energy ionizing matter.

Bethel (בֵּית אֵל)

Bethel (בֵּית אֵל, "house of God"), also called Luz, was an ancient Israelite sanctuary town near Beitin north of Jerusalem, where Jacob dreamed, and Jeroboam I set up a rival shrine to Jerusalem.