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Rebecca Brown
Rebecca Kate Brown (born 1977, Brisbane) is an Australian breaststroke swimmer who set the 200 m breaststroke world record (2:24.76, 1994), won the 2000 short-course world title, and placed 14th at Sydney 2000; distinct from other athletes named Rebecca Brown.
Rebecca Budig
Rebecca Budig is an American actress known for playing Greenlee Smythe on All My Children and Dr. Taylor Hayes on The Bold and the Beautiful.
Rebecca C. Fitzgerald
Rebecca C. Fitzgerald is a British clinician scientist and Professor of Cancer Prevention at the University of Cambridge, known for the Cytosponge test and the BEST3 trial for Barrett's esophagus.
Rebecca Cairns-Wicks
Rebecca Cairns-Wicks, Saint Helenian conservation scientist and politician, Chief Minister of St Helena since 10 September 2025, elected unanimously by Legislative Council; former Coordinator of the St Helena Research Institute and endemic-flora conservationist.
Rebecca Callard
Rebecca Callard (Rebecca Jayne Callard, born Rebecca Jayne Atkinson, 1975) is an English actress and writer, daughter of Beverley Callard; known for Detectorists, Fearless, Ordinary Lies, The Borrowers, and writing Breeders and A Bit of Light.
Rebecca Chartrand
Rebecca Chartrand is a Canadian politician, elected in 2025 as MP for Churchill-Keewatinook Aski and as Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs, and the first First Nations woman from Manitoba in Cabinet.
Rebecca Cooke (politician)
Rebecca Cooke is an American politician from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who ran three times for the U.S. House, losing the 2024 election to Derrick Van Orden before winning the 2026 nomination.
Rebecca De Mornay
Rebecca De Mornay (born Rebecca Jane Pearch, 1959), American actress of Risky Business (1983) and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992); also a TV producer-director with later roles in Jessica Jones and 2024 films.
Rebecca Dodder
Rebecca Dodder is an American systems scientist at the EPA, a 2013 PECASE recipient who is Associate National Program Director for its Air, Climate, and Energy research program.
Rebecca F. Grais
Rebecca F. Grais is an epidemiologist who has led the Pasteur Network since 2022; at Epicentre, MSF's research arm, she ran vaccine trials in Niger, including a rotavirus vaccine study.
Rebecca Ferguson
Rebecca Ferguson (Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström, born 1983, Stockholm) is a Swedish actress known for Lady Jessica in Dune, Ilsa Faust in Mission: Impossible, and Juliette Nichols in Silo; distinct from the British X Factor singer of the same name.
Rebecca Ferguson (singer)
Rebecca Caroline Ferguson, Liverpool-born English soul, jazz and pop singer-songwriter (born 1986), X Factor 2010 runner-up behind Matt Cardle; albums Heaven, Freedom, Lady Sings the Blues, Superwoman, Heaven Part II; MBE 2024.
Rebecca Front
Rebecca Front (born 1964, London) is an English actor and writer, BAFTA winner 2010 for playing Nicola Murray in The Thick of It; also The Day Today, Nighty Night, Grandma's House, Lewis, Avenue 5, and author of Curious.
Rebecca G. Ebinger
Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger, born 1975, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Iowa since 2016, appointed by President Obama.
Rebecca G. Jennings
Rebecca G. Jennings, also known as Rebecca Grady Jennings, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Kentucky since 2018, appointed by President Donald J. Trump.
Rebecca Gayheart
Rebecca Gayheart (born 1971, Hazard, Kentucky) is an American actress and model, the 1990s Noxzema girl, known for Urban Legend, Jawbreaker, Beverly Hills 90210, marriage to Eric Dane, and her 2026 Jawbreaker musical return.
Rebecca Gibney
Rebecca Gibney (Rebecca Catherine Gibney), New Zealand-born actress in Australian TV: Emma Plimpton in The Flying Doctors, Jane Halifax in Halifax f.p., Julie Rafter in Packed to the Rafters; Gold Logie 2009, Logies Hall of Fame 2024.
Rebecca Godfrey
Rebecca Margot Godfrey (1967-2022), Canadian novelist and journalist, author of The Torn Skirt and the award-winning true-crime work Under the Bridge on the Reena Virk case; her final novel Peggy was completed posthumously by Leslie Jamison.
Rebecca Guerin
Rebecca J. Guerin is an American research social scientist at NIOSH, part of the CDC, known for the 2020 NIOSH Future of Work perspective and translation research.
Rebecca H. Buckley
Rebecca Hatcher Buckley is an American immunologist and pediatrician at Duke University who developed the treatment that made SCID, once universally fatal, curable, and whose name is attached to hyper-IgE syndrome.
Rebecca Hall
Rebecca Hall (born 1982, London) is a British-American actress, director, and writer, daughter of Peter Hall and Maria Ewing; known for Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Town, and her Sundance debut Passing (2021).
Rebecca Harris
Rebecca Harris is a British Conservative politician, MP for Castle Point since 2010, who became Opposition Chief Whip in November 2024 after serving as Comptroller of HM Household.
Rebecca Hazelton
Rebecca Hazelton, also publishing fiction as Rebecca Stafford, is an American poet and YA novelist, author of Fair Copy, Vow, Gloss, and Generic Husband, a Pushcart Prize winner teaching at North Central College.
Rebecca Heald
Rebecca Heald is an American cell biologist at UC Berkeley who studies how the mitotic spindle forms and scales, using Xenopus frog egg extracts; she joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Rebecca Heineman
Rebecca Heineman, nicknamed "Burger Becky", was an American video game programmer who became the first US video game champion in 1980 and co-founded Interplay Productions in 1983.
Rebecca Herbst
Rebecca Herbst, also known as Becky Herbst, is an American actress best known for originating Elizabeth Webber on ABC's General Hospital in 1997, earning three Daytime Emmy nominations.
Rebecca Howe
Rebecca Howe is the fictional manager of the Cheers bar in seasons 6–11 (1987–1993) of NBC's sitcom Cheers, played by Kirstie Alley; Alley won the 1991 Emmy and a Golden Globe for the role.
Rebecca Jarvis
Rebecca Jarvis (born 1981) is ABC News' chief business, technology and economics correspondent, creator and host of The Dropout podcast about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, host of No Limits, and executive producer of the Hulu Dropout miniseries.
Rebecca Johnston
Rebecca Johnston (born 1989, Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian retired ice hockey forward, three-time Olympic gold medallist (2010, 2014, 2022) and three-time world champion who retired from Canada's National Women's Team in September 2025.
Rebecca Kaden
Rebecca Kaden is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, the New York venture capital firm, and its first female partner, having joined in 2017 from Maveron.