All articles starting with R
22,461 articles
Rebecca Kassay
Rebecca Kassay is an American politician and Democratic member of the New York State Assembly from the 4th district in Suffolk County, taking office in January 2025.
Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, also known as Rebecca Kramer, is an engineer working in soft robotics, known for robotic skins and adaptive morphogenesis robots, who received the 2024 Waterman Award.
Rebecca L. Pennell
Rebecca L. Pennell, also known as Rebecca Louise Pennell, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Eastern Washington since 2024.
Rebecca L. Taibleson
Rebecca Liane Taibleson is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals since 2025, nominated by President Donald Trump.
Rebecca Lancefield
Rebecca Lancefield was an American bacteriologist at Rockefeller University who created the Lancefield classification of streptococci into lettered groups, identified the M protein, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1970.
Rebecca Latimer Felton
Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930), Georgia writer, reformer, and white supremacist, was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, appointed in 1922 and serving about 24 hours.
Rebecca Liebert
Rebecca Liebert is an American chemical engineer and executive who has led specialty chemicals maker Lubrizol, a Berkshire Hathaway company, as CEO since October 2022.
Rebecca Lobo
Rebecca Lobo (Rebecca Rose Lobo-Rushin), born 1973, American basketball Hall of Famer: led UConn to the 1995 undefeated NCAA title, won 1996 Olympic gold, was an original WNBA New York Liberty player, and is ESPN's lead women's basketball analyst.
Rebecca Long-Bailey
Rebecca Long-Bailey, British Labour MP for Salford (formerly Salford and Eccles since 2015), former shadow business and education secretary, and runner-up with 27.6% in the 2020 Labour leadership election won by Keir Starmer; sat as Independent July 2024 to February 2025.
Rebecca Loos
Rebecca Loos, David Beckham's former personal assistant during his Real Madrid years, alleged a 2004 affair he denied; she sold the story for about £350,000, briefly presented Dutch TV, and now teaches yoga in Norway.
Rebecca Lowe
Rebecca Lowe, British sports broadcaster from Ealing, London; NBC Sports' lead Premier League studio host since 2013 and daytime host for seven consecutive Olympics; hosted Fox's 2026 World Cup and Netflix's 2027 Women's World Cup.
Rebecca Lynn
Rebecca Lynn is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Canvas Ventures in 2013 and, in 2025, launched the solo-GP firm Canvas Prime in Portola Valley, California.
Rebecca M. Voorhees
Rebecca M. Voorhees, also known as Rebecca Maria Voorhees, is an American structural biologist and professor at Caltech who studies protein synthesis, targeting, and quality control.
Rebecca Mader
Rebecca Leigh Mader (born 1977, Cambridge, England) is an English actress known as Dr. Charlotte Lewis on Lost and Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West, on Once Upon a Time, with film roles in The Devil Wears Prada and Iron Man 3.
Rebecca Miller
Rebecca Miller (born 1962), American filmmaker and author, daughter of Arthur Miller and Inge Morath, wife of Daniel Day-Lewis; director of Angela, Personal Velocity, Maggie's Plan, She Came to Me, and the docuseries Mr. Scorsese.
Rebecca More
Rebecca More is a British adult film performer and model best known as one half of the Cock Destroyers, a viral duo with Sophie Anderson.
Rebecca Musser
Rebecca Musser (Rebecca Wall), former FLDS member and 19th wife of Rulon Jeffs, testified over 20 times against Warren Jeffs, aided the YFZ Ranch evidence work, and wrote The Witness Wore Red (2013).
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse (1621–1692), Rebecca Towne Nurse, a respected 71-year-old Salem Village farm wife and sister of Mary Easty and Sarah Cloyce, hanged for witchcraft on July 19, 1692 after a reversed not-guilty verdict, exonerated in 1711, with her Danvers, Massachusetts homestead preserved as a museum.
Rebecca Paul (Conservative politician)
Rebecca Paul is a British Conservative politician, MP for Reigate since 2024, appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in August 2026.
Rebecca Perry
Rebecca Perry (born 1986, London) is a British poet and novelist, author of Beauty/Beauty and Stone Fruit and the debut novel May We Feed the King (2026), which won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize.
Rebecca Pidgeon
Rebecca Pidgeon is a British-American actress and singer-songwriter known for the films The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, State and Main, and RED, and for a dozen albums.
Rebecca Quick
Rebecca (Becky) Quick (born 1972, Indiana) is an American financial journalist, co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box since 2001, former Wall Street Journal reporter who helped launch WSJ Online, Fortune columnist, and creator of CNBC Cures.
Rebecca R. Pallmeyer
Rebecca R. Pallmeyer is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, appointed by President Clinton in 1998.
Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum
Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum is an American bioengineer at Rice University who develops low-cost medical technologies for low-resource settings, including neonatal devices for Africa, and received a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship.
Rebecca Rigg
Rebecca Rigg (Rebecca Jane Rigg, born 1967) is an Australian actress, not to be confused with Diana Rigg. Child star of Fatty Finn (1980); later roles in Jerry Maguire, Farscape, The Mentalist, and Fair Game; married to Simon Baker 1998 to 2020 separation.
Rebecca Rittenhouse
Rebecca Rittenhouse (Rebecca Rittenhouse Meaders), American actress born 1988 in Los Angeles; known for Dr. Anna Ziev on The Mindy Project, Cody LeFever on Blood & Oil, Maggie, and Lexy Jones in Netflix's His & Hers; also founder of Privet Beauty.
Rebecca Romero
Rebecca Romero, born in 1980, is a British former athlete who won Olympic silver in rowing at Athens 2004 and track cycling gold at Beijing 2008.
Rebecca Romijn
Rebecca Romijn (Rebecca Alie Romijn), American actress and former model born 1972 in Berkeley, California; Mystique in the X-Men films, Alexis Meade on Ugly Betty, and Number One in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; married Jerry O'Connell after divorcing John Stamos.
Rebecca Root
Rebecca Root (born 1969, Woking, Surrey) is an English actress, comedian, and voice coach, star of BBC Two's Boy Meets Girl, the first British TV comedy to cast a trans actor in a trans lead role; also The Danish Girl, The Queen's Gambit, and Big Finish's Doctor Who: Stranded.
Rebecca Ross
Rebecca Ross, American fantasy author of Divine Rivals, Ruthless Vows, Wild Reverence, and the Elements of Cadence duology; #1 NYT bestselling romantasy writer, UGA English graduate, Goodreads Choice winner 2023 and 2024.