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Rachael Ostovich

Rachael Ostovich (born 1991, Honolulu) is an American women's flyweight MMA fighter, The Ultimate Fighter 26 cast member, 4-6 pro record, 1-3 in UFC, later BKFC.

Rachael Price

Rachael Price (born 1985, Australia) is an American jazz-trained singer, lead vocalist of Lake Street Dive and half of the duo Rachael & Vilray; known for the 2012 viral "I Want You Back" video and Nonesuch albums.

Rachael Ray

Rachael Ray (b. 1968), American TV cook and author of 30 Minute Meals and $40 a Day, hosted the syndicated Rachael Ray show 2006-2023, founded Yum-o! and Free Food Studios, coined EVOO.

Rachael Rollins

Rachael Rollins, Suffolk County DA 2019-2022 and first Black woman U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts (2022-2023), known for her 15-crime declination list and her May 2023 resignation after DOJ Inspector General and Hatch Act findings.

Rachael Stirling

Rachael Stirling (Rachael Atlanta Stirling), English actress born 1977, daughter of Diana Rigg; star of Tipping the Velvet, two-time Olivier nominee, and Broadway Giant cast member.

Rachael Taylor

Rachael Taylor (Rachael May Taylor, born 1984) is an Australian actress from Launceston, Tasmania, known for Transformers (2007) and as Trish Walker in Marvel's Jessica Jones; distinct from the casting-department, designer, and rugby-coach namesakes.

Rachanun Mahawan

Rachanun Mahawan (รชานันท์ มหาวรรณ์), nicknamed Film, Thai GMMTV actress born 2000; rose from 2gether's Earn to GL lead May in Pluto, winning the 2025 Seoul International Drama Awards' Outstanding Asian Star, and stars in Girl Rules (2026).

Racharikam

Racharikam (రాచరికం) is a 2025 Telugu political action drama directed by Suresh Lankalapalli, starring Vijay Shankar, Apsara Rani, and Varun Sandesh, set in 1980s Rachakonda; released 31 January 2025, CBFC A certificate, streamed on Lionsgate Play from 11 April 2025.

Rachathirat

Rachathirat is a Thai prose chronicle-novel about the Mon king Rachathirat, translated from Mon documents by Chao Phraya Phra Khlang under King Rama I in 1785.

Rachel (רחל)

Rachel (רחל, also Rakhel or Rochel) is the biblical matriarch, Jacob's beloved second wife, mother of Joseph and Benjamin, and intercessor for exiles in Jewish tradition.

Rachel A. McKendry

Rachel A. McKendry is a British nanotechnologist at University College London known for developing quantum biosensors and rapid diagnostics for infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.

Rachel A. Segalman

Rachel A. Segalman is an American polymer chemist and chemical engineer, Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Santa Barbara since 2025, known for block copolymer self-assembly and polymer thermoelectrics.

Rachel Ames

Rachel Ames (Rachel Kay Foulger, born November 2, 1929) is an American actress who played Audrey Hardy on ABC's General Hospital from 1964 to 2007, with returns in 2009, 2013, and 2015, and earned three Daytime Emmy nominations.

Rachel and Jun

Rachel and Jun, YouTube channel of married couple Rachel and Junichi Yoshizuki, started 2012 as MyHusbandisJapanese; Nagoya-based Japan-explainer vloggers with about 2.45 million subscribers and Jun's Kitchen side channel.

Rachel Armstrong

Rachel Armstrong is a British applied scientist and sustainability innovator who works on living architecture, and is ZAP Professor of Regenerative Architecture at KU Leuven in Belgium.

Rachel Baker

Rachel Baker is an American Democratic politician and nurse researcher serving her first term in the Ohio House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 27th district in Hamilton County and Cincinnati.

Rachel Bay Jones

Rachel Bay Jones (born 1969, New York City) is an American stage actress and singer, raised in Boca Raton, Florida. Best known as Heidi Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen, winning the 2017 Tony and 2018 Grammy; also Catherine in the Pippin revival and Marianne in Here We Are.

Rachel Berry

Rachel Berry is the fictional show-choir star of Fox's Glee (2009-2015), played by Lea Michele across all six seasons. Ambitious Broadway dreamer at McKinley High, later NYADA student, Funny Girl's Fanny Brice, and finale Tony winner.

Rachel Bilson

Rachel Bilson (born 1981) is an American actress known as Summer Roberts on The O.C. and Dr. Zoe Hart on Hart of Dixie, with films Jumper and The To Do List and the podcasts Broad Ideas and Welcome to the OC.

Rachel Blanchard

Rachel Louise Blanchard (born 1976, Toronto) is a Canadian actress known as Cher in the Clueless TV series, Nancy in Peep Show, Kitty Nygaard in Fargo, and Susannah in The Summer I Turned Pretty.

Rachel Bloom

Rachel Bloom (born 1987) is an American actress, comedian, and songwriter, co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, winner of a 2016 Golden Globe and 2019 Emmy, author of I Want To Be Where The Normal People Are, and 2026 Broadway debutant in The Imaginary Invalid.

Rachel Bluwstein

Rachel Bluwstein (Hebrew: רחל בלובשטיין), known as Rachel the Poetess, was a Russian-born Hebrew poet (1890–1931), the first major woman poet in Hebrew, whose lyrics appear on Israel's 20-shekel banknote.

Rachel Bolan

Rachel Bolan (born 1966) is an American bassist, songwriter, and Skid Row co-founder; co-wrote '18 And Life' and fronted Prunella Scales before his 2026 solo debut Gargoyle of the Garden State as BOLAN.

Rachel Bootsma

Rachel Kristine Bootsma, American backstroke swimmer born 1993 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota; 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100m medley relay, three-time NCAA 100-yard backstroke champion for Cal, and 2013 American record holder in the 50m backstroke.

Rachel Boston

Rachel Boston (Rachel Elizabeth Boston, born 1982) is an American actress and producer from Signal Mountain, Tennessee, known for Beth Mason on American Dreams, Ingrid Beauchamp on Witches of East End, award-winning lead in The Pill, and numerous Hallmark television movies.

Rachel Brosnahan

Rachel Brosnahan, American actress born 1990 in Milwaukee, known as Midge Maisel in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Emmy 2018, two Golden Globes), Rachel Posner in House of Cards, and Lois Lane in Superman (2025).

Rachel Buehler

Rachel Buehler, also Rachel Buehler Van Hollebeke, American soccer defender, two-time Olympic gold medalist (2008, 2012) with the USWNT, 113 caps, 2011 World Cup silver, later a physician.

Rachel Campos-Duffy

Rachel Campos-Duffy, American TV host and commentator, co-hosts Fox & Friends Weekend and hosts Fox Noticias; former MTV Real World: San Francisco star, wife of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, mother of nine, and Fox News Books author.

Rachel Carson

Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964), American marine biologist and author of Silent Spring (1962), whose critique of pesticides especially DDT led to the 1972 DDT ban, the EPA, and the modern environmental movement.

Rachel Corrie

Rachel Aliene Corrie (1979–2003) was an American peace activist from Olympia, Washington, crushed by an Israeli military bulldozer in Rafah, Gaza, while protecting a Palestinian home from demolition.