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Rachel Covey
Rachel Covey (Rae Covey), born 1998, American playwright and composer, former child actress who played Morgan Philip in Enchanted (2007), Kate in Duane Hopwood, and cameoed in Disenchanted (2022).
Rachel Crow
Rachel Crow (born 1998, Mead, Colorado) is an American singer and actress who placed fifth on The X Factor US season 1, signed with Nickelodeon and Columbia/Syco in 2012, released the EP Rachel Crow with "Mean Girls," and voiced Carla in Rio 2 and Tip in Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh.
Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk (born 1967, Saskatoon) is a Canadian-born British novelist and memoirist, author of the Outline trilogy, Second Place, Parade, and Life of M, known for autofiction that dismantles character.
Rachel Daly
Rachel Daly (born 1991, Harrogate) is an English footballer, Aston Villa forward and captain, EURO 2022 winner with 84 England caps and 16 goals, 2022/23 WSL Golden Boot winner with 22 goals in 22 games.
Rachel Dawes
Rachel Dawes is a fictional character in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, Bruce Wayne's childhood friend and a Gotham assistant district attorney, original to the films. Played by Katie Holmes, then Maggie Gyllenhaal; killed by the Joker in The Dark Knight.
Rachel de Queiroz
Rachel de Queiroz (1910–2003) was a Brazilian novelist and journalist from Fortaleza, Ceará, whose debut novel O Quinze (1930) made her a national figure at twenty.
Rachel DeLoache Williams
Rachel DeLoache Williams, American writer and former Vanity Fair photo editor from Knoxville, Tennessee; author of My Friend Anna (2019) about Anna Sorokin, whom she helped police arrest in 2017 after a $62,000 Marrakech trip.
Rachel Dolezal
Rachel Dolezal, later Nkechi Diallo, is an American activist who led the Spokane NAACP chapter until June 2015, when her parents said she was white; she resigned and said she identifies as black.
Rachel Dratch
Rachel Dratch (born 1966, Lexington, MA) is an American comedian and actress, Dartmouth '88, Second City alumna, and SNL cast member 1999–2006 who created Debbie Downer, later nominated for Tonys for POTUS and The Rocky Horror Show.
Rachel Dretzin
Rachel Dretzin, American documentary filmmaker and founding partner of Ark Media in Brooklyn, longtime FRONTLINE producer (Growing Up Online, Digital Nation), director of Far From the Tree and Netflix's Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey.
Rachel E. Klevit
Rachel E. Klevit is an American structural biochemist at the University of Washington, known for NMR studies of zinc fingers and ubiquitin ligases and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is an American poet, visual artist, and novelist based in New York City, the author of five poetry collections and the 2023 debut novel Promise.
Rachel Elnaugh
Rachel Elnaugh is a British entrepreneur who founded the gift-experience company Red Letter Days in 1989, aged 24, and was an original Dragons' Den investor.
Rachel Entrekin
Rachel Entrekin (born 1991) is an American ultramarathon runner and physical therapist from Madison, Alabama, and the only three-time winner of the Cocodona 250, which she won outright in 2026.
Rachel Fattal
Rachel Fattal is an American water polo attacker who won Olympic gold medals at the 2016 and 2020 Games and was MVP of the 2015 World Championship.
Rachel Feinstein (comedian)
Rachel Feinstein, American stand-up comedian and actress; Last Comic Standing Season 7 finalist, Thug Tears (2011), Only Whores Wear Purple (2016), Netflix debut Big Guy (2024); frequent Amy Schumer collaborator.
Rachel Fetty Anderson
Rachel Fetty Anderson is an American politician and public interest attorney who served on the Morgantown City Council from 2017 to 2021 and is the 2026 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in West Virginia.
Rachel Freier
Rachel "Ruchie" Freier, Brooklyn-born Hasidic lawyer and judge; first Hasidic woman elected to US public office (NYC Civil Court, 2016, 40.7% primary); founder of Ezras Nashim all-female ambulance corps and B'Derech; elected NY Supreme Court justice 2023.
Rachel Getting Married
Rachel Getting Married is a 2008 Jonathan Demme comedy-drama, written by Jenny Lumet, in which Anne Hathaway's Kym leaves rehab for sister Rachel's (Rosemarie DeWitt) Connecticut wedding, reopening family wounds; shot handheld on HD, it earned Hathaway her first Oscar nomination.
Rachel Gillig
Rachel Gillig (born 1989), American gothic romantasy author; #1 NYT and Sunday Times bestselling writer of the Shepherd King duology (One Dark Window, Two Twisted Crowns) and the Stonewater Kingdom series (The Knight and the Moth), published by Orbit.
Rachel Goldberg-Polin
Rachel Goldberg-Polin, American-Israeli educator and activist, mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, taken October 7, 2023 from the Nova festival and murdered in Gaza in August 2024; TIME100 2024, Lantos Prize 2025, memoir When We See You Again.
Rachel Goswell
Rachel Goswell (born 1971) is an English singer and guitarist, founding member of shoegaze band Slowdive, later Mojave 3, with a 2004 solo album Waves Are Universal and the project Minor Victories.
Rachel Grage
Rachel Grage is an American politician and Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Florida's 5th Congressional District in 2026, having previously run for the Florida House in 2024.
Rachel Green
Rachel Green (also Rachel Greene), fictional character on NBC sitcom Friends (1994-2004), played by Jennifer Aniston; a runaway bride in the pilot who becomes an independent fashion professional, famous for the Rachel haircut.
Rachel Green (American molecular biologist)
Rachel Green is an American molecular biologist and HHMI Investigator at Johns Hopkins known for work on translation termination, ribosome rescue, and ribosome profiling methods.
Rachel Griffith
Rachel Griffith is a British economist at the University of Manchester and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, known for research on sugar taxes and food policy.
Rachel Griffiths
Rachel Griffiths (b. 1968, Melbourne) is an Australian actress, not the poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths or the economist Rachel Griffith; known for Muriel's Wedding, Hilary and Jackie, Six Feet Under, and directing Ride Like a Girl.
Rachel Gupta
Rachel Gupta (born 2004, Punjab, India) is an Indian model who won Miss Super Talent of the World 2022 and became the first Indian Miss Grand International 2024 winner before resigning the title in May 2025.
Rachel Harlow
Rachel Harlow (Rachel Billebault, born Richard Finocchio, 1948) is an American transgender pageant queen, model, and actress who won the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant in The Queen (1968), starred in A Safe Place (1971), and ran Philadelphia's Harlow's nightclub; not the Vanderpump Rules reality contestant.
Rachel Held Evans
Rachel Held Evans (1981–2019) was an American author and blogger from Dayton, Tennessee, whose New York Times bestsellers chronicled her journey from evangelicalism to the Episcopal Church.