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Rosella Gallo

Rosella Gallo is an Italian dermatologist specializing in allergological dermatology and patch testing, who led the Allergology Outpatient Clinic in Genoa from 1995 to 2022.

Roselle (plant)

Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa, karkade, red sorrel, Florida cranberry) is a Malvaceae shrub grown for its red calyces used in tea, jam, and coloring; major producers China, Sudan, Thailand; lowers blood pressure in trials.

Roselyn Sánchez

Roselyn Sánchez (Roselyn Milagros Sánchez Rodríguez, born 1973) is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, and producer known for Without a Trace, Devious Maids, Fantasy Island, Rush Hour 2, and the album Borinqueña.

Roseman Covered Bridge

Roseman Covered Bridge is a historic 1883 timber covered bridge over the Middle River near Winterset, Iowa, one of six surviving covered bridges in Madison County.

Rosemarie Bowe

Rosemarie Bowe (Rose Marie Bowe, later Rosemarie Bowe Stack; 1932–2019), American model and 1950s actress from Butte, Montana; films include The Golden Mistress, The Adventures of Hajji Baba, The Big Bluff; wife of actor Robert Stack; not the actress Rose Marie.

Rosemarie DeWitt

Rosemarie DeWitt, American actress born in Flushing, Queens (sources differ: 1971 or 1974), known for Rachel Getting Married, Mad Men's Midge, United States of Tara, granddaughter of boxer Jimmy Braddock, wife of Ron Livingston.

Rosemarie Kother-Gabriel

Rosemarie Kother-Gabriel (born 1956), also Rosemarie Gabriel, East German butterfly swimmer; 1973 and 1975 world 200 m butterfly champion, 1976 Olympic bronze medalist, five world records, Hall of Fame 1986.

Rosemary

Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus, formerly Rosmarinus officinalis) is an aromatic evergreen shrub of the mint family native to the Mediterranean, grown worldwide as a culinary herb and source of essential oil.

Rosemary (wrestler)

Rosemary is the ring name of Holly Letkeman, a Canadian professional wrestler from Winnipeg who performs for TNA as the Demon Assassin and is a former Knockouts Champion.

Rosemary & Thyme

Rosemary & Thyme is a British ITV cozy mystery series (2003–2007, 22 episodes, 3 series) starring Felicity Kendal as plant biologist Rosemary Boxer and Pam Ferris as ex-police officer Laura Thyme, gardening partners who solve murders.

Rosemary A. Stevens

Rosemary A. Stevens, born in England in 1935, is a British-born American historian of medicine and health policy, a National Academy of Medicine member and Penn professor emerita.

Rosemary Beach, Florida

Rosemary Beach is a 107-acre New Urbanist beach community founded in 1995 in unincorporated Walton County, Florida, on Scenic Highway 30A, planned by DPZ with Caribbean-influenced architecture, a governing Code, and residents-only beach access.

Rosemary Brown (Pennsylvania politician)

Rosemary Brown is an American politician and Republican member of the Pennsylvania Senate representing the 40th district in northeastern Pennsylvania, known for legislation regulating large-scale data center development.

Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Clooney (1928–2002), American singer and actress from Maysville, Kentucky; hit "Come On-a My House" (1951), star of White Christmas (1954), later Concord jazz songbook career, 8 Grammy nominations, aunt of George Clooney.

Rosemary D. Higgins

Rosemary D. Higgins is an American neonatologist and perinatal researcher who has been Associate Vice President for Research at Florida Gulf Coast University since 2022.

Rosemary DeCamp

Rosemary DeCamp (November 14, 1910 – February 20, 2001) was an American radio, film, and television actress from Prescott, Arizona, known for mother roles in Yankee Doodle Dandy, On Moonlight Bay, The Bob Cummings Show, and That Girl.

Rosemary Grant

Rosemary Grant, born 1936, is a British evolutionary biologist at Princeton known for decades of research on Darwin's finches in the Galápagos with her husband Peter.

Rosemary Harris

Rosemary Ann Harris (born 1927), English stage and screen actress; Aunt May in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, Tony winner for The Lion in Winter (1966), Emmy 1976, Golden Globe 1979, Oscar nominee for Tom & Viv.

Rosemary J. Akhurst

Rosemary J. Akhurst is a cancer biologist and Professor In Residence at UCSF whose work showed TGFβ both suppresses and promotes tumors, informing Novartis and Pfizer trials.

Rosemary Kennedy

Rosemary Kennedy (Rose Marie Kennedy, 1918–2005), eldest Kennedy daughter and sister of JFK, was lobotomized in 1941 at her father's arrangement, spent 57 years institutionalized in Wisconsin, and inspired the Special Olympics.

Rosemary M. Collyer

Rosemary M. Collyer (1945-2026), D.C. federal district judge (2002-2020), FISC presiding judge 2016-2019, first woman NLRB General Counsel and first woman chair of Crowell & Moring.

Rosemary Márquez

Rosemary Márquez (born 1968) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Arizona since 2014, nominated by President Barack Obama.

Rosemary Payne

Rosemary Payne (Christine Rosemary Payne, née Charters, later Chrimes; born 19 May 1933, Kelso, Scotland) is a Scottish discus thrower, 1970 Commonwealth Games gold and 1974 silver medallist, 1972 Olympian, British record holder 1964-1977, and record-setting masters athlete; not the physiotherapist author of Payne's Relaxation Techniques.

Rosemary Popa

Rosemary Popa is an Australian rower, born in 1991 in Victoria, who won gold in the women's coxless four at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and retired in 2022.

Rosemary Pratt, Marchioness Camden

Rosemary Pratt, Marchioness Camden (Cecil Rosemary Pawle, 1921–2004), British socialite and artist, first wife of Group Captain Peter Townsend, later third wife of the 5th Marquess Camden.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

Rosemary Radford Ruether, also known as Rosemary Ruether, was an American Catholic feminist theologian whose Sexism and God-Talk (1983) is described as the first systematic theology based on women's experience.

Rosemary Shrager

Rosemary Shrager (born 1951) is a self-taught British chef, cookery teacher, and TV personality of Ladette to Lady, I'm a Celebrity 2012, and The Big Family Cooking Showdown, who ran cookery schools at Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, Swinton Park, and Tunbridge Wells.

Rosemary Squire

Rosemary Squire is a British theater executive who co-founded the Ambassador Theatre Group with Sir Howard Panter in 1992, building it into the world's largest live theater business before launching Trafalgar Entertainment.

Rosemary Stirling

Rosemary Stirling is a Scottish middle-distance runner, born in 1947 in New Zealand, who won 800 meters gold at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, the first Scottish woman to win track gold there.

Rosemary Tambouret

Rosemary Tambouret is a cytopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, known for her work on cervical glandular lesions and screening in low-resource settings.