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Ruth Chepngetich
Ruth Chepngetich (Chepng'etich), Kenyan marathoner born 1994 in West Pokot; 2019 world marathon champion, Chicago winner 2021, 2022, 2024, and women's marathon world record holder at 2:09:56; banned three years for HCTZ in 2025.
Ruth Chiquet‐Ehrismann
Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann (1954–2015) was a Swiss biochemist and cell biologist who discovered tenascin-C and led a research group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel.
Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young
Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young (1882–1954) was an American novelist, poet, and playwright of Los Gatos, California, best known for Of Human Kindness (1940), her answer to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
Ruth Connell
Ruth Connell (born 1979, Falkirk, Scotland) is a Scottish actress and producer, best known as Rowena MacLeod, the Queen of Hell, on CW's Supernatural (2014–2020), and as the Night Nurse in Dead Boy Detectives; also the voice of Disney's Merida.
Ruth Davidson
Ruth Davidson, Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links, Scottish Conservative leader 2011-2019, MSP for Glasgow then Edinburgh Central, revived the Scottish Tories, won 13 MPs in 2017, resigned over Brexit, later a peer.
Ruth De Jong
Ruth De Jong, American production designer born in San Bernardino, California; trained under Jack Fisk on There Will Be Blood; designed Manchester by the Sea, Twin Peaks (Emmy nomination), Us, Nope, and Nolan's Oppenheimer (Oscar and BAFTA nominations), and The Odyssey (2026).
Ruth Duckworth
Ruth Duckworth, born Ruth Windmüller, was a German-born modernist sculptor known for abstract, organic ceramics. She fled Nazi Germany in 1936 and settled in Chicago.
Ruth E. Benesch
Ruth E. Benesch, also known as Ruth Benesch, was an American biochemist at Columbia University who, with her husband and co-author, showed in 1967 that DPG regulates hemoglobin's oxygen release.
Ruth E. Langley
Ruth E. Langley, also published as Ruth Langley, is a medical oncologist and Professor of Oncology and Clinical Trials at UCL in London, known for the PATCH, STAMPEDE, QUARTZ, and FOCUS trials.
Ruth E. Ley
Ruth E. Ley, also published as Ruth Ley, is an American microbial ecologist who directs the Department of Microbiome Science at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen.
Ruth Elizabeth Becker
Ruth Elizabeth Becker (1899-1990), later Blanchard, American second-class Titanic survivor, born in Guntur, India; rescued in Lifeboat 13 after her family boarded Lifeboat 11; teacher who became a public Titanic witness and died in Santa Barbara.
Ruth Ellis
Ruth Ellis, British nightclub hostess born 1926 in Rhyl, Wales; last woman executed in Great Britain, hanged at Holloway Prison 13 July 1955 for murdering David Blakely; granted a posthumous conditional pardon by King Charles in 2026.
Ruth Enid Zambrana
Ruth Enid Zambrana is an American medical and community sociologist at the University of Maryland, College Park, known for research on structural racism, Latino health, and minority faculty working conditions.
Ruth Etting
Ruth Etting (1896-1978), "America's Sweetheart of Song," American torch singer and actress of the 1920s-30s; over 60 hits including "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me"; Ziegfeld Follies star; life filmed with Doris Day in 1955.
Ruth Faden
Ruth Faden is an American bioethicist who founded and directed the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics from 1995 to 2016, and chaired the 1994 national advisory committee on human radiation experiments.
Ruth Fertel
Ruth Fertel (1927–2002) was an American restaurateur who mortgaged her home in 1965 to buy a New Orleans steakhouse and built it into Ruth's Chris Steak House.
Ruth First
Ruth First (Ruth Heloise First, 1925 to 1982) was a South African journalist, author, and anti-apartheid activist, assassinated in Maputo, Mozambique, by a parcel bomb planted by the South African police.
Ruth Fuchs
Ruth Fuchs (Gamm, Hellmann) was a German javelin thrower for East Germany, winning Olympic gold medals in 1972 and 1976, and later serving as a German parliamentarian.
Ruth Gemmell
Ruth Gemmell (Ruth Katrin Gemmell, born 1967) is a British actress trained at Webber Douglas, best known as Lady Violet Bridgerton in Netflix's Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte, and as Sarah Hughes in the 1997 film Fever Pitch opposite Colin Firth.
Ruth Geyer Shaw
Ruth Geyer Shaw is an American evolutionary geneticist and University of Minnesota professor who studies adaptation in wild prairie plants, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Ruth Gilbert (clinical epidemiologist)
Ruth Gilbert is a British clinical epidemiologist and professor at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health who studies children's health using linked administrative data.
Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon (Ruth Gordon Jones, 1896–1985) was an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter, Oscar winner for Rosemary's Baby, co-writer of Adam's Rib with Garson Kanin, and star of Harold and Maude, distinct from the Welsh singer Ruth Gordon and the Canadian Ruth Gorman.
Ruth Graham
Ruth Graham, also known as Ruth Bell Graham, was an American poet and author who was married to evangelist Billy Graham for 63 years and shaped his ministry.
Ruth Graves Wakefield
Ruth Graves Wakefield (1903-1977), American dietitian and chef, created the Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie at her Whitman, Massachusetts inn; her 1938 recipe and 1939 Nestlé deal, traded for one dollar and lifetime chocolate, popularized the chocolate chip cookie.
Ruth Handler
Ruth Handler, also known as Ruth Mosko, was an American businesswoman who co-founded the toy company Mattel and created the Barbie doll, launched in 1959.
Ruth Harrison
Ruth Harrison (1920–2000), British animal welfare campaigner and Quaker, wrote Animal Machines (1964), which exposed factory farming, prompted the Brambell Committee, the 1968 Agriculture Act, and the Five Freedoms framework.
Ruth Hubbard
Ruth Hubbard, born Ruth Hoffmann, was an Austrian-born American biochemist at Harvard who established the photochemistry of vision and in 1974 became Harvard biology's first tenured woman.
Ruth Hussey
Ruth Hussey (1911-2005), American actress, Oscar-nominated as Liz Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story (1940), star of The Uninvited and Broadway's State of the Union, MGM contract player 1937-1942.
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos is a Belgian human geneticist who studies the genetics of obesity, and is a professor at the University of Copenhagen and Mount Sinai in New York.
Ruth J. Muschel
Ruth J. Muschel, also known as Ruth Muschel, is a cancer researcher known for a 2000 study showing lung metastasis begins inside blood vessels, and an Emeritus Professor at Oxford.