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Ruth J. Williams
Ruth J. Williams is a mathematician at UC San Diego known for foundational work on reflected Brownian motion and heavy traffic limits for queueing networks, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
Ruth Jebet
Ruth Jebet (روث جيبيت), Kenyan-born Bahraini steeplechase runner, born 1996; 2016 Rio Olympic 3000m steeplechase champion, Bahrain's first Olympic gold, and 8:52.78 world record holder 2016-2018; later suspended for doping.
Ruth Johnson
Ruth Johnson is an American Republican politician representing Michigan's 24th Senate district since 2018, after serving as Michigan Secretary of State from 2011 to 2018.
Ruth Jones
Ruth Jones (Ruth Alexandra Elisabeth Jones, born 1966) is a Welsh actress, writer and producer, co-creator and star of Gavin & Stacey as Nessa, creator of Stella, MBE, and Sunday Times bestselling novelist.
Ruth Kearney
Ruth Kearney (Ruth Delia Kearney) is an Irish actress born in London, raised in Dublin, known for Jess Parker in Primeval, London in Netflix's Flaked, Daisy Locke in The Following, and Eliza Campion in Sanditon; married to Theo James.
Ruth L. Berkelman
Ruth L. Berkelman is an American infectious-disease epidemiologist and Rollins Professor Emerita at Emory University who spent two decades at the CDC, retiring as Assistant Surgeon General in 2000.
Ruth Lange
Ruth Lange (1908–1994), German shot putter and discus thrower of SC Charlottenburg; set three FSFI-ratified women's shot put world records (10.84, 11.32, 11.52 m, 1927–1928) and won the 1927 German titles in shot put and discus; sister of Hilde Benjamin.
Ruth Langsford
Ruth Langsford (born 1960, Singapore) is a British TV presenter, Loose Women anchor since 1999, former This Morning co-host with Eamonn Holmes, QVC fashion label owner, and Feeling Fabulous memoirist.
Ruth Lee
Ruth Lee (1895–1975), American stage and film actress born Ruth Margaret Lee in Minneapolis; Broadway from Apple Blossoms (1919) to Your Loving Son (1941), over 80 films including The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair; distinct from the British actress, Venezuelan performer, and artist Maia Ruth Lee.
Ruth Lehmann
Ruth Lehmann is a German-born developmental biologist known for defining how germ cells form in fruit flies, and president and director of the Whitehead Institute since 2020.
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is an annual $100,000 award given by the Poetry Foundation to a living US poet for lifetime achievement, first awarded in 1986.
Ruth Lubic
Ruth Watson Lubic, born 1927, is an American nurse-midwife who built the freestanding birth-center movement, opening the first licensed birth center in New York in 1975.
Ruth M. Gschwind
Ruth M. Gschwind is a German organic chemist and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Regensburg since 2005, known for NMR studies of asymmetric catalysis.
Ruth M. Ruprecht
Ruth M. Ruprecht is a virologist who directs the AIDS Research Program at Texas Biomed, known for pioneering AZT and primate-model studies of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
Ruth Madeley
Ruth Madeley (born 1987, Westhoughton, Bolton) is a British actress and screenwriter with spina bifida. BAFTA-nominated for Don't Take My Baby (2016), a 2016 BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, known for Years and Years, Then Barbara Met Alan, Doctor Who, and starring as Judy Heumann in Being Heumann.
Ruth Madoc
Ruth Madoc (Margaret Ruth Llewellyn Baker, 1943–2022) was a Welsh actress best known as Gladys Pugh, chief yellowcoat in the BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi! (1980–1988), with film roles in Fiddler on the Roof and Under Milk Wood.
Ruth Madoff
Ruth Madoff, née Alpern, is the widow of financier Bernard Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme was exposed in December 2008; she was never criminally charged but surrendered tens of millions in assets.
Ruth McCabe
Ruth McCabe is an Irish actress known for Mary Carr in My Left Foot (1989), Kay Curley in The Snapper, and Wyn Ryan in Silent Witness; two-time IFTA winner (2003, 2011).
Ruth McKee
Ruth McKee was an American bakery executive who co-founded McKee Foods with her husband O.D. in 1934, building it into the maker of Little Debbie snack cakes.
Ruth Moufang
Ruth Moufang (1905–1977) was a German mathematician whose 1930s work on projective planes and non-associative algebra gave her name to the Moufang plane, Moufang loop, and Moufang identities.
Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga (born 1982, Addis Ababa) is an Irish-Ethiopian actress, Oscar-nominated for Loving (2016), known for Passing, Preacher, Hamlet at the Gate Theatre, and a Tony-nominated Macbeth on Broadway.
Ruth Nussinov
Ruth Nussinov is an Israeli computational structural biologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, known for the Nussinov algorithm for RNA folding and the conformational selection model of allostery.
Ruth Orkin
Ruth Orkin (1921–1985) was an American photojournalist and filmmaker best known for her 1951 photograph American Girl in Italy and the Oscar-nominated film Little Fugitive.
Ruth Paine
Ruth Paine (Ruth Avery Hyde), American Quaker housewife of Irving, Texas, who housed Marina Oswald in 1963; her garage held Oswald's rifle, her phone call led to his Depository job, she testified to the Warren Commission, was cleared of involvement, and died at 92 in 2025.
Ruth Patrick
Ruth Patrick was an American ecologist who showed that the diatoms in a stream reveal its pollution, founding the Academy of Natural Sciences' limnology department in 1947.
Ruth Pfau
Ruth Pfau (1929–2017), German physician and Daughters of the Heart of Mary sister, called Pakistan's Mother Teresa; founded Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre Karachi in 1960 and led Pakistan's National Leprosy Control Programme, achieving WHO leprosy control in 1996.
Ruth Pointer
Ruth Pointer (Ruth Esther Pointer, born 1946, Oakland) is an American singer, eldest member of The Pointer Sisters, who joined in December 1972; sang leads on "Automatic" and "Neutron Dance"; last surviving founding member since 2022.
Ruth Porat
Ruth Porat, born 1957, is a British-born finance executive who was Morgan Stanley's CFO before serving as Google and Alphabet's CFO from 2015 to 2024, then Alphabet's president.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927–2013) was a German-born novelist and screenwriter who won the 1975 Booker Prize for Heat and Dust and two Oscars for her Merchant Ivory screenplays.
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh (1930–2015), English crime novelist also published as Barbara Vine, creator of Inspector Wexford; author of over sixty books, winner of three Edgars and the Cartier Diamond Dagger, and a Labour peer.