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Ruth Riley
Ruth Riley (Ruth Ellen Riley, Ruth Riley Hunter), born 1979 in Ransom, Kansas, is an American retired 6-5 center: 2001 NCAA champion and MOP at Notre Dame, 2003 WNBA Finals MVP with two Detroit Shock titles, 2004 Olympic gold medalist, later San Antonio Stars GM.
Ruth Rivera Marín
Ruth Rivera Marín, also known as Ruth María Rivera Marín, was a Mexican architect and educator, daughter of Diego Rivera, who helped complete the Museo Anahuacalli and led INBAL's architecture department.
Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy
Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy (1908–1993) was a British concert pianist and lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother, and the maternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Ruth Roman
Ruth Roman (Norma Roman, 1922-1999), American film and TV actress of Boston's West End; star of Champion and Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), Andrea Doria survivor, Warner Bros contract player.
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries is an environmental geographer at Columbia University who uses satellite imagery to study tropical land-use change, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Ruth S. Hanft
Ruth S. Hanft was an American health economist who served as an HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary under President Carter and taught at George Washington University.
Ruth S. Nussenzweig
Ruth S. Nussenzweig, born Ruth Sonntag, was an Austrian-born Brazilian-American immunologist at NYU whose 1967 finding that irradiated sporozoites protect mice against malaria opened the field of malaria vaccine research.
Ruth Sager
Ruth Sager (1918–1997) was an American geneticist who established non-nuclear cytoplasmic inheritance in the alga Chlamydomonas, then pioneered cancer genetics and discovered the tumor suppressor maspin.
Ruth Sahanaya
Ruth Sahanaya is an Indonesian pop, R&B, and gospel singer born in Bandung in 1966, known for "Kaulah Segalanya" and the supergroup 3 Diva with Titi DJ and Krisdayanti.
Ruth Sanger
Ruth Sanger (1918–2001) was an Australian-born British hematologist who co-authored Blood Groups in Man, the standard blood group reference, and directed the MRC Blood Group Unit from 1973 to 1983.
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Ruth Schwartz Cowan is an American historian of science, technology, and medicine, best known for More Work for Mother (1983), which argued that household technology did not reduce housework.
Ruth Sheen
Ruth Sheen (born 1952, London) is an English character actress trained at East 15, known for six Mike Leigh films from High Hopes to Mr. Turner, Bramwell, C.B. Strike, and The Thursday Murder Club (2025).
Ruth Snyder
Ruth Brown Snyder (1895-1928), Queens Village housewife, murdered her husband Albert with lover Judd Gray in March 1927 for double-indemnity insurance; her Sing Sing electrocution was secretly photographed by Tom Howard for the Daily News.
Ruth St. Denis
Ruth St. Denis (Ruth Dennis, 1879–1968), American modern dance pioneer and Denishawn co-founder with Ted Shawn; creator of Radha (1906), teacher of Graham, Humphrey, and Weidman.
Ruth Steward
Ruth Steward (1944–2025) was a Swiss-born molecular biologist, a professor at Rutgers's Waksman Institute from 1994, known for her work on the Dorsal protein and stem cells.
Ruth T Yu
Ruth T. Yu is a molecular biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies who has studied how nuclear receptors control fat metabolism, endurance, and pancreatic cancer since 1995.
Ruth Westheimer
Ruth Westheimer (Karola Ruth Siegel), 'Dr. Ruth', German-American sex therapist, Holocaust survivor, Haganah veteran, and author whose 1980 radio show Sexually Speaking normalized public sex talk in America; died 2024.
Ruth Williams Khama
Ruth Williams Khama, Lady Khama (1923-2002), English clerk whose 1948 marriage to Seretse Khama, heir to the Bangwato chieftaincy, caused a Commonwealth crisis and exile, and who later served as first lady of Botswana.
Ruth Wilson
Ruth Wilson (born 1982) is a British actress known for Jane Eyre, Luther's Alice Morgan, The Affair (2015 Golden Globe), Mrs Coulter in His Dark Materials, and Olivier-winning stage roles including Anna Christie and Hedda Gabler.
Ruth's Chris Steak House
Ruth's Chris Steak House, founded by Ruth Fertel in New Orleans in 1965, is an upscale steakhouse chain known for 1,800-degree-broiled USDA Prime steaks served sizzling in butter on 500-degree plates, franchised from 1976 and acquired by Darden Restaurants in 2023 for $715 million.
Ruthenate
Ruthenates are oxide compounds containing ruthenium, oxygen, and one or more other elements, a family spanning the Mott insulator Ca₂RuO₄, the superconducting Sr₂RuO₄, and catalytically active pyrochlores.
Ruthenia
Ruthenia is a Latinized form of Rus' used for East Slavic lands; it named Habsburg-era Ukrainians (Ruthenians) and, after 1918, Czechoslovakia's Carpathian Ruthenia, home of the Rusyns.
Ruthenian Baroque literature
Ruthenian Baroque literature is the Baroque-style writing of the Ruthenians, the Eastern Slavic Orthodox and Uniate population of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from roughly 1580 to the early eighteenth century.
Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church, also called the Rusyn Byzantine Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic church of the Byzantine rite in communion with Rome.
Ruthenian language
Ruthenian language (ruska mova, руська мова) is the historical East Slavic written language of the 14th–16th centuries, official chancery language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, precursor of Belarusian and Ukrainian, and a former name for Ukrainian in Galicia.
Ruthenian nobility
Ruthenian nobility (ruska shliakhta, Polish szlachta ruska) was the noble estate of East Slavic origin in Lithuania, Poland, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century.
Ruthenian Triad
The Ruthenian Triad (Руська трійця) was a Galician literary group of three students at the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv who launched modern Ukrainian literature in the 1830s.
Ruthenian Voivodeship
The Ruthenian Voivodeship (Polish: województwo ruskie) was a province of the Kingdom of Poland and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, existing from 1434 to 1772 with its capital at Lviv.
Ruthenians
Ruthenians (Latin Rutheni, Ukrainian rusyny): historical name for East Slavs, later the Habsburg-era West Ukrainians, now the Carpathian Rusyns; 4.2 million in 1910, Greek Catholic, largely renamed Ukrainians after 1900.
Ruthenium
Ruthenium (Ru) is a hard, silvery transition metal, atomic number 44, and one of the six platinum-group metals, used mainly in chip resistors, electrical contacts, and catalysts.