Rachel (first name)
Rachel [ ˈraː.ɛl ] (Hebrew Rachel רחל) [ ra: 'χe: l ], French Racquel , Spanish and Portuguese Raquel , is a female given name . It comes from Hebrew and roughly means ewe . One variant is Rachael .
Rahel , Laban's daughter and Jacob 's favorite wife , has an ambivalent role as a mother within the Jewish religion, as she dies giving birth to her son Ben-Oni ( son of misfortune ), whom Jacob immediately after the birth in son of happiness , i.e. Ben -Jamin , renamed (Genesis 35: 16-19).
Name bearers
Rachel / Rachel
- Rachel (1890–1931), pseudonym of Rachel Bluwstein, Hebrew poet
- Rachael Adams (* 1990), American volleyball player
- Rachel Ashley (* 1964), former porn actress
- Rachel Bancouly (* 1983), Ivorian soccer player
- Rachel Bilson (born 1981), American actress
- Rachel Bloom (* 1987), American actress
- Rachel Emily Bragg (* 1984), British volleyball player
- Rachael Carpani (born 1980), Australian actress
- Rachel Carson (1907–1964), American biologist and environmental activist
- Rachel Corrie (1979–2003), American human rights activist
- Rachel Dolezal (* 1977), American cultural scientist and civil rights activist
- Elizabeth-Rachel Félix (1821–1858), 19th century French actress
- Rachel Field (1894–1942), American writer
- Rahel Frey (* 1986), Swiss car racing driver
- Rahel Graf (* 1989), Swiss football player
- Rachel Griffiths (born 1968), Australian actress
- Rahel Hirsch (1870–1953), German doctor and professor
- Rachel Howard (* 1977), New Zealand soccer player
- Rachel Hunter (* 1969), New Zealand model and actress
- Rachel Hurd-Wood (* 1990), also known as Rachel Wood, British actress
- Rahel Hutmacher (* 1944), Swiss writer
- Rahel Jaeggi (* 1967), German philosopher
- Rahel Johanna Jankowski (* 1988), German actress
- Rachel Keller (* 1992), American actress
- Rachel Komisarz (* 1976), American swimmer
- Rahel Kopp (* 1994), Swiss ski racer
- Rahel la Fermosa (around 1165–1195), mistress of King Alfonso VIII of Castile
- Rachael Leigh Cook (born 1979), American actress
- Rachel McAdams (born 1978), Canadian actress
- Rahel Meyer (1806–1874), German writer
- Rachel Dennie Nichols (* 1992), Filipino national soccer player
- Rachel Nichols (born 1980), American actress
- Rahel Ohm (* 1962), German actress
- Rachel Podger (* 1968), British violinist
- Rachel Portman (* 1960), British composer and Oscar winner
- Rachel Rinast (* 1991), German-Swiss soccer player
- Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750), Dutch painter
- Rahel Sanzara (1894–1936), German dancer, actress and writer
- Rachel Scott (1981–1999), young victim of the Columbine massacre and cult figure in the American Bible belt
- Rahel Senn (* 1986), Swiss-Singaporean pianist, composer, musical writer and writer
- Rachel Stevens (* 1978), British pop singer
- Rahel Straus (1880–1963), German doctor
- Rachel Sutton (* 1998), British jazz singer and actress
- Rachel Trevor-Morgan (before 1975), British milliner
- Rahel Varnhagen von Ense (1771–1833), German writer
- Rachel Ward (* 1957), British-Australian film actress, director and screenwriter
- Rachel Weisz (born 1970), British actress
- Rachel Wood (born 1990), British actress
Racquel
- Racquel Darrian (* 1968), American model and porn actress
- Racquel Sheath (* 1994), New Zealand cyclist
- Racquel Vasquez (* 1969 or 1970), American politician, mayor of Lemon Grove
Raquel
- Raquel Atawo ( Raquel Kops-Jones ; * 1982), American tennis player
- Raquel Cassidy (born 1968), British actress
- Raquel Castro (* 1994), American actress
- Raquel Devine (* 1967), American porn actress and radio host
- Raquel Galdes (* 1996), Maltese singer
- Raquel Miller (* 1985), American boxer
- Raquel J. Palacio , American publisher, writer, and book cover designer
- Raquel Rastenni (1915–1998), Danish pop singer
- Raquel Reed (* 1988), American singer, model and make-up artist
- Raquel Revuelta (1925-2004), Cuban actress
- Raquel Rodríguez (* 1993), Costa Rican soccer player
- Raquel Sánchez-Silva (* 1973), Spanish journalist and television presenter
- Raquel Tavares (* 1985), Portuguese fado singer
- Raquel Welch (born 1940), American actress
- Raquel Zimmermann (* 1983), Brazilian top model
Fictional character
- My cousin Rachel , 1951 novel by Daphne du Maurier
- Rachel Green from the American cult series Friends