Rachel (disambiguation)

Rachel is the second wife of Jacob in the Old Testament.

Rachel may also refer to:

People

• Rachel (given name), a female name (including a list of people and characters with the name)
• Rachel, wife of Rabbi Akiva, a 1st-century CE resident of Judea who is mentioned in the Talmud and Aggadah

Media and entertainment

Films

• Rachel (film) (2009), a 2009 documentary about the death of Rachel Corrie
• Rachel, Rachel (1968), a 1968 film starring Joanne Woodward and directed by Paul Newman

Literature

• Rachel (play), 1916 play by Angelina Weld Grimké
• Rachel (Animorphs), a character from the Animorphs book series by K. A. Applegate
• Rachel (story), a short story by Erskine Caldwell, included in We Are the Living (1933)
• My Cousin Rachel (1951), a novel by Daphne du Maurier
• Rachel, in the novel Moby-Dick (Chapter 128) a whaling vessel that solicits Captain Ahab's aid in finding the lost son of the Rachel's captain; Ahab refuses. In the last lines, the Rachel rescues Ishmael.

Music

• "Rachel" (song), a song by Australian singer Russell Morris
• Rachel's, an American post-rock group

Other media and entertainment

• Rachel Green (e), a fictional character on Friends
• Rachel, the lead soprano role in the 1835 opera La Juive

Places in the United States

• Rachel, Nevada, a census-designated place
• Rachel, West Virginia, a census-designated place

Other uses

• Rachel (Gerber), an outdoor bronze sculpture of a piggy bank, Seattle, Washington, U.S.
• Rachel (sandwich), a type of sandwich
• Rachel (sculpture), a 1540s sculpture by Michelangelo
• Rachel Alexandra (foaled 2006), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Rachel haircut, a haircut based on the Friends character Rachel Green
• SS Rachel or SS Empire Cabot, a cargo ship
• RACHEL, Software for Raspberry Pi computer (Remote Area Community Hotspot for Education and Learning)
• Student Initiative Rahel, a former initiative in Germany for funding an educational project in Ethiopia

See also

• Rachal (disambiguation)