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    Ruth Lorenzo

    Age 29 Female
    Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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    Ruth Lorenzo) is a Spanish singer notable for coming fifth in the fifth series of the British TV talent show The X Factor in 2008. Lorenzo's debut Single "Burn" entered the Spanish Singles Charts at number 16 when she released the single on the 27th of June 2011 in Spain. Lorenzo will Release the single in the UK on the 7th of August 2011.read more

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    Ruth Jones

    Age 45 Female
    Actress, Script-writer, Producer
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    Ruth Wilson

    Age 30 Female
    Actor
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    Ruth Wilson is a BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated English actress, perhaps best known for her performance in the title role of Jane Eyre and the character of Alice Morgan in the BBC TV psychological crime drama Luther.read more

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    Ruth Buzzi

    Age 75 Female
    Actress, Comedienne
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    Ruth Ann Buzzi is an American comedienne and actress of theatre, film, and television. She is especially known for her performances on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973.read more

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    Ruth Kelly

    Age 44 Female
    Politician and Cabinet Minister
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    Ruth Maria Kelly is a British Labour Party politician of Irish descent who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West from 1997 until she stood down in 2010. Previously, she served as the Secretary of State for Transport, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Minister for Women and Equality and Secretary of State for Education and Skills, serving under both Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. She is currently an economist working for HSBC.read more

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    Ruth Laredo

    1937 - 2005 Female
    Us-american Classical Pianist

    Ruth Laredo was an American classical pianist. She became known in the 1970s in particular for her premiere recordings of the 10 sonatas of Scriabin and the complete solo piano works of Rachmaninoff, for her Ravel recordings and in the last 16½ years before her death for her series in the Metropolitan Museum of Art “Concerts with Commentary”. She was often referred to as “America's First Lady of the Piano”.read more

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    Ruth Brown

    1928 - 2006 Female
    Singer
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    Ruth Brown was an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, composer and actress also known as "Queen of R&B" noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean".read more

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    Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    1933 - 4712 BC Female
    U.S. Supreme Court Justice

    Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice and the first Jewish female justice. She is generally viewed as belonging to the liberal wing of the Court. Ginsburg spent a considerable portion of her career as an advocate for the equal citizenship status of women and men as a constitutional principle.read more

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    Ruth Ellis

    1926 - 1955 Female
    Model

    Ruth Ellis, née Neilson, was the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom. She was convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely, and hanged at Holloway Prison, London, by Albert Pierrepoint.read more

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    Ruth Davidson

    Age 33 Female
    Politician, Signaler, Territorial

    Ruth Davidson is a Scottish politician, currently leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Glasgow regional list. After graduating from Edinburgh University, she worked as a BBC journalist and signaller in the Territorial Army.read more

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    Ruth Ellen Brosseau

    Age 28 Female
    Politician

    Ruth Ellen Brosseau is a Canadian politician. She was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a New Democratic Party candidate in the 2011 federal election. Brosseau is a single mother. She divides her time between Louiseville, Quebec in her riding of Berthier—Maskinongé and Gatineau, Quebec in th National Capital Region.read more

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    Ruth Benedict

    1887 - 1948 Female
    Anthropologist, Scholar, Writer

    Ruth Benedict was an American anthropologist, cultural relativist, and folklorist. She was born in New York City, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1909. She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, studying under Franz Boas, receiving her PhD and joining the faculty in 1923. Margaret Mead, with whom she may have shared a romantic relationship, and Marvin Opler were among her students and colleagues.read more

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    Ruth Warrick

    1916 - 2005 Female
    Actor

    Ruth Elizabeth Warrick, DM, was an American singer, actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler on All My Children, which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005. She celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of Citizen Kane to a packed, standing-room-only audience, to which she spoke afterward. (She made her film debut as Kane's first wife.read more

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    Ruth Fernández

    1919 - 2012 Female
    Politician

    Ruth Fernández was a Puerto Rican contralto and a member of the Puerto Rican Senate. According to the "Comisiones Nacionales para la Celebración del Quinto Centenario" (National Commission for the Celebration of the Fifth Centennial), she is said to be one of three artists whose contributions have helped unite Latin America. The other two artists named were Libertad Lamarque from Argentina and Pedro Vargas from Mexico.read more

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    Ruth McCartney

    Age 52 Female
    Musician
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    Ruth McCartney (born 15 February 1960) originally a British musician, stepsister and adoptive half-sister of Paul McCartney. She is now an internet, digital and new media entrepreneur holding the titles of CEO of McCartneyMultimedia, Co-Founder of fan management software company iFanz and President of ConnectCode. mobi.read more

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    Ruth Ann Minner

    Age 77 Female
    Politician

    Ruth Ann Minner is an American politician and businesswoman from Milford, in Kent County, Delaware. She is a member of the Democratic Party who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Delaware and two terms as the first female Governor of Delaware.read more

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    Ruth Simmons

    Age 66 Female
    Politician, Appointee, Professor
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    Ruth Jean Simmons is the 18th and current president of Brown University, the first black president of an Ivy League institution. Simmons was elected Brown's first female president in November 2000. Simmons assumed office in fall of 2001. Simmons holds appointments as a professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. In 2002, Newsweek selected her as a Ms. Woman of the Year, while in 2001, Time named her as America's best college president.read more

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    Ruth Richardson

    Age 61 Female
    New Zealand Politician

    Ruth Richardson served as New Zealand's Minister of Finance from 1990 to 1993, and is known for her strong pursuit of free-market economic reforms (her opponents sometimes called it "Ruthanasia").

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    Ruth Padel

    Age 66 Female
    Poet and Author

    'Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS is a British poet, a non-fiction author known for her poetry criticism and nature writing, and more recently a novelist. She broadcasts on poetry, literature, music and wildlife for BBC Radio 3 and 4.read more

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    Ruth Jacott

    Age 51 Female
    Singer, Musician

    Ruth Jacott is a Dutch singer, originally from Suriname. Jacott transitioned from musical theatre to popular music in 1993, when she represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest 1993. Her song, "Vrede" (Peace), was one of the favorites to win, and ended up ranking sixth out of 25 at Millstreet. She has since released nine Dutch-language albums, four of which made the Top Ten on the Dutch music charts.read more

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    Ruth Evershed

    Female
    Elder, Intelligence Analyst

    Ruth Evershed was a fictional Senior Intelligence Analyst seconded from GCHQ to MI5, featured in the British Television Series Spooks, also known as MI-5 in the United States. Ruth was played by Nicola Walker from the time the character joined the show in 2003, until Walker left to have a baby in 2006. She returned in 2009 and continued her role until her character's death in the final episode of Series 10.read more

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    Ruth Schönthal

    1924 - 2006 Female
    Pianist, Composer, Musician

    Ruth Schönthal was a pianist and contemporary composer.

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    Ruth Dyson

    Age 54 Female
    New Zealand Politician

    Ruth Suzanne Dyson is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the Labour Party and has been a Member of Parliament since 1993.

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    Ruth First

    1925 - 1982 Female
    Politician, Militant

    Ruth First was a white South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was killed by a parcel bomb addressed specifically to her in Mozambique, where she worked in exile from South Africa.read more

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    Ruth Cracknell

    1925 - 2002 Female
    Television and Theatre Actress .

    Ruth Cracknell AM was an Australian theatre and television character actress who appeared in many comedy roles. She was known variously as "Crackers", "Dame Crackers" and "Dame Ruth" throughout a career spanning 56 years.read more