Rachel is the second wife of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible.

Rachel may also refer to:

People

  • Rachel (given name), a female name (including a list of people and characters with the name)
  • Rachel Bluwstein, a Hebrew-language poet often referred to simply as Rachel or Rachel the Poetess
  • Rachel Ros, a French singer and representative of France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964
  • 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 (2009 film), a documentary about the death of Rachel Corrie
  • Rachel (2025 film), an upcoming Indian Malayalam-language revenge thriller film
  • Rachel, Rachel, 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)
  • Rachel, a whaling vessel in the novel Moby-Dick

Music

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

Other media and entertainment

  • Rachel Green, a fictional character on Friends
  • Rachel, the lead soprano role in the 1835 opera La Juive
  • "Rachel" (Not Going Out), a 2013 television episode

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 , 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

  • Rachele (disambiguation)
  • Rachal (disambiguation)