Raquel
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Raquel is a Portuguese or Spanish variation of the name Rachel
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Raquel could refer to:
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Rachel (given name)
Rachel is a feminine given name. The name ranks in the top hundred most popular names for girls in the United States, Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, and Australia as well as in Israel...
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Raquel could refer to:
Individuals:
- Raquel Carriedo-TomasRaquel Carriedo-TomasRaquel Carriedo-Tomas is a Spanish professional golfer.In 2000, she became the first Spaniard to play for Europe in the Solheim Cup. Carriedo-Tomas was also a member of the team in 2002...
(born 1971), Spanish golfer - Raquel ChalfiRaquel ChalfiRaquel Chalfi is an Israeli poet.-Biography:Chalfi was born in Tel Aviv and lives and works there. Her uncle was the poet and actor Avraham Halfi. She completed her MA in English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later studied theater at University of California, Berkeley as...
, Israeli poet - Raquel GuerraRaquel GuerraRaquel Guerra is a Portuguese singer and actress. She was born in Elvas.One of the finalists of the Portuguese Idols, along with Luciana Abreu and they both worked in the soap-opera Floribella broadcast on the SIC network...
(born 1985), Portuguese singer and actress - Raquel LeeRaquel LeeRaquel Lee is an American actress, who appeared on The Amanda Show during the show's first season. She also provided the voice of Nubia Gross of The Gross Sisters on The Proud Family from 2001 to 2005...
(born 1986), American actress - Raquel MorellRaquel MorellRaquel Morell is a Mexican actress who appears in many telenovelas.She was born on February 4, 1959 in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.She is probably the best known for her role of Blanca De Velasco de Peñarreal in telenovela Esmeralda. Blanca was a mother of Esmeralda, who was played by Leticia Calderón...
(born 1959), Mexican actress - Raquel SilvaRaquel SilvaRaquel Peluci Xavier da Silva is a female volleyball player who competed for Brazil at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There she won the bronze medal with the Women's National Team. Rodrigues also claimed the gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games.-References:...
(born 1978), Brazilian volleyball player - Raquel WelchRaquel WelchJo Raquel Tejada , better known as Raquel Welch, is an American actress, author and sex symbol. Welch came to attention as a "new-star" on the 20th Century-Fox lot in the mid-1960s. She posed iconically in a animal skin bikini for the British-release One Million Years B.C. , for which she may be...
(born 1940), American actress (born Jo Raquel Tejada) - Raquel ZimmermannRaquel ZimmermannRaquel Zimmermann is a Brazilian model of German descent.-Discovery and modeling career:Zimmermann was discovered by a scouting agency in Porto Alegre, Brazil at the age of 14 and made her way to Japan and on to Paris...
(born 1983), Brazilian model
Fictional characters:
- Raquel TurnerRaquel TurnerRachel "Raquel" Turner is a fictional character from the BBC television sit-com Only Fools and Horses, in which she was Del Boy's longtime girlfriend...
, a character in the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses