Famous People with Name Ruth

Ruth Hale            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ruth Hale: was an American playwright and actress.She and her husband, James Nathan Hale, moved to California to seek out opportunities in Hollywood. They had little success landing film roles, so they founded the Glendale Centre Theater, and she wrote many plays. Soon, they and their family had opened a number of center stage theaters throughout Utah and Arizona.

Ruth Myrtle Patrick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ruth Myrtle Patrick: is a botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, who developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established a number of research facilities. She attended the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri, graduating in 1925. She earned her PhD at the University of Virginia in 1934.

Ruth Ann Minner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

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, two terms as Lieutenant Governor of Delaware, and is the incumbent Governor of Delaware. She is serving in her second term and is Delaware's first female governor, as well as the nation’s oldest serving governor. She is currently the nation's longest-serving female governor, and in January 2008 became the longest-serving female governor in U.S. history. She is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term.

Ruth Sager            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ruth Sager: was an eminent American geneticist. Sager enjoyed two scientic careers. Her first was in the 1950s and 1960s when she pioneered the field of cytoplasmic genetics. Her second career began in the early 1970s and was in cancer genetics; she proposed and investigated the roles of tumor suppressor genes.Ruth Sager was born in Chicago, Illinois. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in 1938, master's degree in plant physiology from Rutgers University in 1944 and doctorate in maize genetics under Marcus Rhoades from Columbia University in 1948.

Ruth Krauss            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ruth Krauss: was an author of children's books, one of the most beloved being The Carrot Seed. Krauss is a graduate of the Parson's School of Fine Applied Art.Ruth Krauss married the (also notable) Crockett Johnson in 1941. They collaborated on many books together: th

George Herman Ruth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Herman Ruth: was an American Major League baseball player from 1914 to 1935. Named the greatest baseball player in history in various surveys and rankings

Glen Ruth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Glen Ruth: is a former American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Thrasher. Ruth trained under Larry Sharpe and debuted in 1990 as The Spider. He later became Sharpe's assistant and trained wrestlers such as the Big Show and others at Sharpe's "M

Earl Baker Ruth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Earl Baker Ruth: was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina. He was a teacher, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina from 1938 to 1940. He was in the United States Navy. He served as member of Salisbury, North Carolina, city council from 1963 to 19

Nancy Ruth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nancy Ruth: is a Canadian Senator from Ontario. She was appointed to the Senate by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, on the advice of Prime Minister Paul Martin, on March 24, 2005. While initially appointed as a Progressive Conservative, on March 28, 2006 she joined the Conservative caucus. She is Canada's first openly lesbian senator.