Rachel Thomas (journalist)
Rachel Thomas may refer to: * Rachel Thomas (actress) (1905–1995), Welsh character actress * Rachel Thomas (skydiver) (born 1955), first Indian woman to skydive over the North Pole * Rachel Thomas (academic), American computer scientist See also * Rachael Thomas Rachael Thomas (née Harder) (born ) is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Lethbridge in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election. A member of the Conservative Party, she was reelected in the 2 ...

Rachel Thomas (actress)
Rachel Thomas OBE (10 February 1905 – 8 February 1995), was a Welsh character actress. Early life Rachel Thomas was born in the Welsh village of Alltwen, near Pontardawe, Glamorgan,"Obituary: Rachel Thomas"
''The Independent'', 10 February 1995. Accessed 5 September 2015 the daughter of Emily Thomas. She was raised by her aunt and uncle, Mary Thomas Roberts and David Roberts; her uncle was a tinworker and coal miner.

Career

Thomas taught school as a young woman, competed in ''

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au'', and was a reader at her church in Cardiff. She came to wider attention when her voice was heard on a BBC radio broadcast in 1933, reading from the ...
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Rachel Thomas (skydiver)
LIMITLESS - An Autobiography published by Rachel Thomas in January 2023 Rachel Thomas is an Indian skydiver. She was the first Indian woman to skydive from 7,000 ft over the North Pole on 20 April 2002, to commemorate 150 years of the Indian Railways. During the North Pole expedition she stayed on the ice for six days in - 45-55 °C temperature. A former employee of Indian Railways, she was the first woman to compete for India in a skydiving competition in 1987 and has the record of being the first Indian female to skydive over the North Pole in 2002. She completed 650 jumps in 18 countries during her career, since her first jump in 1979. A winner of the National Adventure Sports Award, she was honored again by the Government of India, again in 2005, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri. Early years Rachel Thomas was born in 1955, at Chittranjan, West Bengal, India. Her parents Alexander and Elizabeth Ittercherya were from Kerala and both worked ...
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Rachel Thomas (academic)
Rachel Thomas is an American computer scientist and founding Director of the Center for Applied Data Ethics at the University of San Francisco. Together with Jeremy Howard, she is co-founder of fast.ai. Thomas was selected by Forbes magazine as one of the 20 most incredible women in artificial intelligence. Early life and education Thomas grew up in Galveston, Texas. In high school she began programming in C++. Thomas earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics at Swarthmore College. At Swarthmore she was elected to the Phi Beta Delta honor society. She moved to Duke University for her graduate studies and finished her PhD in mathematics in 2010. Her doctoral research involved a mathematical analysis of biochemical networks. During her doctorate she completed an internship at RTI International where she developed Markov models to evaluate HIV treatment protocols. Thomas joined Exelon as a quantitative analyst, where she scraped internet data and built models to provide in ...
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