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David Rabe David William Rabe (born March 10, 1940) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1972 ('' Sticks and Bones'') and also received Tony Award nominations for Best Play in 1974 ('' In the Boom Boom Room''), ...

(born 1940), American playwright and screenwriter *

Eckard Rabe Eckard Rabe is a former South African film, television and theatre actor. He is now a teacher at Parktown Boys' High School. He was born in 1948 in St Winifreds, Natal and grew up in Port Shepstone. He acted as the business tycoon and patriarch o ...

(born 1948), South African actor * Eugene Rabe (1911–1974), German-American astronomer *

Folke Rabe Folke Rabe (28 October 1935 – 25 September 2017) was a Swedish composer. He was born in Stockholm and studied at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, where his teachers included Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Ingvar Lidholm, György Ligeti and othe ...

(1935–2017), Swedish composer *

Florence Bates Florence Bates ( Rabe; April 15, 1888 – January 31, 1954) was an American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles. Life and career Bates was the second child born to Jewish immigrant p ...

(born Rabe, 1888–1954) American actress * Hugo Rabe (1867–1932), German classical philologist *

Jean Rabe Jean Rabe is an American journalist, editor, gamer and writer of fantasy and mystery. After a career as a newspaper reporter, she was employed by TSR, Inc. for several years as head of the Role Playing Game Association and editor of the ''Polyhe ...

(born 1957), fantasy and science fiction author and editor *

John Rabe John Heinrich Detlef Rabe (23 November 1882 – 5 January 1950) was a de-nazified NSDAP member, diplomat and businessman best known for his efforts to stop war crimes during the Japanese Nanjing Massacre and protect Chinese civilians. Th ...

(1882–1950), German businessman who rescued more than 200,000 Chinese during the World War II Nanjing Massacre * Josh Rabe (born 1978), former Major League Baseball player *

Jutta Rabe Jutta Rabe (born 1955) is a German journalist and a former treasurer of the Berlin chapter of the Deutscher Journalisten-Verband, German Federation of Journalists. Life Jutta Rabe studied economics and journalism. She worked as a freelancer f ...

(born 1955), German journalist *

Karin Rabe Karin Rabe (born 17 February 1954) is a Swedish orienteering competitor. She is four times Relay World Champion as a member of the Swedish winning team in 1981, 1983, 1985 and 1989,

, Swedish orienteering competitor * Karin M. Rabe, American physicist *

Karl Rabe Karl Rabe (29 October 1895 – 28 October 1968) was an automobile designer and was the Chief Designer at Porsche. He helped Ferdinand Porsche Ferdinand Porsche (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was a German automotive engineering, a ...

(1895–1968), automobile designer and Chief Designer at Porsche *

Laurentius Corvinus Laurentius Corvinus (; ; 1465–1527) was a Silesian scholar who lectured as an "extraordinary" (''i.e.'' untenured) professor at the University of Krakow when Nicolaus Copernicus began to study there. He also attracted a reputation as one of ...

(Laurentius Rabe in German) (1465–1527), Silesian scholar and poet *

Lily Rabe Lily Rabe (born June 29, 1982) is an American actress. She is best known for her multiple roles on the FX anthology horror series ''American Horror Story'' (2011–2021). For her performance as Portia in the Broadway production of ''The Merchant ...

(born 1982), American actress * Margarete Rabe (born 1923), German World War II concentration camp guard *

Pamela Rabe Pamela Rabe (born Pamela June Koropatnick; 30 April 1959) is a Canadian–Australian actress and theatre director. A graduate of the Playhouse Acting School in Vancouver, Rabe is best known for her appearances in the Australian films '' Sirens ...

(born 1959), Canadian/Australian actor and theatre director * Peter Rabe (1921–1990), German-American writer, mostly of crime fiction * Sascha Rabe (born 1985), German ice dancer * Stephen G. Rabe, American historian and professor *

Thomas Rabe Thomas N. Rabe (born February 18, 1951, in Heidelberg) is a German professor for gynaecology and obstetrics at the University Hospital Heidelberg. He is author of several scientific publications and reference books. Biography Rabe earned his m ...

(born 1951), German professor of gynaecology and obstetrics * Wilhelm F. Rabe (1893–1958), German astronomer

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