Famous People with Name Rakel

Rakel Hönnudóttir            Origin/Culture/Country: Norse

Rakel Hönnudóttir: is an Icelandic football player who plays as a striker. Rakel is currently part of Icelands national team and competed in UEFA Women's Euro 2009. Rakel currently plays for the unified team of Þór and KA in Iceland at club level.

Rakel Logadóttir            Origin/Culture/Country: Norse

Rakel Logadóttir: is an Icelandic footballer who plays for Valur. Rakel is part of Icelands national team and competed in UEFA Women's Euro 2009.

Rakel Wahl            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Rakel Wahl: was a Norwegian cross country skier who competed in the 1950s. She finished sixth in the 10 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.

Rakel Seweriin            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Rakel Seweriin: was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was the Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs from 1953 to 1955.Seweriin had been a member of Oslo city council from 1937 until the war broke out, and also served briefly in 1945. She was the deputy leader of the Workers' Youth League from 1937 to 1946. After the war she was a member of the Labour Party secretariat for women from 1945 to 1971—from 1953 to 1963 she chaired the secretariat, and was a member of the Labour Party's central committee. She was elected as a member of the Parliament of Norway in 1945 from the constituency Oslo, and was re-elected in 1949, 1953, 1957, 1961 and 1965. On 2 November 1953, she temporarily stepped out of parliament as she became Minister of Social Affairs in Torp's Cabinet.

Rakel Surlien            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Rakel Surlien: is a Norwegian judge, civil servant and politician for the Centre Party.She was the Minister of Environmental Affairs 1983-1986 during Kåre Willoch's second term as prime minister. From 2006 she was a judge at Borgarting Court of Appeal.

Heidi Rakels            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Heidi Rakels: is a retired female judoka from Belgium.Rakels claimed the bronze medal in the Women's Middleweight (– 66 kg) division at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. In the bronze medal match she defeated Germany's Alexandra Schreiber. She also competed