Rachel Mary Owen (30 November 1968 – 18 December 2016) was a Welsh photographer, printmaker and lecturer on medieval Italian literature.

[3] In 2001, Owen received a PhD from the University of London, where her research was on the illustrations in manuscripts of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

[8] She mixed photography with printmaking[4] and her work explored ideas of transformation using photographic screenprints.

[10][failed verification] For 23 years, Owen was in a relationship with the Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, whom she met while they were students at the University of Exeter.

[20] Several critics believed the separation influenced the lyrics of Radiohead's 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool.