Rebecca Dowbiggin (11 April 1983 in St Albans, England) was the 7th woman to cox Cambridge in The Boat Race, the annual race against Oxford.

She studied for a BA in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

After enrolling for a PhD in 2005, she coxed the 2006 Cambridge University Women's Blue Boat.

Two weeks before the 2007 Boat Race she secured the coxes seat, with Cambridge going on to win.

[2] Dowbiggin also coxed the England Women's Eight to a gold medal at the Commonwealth Rowing Championships in 2006 and the Great Britain Women's Eight to a bronze medal at the 2007 European Rowing Championships.