Rebecca Sealfon

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Rebecca Sealfon (born July 8, 1983) is a United States home schooled student primarily known for winning the 1997 Scripps National Spelling Bee. She is one of the most well-known spelling bee winners, spelling her final word, "euonym," by screaming out each letter. As she represented the New York Daily News, the Daily News' entire front page the day after her triumph was a picture of Sealfon, arms raised in victory, with the headline "EUONYM!"

After receiving home schooling, she attended Stuyvesant High School and Princeton University, where she majored in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

She is currently a Ph.D. student in Biology at Duke University.

Because of her animated personality, she was at least partially the inspiration for the homeschooled "Rebecca Cutswald" character in the Hooked on Monkey Phonics episode of the television series South Park and has appeared in Obey Giant materials."^{[citation needed]} She is also frequently talked about on sports television series Cheap Seats."^{[citation needed]} She was frequently ridiculed by Jim Rome on his sports radio program as well. In a 2002 column on Page2, Bill Simmons cited Sealfon spelling "euonym" as "the greatest spelling bee highlight of all-time."^{[citation needed]}