*Honey Ryder is a shell diver and love interest of James Bond. Based on the character Honeychile Rider from the 1958 Ian Fleming novel, Dr. No, the Bond girl appeared in the 1962 James Bond film of the same name, portrayed by Swiss-American actress, Ursula Andress, but voiced by the late German actress, Nikki van der Zyl, and her singing voice was dubbed by British actress and singer, Diana Coupland. Ryder was subsequently re-imagined for the 2015 mobile game, James Bond: World of Espionage. The first main Bond girl in the EON Productions film series, she was also one of the most popular, mostly because of its emblematic introduction scene.

Having drawn a link between the murder of fellow British intelligence operative, John Strangways, and radioactive samples he had taken from an island named Crab Key in Jamaica (owned by the reclusive criminal operative, Dr. Julius No) James Bond convinces his ally Quarrel to take him there by boat. There 007 meets the beautiful Honey Ryder, dressed only in a white bikini, who is collecting shells and singing "Under the Mango Tree". She emerges from the sea and Bond finds her to be beautiful right away, scaring her by joining in singing.

At first, she is suspicious of Bond but soon decides to help him after Dr. No's guards destroy her boat. Ryder shows Quarrel and Bond a way to evade the henchmen when caught. After they escape, she tells Bond how her father died when on Crab Key, after which she was raped by a local landlord. Ryder relates how she got her revenge by putting a black widow spider in his mosquito net and causing his lingering death. This shows a very deadly side to her, though she maintains a look of innocence and naivety.

After nightfall they are attacked by the legendary "dragon" of Crab Key, which turns out to be an armoured tractor equipped with a flamethrower. In the resulting gun battle, Quarrel is incinerated whilst Bond and Ryder are taken prisoner. They are decontaminated, quartered in Dr. No's lair, and given drugged coffee to render them unconscious. The next day, they dress and meet Dr. No in his office, where he invites them to lunch. After dinner, Ryder is taken away and Bond is beaten by the guards. Later, after killing Dr. No and sabotaging the island's reactor, Bond rescues Ryder from being slowly drowned. As the complex explodes, the pair escape by boat until they run out of gas in the middle of the sea, and start kissing, refusing assistance from Bond's American ally.

As in the novel, Honey Ryder is a very independent woman claiming to not need help from anyone. She is a beachcomber making a living selling seashells in Miami. Resourceful and courageous, she states that she can defend herself against any hostile when she first meets Bond. Although she is at first wary of Bond, he is allowed to get closer when he comments that his intentions are honorable. Also, as in the novel, she said she was forced to accept her independence as a teenager when both her parents died. Bond is curious how she survived without a formal education, to which Ryder claims that she inherited her parents' set of the Encyclopedia Britannica and manually transcribed them, starting with A as a little girl and is currently up to T, and was confident she could intellectually match anyone on said subjects.*