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David Rappaport
David Rappaport (1951-1990), British actor with achondroplasia, 3'11", starred as Randall in Time Bandits, Rinaldo in The Bride, and Simon McKay in The Wizard, the first US TV series starring a dwarf; he refused the R2-D2 role and died by suicide in 1990.
David Rasche
David Rasche (born 1944), American character actor: Second City alumnus who replaced John Belushi, starred as Sledge Hammer! (1986-88), and played Karl Muller on Succession (2018-2023) and Jim Marwood on Veep.
David Ravine
David Ravine is an Australian medical geneticist, Foundation Professor of Medical Genetics at The University of Western Australia, known for ultrasound diagnostic criteria for polycystic kidney disease.
David Rawlings
David Rawlings, also known as Dave Rawlings, is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer best known as the longtime musical partner of singer-songwriter Gillian Welch.
David Ray Griffin
David Ray Griffin (1939–2022) was an American process theologian, emeritus professor at Claremont School of Theology, and author of books on God, evil, and 9/11.
David Raya
David Raya, Spanish goalkeeper born 1995 in Barcelona; Blackburn academy, Brentford 2019-2023, Arsenal from 2023 (£27m permanent 2024); 2023/24 Premier League Golden Glove; Spain Euro 2024 winner and 2026 World Cup squad member.
David Rees (Welsh mathematician)
David Rees (1918–2013) was a Welsh mathematician who made foundational contributions to semigroup theory and commutative algebra, and worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.
David Reger
David Reger, born 1988, is a German entrepreneur and founder and CEO of NEURA Robotics, a Metzingen robotics company that raised about $1.6 billion.
David Reich (geneticist)
David Emil Reich is an American geneticist and Harvard Medical School professor whose ancient DNA laboratory has produced over half of the world's ancient human DNA data.
David Reichman
David R. Reichman is an American theoretical chemist, the Centennial Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
David Reid
David Terrell Reid, "The American Dream" (born 1973, Philadelphia), American boxer; 1996 Olympic light-middleweight gold and WBA super-welterweight champion 1999–2000; retired 2001 at 17-2 after a detached retina.
David Reimer
David Reimer (Bruce Reimer, 1965-2004), Canadian man of the John/Joan case: reassigned female as an infant by John Money after a botched circumcision, rejected the identity, reverted to male, and became evidence against nurture-only gender theory.
David Reimer (American mathematician)
David Reimer (born 1962) is an American mathematician at The College of New Jersey, author of Count Like an Egyptian, a 2014 hands-on introduction to ancient Egyptian mathematics.
David Reitze
David H. Reitze is an experimental physicist who leads the LIGO Laboratory at Caltech and announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2016.
David Relman
David A. Relman is an American microbiologist and physician at Stanford University whose sequence-based methods identified uncultured disease-causing bacteria and opened the modern study of the human microbiome.
David Remnick
David Remnick, American journalist, editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and staff writer since 1992; former Washington Post Moscow correspondent; won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for Lenin's Tomb.
David René de Rothschild
David René de Rothschild (born 1942) is a French banker who rebuilt the family's French bank and led the reunification of the French and English Rothschild houses.
David Renwick
David Peter Renwick (born 1951, Luton) is an English TV comedy writer, creator of One Foot in the Grave (1990-2000) and Jonathan Creek (1997-2016), formerly of the Renwick & Marshall partnership, multi-BAFTA winner.
David Ricardo
David Ricardo (1772–1823) was a British stockbroker-turned-economist whose 1817 Principles of Political Economy and Taxation contains the theory of comparative advantage, a labor theory of value, and a theory of rent.
David Rice Atchison
David Rice Atchison (1807-1886), Missouri's proslavery Democratic senator, 1843-1855, repeatedly president pro tempore, drove the Kansas-Nebraska Act and led border ruffians in Bleeding Kansas; the "President for a Day" claim of March 4, 1849 is a myth he himself denied.
David Richerby
David Richerby is a British computer scientist at the University of Essex who works on the complexity of counting problems and won the 2021 Gödel Prize.
David Rigert
David Rigert (Давид Адамович Ригерт), born 1947, is a Soviet weightlifter who won Olympic middle-heavyweight gold at Montreal 1976 and set about 68 world records in a career from 1966 to 1981.
David Rimer
David Rimer is a Swiss venture capital investor who co-founded Index Ventures in Geneva in 1996 with his brother Neil Rimer and Giuseppe Zocco, leaving in 2013 to teach history.
David Rimm
David L. Rimm is an American pathologist and the Anthony N. Brady Professor at Yale School of Medicine, known for inventing the AQUA quantitative pathology method and founding HistoRx.
David Rind
David H. Rind, also published as D. Rind, is an American atmospheric scientist at NASA GISS known for his 1985 Nature paper on ocean–atmosphere stability.
David Rintoul
David Rintoul (born 1948, Aberdeen; birth name David Wilson) is a Scottish actor known for Mr Darcy in the 1980 BBC Pride and Prejudice, ITV's Doctor Finlay, The Crown, Game of Thrones, Joint Stock theatre, and over 300 audiobooks. Distinct from the Slaughter and May lawyer of the same name.
David Rittenberg
David Rittenberg (1906–1970) was an American biochemist at Columbia University who, with Rudolph Schoenheimer, developed isotopic tracer techniques showing that body proteins and fats are constantly broken down and resynthesized.
David Rittenhouse
David Rittenhouse (1732–1796) was an American astronomer, clockmaker, and surveyor, regarded as one of the leading scientists of eighteenth-century America and the first director of the United States Mint.
David Rizzio
David Rizzio (Riccio), c. 1533–1566, Italian musician from Turin who became private secretary and confidant of Mary, Queen of Scots, and was stabbed 56 times at Holyroodhouse on 9 March 1566 by nobles led by Lord Darnley.
David Roback
David Roback (1958-2020), American guitarist and producer of Mazzy Star, Opal, Rainy Day, and Rain Parade; Paisley Underground figure behind the 1993 hit Fade Into You with Hope Sandoval.