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John Rambo
John Rambo (John James Rambo) is the fictional Vietnam veteran created by David Morrell in the 1972 novel First Blood and played by Sylvester Stallone in five films (1982-2019), distinct from the 2027 prequel John Rambo starring Noah Centineo.
John Rambo (film)
John Rambo is an upcoming 2027 American war action prequel to First Blood (1982), the sixth Rambo film. Directed by Jalmari Helander, written by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani, it stars Noah Centineo as young John Rambo and David Harbour as Major Trautman, releasing June 4, 2027 via Lionsgate.
John Randle
John Randle, NFL Hall of Fame defensive tackle (Vikings 1990-2000, Seahawks 2001-03), undrafted from Texas A&I, record 137.5 career sacks for a DT, 7 Pro Bowls, 1997 sacks leader.
John Randolph (actor)
John Randolph (Emanuel Hirsch Cohen, 1915–2004), American Tony-winning character actor of stage, film, and TV; blacklisted after the 1955 HUAC hearing, returned via Seconds (1966), known for Prizzi's Honor and You've Got Mail.
John Randolph of Roanoke
John Randolph of Roanoke (1773–1833), Virginia congressman and orator, led the Old Republican 'Quids' against Jefferson, served in the House 1799–1829 and the Senate 1825–27, and was Jackson's 1830 minister to Russia.
John Raper
John Raper (1911–1974) was an American mycologist and geneticist, professor of botany at Harvard from 1954, recognized as the foremost investigator of sexuality in fungi.
John Ratcliffe
John Ratcliffe (born 1965) is an American attorney, former Texas congressman, sixth Director of National Intelligence (2020-2021), and CIA Director since January 2025, the only person to hold both posts.
John Ratcliffe (governor)
John Ratcliffe (born John Sicklemore, died 1609/1610) was an English sea captain, second president of the Council at Jamestown (September 1607–July 1608), commander of the Discovery, later arrested John Smith, and was killed by Powhatan Indians at Orapax in November 1609; distinct from the modern CIA director and the Disney villain.
John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger (born 1947, Bridgeport, Connecticut) is the American actor who created and played Cliff Clavin on Cheers (1982-1993) and voiced a character in every Pixar feature from Toy Story (1995) through Onward (2020), including Hamm, Mack, and P.T. Flea.
John Rawls
John Rawls (1921–2002), American liberal political philosopher and Harvard professor; author of A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993); devised the original position, veil of ignorance, and difference principle against utilitarianism, critiqued by Nozick.
John Ray
John Ray (1627–1705) was an English naturalist, born in Essex, who defined the biological species and classified about 18,000 plants in his Historia plantarum before Linnaeus.
John Raymond Murlin
John Raymond Murlin (1874–1960) was an American physiologist and nutritionist, Professor of Physiology at the University of Rochester, who co-discovered glucagon in 1923 and founded the American Institute of Nutrition.
John Raymond Willis
John Raymond Willis, born in 1940, is a British applied mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Solid Mechanics at Cambridge, known for variational methods in heterogeneous materials.
John Reager
John (J.T.) Reager is an American remote-sensing hydrologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who leads its Water and Ecosystems Group and won a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award.
John Reardon
John Reardon (John Henry Reardon, born 1975, Halifax) is a Canadian actor known for Charlie Hudson in Hudson & Rex, Blake Laviolette in Arctic Air, and roles in Continuum, White Chicks, and Tron: Legacy.
John Rechy
John Rechy (Juan Francisco Rechy, born 1931, El Paso, Texas) is a Mexican American gay novelist whose 1963 bestseller City of Night pioneered gay literature; also The Sexual Outlaw, UCLA Medal 2019.
John Redcorn
John Redcorn III is a recurring Native American masseur character in King of the Hill, Nancy Gribble's lover and Joseph's biological father, voiced by Victor Aaron then Jonathan Joss, and studied as a sitcom 'neo-Indian'.
John Redwood
John Redwood, British Conservative politician (born 1951), MP for Wokingham 1987–2024, Secretary of State for Wales 1993–95, head of Thatcher's Policy Unit, 1995 challenger of John Major, now Lord Redwood in the House of Lords.
John Reed (journalist)
John Silas Reed (1887-1920), American journalist and communist activist, author of Ten Days That Shook the World on the 1917 October Revolution and Insurgent Mexico on Pancho Villa; died of typhus in Moscow, buried at the Kremlin Wall.
John Reid (music manager)
John Reid (born 1949, Paisley, Scotland) is a retired Scottish music manager, manager and former lover of Elton John (1970s to 1998) and manager of Queen (1975 to 1978); distinct from the Belfast-born Live Nation executive of the same name.
John Reif
John H. Reif (born 1951 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American computer scientist at Duke University, a pioneer in DNA computing and molecular programming, and a fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS.
John Reilly (businessman)
John Reilly is an American private equity investor who co-founded Chicago Growth Partners in 2004, a spin-out of William Blair Capital Partners that raised about $780 million.
John Renbourn
John Renbourn was an English guitarist who fused classical, folk, blues, and jazz styles. He was a co-founder of Pentangle and released Sir John Alot in 1968.
John Rennie the Elder
John Rennie the Elder was a Scottish civil engineer (1761–1821) who designed canals, docks, and harbors across Britain. He is best known for the three Thames bridges.
John Reppy
John Reppy is an American experimental low-temperature physicist and longtime Cornell University professor, a National Academy of Sciences member known for experiments on persistent currents and superfluidity in helium films.
John Reynolds (cosmochemist)
John Reynolds was an American cosmochemist and geophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, remembered as the father of extinct radioactivities for his 1960 discovery of xenon-129 in meteorites.
John Reynolds (musician)
John Reynolds (musician): Irish producer, drummer, and songwriter for Sinéad O'Connor, Jah Wobble, and Ghostland; distinct from JP Reynolds, Jon Reynolds, the promoter John Reynolds, and John Reynolds Music Inc.
John Rhodes
John Edward Rhodes (1870–1947), British Army officer and sailor; won 8-metre class gold aboard Cobweb at the 1908 London Olympics; not the baseball player, rodeo roper, or Arizona congressman of the same name.
John Rhys-Davies
John Rhys-Davies (born 1944) is a Welsh actor known as Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Sallah in the Indiana Jones films, also voicing Treebeard, with an Emmy nomination for Shogun and a lead role in Sliders.
John Rich
John Rich (born 1974, Amarillo, Texas) is an American country singer, Big & Rich member, ex-Lonestar bassist, ASCAP songwriter, Celebrity Apprentice winner, and Redneck Riviera entrepreneur; distinct from other artists named Rich J or Jon Rich.