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John Richardson (actor)
John Richardson was an English actor born in Worthing in 1934. He gained fame in Black Sunday (1960) and played the love interest of Ursula Andress in She (1965).
John Ridley
John Ridley (John Ridley IV) is an American screenwriter, director, and novelist who won the Academy Award for 12 Years a Slave and created ABC's American Crime.
John Riel Casimero
John Riel Casimero (Quadro Alas), Filipino boxer born 1989 in Ormoc City, three-division world champion: IBF light flyweight 2012-2014, IBF flyweight 2016, WBO bantamweight 2019-2022; 36-5-1, 24 KOs.
John Rigas
John J. Rigas (1924–2021) was an American cable television pioneer, the son of Greek immigrants, who built Adelphia Communications into a leading cable provider before his 2004 fraud conviction.
John Riggins
John Riggins (born 1949), nicknamed the Diesel, Hall of Fame running back for the New York Jets and Washington Redskins; Super Bowl XVII MVP with 166 rushing yards; 11,352 career rushing yards; No. 44 retired by the Commanders in 2026.
John Ringo
John Ringo (born 1963, Miami) is an American military science fiction author and 82nd Airborne veteran, creator of the Posleen War, Troy Rising, Black Tide Rising, and Empire of Man series published by Baen Books.
John Ringo bibliography
John Ringo bibliography: the series fiction of the American military SF author (born 1963), from A Hymn Before Battle (2000) and the Posleen War to Empire of Man, Black Tide Rising, Troy Rising, and TransDimensional Hunter.
John Rinn
John Rinn, also known as John L. Rinn, is an American RNA biologist who studies long noncoding RNAs and holds a professorship at the University of Colorado Boulder.
John Ripley Freeman
John Ripley Freeman (1855–1932) was an American civil and hydraulic engineer known for fire-stream experiments, the Charles River Basin study, and pioneering earthquake engineering; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1918.
John Ritter
John Ritter (Jonathan Southworth Ritter, 1948–2003), American actor and comedian, Emmy and Golden Globe winner as Jack Tripper on Three's Company (1977–84), later star of 8 Simple Rules; died of aortic dissection in 2003.
John Robert Beyster
J. Robert Beyster (1924–2014) was an American physicist in reactor physics who founded Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the largest employee-owned research and engineering firm in the United States.
John Robert Evans
John Robert Evans was a Canadian cardiologist and researcher, founding dean of McMaster University's medical school and president of the University of Toronto from 1972 to 1978.
John Robert Ringrose
John Robert Ringrose, born 1932 in London, is an English mathematician who initiated the theory of nest algebras, co-wrote a four-volume operator algebras textbook with Kadison, and held Newcastle's Pure Mathematics chair from 1964 to 1993.
John Roberts
John Roberts (John Glover Roberts Jr., born 1955, Buffalo, NY) is the 17th Chief Justice of the United States, confirmed 78-22 on September 29, 2005, succeeding Rehnquist; former D.C. Circuit judge, Harvard-trained, known for the umpire metaphor and the 2012 ACA ruling.
John Roberts (actor)
John Roberts (born 1971) is an American actor, comedian, and recording artist, the voice of Linda Belcher on Bob's Burgers since 2011 and a 2015 Emmy nominee; distinct from other John Roberts in entertainment.
John Roberts (Canadian economist)
John Roberts, full name Donald John Roberts, was a Canadian-born economist at Stanford Graduate School of Business whose work on incentives and organizational design helped found organizational economics.
John Roberts (journalist)
John Roberts (born John David Robertson, 1956), also known as J.D. Roberts, is a Canadian-American TV journalist, Fox News co-anchor of America Reports, formerly chief White House correspondent at CBS and Fox and CNN American Morning co-anchor.
John Robertson (footballer, born 1953)
John Neilson Robertson (1953–2025), Scottish left winger for Nottingham Forest, scored the only goal of the 1980 European Cup final and assisted the 1979 winner; 28 Scotland caps, 8 goals.
John Robertson (footballer, born 1964)
John Grant Robertson (born 1964, Edinburgh), Scottish centre-forward, Hearts-linked striker, 16 Scotland caps; later Inverness CT manager and sporting director and Ross County assistant until May 2026; distinct from the 1953-born Forest winger.
John Robins (comedian)
John Robins (born 1982) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, and BBC Radio 5 Live host with Elis James. He shared the 2017 Edinburgh Comedy Award for The Darkness of Robins, won Taskmaster series 17, and wrote the 2026 sobriety memoir Thirst.
John Robinson
John Robinson (c. 1575–1625) was an English Separatist minister who served as pastor of the Pilgrims' church in Leiden from 1609 until his death; he never reached New England.
John Rochester
John Rochester (c. 1498–1537) was an English Carthusian priest and martyr, a London Charterhouse monk exiled to Hull and hanged in chains at York in 1537.
John Rock (physician)
John Rock (1890–1984) was an American obstetrician-gynecologist and Harvard professor who co-developed the birth control pill and, in 1944, achieved the first fertilization of a human egg in vitro.
John Rocker
John Rocker (born 1974, Statesboro, GA) is a former MLB relief pitcher, Braves closer 1998-2001 with 88 career saves, infamous for his bigoted 1999 Sports Illustrated interview, MLB suspension, HGH allegations, and 2014 Survivor appearance.
John Roder
John C. Roder (1950–2018) was a Canadian immunologist turned neurobiologist, a Senior Scientist at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and University of Toronto professor, known for mouse models of schizophrenia and memory.
John Rodgers (geologist)
John Rodgers (1914–2004) was an American geologist at Yale who became the leading authority on the Appalachian mountain belt, winning the Penrose Medal in 1981.
John Rodgers (naval officer, born 1772)
Commodore John Rodgers (11 July 1772, Havre de Grace, Maryland – 1 August 1838), US Navy officer in the Quasi-War, Barbary War, and War of 1812; Little Belt affair; president, Board of Navy Commissioners.
John Rodgers (scientist)
John Rodgers (1812–1882) was a US Navy rear admiral who commanded the North Pacific Exploring Expedition of 1853–1856 and was a charter member of the National Academy of Sciences.
John Rogan
John William Rogan was an American man from Tennessee who, at 267 cm (8 ft 9 in), was the second-tallest person ever recorded and the tallest of African descent.
John Rogers Musselman
John Rogers Musselman (1890–1968) was a mathematician known for Musselman's theorem of 1939, on three coaxal circles of a triangle, and for about 40 papers in geometry.