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John Rokycana
John Rokycana (Jan Rokycana) was a Bohemian Utraquist priest, elected head of the Hussite church in 1427 and Archbishop of Prague from 1435 until his death in 1471.
John Rolfe
John Rolfe (d. 1622), Jamestown colonist, first cultivated marketable Nicotiana tabacum tobacco in Virginia (1612) and married Pocahontas in April 1614, ending the First Anglo-Powhatan War; later colony secretary and councilor.
John Roll
John Roll (John McCarthy Roll) was a US district judge in Arizona appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1991, killed in the 2011 Tucson mass shooting while chief judge.
John Rollin Ridge
John Rollin Ridge, who wrote as Yellow Bird, was a Cherokee writer and editor whose 1854 Joaquín Murieta novel was the first by a Native American author.
John Romero
John Romero (born 1967) is an American game designer and programmer, id Software co-founder behind Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake; later Ion Storm, Daikatana, SIGIL, and Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.
John Romita Jr.
John Romita Jr. (John Salvatore Romita, born 1956, New York City) is an American comic book artist, son of John Romita Sr., known for Marvel's Iron Man, Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, Kick-Ass, and DC's Superman; not a true junior by birth.
John Romita Sr.
John Romita Sr. (1930–2023), American comic book artist and Marvel art director; drew The Amazing Spider-Man from 1966, co-created Mary Jane Watson, designed Wolverine, the Punisher, and Luke Cage.
John Rooney (footballer)
John Richard Rooney (born 1990, Liverpool), English attacking midfielder and younger brother of Wayne Rooney; played for New York Red Bulls, Orlando City, Chester, Barrow, and Macclesfield FC, then became Macclesfield manager in July 2025 and led them to a 2-1 FA Cup upset of holders Crystal Palace in January 2026.
John Rose (Tennessee politician)
John W. Rose, born 1965, is a Republican U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 6th congressional district since 2019, a former farmer, attorney, and Tennessee Commissioner of Agriculture.
John Roselli
John (Handsome Johnny) Roselli, born Filippo Sacco (1905-1976), was a Chicago Outfit boss on the West Coast, a Hollywood fixer, and the CIA's main underworld contact in plots to assassinate Fidel Castro; he was murdered in 1976.
John Ross (American football)
John Ross III (born 1995), wide receiver from Washington; ran a record 4.22-second 40 at the 2017 NFL Combine, drafted 9th overall by Cincinnati; injuries limited him to 63 catches, 963 yards, 11 TDs; later Giants, Eagles, UFL Stallions.
John Ross (Cherokee chief)
John Ross (Cooweescoowe), 1790–1866, longest-serving Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation; led resistance to the Treaty of New Echota, endured the Trail of Tears, and led the Cherokee through the Civil War.
John Ross (physical chemist)
John Ross (1926–2017) was an Austrian-born American physical chemist and Stanford professor known for chemical reaction dynamics and far-from-equilibrium systems, receiving the National Medal of Science.
John Ross Bowie
John Ross Bowie (born 1971) is an American actor and comedian best known for playing Barry Kripke on The Big Bang Theory and Jimmy DiMeo on Speechless.
John Rosso
John Rosso is a Papua New Guinean politician and Pangu Party member who serves as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Lands, Physical Planning and Urbanisation, and MP for Lae.
John Rowell (scientist)
John Rowell is a British-born condensed matter physicist who, with Philip Anderson at Bell Labs, made the first observation of the Josephson effect in 1963.
John Roy Whinnery
John Roy Whinnery (1916–2009) was an American electrical engineer at UC Berkeley, known for waveguide discontinuity analysis, microwave tubes, and the electromagnetics textbook Fields and Waves.
John Rubinstein
John Rubinstein (born 1946, Los Angeles), American actor, composer, and director, son of pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Created the title role in Pippin (1972), won the 1980 Tony for Children of a Lesser God; TV roles include Family and Crazy Like a Fox.
John Ruddy
John Ruddy (John Thomas Gordon Ruddy, born 1986) is an English goalkeeper who won the 2018 Championship Golden Glove at Wolves, played for Norwich, Birmingham and Newcastle, and rejoined Wolves in 2026.
John Ruggie
John Gerard Ruggie (1944–2021), Austrian-born political scientist at Harvard Kennedy School, coined "embedded liberalism" in his 1982 International Organization article and, as UN Special Representative, authored the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
John Ruiz
John Ruiz, known as "The Quietman," is an American former heavyweight boxer from Chelsea, Massachusetts, who beat Evander Holyfield in 2001 to become the first Latino world heavyweight champion.
John Ruskin
John Ruskin (1819–1900), English art and social critic: championed Turner in Modern Painters, wrote The Stones of Venice and Unto This Last, opposed classical economics, and influenced Morris, Proust, and Gandhi.
John Russell (actor)
John Lawrence Russell (1921–1991), American film and TV actor and Marine Guadalcanal veteran; starred as Marshal Dan Troop in ABC's Lawman (1958–1962), Tim Kelly in Soldiers of Fortune, and played heavies in Rio Bravo, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Pale Rider.
John Russell Stothard
J. Russell Stothard, British parasitologist and Professor of Medical Parasitology at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine since 2011; expert on schistosomiasis epidemiology, snail hosts, WHO guidelines, C A Wright Medal 2019.
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (Lord John Russell, 1792–1878), British Whig and Liberal statesman, last Whig Prime Minister (1846–52, 1865–66), principal architect of the 1832 Great Reform Act and co-founder of the Liberal Party.
John Rutherford (Florida politician)
John H. Rutherford, born in 1952, is an American Republican politician who has represented Florida's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2023.
John Rutledge
John Rutledge (1739-1800), South Carolina revolutionary governor, Constitution signer, and chairman of the Committee of Detail; Associate Justice 1790-1791 and recess-appointed second Chief Justice in 1795, rejected by the Senate after his Jay Treaty speech.
John Rutledge Supreme Court nominations
John Rutledge's two Supreme Court nominations: confirmed as an original associate justice in 1789, then nominated chief justice in 1795 after Jay's resignation; his recess appointment ended when the Senate rejected him 14-10 over his Jay Treaty speech.
John Rutsey
John Rutsey (1952 or 1953–2008), Canadian drummer and founding member of Rush; played on the 1973 single and 1974 debut album, left in July 1974 before the Mercury deal, replaced by Neil Peart.
John Rutter
John Rutter (born 1945) is an English choral composer and conductor, knighted in 2024, known for the Requiem, Gloria, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, Christmas carols, the Cambridge Singers, and the Collegium label.