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R.J. Decker
R.J. Decker (also RJ Decker) is an ABC crime drama premiering March 3, 2026, created by Rob Doherty, adapted from Carl Hiaasen's 1987 novel Double Whammy, starring Scott Speedman as an ex-con private investigator in South Florida; renewed for a second season in September 2026.
R.K. O’Nions
Sir Keith O'Nions is a British isotope geochemist, elected to the Royal Society in 1983 and knighted in 1999, known for work on the Earth's mantle and heat budget.
R.K.M & Ken-Y
R.K.M & Ken-Y (also Rakim & Ken-Y) were a Puerto Rican romantic reggaetón duo formed in 2003 in Gurabo by José Nieves and Kenny Vásquez, famous for "Down" (No. 1 Hot Latin Songs 2006) and dissolved in 2025.
R.M.K. Sinha
R.M.K. Sinha, born Rai Mahesh Kumar Sinha in 1945, is an Indian computer scientist who developed the ANGLABHARTI English-to-Indian-languages machine translation system at IIT Kanpur.
R.O.B.
R.O.B., the Robotic Operating Buddy, is a robot accessory for Nintendo's NES and Famicom, released in 1985 and remembered for helping relaunch video games in North America.
R.P. Patnaik
Ravindra Prasad Patnaik, known professionally as R.P. Patnaik, is an Indian film music director, singer, and filmmaker who has worked mainly in Telugu cinema since 1999.
R.R. Race
Robert Russell Race (1907–1984) was a British geneticist who directed the MRC Blood Group Unit from 1946 to 1973 and devised the Fisher–Race CDE nomenclature for the Rhesus blood group system.
R.R.A. Coombs
R.R.A. Coombs, born Robert Royston Amos (Robin) Coombs, was a British immunologist at Cambridge, known for the 1945 Coombs test and the Gell–Coombs classification of hypersensitivity.
R.S.C. Anderlecht
RSC Anderlecht (RSCA), Brussels club founded 1908, Belgium's record champion with 34 titles, 9 cups, Cup Winners' Cup 1976/1978, UEFA Cup 1983; plays at Lotto Park.
R.U.R.
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots; Rossumovi univerzální roboti) is Karel Čapek's 1920 Czech play whose island factory of organic artificial workers coined the word "robot"; premiered 2 January 1921 in Hradec Králové, ending with humanity's extinction.
R.U.R. (film)
R.U.R. (film) denotes two 2020s screen adaptations of Čapek's 1920 play: the Japanese centenary film RUR by Yutaka Watanabe (WARAHATA) and an Australian Alex Proyas/MoJo Global Arts musical-satire project, both documented without confirmed releases.
R'Bonney Gabriel
R'Bonney Nola Gabriel, American fashion designer and model, Miss Texas USA 2022, Miss USA 2022, and Miss Universe 2022; first Filipino American to win both titles; founder of the sustainable label R'Bonney Nola.
R'lyeh
R'lyeh (also Arlyeh, Urilia) is H.P. Lovecraft's fictional sunken corpse-city in the South Pacific, home of the dreaming Cthulhu, central to "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928), noted for non-Euclidean, Cyclopean architecture.
R(h)oda
R(h)oda: the nymph Rhoda of Rhodian myth and Rhode ('Ροδη), the ancient Greek trading city at modern Roses, Spain, traditionally a pre-776 BC Rhodian colony, now often attributed to Phocaeans or Massalia.
R/K selection theory
R/K selection theory, from MacArthur and Wilson's 1967 island biogeography book, contrasts r-selected species (high fecundity, low investment) with K-selected species (few offspring, high investment); largely abandoned in biology, replaced by the fast-slow continuum.
R/place
r/place is Reddit's collaborative pixel-canvas experiment, run in 2017, 2022, and 2023, where users place one tile per cooldown on a shared canvas; the 2022 edition drew over 10 million people and 160 million tile placements.
R/The Donald
r/The_Donald: pro-Donald Trump subreddit founded June 2015, quarantined 2019, restricted February 2020, and banned June 29, 2020 with about 2,000 subreddits under Reddit's hate-speech policy; its 790,000 users had largely migrated to thedonald.win.
R/V Falkor
R/V Falkor was an 82.9-meter oceanographic research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean Institute from 2012 to 2022, converted from a German fisheries protection vessel and donated to Italy in 2022.
R/V Kaimei
R/V Kaimei (かいめい) is a Japanese seafloor wide-area research vessel built in 2016 and operated by JAMSTEC for broad, integrated surveys of the seafloor and strata beneath it.
R/V Meteor
R/V Meteor is a German multidisciplinary ocean research vessel, the third of three ships named Meteor, built in 1986 and owned by the Federal Republic of Germany.
R/V Mirai
R/V Mirai (みらい, "future") was a Japanese oceanographic research vessel of JAMSTEC, converted from the nuclear ship Mutsu, which completed 268 voyages from 1997 until retirement in 2025.
R/V Neil Armstrong
R/V Neil Armstrong (AGOR-27) is an American Ocean Class research vessel owned by the US Navy and operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
R/V Polarstern
R/V Polarstern is a German research icebreaker operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute from Bremerhaven since 1982, working alternately in the Antarctic and Arctic and best known for the MOSAiC drift expedition.
R/V Roger Revelle
R/V Roger Revelle is a Global Class oceanographic research vessel owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, delivered in 1996 and named for the former Scripps director Roger Revelle.
R/V Sally Ride
R/V Sally Ride is a Navy-owned oceanographic research ship operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, delivered in 2016 and named for the first American woman in space.
R/V Sikuliaq
R/V Sikuliaq is a 261-foot, global-class oceanographic research vessel owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks from Seward.
R/wallstreetbets
R/wallstreetbets, also known as WallStreetBets, is a Reddit forum for high-risk options trading, created by Jaime Rogozinski in 2012 and famous for the 2021 GameStop short squeeze.
R&R Ice Cream
R&R Ice Cream was an own-label and licensed ice cream manufacturer at Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire, founded in 1985 as Richmond Ice Cream and merged into Froneri in 2016.
R&S Records (record label)
R&S Records is a Belgian electronic music label founded in Ghent in 1983 by Renaat Vandepapeliere and Sabine Maes, known for releases by Aphex Twin and Joey Beltram.
R0 resection
An R0 resection is a cancer operation after which no residual tumor remains, meaning the pathologist finds no tumor cells at or near any resection margin.