All articles starting with R
22,461 articles
Ramon E. Reyes, Jr.
Ramon Ernesto Reyes, Jr. is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2023, appointed by President Biden.
Ramón Emeterio Betances
Ramón Emeterio Betances (1827–1898), Puerto Rican physician, abolitionist, and independence leader known as 'El Antillano' and Father of the Puerto Rican Fatherland, founder of the Revolutionary Committee and instigator of the 1868 Grito de Lares.
Ramon Estevez
Ramon Estevez (Ramon Luis Estevez, also billed Ramon Sheen), born 1963 in Staten Island, is an American actor and producer, son of Martin Sheen, brother of Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen, who runs Estevez Sheen Productions and produced Anger Management.
Ramón Freire
Ramón Freire Serrano (1787–1851) was a Chilean military officer who served as Supreme Director of Chile from 1823 to 1826 and briefly as President in 1827.
Ramón Grau San Martín
Ramón Grau San Martín was a Cuban physician and politician who served twice as president of Cuba, provisionally in 1933 and elected from 1944 to 1948.
Ramón Iribarren Cavanilles
Ramón Iribarren Cavanilles (1900–1967) was a Spanish civil engineer who founded modern breakwater design, publishing the first rubble-mound stability formula in 1938; the Iribarren number is named for him.
Ramón J. Sender
Ramón J. Sender, in full Ramón José Sender Garcés, was an Aragonese Spanish novelist exiled after the Spanish Civil War, known for Réquiem por un campesino español.
Ramón Latorre
Ramón Latorre is a Chilean biophysicist who studies ion channels, founded Chile's Center for Scientific Studies, and won the National Prize in Natural Sciences in 2002.
Ramon Llull
Ramon Llull (Raymond Lully, Raimundus Lullus, 1232–1316) was a Catalan philosopher, theologian, and missionary from Majorca, author of the Ars Magna combinatorial system for interfaith conversion and over 200 works in Catalan, Arabic, and Latin.
Ramón López Velarde
Ramón López Velarde (1888–1921) was a Mexican poet from Jerez, Zacatecas, known as "El Poeta Nacional" for La sangre devota, Zozobra, and "La suave Patria."
Ramon Magsaysay
Ramon Magsaysay (1907–1957), "The Guy," third President of the Philippines (1953–1957), Defense Secretary who crushed the Hukbalahap rebellion, won 1953 by record margin, died in the 1957 Mount Manunggal plane crash.
Ramon Magsaysay Award
The Ramon Magsaysay Award, often called Asia's Nobel Prize, honors selfless service in Asia. It was created in 1957 in memory of the Philippine president.
Ramon Margalef
Ramon Margalef (1919–2004) was a Spanish ecologist and limnologist who held Spain's first chair of ecology, at the University of Barcelona in 1967, and pioneered applying information theory to species diversity.
Ramón María de Dalmau y de Olivart
Ramón María de Dalmau y de Olivart (Ramon de Dalmau i d'Olivart) was a Spanish jurist and professor of international law at Barcelona and Madrid.
Ramón Menéndez Pidal
Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869–1968) was a Spanish philologist and historian who introduced scientific philology into Spain, wrote the standard historical grammar of Spanish, and edited the Cantar de mio Cid.
Ramón Mercader
Ramón Mercader (Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río), Spanish communist and NKVD agent alias Jacques Mornard and Frank Jacson, killed Leon Trotsky with an ice axe in Coyoacán, Mexico, on 20 August 1940; served 20 years, received Hero of the Soviet Union.
Ramon Miller
Ramon Miller (Ramon Salomon Miller), Bahamian 400m sprinter born 1987 in Nassau; anchored Bahamas' Golden Knights to 2012 Olympic 4x400m gold (2:56.72 NR) over the USA, with 2008 relay silver and 44.87 400m best.
Ramón Nomar
Ramón Nomar, born Ramon Enrique Perez Fernandez in 1974 in Caracas, is a Venezuelan adult film performer who began in European productions in 1995 and later worked mainly in the United States.
Ramon Novarro
Ramon Novarro (José Ramón Gil Samaniego, 1899–1968), Mexican-born silent film star and MGM's top Latin Lover after Valentino's death, famous as Ben-Hur (1925); MGM dropped him in 1935, and he was murdered in 1968.
Ramon Parsons
Ramon Parsons is an American physician-scientist in cancer genetics known for discovering the PTEN tumor suppressor gene and directing the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center since 2017.
Ramón Pérez de Ayala
Ramón Pérez de Ayala (1880–1962) was a Spanish novelist, essayist, and diplomat, a leading figure of the Generation of 1914 known for Belarmino y Apolonio.
Ramón Power y Giralt
Ramón Power y Giralt (1775–1813) was a Puerto Rican-born officer of the Spanish Navy and the first deputy representing Puerto Rico in the Cortes de Cádiz.
Ramon Reed
Ramon Reed (born 2005, Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American actor known as Young Simba in The Lion King on Broadway and tour, Owen Blatt in Disney Channel's Just Roll with It, and Eddie in Netflix's 13: The Musical and Incoming; also a sickle cell advocate and podcast host.
Ramón Rodríguez (actor)
Ramón Rodríguez (born 1979, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican actor and producer, star and executive producer of ABC's Will Trent, known for The Wire, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and G20.
Ramon Romero
Ramon "Ramón" Romero Jr. is an American politician, a Democrat in the Texas House representing Fort Worth's 90th district since 2015 and the first Latino State Representative from Tarrant County.
Ramon Roselly
Ramon Roselly, born Ramon Kaselowsky, is a German Schlager singer from Zschernitz in Saxony-Anhalt who won the seventeenth season of DSDS in 2020 and has since released six studio albums.
Ramón Rubial lorategi botanikoa
Ramón Rubial lorategi botanikoa (Jardín Botánico Ramón Rubial) is a 60,000 m2 botanical garden in central Barakaldo, Bizkaia, designed by Ángel de Diego Rica, opened in 2002, with over 300 woody species, a Natur Gela visitor center, and a hedge maze.
Ramon S. Ang
Ramon S. Ang is a Filipino businessman who has been Chairman and CEO of San Miguel Corporation, one of the Philippines' largest conglomerates, since 2024.
Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium
Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium (Estadio Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán) is a football stadium in Seville's Nervión district, home to Sevilla FC since 1958, known for its steep, enclosed two-tier bowl.
Ramon syndrome
Ramon syndrome (OMIM 266270, ORPHA 3019), also called cherubism-gingival fibromatosis-intellectual disability syndrome, is an extremely rare autosomal recessive bone dysplasia combining cherubism, epilepsy, gum overgrowth, and intellectual disability, with about 8 reported cases.