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Ramses Debruyne

Ramses Debruyne (born 2002, Rollegem) is a Belgian road cyclist for Alpecin-Premier Tech; 2026 Vuelta 32nd overall with three third-place stage finishes, no UCI wins.

Ramsey cardinal

A Ramsey cardinal is a large cardinal whose finite subsets cannot be 2-colored without a homogeneous set of full size, introduced by Erdős and Hajnal in 1962.

Ramsey Clark

Ramsey Clark (William Ramsey Clark), U.S. attorney general 1967–1969 under Lyndon Johnson; also deputy attorney general and Lands Division chief. Later antiwar activist, two-time New York Senate candidate, and defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein, Milosevic, and other controversial clients; died 2021.

Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States

Ramsey County, Minnesota: county in east-central Minnesota, established October 27, 1849, named for Alexander Ramsey. County seat Saint Paul, the state capital; smallest of Minnesota's 87 counties by area, second most populous, first Home Rule Charter County (1992).

Ramsey interferometry

Ramsey interferometry, also called the method of separated oscillatory fields, is a spectroscopic technique introduced by Norman Ramsey in 1950 that underlies atomic clocks and earned him half of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Ramsey Lewis

Ramsey Lewis (Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis Jr., 1935–2022) was a Chicago jazz pianist and composer whose trio's 1965 hit "The In Crowd" crossed over to pop, leading to three Grammys, Sun Goddess, and NEA Jazz Master honors.

Ramsey Nasr

Ramsey Nasr (born 1974 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch poet, writer, and actor who served as the Netherlands' Dichter des Vaderlands, or poet laureate, from 2009 to 2013.

Ramsey Nouah

Ramsey Nouah (Ramsey Tokunbo Nouah Jr.) is a Nigerian actor, director and producer born 1970 in Lagos. Famous as Jeff in Fortunes and "Lover Boy", he won the 2010 AMAA Best Actor for The Figurine and debuted as director with Living in Bondage: Breaking Free (2019).

Ramsey number

A Ramsey number is the smallest number of vertices forcing a clique or independent set of given sizes in any graph, with R(3,3) = 6.

Ramsey rule

The Ramsey rule, proved by Frank P. Ramsey in 1927, says a government raising revenue through commodity taxes should tax goods in inverse proportion to demand elasticity.

Ramsey Solutions

Ramsey Solutions, legally the Lampo Group, is a personal-finance media and education company co-founded by Dave Ramsey in Franklin, Tennessee in 1992, home of The Ramsey Show.

Ramsey theory

Ramsey theory is a branch of combinatorics studying how large a structure must be before it is forced to contain a well-organized substructure, named for Frank Ramsey, who proved its central theorem in 1930.

Ramsey's theorem

Ramsey's theorem is a combinatorics result proved by Frank Ramsey in 1930: any coloring of a sufficiently large set's subsets has a large homogeneous subset, founding Ramsey theory.

Ramsgate

Ramsgate is a Kent seaside town and port on the Isle of Thanet, population about 40,000, home to the UK's only Royal Harbour (George IV, 1821), built 1749-1850, a Dunkirk embarkation point.

Ramsha Khan (رمشا خان)

Ramsha Khan (رمشا خان), born 1994 in Karachi, is a Pakistani Urdu-television actress known for Ghissi Pitti Mohabbat, Hum Tum, and Duniyapur, plus films Thora Jee Le, Teri Meri Kahaniyaan, and Love Guru.

Ramshir oil field

The Ramshir oil field is an onshore oil field in Khuzestan province, southwest Iran, southeast of Ahvaz, discovered in 1961 and producing from the Asmari Formation.

Ramshorn snail

Ramshorn snail: common name for freshwater snails of family Planorbidae (also planorbids, wheel snails), with flat disklike ram's-horn shells, air-breathing pulmonates lacking an operculum, hemoglobin-red bodies, hermaphroditic; common aquarium algae grazers and trematode hosts.

Ramstein Air Base

Ramstein Air Base, also known as Ramstein AB, is a United States Air Force base near Kaiserslautern, Germany, and the headquarters of US Air Forces in Europe.

Ramstein air show disaster

The Ramstein air show disaster (Flugtag '88) was a 1988 midair collision of three Italian Frecce Tricolori jets at Ramstein Air Base, West Germany, killing 70.

Ramtha's School of Enlightenment

Ramtha's School of Enlightenment is a channeling-based spiritual school founded by JZ Knight at her ranch near Yelm, Washington, in the late 1980s, where she delivers teachings attributed to Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old warrior entity.

Ramtin Naimi

Ramtin Naimi is an American venture capitalist who founded the seed-stage firm Abstract in 2016, best known as an early backer of xAI, Solana, and Polymarket.

Ramucirumab

Ramucirumab (Cyramza, IMC-1121B), Eli Lilly's fully human VEGFR2 monoclonal antibody angiogenesis inhibitor; FDA approved 2014 for gastric, NSCLC, colorectal cancers and 2019 for AFP-high hepatocellular carcinoma.

Ramudu Bheemudu (రాముడు భీముడు)

Ramudu Bheemudu (రాముడు భీముడు) is a 1964 Telugu comedy drama directed by Tapi Chanakya, starring N. T. Rama Rao in his first dual role, produced by D. Ramanaidu for Suresh Productions, and remade as Enga Veetu Pillai and Ram Aur Shyam.

Ramulus Mori (mulberry twig) total alkaloids tablets

Ramulus Mori (mulberry twig) total alkaloids tablets (桑枝总生物碱片, Sangbo'en), China's first original natural glucose-lowering drug, approved 17 March 2020 for type 2 diabetes; α-glucosidase inhibitor from mulberry twigs, non-inferior to acarbose with fewer GI reactions.

Ramuri

Ramuri is a Romanian literary and cultural magazine founded at Craiova in December 1905 by two schoolboys, and still published today by the Writers' Union of Romania.

Ramush Haradinaj

Ramush Haradinaj, Kosovo Albanian politician and former Kosovo Liberation Army commander for the Dukagjin area, born 1968; former Kosovo prime minister twice tried and twice acquitted at the ICTY (case IT-04-84) in 2008 and 2012; led the AAK party for 26 years.

Ramushenti

Ramushenti was a nomarch of the Oryx nome, the 16th nome of Upper Egypt, during Egypt's 11th Dynasty, known from his rock-cut tomb 27 at Beni Hasan.

Ramvichar Netam

Ramvichar Netam is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician serving as a minister in Chhattisgarh, holding agriculture and tribal development portfolios, after serving in the Rajya Sabha from 2016 to 2022.

Ramvir Singh Bidhuri

Ramvir Singh Bidhuri is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party member who has represented South Delhi in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after serving in the Delhi assembly.

Ramy (TV series)

Ramy is a Hulu comedy-drama (2019-2022, 3 seasons, 30 episodes) created by and starring Ramy Youssef as a first-generation Egyptian-American Muslim in New Jersey; A24-produced, Peabody-winning, Golden Globe-winning, with a fourth season in development as of 2024.