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Randall Munroe
Randall Patrick Munroe is an American cartoonist and former NASA roboticist, creator of the stick-figure webcomic xkcd and author of What If? and Thing Explainer.
Randall Park
Randall Park, American actor, comedian, writer, and director born 1974 in Los Angeles to Korean immigrant parents; known as Louis Huang on Fresh Off the Boat, Kim Jong-un in The Interview, Jimmy Woo in the MCU, and director of Shortcomings.
Randall Q. Snurr
Randall Q. Snurr is a chemical engineer and the John G. Searle Professor at Northwestern University, known for computationally designing nanoporous materials, especially metal–organic frameworks.
Randall R. Reed
Randall R. Reed is a neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, an HHMI investigator known for work on odorant detection and olfactory receptor gene choice.
Randall S. Johnson
Randall S. Johnson is a molecular biologist who studies how cells respond to low oxygen through the HIF transcription factors, and sits on the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.
Randall S. Singer
Randall S. Singer is a veterinary epidemiologist and Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, known for research quantifying antimicrobial resistance at the animal–human interface.
Randall T. Moon
Randall T. Moon is a University of Washington pharmacologist and HHMI investigator known for establishing Wnt signaling as a major field of biology, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Randall W. King
Randall W. King, known as Randy King, is an American cell biologist at Harvard Medical School who co-discovered the anaphase-promoting complex during doctoral work at UCSF.
Randall W. Poston
Randall W. Poston is an American structural engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 and a founding principal of Pivot Engineers in Austin, Texas.
Randall Wallace
Randall Wallace is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist best known for writing Braveheart, the 1995 Oscar-winning epic that brought him Academy and Golden Globe nominations.
Randall Woodfield
Randall Brent Woodfield (born 1950), the I-5 Killer or I-5 Bandit, is a Portland State football player drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1974 who became a serial killer along Interstate 5, sentenced to life plus 90 years.
Randall Wright
Randall Wright is a monetary economist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known as a pioneer of the search-theoretic approach to money with Kiyotaki and Lagos.
Randall–Sundrum model
The Randall–Sundrum model, proposed by Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum in 1999, uses a warped extra dimension to explain the vast gap between the Planck and weak scales.
Randall's Island (music)
Randall's Island is a park in New York City's East River, best known in EDM as home of the Electric Zoo festival, which ran from 2009 to 2023.
Randalls and Wards Islands
Randalls and Wards Islands are adjoining East River islands between Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens, joined by landfill into a roughly 480-acre park with Icahn Stadium, 60+ athletic fields, and city facilities.
Randamoozham
Randamoozham (രണ്ടാമൂഴം, "the second turn") is a Malayalam novel by M. T. Vasudevan Nair, published in December 1984, that retells the Mahabharata through the eyes of Bhima and won the Vayalar Award.
Randaula Khan
Randaula Khan (رندولہ خان) was a general of the Adil Shahi kingdom of Bijapur who conquered Bangalore and the Karnataka country in 1639 under Sultan Muhammad Adil Shah.
Randburg
Randburg: northwestern Johannesburg residential, retail and commercial area; independent municipality founded 1 July 1959, named for the Rand currency, absorbed into City of Johannesburg after 2000.
Rande Gerber
Rande Gerber (born 1962) is an American entrepreneur and former model, founder of the Gerber Group nightlife company and co-founder, with George Clooney and Mike Meldman, of Casamigos Tequila, sold to Diageo in 2017 for up to $1 billion; married to Cindy Crawford.
Randee Heller
Randee Heller (born Randee Antzis, 1947, Brooklyn) is an American character actress: Alice on Soap, Lucille LaRusso in The Karate Kid films and Cobra Kai, and Emmy-nominated Miss Blankenship on Mad Men.
Randeep Hooda (रणदीप हुड्डा)
Randeep Hooda (रणदीप हुड्डा), born 1976 in Rohtak, Haryana, is a Hindi film actor, equestrian medalist, and director known for Monsoon Wedding, Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai, Highway, Sarbjit, Extraction, and directing Swatantrya Veer Savarkar (2024).
Randers and Mariager Fjords and The Adjacent Sea
Randers and Mariager Fjords and The Adjacent Sea (Ramsar site 150) is a 39,190 ha Danish wetland designated 2 September 1977 in Jutland, covering two eutrophied fjords, Kattegat shallows, and waterbird habitats.
Randers FC
Randers FC, Danish Superliga club formed 1 January 2003 from six Randers clubs (mother club Randers Sportsklub Freja), plays at Cepheus Park Randers; Danish Cup winners 2006 and 2021, best finish 3rd in 2012/13, Suzuyo-owned since 2024.
Randhir Jaiswal
Randhir Jaiswal, 1998-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, is Official Spokesperson and Additional Secretary (XP) of India's Ministry of External Affairs since January 2024; former consul general in New York.
Randhir Kapoor (रणधीर राज कपूर)
Randhir Kapoor (रणधीर राज कपूर), born 1947, is a Hindi film actor, producer, and director, eldest son of Raj Kapoor; debut Kal Aaj Aur Kal (1971), hits Jawani Diwani, produced Ram Teri Ganga Maili, directed Henna, head of RK Studios.
Randi Oakes
Randi Oakes (Betty Lee Oakes, born 1951, Sumner, Iowa) is a retired American actress and former model, best known as Officer Bonnie Clark on CHiPs (1979-1982) and as the wife of actor Gregory Harrison.
Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten is an American labor leader and attorney who has led the 1.8 million-member American Federation of Teachers since 2008, after presiding over New York City's United Federation of Teachers.
Randi Zuckerberg
Randi Zuckerberg, born Randi Jayne Zuckerberg, is an American technology executive who spent six years at Facebook as director of marketing before founding Zuckerberg Media.
Randidangazhi
Randidangazhi (രണ്ടിടങ്ങഴി, "Two Measures of Rice") is a 1948 Malayalam novel by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai depicting Dalit agricultural laborers in Kuttanad, Kerala, and their entry into class struggle.
Randijaure
Randijaure (Ráddnávrre) is a 51 km² regulated lake in Jokkmokk Municipality, Norrbotten, Sweden, on the Lilla Luleälven; oligotrophic, max depth 31 m, reservoir of the Randi hydropower station built from 1973.