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Randle McMurphy
Randle Patrick McMurphy is the rebellious protagonist of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a convict who feigns insanity to escape a work farm, battles Nurse Ratched in an Oregon psychiatric ward, and ends lobotomized; Jack Nicholson played him in the 1975 Oscar-sweeping film.
Randles circuit
The Randles circuit, also called the Randles cell, is an equivalent electrical circuit proposed by John Randles in 1947 to model faradaic electrode reactions in electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.
Randolf Menzel
Randolf Menzel is a German neuroscientist who established the honeybee as a model for studying learning, memory, and color vision, leading Freie Universität Berlin's Institute of Neurobiology.
Randolfe Rodrigues
Randolfe Rodrigues, born Randolph Frederich Rodrigues Alves in 1972, is a Brazilian Workers' Party senator for Amapá serving as Leader of the Government in the National Congress under President Lula.
Randolph A. Miller M.D.
Randolph A. Miller, known as Randy Miller, is an American physician and biomedical informatics researcher at Vanderbilt University, best known for pioneering computer-assisted medical diagnosis through the INTERNIST-I project.
Randolph Air Force Base
Randolph Air Force Base (Randolph Field), the "West Point of the Air," is a 1930-founded USAF flying training base northeast of San Antonio, now JBSA-Randolph, home of Air Education and Training Command and a National Register historic district.
Randolph Apperson Hearst
Randolph Apperson Hearst (1915-2000), American newspaper executive, board chairman of Hearst Corp. 1973-1996, last surviving son of William Randolph Hearst, father of Patricia Hearst, kidnapped by the SLA in 1974.
Randolph Blake
Randolph Blake is an American cognitive neuroscientist known for his work on binocular rivalry and visual perception, and Centennial Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Vanderbilt University.
Randolph Caldecott
Randolph Caldecott (1846–1886) was an English illustrator whose annual Christmas picture books with printer Edmund Evans helped establish the modern picture book, and whose name became the Caldecott Medal.
Randolph Churchill
Randolph Churchill was an English journalist, writer, soldier, and politician, the only son of Winston Churchill and Conservative MP for Preston from 1940 to 1945.
Randolph County, North Carolina, United States
Randolph County, North Carolina: Piedmont county formed in 1779 from Guilford County, named for Peyton Randolph; county seat Asheboro; 790 sq mi; 2020 census population 144,171; home to the North Carolina Zoo and Seagrove potteries.
Randolph D. Moss
Randolph D. Moss, born 1961, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Columbia since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Randolph J. Noelle
Randolph J. Noelle, also known as Randolph Noelle, is an American immunologist and emeritus professor at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, known for discovering the CD40 ligand and VISTA.
Randolph Mantooth
Randolph (Randy) Mantooth (1945–2026), American actor known as Johnny Gage on NBC's Emergency! (1972), later Loving and As the World Turns; lifelong EMS advocate who died July 9, 2026, in Ventura, California, age 80.
Randolph McCoy
Randolph "Old Ranel" McCoy (1825-1914), Pike County, Kentucky patriarch of the McCoy clan in the Hatfield-McCoy feud; lost five children, home burned 1888, died by cooking-fire burns.
Randolph Scott
Randolph Scott (George Randolph Scott, 1898-1987) was an American film actor, star of more than 60 Westerns including the Ranown cycle with Budd Boetticher and Ride the High Country.
Randolph Wall
Randolph Wall is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA who studied RNA processing and splicing and the control of immunoglobulin gene expression, including the B29 gene.
Random Access Channel
The Random Access Channel is an uplink transport channel in 3GPP cellular systems, carried by the Physical Random Access Channel, that a device uses to initiate synchronization with the network.
Random Access Memories
Random Access Memories, Daft Punk's fourth and final studio album released 17 May 2013, a live-instrument, 1970s-inspired record with Get Lucky; sold over four million copies and won the 2014 Grammy Album of the Year.
Random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis
Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis is a PCR-based genetic fingerprinting method using a single short primer of arbitrary sequence, described in 1990 and used for strain typing, genetic mapping, and diversity studies.
Random assignment
Random assignment, or randomized assignment, places study participants into experimental conditions by chance, balancing known and unknown factors between groups; R. A. Fisher first stated the requirement in 1925.
Random attractor
A random attractor is a family of compact sets in a random dynamical system that attracts all bounded sets, introduced by Crauel, Debussche, and Flandoli in 1997.
Random circuit sampling
Random circuit sampling (RCS) is a benchmark that samples bit strings from a random quantum circuit's output; it underpinned Google's 2019 Sycamore quantum supremacy claim and is #P-hard classically.
Random degree
A random degree is an equivalence class of infinite binary sequences compared by relative randomness, most commonly the K-degrees induced by prefix-free Kolmogorov complexity of initial segments.
Random digit dialing
Random digit dialing (RDD) is a probability sampling method for telephone surveys that generates random phone numbers so unlisted households are covered, standard in election polling.
Random dynamical system
A random dynamical system is a mathematical model of dynamics driven by noise, developed systematically by Ludwig Arnold, that extends invariant measures, attractors, and bifurcation analysis to randomly forced systems.
Random early detection
Random early detection (RED) is an active queue management algorithm that drops router packets probabilistically to signal congestion, designed by Sally Floyd and Van Jacobson in 1993.
Random effects model
The random effects model, or variance components model, is a panel data estimator treating unobserved unit heterogeneity as random, more efficient than fixed effects when uncorrelated with regressors.
Random forcing
Random forcing, also called Solovay forcing, is a set-theoretic forcing method, introduced by Robert Solovay in the 1960s, that adjoins a real avoiding all null sets.
Random forest
A random forest is an ensemble learning method for classification and regression that builds many randomized decision trees and predicts by averaging their outputs or majority vote.