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Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote (born 1969) is an Indian poet, translator, and independent curator based in Mumbai who has published eight poetry books and curated India's first national pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011.
Ranjit Mallick (রঞ্জিত মল্লিক)
Ranjit Mallick (রঞ্জিত মল্লিক, also Ranjit Mullick), Bengali film actor born 1944 in Kolkata; debuted in Mrinal Sen's Interview, won Karlovy Vary best actor 1972, starred in Mouchak, Shatru, Shakha Proshakha.
Ranjit Singh (ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ)
Ranjit Singh (ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ, 1780–1839), Sher-e-Punjab, founded the Sikh Empire: Sukerchakia misl leader who took Lahore in 1799, reigned as Maharaja 1801–1839, built an 85,000-strong army with Napoleonic officers, and ruled until his death.
Ranjit Singh of Bharatpur
Ranjit Singh of Bharatpur, youngest son of Maharaja Suraj Mal, ruled the Bharatpur state from the late 1770s until his death in 1805, withstanding Lord Lake's siege.
Ranjit Singh's conquest of Amritsar
Ranjit Singh's conquest of Amritsar was the 1802 capture of the city from its Bhangi sardars, ending with the Lohgarh fort and the Zamzama gun in his hands.
Ranjith (actor)
Ranjith (ரஞ்சித்), Tamil actor-director born 1972 in Coimbatore; debut Pon Vilangu (1993), Best Villain award for Maru Malarchi, acclaimed in Pandavar Bhoomi; distinct from singer Ranjith, Pa. Ranjith, and the Malayalam director.
Ranjith (രഞ്ജിത്ത് ബാലകൃഷ്ണൻ) (director)
Ranjith Balakrishnan (രഞ്ജിത്ത് ബാലകൃഷ്ണൻ), Malayalam screenwriter-director-producer-actor born 1964 in Kozhikode; wrote Devasuram and Aaraam Thampuran, directed Ravanaprabhu, Thirakkatha, Indian Rupee; chaired Kerala Chalachitra Academy; arrested 2026 in sexual assault case, later bailed.
Ranjith Menon
Ranjith Menon is an Indian venture capitalist, Partner and Managing Director at Chiratae Ventures since 2007, known for early-stage investments in Myntra, Uniphore, and Redcliffe Labs.
Ranjith Sajeev
Ranjith Sajeev (രഞ്ജിത്ത് സജീവ്) is an Indian actor in Malayalam cinema, Dubai-raised and a civil engineering graduate. Debut lead in Mike (2022), produced by John Abraham; known for Golam (2024), United Kingdom of Kerala (2025), and Half (2026), which premiered at TIFF's Midnight Madness.
Ranjitha (ஸ்ரீ வள்ளி)
Ranjitha, born Sri Valli, is an Indian former film and television actress who worked mainly in Tamil cinema from Nadodi Thendral (1992) until her retirement in 2010.
Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak
The Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak, or Ranjitram Gold Medal (રણજિતરામ સુવર્ણચંદ્રક), is Gujarati literature's highest honor, awarded yearly by the Gujarat Sahitya Sabha since 1928, first to Zaverchand Meghani.
Ranjitsinhji
Ranjitsinhji (Ranji), 1872-1933, Jam Saheb of Nawanagar and Test cricketer for England and Sussex; inventor of the leg glance, 989 Test runs at 44.95, Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1897.
Rank (linear algebra)
The rank of a matrix is the dimension of the space spanned by its columns, equivalently its rows, equal to the number of pivots after row reduction.
Rank 1
Rank 1, also known as Piet Bervoets and Benno de Goeij, is a Dutch trance duo formed in 1999 whose single "Airwave" reached the UK top 10.
Rank correlation
Rank correlation is a family of statistics that measures association between two variables by comparing ranks, with Spearman's ρ and Kendall's τ as the standard coefficients.
Rank insignia of the Austro-Hungarian Army
Rank insignia of the Austro-Hungarian Army (k.u.k. forces, 1867–1918): six-pointed stars and lace on Paroli collar patches and sleeves, celluloid or embroidered stars, silver/gold button-colour rules, 1915 Generaloberst rank.
Rank of a partition
The rank of a partition is a statistic introduced by Freeman Dyson in 1944, defined as the largest part minus the number of parts, explaining Ramanujan's congruences.
Rank reduction (statistics)
Rank reduction is a statistical technique that approximates a data or parameter matrix by one of lower rank, minimizing squared error; in multivariate regression it appears as reduced-rank regression, introduced by T. W. Anderson in 1951.
Rank regression
Rank regression is a nonparametric regression method that fits models to the ranks of the data instead of raw values, reducing sensitivity to outliers and distributional assumptions.
Rank-into-rank cardinal
A rank-into-rank cardinal is the critical point of a nontrivial elementary embedding from some rank into itself, a hypothesis at the top of the large cardinal hierarchy in set theory.
Rank–nullity theorem
The rank–nullity theorem, also called the dimension theorem, is a linear algebra result stating that rank plus nullity equals the dimension of the map's domain.
RankBrain
RankBrain is a machine-learning ranking system Google deployed in Search in 2015, its first deep learning system there, interpreting never-before-seen queries and ranking among Google's most important signals.
Ranked set sampling
Ranked set sampling is a sampling design for estimating a population mean in which units are ranked cheaply before measurement, introduced by McIntyre in 1952.
Ranked voting
Ranked voting (ranked-choice voting, RCV; instant-runoff voting, IRV; single transferable vote, STV) lets voters rank candidates by preference, with instant-runoff tabulation producing majority winners; used in Maine, Alaska, NYC, and Australia.
Ranked-choice voting in the United States
Ranked-choice voting in the United States: instant-runoff ranking of candidates used in Maine, Alaska, and dozens of cities; over 800 US RCV elections since 2004, reaching nearly 14 million voters.
RankGPT
RankGPT is a framework introduced at EMNLP 2023 by Weiwei Sun and colleagues for using large language models as zero-shot listwise reranking agents in information retrieval.
Rankin County
Rankin County, Mississippi: county formed February 4, 1828 from Hinds County east of the Pearl River, named for Congressman Christopher Rankin; seat Brandon; Jackson suburb, 2020 population 157,031.
Rankin County torture incident
Rankin County torture incident: January 24, 2023 raid in Braxton, Mississippi, where six white "Goon Squad" officers tortured Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker without a warrant, shot Jenkins in the mouth, and got 10 to 40 year sentences.
Rankin Inlet
Rankin Inlet (Kangiqtiniq) is a hamlet on Hudson Bay's west coast in Nunavut's Kivalliq region, the territory's second-largest community (2,975 in 2021), founded on the 1957–1962 North Rankin Nickel Mine and now serving the Meliadine gold mine.
Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment
Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment, founded by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass as Videocraft International on September 14, 1960, made Animagic stop-motion holiday specials like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, largely produced in Japan, until 1987.