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Rashaad Penny
Rashaad Penny, also known as Rashaad Armein Penny, is an American former football running back who played six NFL seasons, principally with the Seattle Seahawks before retiring in 2024.
Rashaan Salaam
Rashaan Salaam (1974-2016), Colorado Buffaloes running back, 1994 Heisman Trophy winner with 2,055 rushing yards and 24 touchdowns, later Chicago Bears first-round pick (21st overall, 1995) and youngest 1,000-yard NFL rookie rusher.
Rashad Evans
Rashad "Suga" Evans (born 1979, Niagara Falls, New York) is a retired American MMA fighter, The Ultimate Fighter 2 winner, and former UFC light heavyweight champion (2008-2009, 147-day reign), inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2019.
Rashad Haughton
Rashad Hasan Haughton (born 1977, Brooklyn) is an American writer, director, composer, and actor, older brother of Aaliyah. Known for shorts Love Like Aliens, Muga Shozoku, Half Samurai, and uncredited voice work completing Queen of the Damned.
Rashad Jennings
Rashad Jennings (born 1985, Forest, Virginia) is a former NFL running back from Liberty University, drafted 250th overall by Jacksonville in 2009; he played for the Jaguars, Raiders, and Giants, rushing for 3,772 yards and 23 touchdowns.
Rashad McCants
Rashad McCants (born 1984, Asheville, NC) is a former NBA guard, 2005 UNC national champion, 14th pick by Minnesota, known for 2014 UNC paper-class academic fraud allegations and BIG3 Trilogy title.
Rashahat 'Ayn al-Hayat
Rashahat 'Ayn al-Hayat is a Persian biographical work completed in 1503 by 'Ali Safi on the lives and sayings of Naqshbandi Sufi masters of Central Asia.
Rashami Desai
Rashami Desai (birth name reported as Shivani or Divya Desai) is an Indian television and film actress, born 1986 in Nagaon, Assam, best known as Tapasya in Colors' Uttaran (2009–2014), a Bigg Boss 13 contestant, and in 2026 the lead of Star Plus's Sayonee.
Rashan Gary
Rashan Gary, born 1997, is an NFL edge rusher for the Dallas Cowboys, formerly the Green Bay Packers' 2019 first-round pick (12th overall) from Michigan, with 47.5 career sacks and a March 2026 trade for a 2027 fourth-round pick.
Rashard Lewis
Rashard Lewis (born 1979), NBA forward 1998-2014, prep-to-pro draftee of the Seattle SuperSonics, two-time All-Star and 2013 champion with Miami; pioneer of the stretch four, 1,787 career threes, and the six-year $118 million Orlando contract.
Rashard Mendenhall
Rashard Mendenhall, NFL running back (2008-2013), Steelers and Cardinals, drafted 23rd overall in 2008 out of Illinois; 4,236 rushing yards, Super Bowl XLIII champion, retired at 26, wrote HBO's Ballers.
RaShaun Kemp
RaShaun Kemp is an American Democratic politician elected in 2024 to the Georgia State Senate from District 38 in Fulton County, the first openly gay Black man elected to the chamber.
Rashaville
Rashaville (Rašino selo, Рашино село) is a two-hectare rural theme park and hotel complex in Rudovci, Lazarevac, Belgrade, Serbia, founded by Serbian-American businessman Radoje Raša Stanojlović and opened in 2011, 55 km from Belgrade.
Rashba effect
The Rashba effect is a momentum-dependent splitting of electron energy bands into two spin states when inversion symmetry is broken, locking spin to momentum; it underlies the 1990 Datta–Das spin transistor.
Rashba–Edelstein effect
The Rashba–Edelstein effect converts electric current into spin polarization at interfaces lacking inversion symmetry, such as a two-dimensional electron gas, generating the spin-orbit torques used in spintronic devices.
Rashbam (רשב"ם)
Rashbam (רשב"ם), Samuel ben Meir, was a twelfth-century French rabbi and grandson of Rashi, known for a Torah commentary on the plain sense of Scripture.
Rashed Al-Majed
Rashed Al-Majed (راشد الماجد) is a Saudi Khaleeji pop singer, born in Bahrain in 1969, whose career began in 1984 and spans more than 22 albums, including the best-selling Al Musafir (1996).
Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui
Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui (رشید احمد صدیقی, 1892–1977) was an Urdu essayist, satirist, and critic known for his humor and his lifelong association with Aligarh Muslim University.
Rasheed Wallace
Rasheed Wallace, NBA forward-center (1974- ), UNC star drafted 4th in 1995; 16 seasons with Washington, Portland, Detroit, Boston, New York; 4x All-Star, 2004 Pistons champion, early stretch big, 'ball don't lie'.
Rasheeda
Rasheeda (Rasheeda Widad Buckner) is an American rapper and television personality from Atlanta, known for Southern hip-hop albums Dirty South (2001) through Boss Chick Music (2012), the single "My Bubble Gum," and Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta.
Rasheer Fleming
Rasheer Fleming (born 2004) is an NBA forward for the Phoenix Suns from Camden, New Jersey; drafted 31st overall in 2025 by Minnesota after playing at Saint Joseph's, where he made the All-Atlantic 10 First Team.
Rashepses
Rashepses, also read Shepsesre, was a chief justice and vizier of ancient Egypt's Fifth Dynasty who served King Djedkare Isesi and was buried in a large mastaba tomb at Saqqara.
Rashi (רש״י)
Rashi, also known as Shlomo Yitzchaki, was a French rabbi of Troyes whose commentaries on the Bible and Talmud became the most influential in Jewish history.
Rashid (lunar rover)
Rashid was a 10 kg lunar rover built by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai, the first Arab-built lunar rover, lost in the 2023 HAKUTO-R lander crash.
Rashid ad-Din Sinan
Rashid ad-Din Sinan (d. 1193), the Old Man of the Mountain, was the chief da'i of the Syrian Nizari Ismailis for about three decades, based at Masyaf; he fought Saladin, allied with Crusaders and Zangids, and died at Kahf.
Rashid Ahmad Gangohi
Rashid Ahmad Gangohi (رشید احمد گنگوہی) was an Indian Islamic scholar and Chishti-Sabiri Sufi shaykh who co-founded Darul Uloom Deoband and led it until his death in 1905.
Rashid Al Faris
Rashid Al Faris (راشد الفارس, Rashed Al Fares), born in 1971, is a Saudi Khaleeji pop singer nicknamed the Knight of Saudi Song, active since his 1997 debut album.
Rashid al-Din Hamadani
Rashid al-Din Hamadani, full name Rashid al-Din Fadl Allah, was a Persian physician and vizier of the Mongol Ilkhanate of Iran, born around 1247 and executed in 1318.
Rashid al-Din Sinan
Rashid al-Din Sinan (رشيد الدين سنان) led the Nizari Ismailis in Syria during the crusader era, known to Europeans as the Old Man of the Mountain.
Rashid al-Vatvat
Rashid al-Vatvat (رشيد الوطواط) was a Persian and Arabic poet, philologist, and prose writer who served as chief secretary to the Khwarazmshahs in the twelfth century and wrote Hada'iq al-sihr, an early Persian treatise on rhetoric.