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Raúl Zurita
Raúl Zurita Canessa, born 1950 in Santiago, Chile, is a celebrated Chilean poet and CADA co-founder whose work registers the violence of the Pinochet dictatorship.
Raumesh Akbari
Raumesh Akbari (born 1984) is a Democratic Tennessee state senator for District 29 in Memphis and Senate Minority Leader, previously House District 91 member, attorney, and sponsor of the anti-slavery-punishment constitutional amendment.
Rauni Corona
Rauni Corona is a 271-km-diameter corona on Venus at 40.8°N, 271.9°E, IAU-named in 1985 for the Finnish goddess of harvest and earth, partly flooded by younger plains west of Beta Regio.
Raurkela Industrial Township
Raurkela (Rourkela) Industrial Township, the Steel Township of Rourkela, Odisha: planned company township of the Rourkela Steel Plant, 210,412 residents (2011), Krupp-Demag master plan, administered by SAIL's RSP.
Rautu Ka Raaz
Rautu Ka Raaz (रौतू का राज़), shown at IFFI 2023 as Rautu ki Beli, is a 2024 Hindi crime mystery drama directed by Anand Surapur, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Inspector Deepak Negi investigating a blind-school warden's death; released on ZEE5 on 28 June 2024.
Rauvolfia serpentina
Rauvolfia serpentina (Indian snakeroot, sarpagandha), an Apocynaceae shrub of South Asia whose reserpine-rich roots were major antihypertensive and sedative drugs; endangered by over-exploitation.
Rauw Alejandro
Rauw Alejandro (Raúl Alejandro Ocasio Ruiz, b. January 10, 1993, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a reggaeton/R&B singer and dancer; six studio albums from Afrodisíaco (2020) to Capítulo 0 (2025), Latin Grammy winner, Cosa Nuestra World Tour.
Rauwolscine
Rauwolscine, also known as alpha-yohimbine or isoyohimbine, is an indole alkaloid found in Rauvolfia plants and a stereoisomer of yohimbine that acts as an alpha-2 adrenergic receptor antagonist.
Rav Ashi (רב אשי)
Rav Ashi was a Babylonian amora who led the academy of Sura for over 50 years and, with Ravina, is traditionally named as redactor of the Babylonian Talmud.
Rav Wilding
Rav Wilding (Ravin Mika Wilding, born 1977), British TV presenter and former Metropolitan Police detective; Crimewatch host 2004-2011, Crimewatch Live since 2009, Scam Interceptors and Morning Live presenter, two-time BAFTA winner.
Rava (רבא) (amora)
Rava (רבא), full name Abba bar Joseph bar Ḥama, was a fourth-generation Babylonian amora who led the academy at Mahoza until his death around 352 CE.
Ravada A. Chandrasekhar
Ravada A. Chandrasekhar (Ravada Azad Chandrasekhar), 1991-batch Kerala cadre IPS officer and former Intelligence Bureau Special Director, has been Kerala's DGP and State Police Chief since July 2025, earlier a murder accused in the 1994 Koothuparamba firing before acquittal.
Ravan Press
Ravan Press was an independent South African publishing house founded in Johannesburg in 1972, the leading anti-apartheid publisher of fiction, politics, and social history until 1994.
Ravana (रावण)
Ravana (रावण), also Tosakanth in Thai tradition, is the ten-headed demon-king of Lanka in the Ramayana who abducts Sita and is killed by Rama; across South and Southeast Asia he is also honored as scholar, Shiva devotee, and anti-hero.
Ravana Shaking Mount Kailasa
Ravana Shaking Mount Kailasa, known iconographically as Ravananugrahamurti, is a Hindu temple sculpture theme showing the demon king Ravana lifting Shiva's mountain, carved across India from about the 5th century.
Ravandi
Ravandi (راوندی) was a Persian historian from Ravand near Kashan, Iran, who wrote the Rahat al-sudur, a history of the Great Seljuks completed around 1204.
Ravansar
Ravansar (روانسر) is a city in Kermanshah province, western Iran, 60 km west of Kermanshah at 1,380 m elevation. Known for Middle Paleolithic caves, the Musaei mound, the Achaemenid Kushk rock-cut tomb, Quri Qala Cave, and its role as gateway to the UNESCO Hawraman/Uramanat landscape.
Rave
Rave: all-night dance parties with electronic music (techno, house, trance, drum, and bass), originating in late-1980s UK acid house; unlicensed underground events, drug-related public health debates, legal crackdowns, and later commercialization into the EDM festival industry.
Rave Master
Rave Master, Japanese title Rave (レイヴ), also The Groove Adventure Rave: Hiro Mashima's 1999–2005 Weekly Shōnen Magazine fantasy manga, 35 volumes, following Haru Glory against Demon Card; 51-episode 2001 Studio Deen anime, cancelled mid-story.
Rave Radio
Rave Radio is an Australian electronic dance music duo formed in 2008 by DJs and producers Brett Allen and James Todman, known for live drums and vocals.
Raveena Aurora
Raveena Aurora, known mononymously as Raveena, is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter born in 1993, whose 2022 album Asha's Awakening was her major-label debut.
Raveena Tandon (रवीना टंडन)
Raveena Tandon (रवीना टंडन), born 1970 in Bombay, is an Indian actress, daughter of producer-director Ravi Tandon, who debuted in Patthar Ke Phool (1991), became a 1990s star via Mohra's songs, and later won a National Film Award for Daman and the Padma Shri.
Raveena Tandon filmography
Filmography of Indian actor Raveena Tandon, active since Patthar Ke Phool (1991), known for Mohra, Satta, Aks, KGF: Chapter 2, and Netflix's Aranyak, plus her 2023 Padma Shri.
Raveendra Nee Evide?
Raveendra Nee Evide? (രവീന്ദ്രാ നീ എവിടെ?), formerly Ideem Minnalum, is a 2025 Malayalam comedy thriller directed by Manoj Palodan, written by Krishna Poojappura, starring Anoop Menon as a suspicious weather officer; released 18 July 2025, flopped commercially.
Ravel (Mercurian crater)
Ravel is a 78-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at 12.01°S, 38.19°W, approved by the IAU in 1985 and named for French composer Maurice Ravel under Mercury's artist-and-musician crater naming theme.
Ravel Morrison
Ravel Morrison (Ravel Ryan Morrison, born 1993, Manchester) is a Jamaican international attacking midfielder, ex-Manchester United academy star of the 2011 FA Youth Cup, later of West Ham, Lazio, Derby, and D.C. United, now at Arabian Falcons FC.
Ravelin
A ravelin, also called a demi-lune (half-moon), is a detached triangular outwork of a bastioned fortress, typically placed in the ditch between two bastions to cover the gate and curtain.
Ravelry
Ravelry is a free online community, pattern database, and marketplace for knitters, crocheters, and other fiber artists, launched in 2007 by Casey and Jessica Forbes, with over 9 million members and no official mobile app.
Raven (DC Comics)
Raven (Rachel Roth) is a DC Comics superheroine created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, debuting in DC Comics Presents #26 (1980). Half-human daughter of the demon Trigon, raised in Azarath, founding New Teen Titan with soul-self and empathic powers, adapted in Teen Titans, Titans, and YA graphic novels.
Raven (drag queen)
Raven, stage name of David Petruschin, is an American drag queen from California, runner-up on RuPaul's Drag Race season 2 (2010) and All Stars 1 (2012), and RuPaul's Emmy-winning personal makeup artist.