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Reed C. O'Connor
Reed C. O'Connor, born Reed Charles O'Connor in 1965, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Texas since 2007.
Reed C. Rollins
Reed C. Rollins (1911–1998) was an American systematic botanist and cytogeneticist who specialized in the mustard family and directed Harvard's Gray Herbarium from 1948 to 1978.
Reed canary grass
Reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) is a perennial grass native to Europe, grown for forage and, since the 1990s, as a biomass crop for solid biofuel.
Reed College
Reed College, founded 1908 in Portland, Oregon, is an independent liberal arts college known for its humanities core, senior thesis, conference teaching, 1995 U.S. News rankings boycott, and Reed Promise tuition-free aid.
Reed Diamond
Reed Edward Diamond, American actor (born 1967, New York City), Juilliard-trained; known as Det. Mike Kellerman on Homicide: Life on the Street, Terry Crowley on The Shield, Damien Karp on Franklin & Bash, and Daniel Whitehall on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Reed E. Pyeritz
Reed E. Pyeritz was an American medical geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania whose work on Marfan syndrome extended patients' average lifespan from 40 to 70 years.
Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr., born 1960) is the American co-founder of Netflix, its CEO for about 25 years until January 2023, previously founder of Pure Software, and a major charter-school education philanthropist who left the Netflix board in 2026.
Reed Hundt
Reed Hundt is an American lawyer and regulator who chaired the Federal Communications Commission from 1993 to 1997, overseeing the first U.S. spectrum auctions and the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Reed Richards
Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic), Marvel Comics genius scientist and leader of the Fantastic Four, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting November 1961; elastic body, married to Sue Storm, father of Franklin and Valeria.
Reed Sheppard
Reed Sheppard (born 2004) is an NBA guard for the Houston Rockets, third overall pick of the 2024 draft from Kentucky, known for 52.1% college 3-point shooting and record combine vertical.
Reed switch
A reed switch, also known as a reed sensor, is an electromechanical switch whose two ferromagnetic blades in a sealed glass tube close when magnetized, needing no power.
Reed Timmer
Reed Timmer is an American extreme meteorologist and storm chaser known for driving armored vehicles into tornadoes and starring in the Discovery Channel series Storm Chasers.
Reed V. Tuckson
Reed V. Tuckson is an American physician and public health leader who served as D.C. health commissioner, president of Charles R. Drew University, and a UnitedHealth Group executive.
Reed–Muller code
Reed–Muller codes are a family of linear error-correcting codes whose codewords are evaluations of multivariate polynomials over finite fields, introduced in 1954 by David E. Muller.
Reed–Solomon error correction
Reed–Solomon error correction is a family of error-correcting codes, introduced by Irving Reed and Gustave Solomon in 1960, used in QR codes, CDs, and spacecraft.
Reed–Sternberg cell
Reed–Sternberg cell (Sternberg–Reed cell): giant multinucleated malignant B cell, 15–45 µm, CD30+/CD15+, defining classic Hodgkin lymphoma; described by Sternberg (1898) and Reed (1902), usually under 10% of tumor cellularity.
Reeds–Shepp curve
A Reeds–Shepp curve is the shortest path between two oriented points in the plane for a car-like vehicle with a minimum turning radius that can drive both forwards and backwards.
Reedy Creek Gas Field
Reedy Creek Gas Field is a coal seam gas field in the Surat Basin of southeast Queensland, about 49 km north of Yuleba, developed by Australia Pacific LNG.
Reef
Reef: ridges built near the sea surface, chiefly by stony corals secreting calcium carbonate. Covers fringing, barrier, and atoll reefs, Darwin's subsidence theory, and the 2023-2025 fourth global bleaching event affecting 84% of reefs.
Reef (band)
Reef are an English rock band formed in 1993 in Glastonbury, Somerset, led by singer Gary Stringer. Known for "Place Your Hands" and the 1997 UK number-one album Glow, they blend Britpop-era rock with Rolling Stones and Black Crowes influences.
Reef Check
Reef Check: volunteer coral reef monitoring protocol and California-based non-profit foundation founded 1996 by Gregor Hodgson; ran the first global reef survey in 1997 across 300+ reefs in 31 countries, now monitors tropical reefs and kelp forests in 40+ countries.
Reef Island (Bahrain)
Reef Island (جزيرة ريف), formerly Lulu Island, is a luxury freehold artificial island off Manama, Bahrain, with about 1,217 apartments, 65 villas, and a five-star resort.
Reef knot
The reef knot, also called the square knot, is a binding knot formed by two overhand knots of opposite handedness, used to bind a line tightly around an object.
Reef Pass Investors
Reef Pass Investors is a Greenwich, Connecticut private investment firm founded by Robert Brown and Dan Millen that builds serial acquisition platforms in the lower middle market.
REEF Technology
REEF Technology Inc. is a Miami-based company that leases parking lots and repurposes them as neighborhood hubs for cloud kitchens, last-mile logistics, clinics, and micro-retail.
Reef triggerfish
Reef triggerfish (Rhinecanthus rectangulus), also wedgetail triggerfish and humuhumunukunukuāpua'a, an Indo-Pacific territorial triggerfish of shallow surge-swept outer reefs, Hawaii's official state fish since 1984, IUCN Least Concern.
Reefer Madness
Reefer Madness (1936), originally Tell Your Children, is an American anti-marijuana exploitation film directed by Louis J. Gasnier; rediscovered in 1972 by NORML, it became a public-domain midnight movie cult comedy and inspired a 2005 musical film.
Reefer ship
A reefer ship, or refrigerated cargo ship, carries perishable cargo such as fruit, meat, and fish in insulated holds cooled by the ship's own refrigeration plant.
Reel (dance)
The reel, also known as the Scottish reel or Ruidhleadh, is a lively folk dance and tune type of Scotland and Ireland, recorded as early as 1590.
Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish, an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California formed in 1992, broke through with Turn the Radio Off (1996) and "Sell Out," left Jive in 2006, released nine albums, and reunited at Warped Tour in 2026.