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Reel-to-reel audio tape recording

Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, also called open-reel, is an analog magnetic tape format wound on open reels, dominant in professional and broadcast recording from the late 1940s until digital formats displaced it.

Reelfoot Lake

Reelfoot Lake is a shallow natural lake in northwestern Tennessee, the state's largest natural lake at 10,427 acres, formed by subsidence during the February 1812 New Madrid earthquake.

Reelin

Reelin (RELN gene) is a large extracellular matrix glycoprotein controlling neuronal migration and cortical layering via ApoER2/VLDLR-Dab1 signaling; absent in reeler mice, lost in human lissencephaly, and protective COLBOS variants delay Alzheimer's disease.

ReelShort

ReelShort is a vertical micro-drama streaming app operated by California's Crazy Maple Studio, launched in 2022 and known for minute-long episodes of serialized romance and revenge dramas.

REEM

REEM is a wheeled humanoid service robot developed by PAL Robotics of Barcelona, Spain, used as a guide and receptionist in hotels, museums, and airports.

Reem Al Hashimy (ريم بنت إبراهيم الهاشمي)

Reem bint Ebrahim Al Hashimy (ريم بنت إبراهيم الهاشمي), born 1978, is the UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation since 2016 who led the Expo 2020 Dubai bid, runs Expo City Dubai, and directs UAE Gaza aid diplomacy.

Reem Alabali-Radovan

Reem Alabali-Radovan, born 1990, is a German SPD politician who has served as Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development in the Merz cabinet since 2025.

Reem Alsalem

Reem Alsalem, Jordanian UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls since 1 August 2021; former UNHCR official; known for climate-crisis, sex-based-violence and mothers reports and gender-identity controversies.

Reem Shaikh (रीम समीर शेख)

Reem Shaikh (रीम समीर शेख), born 2002 in Oman, is an Indian TV and film actress who debuted as a child artiste in Neer Bhare Tere Naina Devi and starred in Tujhse Hai Raabta and the Malala biopic Gul Makai.

Reema Kagti

Reema Kagti is an Indian writer, producer, and director in Hindi cinema. She directed Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd., Talaash, and Gold, co-wrote Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Gully Boy, created Made in Heaven and Dahaad with Zoya Akhtar, and co-founded Tiger Baby.

Reema Lagoo (रीमा लागू)

Reema Lagoo (रीमा लागू), born Nayan Bhadbhade in 1958, was an Indian Marathi and Hindi film, television and theatre actress famous as Bollywood's modern on-screen mother in Maine Pyar Kiya, Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! and Vaastav; she died of cardiac arrest in Mumbai on 18 May 2017.

Reema Sen

Reema Sen (ரீமா சென்) is an Indian actress, born in Kolkata in 1981, who worked in Telugu and Tamil cinema and is known for Minnale and Gangs of Wasseypur.

Reena Raggi

Reena Raggi, born 1951, is a senior United States circuit judge of the Second Circuit, appointed by George W. Bush in 2002 after serving as a district judge.

Reena Roy (रीना रॉय)

Reena Roy (रीना रॉय), born Saira Ali in 1957, is an Indian actress who was a leading lady of Hindi cinema from 1972 to 1985, later taking character roles.

Reena Szczepanski

Reena Szczepanski is an American politician, a Democrat representing District 47 in the New Mexico House of Representatives since 2022 and serving as House Majority Floor Leader.

Reentered spacecraft, 1970–1979

The reentered spacecraft of 1970–1979 include the Soyuz 11 crew lost during descent in 1971, Cosmos 954's reactor over Canada in 1978, and Skylab in July 1979.

Reentered spacecraft, 1980–1989

Covers spacecraft reentries from 1980 to 1989, a decade averaging about 100 large reentries yearly, from routine Shuttle landings to Soviet stations deorbited over the Pacific.

Reentered spacecraft, 1990–1999

Reentered spacecraft, 1990–1999 surveys roughly 50 to 110 cataloged reentries each year, defined by the uncontrolled 1991 reentry of the 40-tonne Salyut 7 station over Argentina.

Reentrancias Maranhenses

Reentrâncias Maranhenses (APA das Reentrâncias Maranhenses), a 2,680,911-hectare Environmental Protection Area on Maranhão's western coast, Brazil; Ramsar Site no. 640 (1993) and WHSRN hemispheric shorebird reserve, holding Brazil's largest continuous mangrove area.

Reeperbahn

The Reeperbahn is a roughly 930-meter street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, the city's entertainment and red-light district, where the Beatles launched their career at the Star-Club in 1962.

ReesaTeesa

ReesaTeesa, real name Tareasa Johnson, is an Atlanta-area TikTok creator whose 50-part, roughly eight-hour series "Who TF Did I Marry?" (February 2024) went viral with over 400 million views, recounting her marriage to a man she calls Legion.

Reese McGuire

Reese McGuire (Reese Jackson McGuire, born 1995, Seattle) is an MLB catcher, drafted 14th overall by Pittsburgh in 2013, traded to Toronto in 2016, later with the White Sox, Red Sox, and Cubs.

Reese Poffenbarger

Reese Poffenbarger is an American college football quarterback from Middletown, Maryland, who led the NCAA Division I FCS in passing yards as Albany's quarterback in 2023.

Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon, born Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (1976), American actress, producer, and Hello Sunshine founder; Oscar winner for Walk the Line, star of Legally Blonde, Election, Wild, Big Little Lies, and The Morning Show.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, the chocolate-and-peanut-butter cup candy invented by H.B. Reese in 1928 in Hershey, Pennsylvania and made by The Hershey Company since 1963; top US Halloween candy, 25 million cups made daily, classic recipe restored for coated products in 2027.

Reese's Pieces

Reese's Pieces: bite-sized peanut butter candy in orange, yellow, and brown crunchy shells, made by The Hershey Company since 1978; contains no chocolate; famous for the 1982 E.T. product placement that tripled sales.

Reeta Chakrabarti

Reeta Chakrabarti (born 1964) is a British journalist, Chief Presenter for BBC News leading the News at Six and Ten, former community affairs, political, and education correspondent, Chancellor of York St John University, and author of the novel Finding Belle.

Reeta Sanyal

Reeta Sanyal (रीता सान्याल) is a 2024 Hindi legal crime dramedy web series on Disney+ Hotstar, directed by Abhirup Ghosh, starring Adah Sharma as a lawyer-detective, adapted from Amit Khan's Reeta Sanyal Ke Mukkadamein novels, 20 episodes, IMDb 5.0/10.

Reeva Steenkamp

Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp (1987-2013), South African model, law graduate, and reality TV star killed by Oscar Pistorius on 14 February 2013; Pistorius was convicted of murder and paroled in January 2024.

Reeve Carney

Reeve Carney, American actor-singer-songwriter; frontman of the band Carney; originated Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Orpheus in Hadestown; now Gatsby on Broadway with Eva Noblezada.