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Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt
Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, known as Reggie, was an American Vanderbilt family sportsman and leading horseman who inherited $10 million at 21 and was the father of Gloria Vanderbilt.
Reginald Cooper
Reginald Cooper is an American electronics engineer in the Sensors Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Ohio, a 2017 PECASE recipient known for radio-frequency electronic warfare research and mentoring.
Reginald Crundall Punnett
Reginald Crundall Punnett was a British geneticist who codiscovered genetic linkage with William Bateson, wrote the first genetics textbook, Mendelism, and gave his name to the Punnett square.
Reginald D. Hunter
Reginald Darnell Hunter, American stand-up comedian from Albany, Georgia, based in the UK since 1997; three-time Perrier nominee at Edinburgh Fringe, panel-show regular, and figure of the 2013 PFA awards N-word controversy.
Reginald Dyer
Reginald Dyer (1864–1927), British Indian Army brigadier-general, ordered the 13 April 1919 Jallianwala Bagh (Amritsar) massacre, firing 1,650 rounds without warning; censured by the Commons in 1920 and forced to retire.
Reginald E. Newell
Reginald E. Newell (1931–2002) was a British-born meteorologist who spent his career at MIT, studying climate system balances, global air pollution, and layered trace gases in the troposphere.
Reginald Fessenden
Reginald Fessenden was a Canadian-born electrical engineer and inventor who achieved the first transmission of speech by radio waves in 1900 and originated amplitude modulation.
Reginald H. Smithwick
Reginald H. Smithwick (1899–1987) was an American surgeon who developed lumbodorsal splanchnicectomy, then the only effective treatment for hypertension, and chaired surgery at Boston University.
Reginald Hall
Reginald Hall (1931–1994) was a British physician-scientist in endocrinology who built thyroid research units in Newcastle upon Tyne and Cardiff and published over 400 papers.
Reginald Hargreaves
Reginald Gervis Hargreaves (1852-1926), English amateur first-class cricketer for Hampshire (25 matches, average 13.94) and husband of Alice Liddell, inspiration for Alice in Wonderland; married 1880, lived at Cuffnells, Lyndhurst.
Reginald Heber
Reginald Heber (1783–1826) was an English clergyman and poet who served as the second Anglican Bishop of Calcutta from 1823 until his death in India in 1826.
Reginald Hudlin
Reginald Hudlin (born 1961) is an American director, writer, and producer of House Party (1990), Boomerang, and Marshall; BET president of entertainment 2005–2008; Marvel Black Panther comics writer; Django Unchained producer; brother of Warrington Hudlin.
Reginald M. Penner
Reginald M. Penner, also published as Reginald Penner, is an American electrochemist at UC Irvine known for the LPNE nanowire fabrication method and nanowire sensors.
Reginald Owen
Reginald Owen (John Reginald Owen, 1887–1972), English character actor; Scrooge in MGM's 1938 A Christmas Carol (replacing Lionel Barrymore), Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes on film, Admiral Boom in Mary Poppins.
Reginald Pecock
Reginald Pecock (c. 1390–1461) was an English bishop of St Asaph and then Chichester, the most prolific fifteenth-century English theologian writing in English, forced to abjure in 1457.
Reginald Pole
Reginald Pole, known as Cardinal Pole, was an English cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury, a cousin of Henry VIII who opposed the royal supremacy and led Mary I's Catholic restoration.
Reginald Rodrigues
Reginald Rodrigues (Reginald Neville Rodrigues-Rodricks, 1922–1995), Indian field hockey player from Bombay; won gold with India's men's team at the 1948 London Olympics, where India beat Great Britain 4-0 in the final.
Reginald VelJohnson
Reginald VelJohnson, born 1952 in Queens, New York, is an American actor famous as Sgt. Al Powell in Die Hard (1988, 1990) and Carl Winslow on the sitcom Family Matters (1989-1998), which was created as a vehicle for him after Die Hard; he is known for repeatedly playing police officers.
Reginald Victor Jones
Reginald Victor Jones was a British physicist who led scientific intelligence in World War II, countering German bomber beams and warning of the V-1 and V-2.
Régine Chassagne
Régine Chassagne (born 1976, Montreal) is a Haitian-Canadian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and cofounder/co-leader of Arcade Fire, and cofounder of the KANPE foundation for rural Haitian communities.
Regine Kahmann
Regine Kahmann, born 1948, is a German microbiologist who studied bacteriophage Mu and the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis, directing a Max Planck Institute department in Marburg from 2000 to 2019.
Regine Kleinau
Regine Kleinau, married name Heinicke, is a German middle-distance runner who competed for East Germany and set a 1000 m world best of 2:38.8 in Erfurt in 1971.
Regine Velasquez
Regine Velasquez-Alcasid (born 1970, Tondo, Manila), called Asia's Songbird, is the Philippines' best-selling artist; won Ang Bagong Kampeon 1984 and the 1989 Asia-Pacific Song Contest, known for birit belting.
Reginum/Castra Regina
Castra Regina (Reginum, Regina Castra), the Roman legionary fortress at Regensburg, Bavaria, founded AD 179 under Marcus Aurelius for Legio III Italica; 543 x 452 m, Porta Praetoria, abandoned 470, seat of the Agilolfingian dukes.
Regio I (Porta Capena)
Regio I (Porta Capena), first of Augustus's fourteen regions of the city of Rome, named for the Servian-wall gate where the Via Appia and Via Latina left the city; a narrow southern district from the Palatine past the gate to the Almo river.
RegioJet
RegioJet is a Czech private railway and bus operator, founded in 2009 as a subsidiary of Student Agency, known for yellow trains on the Prague–Ostrava route since 2011.
Regiomontanus
Regiomontanus, born Johann Müller of Königsberg, was a German astronomer and mathematician who completed the Epitome of the Almagest and founded the first printing house dedicated to scientific books.
Region
Region (geography): an area of Earth's surface unified by chosen physical or human characteristics; formal, functional, and perceptual types; central concept of regional geography, from Herodotus and Herbertson to systems theory and UN M49 statistical regions.
Región Andina (Argentina)
Región Andina (Argentina): the Argentine segment of the Andes, also called Los Andes, running ~4,000 km from 22°S to 55°S across 12 provinces, with Aconcagua (6,961 m), glaciers, lithium salt flats, and NOA-Cuyo-Patagonia economies.
Région d’Alger
Région d'Alger (Algiers region, الجزائر) is the north-central Algerian area around the capital, covering the Sahel d'Alger hills and the Mitidja plain; Ottoman Regency core 1516–1830, French département d'Alger, today a wilaya with 13 supra-daïra circonscriptions.