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Rehman (actor)

Rehman, born Syed Rehman Khan, was an Indian film actor in Hindi cinema from the mid-1940s to the early 1980s. He is best known for his work with Guru Dutt.

Rehman Dheri

Rehman Dheri, also spelled Rahman Dheri, is an Early Harappan fortified settlement on the Gomal Plain in Pakistan, occupied from about 3340 to 1900 BC.

Rehman Oil and Gas Field

Rehman is a tight natural gas field in Dadu District, Sindh, Pakistan, discovered in 2009 and producing since 2013, operated by PGNiG (now ORLEN) with Pakistan Petroleum.

Rehmannia glutinosa

Rehmannia glutinosa (地黄, dihuang, Chinese foxglove) is a Chinese perennial herb whose tuberous root, used fresh, dried, or steamed, is a major traditional medicine; over 310 constituents including catalpol are documented.

Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein

Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein (रहना है तेरे दिल में, RHTDM) is a 2001 Hindi romantic drama by Gautham Vasudev Menon, a remake of his Tamil hit Minnale, starring R. Madhavan in his Hindi debut, Dia Mirza in hers, and Saif Ali Khan; a box-office disappointment that became a cult classic through Harris Jayaraj's music.

Rehnquist Court

The Rehnquist Court (1986-2005) is the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, marked by revived federalism limits on Congress (Lopez, Morrison), a shrinking docket, Bush v. Gore, and partial preservation of Warren-era precedents.

Rehoboam (רחבעם)

Rehoboam (רחבעם), son of Solomon and Naamah, first king of Judah after the kingdom split; his harsh answer at Shechem triggered the northern revolt under Jeroboam, and Shishak of Egypt plundered Jerusalem in his fifth year.

Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Rehoboth Beach, Delaware: Atlantic resort city in Sussex County, founded 1873 as a Methodist camp meeting ground, incorporated 1891 as Henlopen City, renamed 1893; mile-long boardwalk, 'Nation's Summer Capital,' 1,108 year-round residents swelling to about 25,000 on summer days.

Rehovot Ha-Nahar

Rehovot Ha-Nahar (רחובות הנהר, "Streets of the River") is a 1951 book of Hebrew poetry by Uri Zvi Greenberg lamenting the Holocaust's destruction of European Jewry.

Rehovot-in-the-Negev

Rehovot-in-the-Negev, also known as Ruheibe, is a ruined Nabataean-founded desert town in the central Negev, Israel, which peaked in the 5th and 6th centuries CE with 4,000 to 5,000 residents.

Rehuankh

Rehuankh is an ancient Egyptian personal name, written in hieroglyphs, recorded in three sentences in the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae corpus from 2278 to 1688 BCE.

Rehuerdjersen

Rehuerdjersen was an ancient Egyptian royal treasurer of the early Twelfth Dynasty, serving under Amenemhat I and Senwosret I, and known from a stela at Abydos and a mastaba tomb at Lisht North.

REI

REI, or Recreational Equipment, Inc., is an American consumer co-operative retailer of outdoor gear and apparel, founded in Seattle in 1938 and now the largest consumer co-operative in the United States.

Rei (直井 怜) (singer)

Rei (레이, 直井怜 Naoi Rei), born 2004 in Nagoya, is a Japanese singer and rapper in the K-pop girl group IVE under Starship Entertainment; debuted December 1, 2021 with ELEVEN, first Japanese Starship artist, nicknamed Kim Rei.

Rei Ami

Rei Ami (Sarah Yeeun Lee, Korean name Lee Yeeun/이예은, born 1995, Seoul) is a Korean-American alt-pop singer and rapper, debut single MAKE IT MINE (2019), album FOIL (2021), and the singing voice of Zoey in Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters, whose song Golden hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

Rei Ayanami (綾波レイ)

Rei Ayanami (綾波レイ) is the quiet First Child and pilot of Evangelion Unit-00 in Neon Genesis Evangelion, voiced by Megumi Hayashibara; a clone of Yui Ikari bearing Lilith's soul whose design spawned the "Ayanami-kei" archetype.

Rei Hance

Rei Hance, born Heather Donahue (1974), is the American actress who starred in The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Taken (2002). She retired in 2008, became a medical marijuana grower, wrote Growgirl (2012), legally changed her name in 2020, settled with Artisan in 2004, and refused the 2026 Blair Witch reboot over AI identity-rights concerns.

Rei Higuchi

Rei Higuchi (樋口黎), Japanese freestyle wrestler born 1996, 57 kg Olympic gold medalist at Paris 2024 and silver medalist at Rio 2016, also 2022 world champion at 61 kg, aiming for a second title at LA 2028.

Rei Kawakubo

Rei Kawakubo (川久保 玲), born 1942 in Tokyo, is the Japanese designer who founded Comme des Garçons in 1969, debuted in Paris in 1981 with deconstructed black "anti-fashion", created the 1997 Body Meets Dress collection, and built Dover Street Market.

Rei Kinjo

Rei Kinjo (金城 玲, born 1979) is a Japanese chemist at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for his 2011 Science paper on tricoordinate organoboron compounds.

Rei Nishiyama

Rei Nishiyama (西山麗), born 1984 in Yokosuka, Japan, is a retired softball infielder who won gold with Japan at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, took three Asian Games titles, and later coached Hitachi and Japan U-18 teams.

Rei Sakamoto

Rei Sakamoto (坂本 怜) is a Japanese tennis player, born in 2006, who won the 2024 Australian Open boys' singles title and reached junior world No. 1.

Rei Sakuma (佐久間レイ)

Born in 1965 in Tokyo, Rei Sakuma is a Japanese voice actress, singer, and narrator specializing in anime and theatrical films, notably voicing Jiji in Kiki's Delivery Service.

Rei Yasuda

Rei Yasuda (安田レイ), born Rachel Rhodes in North Carolina in 1993, is a Japanese singer who debuted solo in 2013 and sings anime theme songs.

Reich

Reich is a German neuter noun meaning realm, kingdom, or state, distinct from the adjective reich, and known in English from Deutsches Reich and Third Reich.

Reich Chancellery

Reich Chancellery (Reichskanzlei, Neue Reichskanzlei): Albert Speer's monumental Berlin annex to the Old Chancellery on Voßstraße, dedicated January 1939, cost 90 million RM, 420 m long, demolished 1949; site of the Führerbunker.

Reichenau Abbey

Reichenau Abbey, German Kloster Reichenau, was a Benedictine monastery founded in 724 by Pirmin on Reichenau Island in Lake Constance, Germany, and a leading intellectual center of the Holy Roman Empire.

Reichenbach Falls

Reichenbach Falls (Reichenbachfälle) are a seven-tiered, roughly 250 m waterfall above Meiringen, Switzerland, fed by Rosenlaui Glacier meltwater, served by the 1899 Reichenbachfall-Bahn funicular, and famous as Sherlock Holmes's apparent death site in Conan Doyle's 1893 "The Final Problem".

Reichman University

Reichman University, formerly the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC Herzliya), is a private nonprofit university in Herzliya, Israel. Founded in 1994 by Uriel Reichman, it became Israel's first private university in 2021.

Reichsadler

Reichsadler, the imperial eagle, the heraldic eagle of German state entities from the Holy Roman Empire onward; one-headed for the king, double-headed (Doppeladler) for emperors from 1433, surviving today as Germany's Bundesadler.