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Ren Shang
Ren Shang (任尚) was an Eastern Han dynasty general who commanded against the Qiang peoples of the northwest, winning at Fuping before being executed for falsified reports and bribery.
Ren Zhengfei (任正非)
Ren Zhengfei (任正非), born in 1944, is a Chinese entrepreneur and former military engineer who founded Huawei in Shenzhen in 1987 and has served as its chief executive since 1988.
Ren Ziwei
Ren Ziwei (任子威), Chinese short track speed skater born 1997 in Harbin, double Olympic champion at Beijing 2022 in the 1000m and mixed relay, 2018 relay silver; retired after injuries.
Ren‐Gen Xiong
Ren-Gen Xiong (熊仁根, born 1961) is a Chinese chemist at Southeast University who founded ferroelectrochemistry and was elected a Chinese Academy of Sciences academician in 2023.
Ren'Py
Ren'Py is a free, open-source game engine for making visual novels, built on Python and first released in 2004; it powers most visual novels on Steam and itch.io.
REN21
REN21, the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, is a global non-profit network founded in 2004 that publishes the annual Renewables Global Status Report.
Rena
Rena (Baird & Girard, 1853) is a North American genus of threadsnakes (Leptotyphlopidae), revalidated from Leptotyphlops in 2009, with about 10-11 burrowing, ant- and termite-eating species from the southwestern US and Mexico.
Rena Bizios
Rena Bizios is an American biomedical engineer at UT San Antonio who studies cell interactions with implant materials; she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
Rena Owen
Rena Owen, born Maria Makarena Owen, is a New Zealand actress best known as Beth Heke in Once Were Warriors (1994), with roles in Star Wars and Whina (2022).
Rena R. Wing
Rena R. Wing is a researcher in the behavioral treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes, professor at Brown University and co-founder of the National Weight Control Registry.
Rena Ryūgū
Rena Ryūgū (竜宮レナ, legal name Reina) is the main female protagonist of Higurashi When They Cry's question arcs, known for her Omochikaeri catchphrase, Ibaraki backstory, and Tsumihoroboshi-hen school hostage arc.
Rena Sofer
Rena Sofer (Rena Sherel Sofer, born 1968) is an American actress, Emmy winner as Lois Cerullo on General Hospital and Quinn Fuller on The Bold and the Beautiful, also known for Melrose Place, Ed, and Keeping the Faith.
Renada Collins
Renada Collins is an American politician and Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Louisiana's 2nd District on the November 2026 ballot, after running for New Orleans mayor in 2025.
Renaissance
The Renaissance, or Il Rinascimento, was a period of cultural, artistic, and intellectual transformation in Europe from roughly 1400 to 1650, centered on Italy, above all Florence.
Renaissance (2006 film)
Renaissance (Paris 2054: Renaissance) is a 2006 French animated sci-fi noir by Christian Volckman, motion-captured and rendered in black and white, set in 2054 Paris where cop Karas (Daniel Craig) hunts kidnapped Avalon scientist Ilona.
Renaissance (band)
Renaissance: English progressive rock band founded 1969 by ex-Yardbirds Keith Relf and Jim McCarty, later rebuilt around Annie Haslam's soprano and Michael Dunford's compositions; best known for Ashes Are Burning (1973), Scheherazade and Other Stories, and the 1978 UK No. 10 single Northern Lights.
Renaissance (Beyoncé album)
Renaissance (stylized RENAISSANCE) is Beyoncé's seventh studio album, released July 29, 2022 on Parkwood/Columbia; Act I of a trilogy, a 16-track house, disco, and ballroom celebration of Black queer club culture that won the 2023 Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
Renaissance (French political party)
Renaissance is Emmanuel Macron's French centrist party, founded as En Marche! in 2016, renamed La République en marche in 2017 and Renaissance in 2022; led by Gabriel Attal since December 2024, it holds 102 National Assembly seats after the 2024 snap elections.
Renaissance architecture
Renaissance architecture, also known as the Renaissance style, began in early 15th-century Tuscany with Filippo Brunelleschi, reviving classical Roman symmetry, proportion, columns, and domes in place of Gothic.
Renaissance art
Renaissance art is the painting, sculpture, and decorative art produced in Europe from the early fifteenth to the late sixteenth century, reviving classical Greek and Roman values.
Renaissance Center
The Renaissance Center, locally the RenCen, is a group of seven skyscrapers on Detroit's riverfront, opened in 1977, later General Motors' world headquarters and home to Michigan's tallest building.
Renaissance Egg
The Renaissance Egg is an 1894 Imperial Fabergé Easter egg that Tsar Alexander III gave to Empress Maria Feodorovna, now in the Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg.
Renaissance epic
A Renaissance epic is a long narrative poem in the classical epic tradition written during the Renaissance, notably the Italian chivalric epics of Pulci, Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso.
Renaissance fair
Renaissance fair (Renaissance faire): outdoor festival recreating idealized Elizabethan village life with costumed performers, crafts, and jousting. First held May 1963 in Los Angeles by Phyllis and Ron Patterson as a KPFK fundraiser; about 200 US fairs now draw millions yearly.
Renaissance humanism
Renaissance humanism (studia humanitatis; Italian humanism): a 1350–1650 European cultural movement of classical literary and rhetorical studies, text recovery, and Latin philology, spanning Petrarch, Valla, and Erasmus.
Renaissance Man (film)
Renaissance Man is a 1994 American comedy-drama directed by Penny Marshall, in which Danny DeVito plays a fired advertising executive who teaches Shakespeare to struggling Army recruits.
Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza
Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza (Conjuntos Monumentales Renacentistas de Úbeda y Baeza), a serial UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 2003 in Jaén, Andalusia: two cities 9 km apart reshaped in the 16th century by Andrés de Vandelvira's Renaissance architecture.
Renaissance music
Renaissance music, the European vocal polyphonic tradition of roughly 1400–1600 (also called the period c. 1430–1600), marked by imitative counterpoint, triadic harmony, Franco-Flemish composers such as Dufay, Ockeghem, and Josquin, musica ficta, and church and court patronage.
Renaissance philosophy
Renaissance philosophy (c. 1400–1600): scholastic Aristotelianism remained dominant while humanists recovered Platonism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and skepticism; Ficino translated Plato, and Copernicanism challenged the Aristotelian cosmos.
Renaissance Revival architecture
Renaissance Revival architecture is a nineteenth-century historicist style reviving the Italian Renaissance palazzo, used for libraries, courthouses, and mansions in America from about 1840 to 1925.