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Renato Andrade

Renato Andrade is a Brazilian co-founder of Merama, a Latin American e-commerce brand holding company founded in 2020, and served as its CEO Brazil until 2025.

Renato Anselmi

Renato Anselmi (1891-1973), Italian sabre fencer: Olympic team sabre gold 1924, silver 1928 and 1932; also engineer, Divisional General, and Olympic jury president 1936 and 1948.

Renato Augusto

Renato Soares de Oliveira Augusto, Brazilian central midfielder born 1988 in Rio de Janeiro; played for Flamengo, Bayer Leverkusen, Corinthians, Beijing Guoan, and Fluminense, won 2016 Olympic gold, 673 games, 96 goals, retired September 2025.

Renato Baserga

Renato Baserga (1925–2023) was an Italian-born American cell biologist and cancer researcher in Philadelphia, known for work on cell proliferation and the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor.

Renato Caccioppoli

Renato Caccioppoli (1904–1959) was an Italian mathematician from Naples, a pioneer of the theory of sets of finite perimeter and namesake of the Caccioppoli inequality.

Renato Carosone

Renato Carosone (1920–2001) was an Italian pianist, singer, and composer from Naples who fused swing, boogie-woogie, and jazz with Neapolitan song, best known for "Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" (1956).

Renato Corona

Renato Corona (1948–2016), Filipino jurist, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court from May 2010; removed in 2012 by impeachment conviction for SALN non-disclosure in a 20–3 Senate vote.

Renato D. Lópes

Renato D. Lópes (Renato Delascio Lopes) is a Brazilian-born cardiologist and clinical researcher, Professor of Medicine at Duke University and a Duke Clinical Research Institute member.

Renato Dulbecco

Renato Dulbecco (1914–2012) was an Italian-born American virologist and cancer researcher who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for showing that tumor virus DNA integrates into host cells.

Renato Fuchs

Renato Fuchs (1942–2015) was an Italian-born biochemical engineer who led large-scale manufacture of recombinant DNA drugs and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Renato Marin

Renato Bellucci Marin (born 2006, São Paulo) is an Italian-Brazilian goalkeeper, ex-AS Roma youth, signed by PSG in 2025, 2025-26 Champions League winner, loaned to C.D. Nacional for 2026-27.

Renato Moicano

Renato Moicano (Renato Alves Carneiro), "Money", Brazilian UFC lightweight, 21-7-1, American Top Team; lost a UFC 311 title shot to Islam Makhachev by first-round brabo choke, then beat Chris Duncan by submission at UFC Vegas 115 in 2026.

Renato Nhaga

Renato Sam-Na Nhaga, Guinea-Bissau midfielder born 2007 in Bissau; Casa Pia youth product who debuted for Guinea-Bissau in June 2025 and joined Galatasaray in February 2026 for €6.5 million, winning the 2026 Turkish championship.

Renato Paratore

Renato Paratore is an Italian professional golfer, born in Rome in 1996, who won the inaugural Youth Olympic golf gold in 2014 and the 2017 Nordea Masters.

Renato Paro

Renato Paro is a molecular biologist regarded as a pioneer of epigenetics, known for work on Polycomb proteins and cellular memory, who founded ETH Zurich's biosystems department in Basel.

Renato Perona

Renato Perona (1927-1984), Italian track cyclist from Terni; with Ferdinando Terruzzi won Olympic gold in the men's tandem sprint at London 1948, beating Britain by about 15 cm; later won 47 track races.

Renato Petronio

Renato Petronio (1891-1976), Italian rowing coxswain born in Piran, founded SN Pullino of Isola d'Istria, won coxed-four gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and four European titles.

Renato Ratier

Renato Ratier is a Brazilian DJ, producer, and nightclub entrepreneur who founded the D-Edge club in São Paulo in 2003 and shaped Brazil's electronic music scene.

Renato Renner

Renato Renner, born 1974 in Lucerne, is a Swiss quantum information scientist and full professor at ETH Zurich, known for quantum cryptography and the 2018 self-consistency argument.

Renato Sanches

Renato Júnior Luz Sanches (born 1997, Lisbon) is a Portuguese central midfielder; Benfica product, Euro 2016 winner and Golden Boy 2016, Bayern €35M signing, Ligue 1 champion with Lille 2020/21, later PSG with loans to Roma, Benfica, Panathinaikos.

Renato Schifani

Renato Schifani (born 1950) is an Italian politician of Forza Italia who serves as President of Sicily and was President of the Senate from 2008 to 2013.

Renato V. Iozzo

Renato V. Iozzo is an Italian-trained physician-scientist and cell biologist who holds an endowed pathology chair at Thomas Jefferson University and defined the biology of small leucine-rich proteoglycans.

Renato Zenobi

Renato Zenobi, born 1961 in Zurich, is a Swiss analytical chemist and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, known for pioneering tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and winning the Thomson Medal.

Renato Zero

Renato Zero is the stage name of Renato Fiacchini, born in Rome in 1950, an Italian singer-songwriter known for theatrical makeup, costumes, and concert-shows since the 1970s.

Renaud Camus

Renaud Camus (born 1946, Chamalières), French avant-garde writer, author of Tricks and the Journal d'un voyage en France, later originator of the far-right 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory, convicted in 2014 for hate-speech provocation.

Renaud Island

Renaud Island (Isla Renaud, Île Renaud), largest island of the Biscoe Islands off the west Antarctic Peninsula; ice-covered, 511 km², discovered by Biscoe in 1832, named by Charcot's French expedition after hydrographer M.-J.-A. Renaud.

Renaud Lavillenie

Renaud Lavillenie, French pole vaulter born 1986: 2012 Olympic champion (5.97m), 2016 silver, world record 6.16m indoors Donetsk 2014, breaking Sergey Bubka's mark; multiple world and European titles.

Renaud Van Ruymbeke

Renaud Van Ruymbeke (1952-2024), French investigating judge in the Boulin, Urba, Elf, Clearstream, Karachi, Kerviel, and Cahuzac affairs; signed the 1996 Geneva Appeal, cleared by the CSM in Clearstream, retired 2019.

Renault

Renault, also known as Groupe Renault or Renault Group, is a French multinational automobile manufacturer founded in 1898, selling Renault, Dacia, and Alpine vehicles worldwide.

Renault 12

The Renault 12, also known as the Renault 12 Toros in Turkey, is a front-wheel-drive family car Renault produced from 1969 to 1980, with 4.01 million built in Europe alone.