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René Barrientos
René Barrientos Ortuño, Bolivian Air Force general and vice president, led the 4 November 1964 coup against Paz Estenssoro, co-ruled with Ovando Candia, was elected president in 1966, signed the Military-Peasant Pact, and died in a 1969 helicopter crash.
René Bazin
René Bazin (1853–1932) was a French novelist and professor of law at Angers, elected to the Académie française in 1903, whose novels depicted rural life.
René Béhaine
René Béhaine, pseudonym of René Béhenne (1880–1966), was a French novelist who spent over fifty years writing Histoire d'une société, a sixteen-volume study of provincial bourgeois life, winning literary prizes but remaining little known.
René Belbenoît
René Belbenoît (1899–1959), French convict and author of Dry Guillotine (1938), escaped French Guiana's penal colony in 1935 after four prison breaks and reached Los Angeles, later advising Warner Bros.
René Benko
René Benko, born 1977 in Innsbruck, is an Austrian real estate investor who built Signa Holding, whose 2023 collapse was Austria's largest insolvency; he was convicted of insolvency fraud in 2025.
René Bernards
René Bernards (born 1953) is a Dutch molecular biologist and cancer geneticist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, known for pioneering functional genetic screens and the MammaPrint breast cancer prognosis test.
Rene Borjas
René Borjas ("Tito", 1897-1931), Uruguayan center-forward with Montevideo Wanderers; Copa América 1926 and Olympic gold 1928 winner, famed for the "Tuya, Héctor" assist to Scarone in the Amsterdam final replay.
René Burri
René Burri (1933–2014) was a Swiss photographer and Magnum Photos member, best known for his 1963 portrait of Che Guevara smoking a cigar and for portraits of Picasso, Giacometti, and Le Corbusier.
René Carmona
René Carmona is an applied mathematician and the Paul M. Wythes '55 Professor of Engineering and Finance at Princeton University, known for mean field games and emissions market models.
René Carol
René Carol, born Gerhard Tschierschnitz, was a German Schlager singer of the 1950s whose "Rote Rosen, rote Lippen, roter Wein" earned the first postwar Goldene Schallplatte.
René Cassin
René Cassin was a French jurist who drafted Free France's legal texts in 1940, presided over the European Court of Human Rights, and won the 1968 Nobel Peace Prize.
René Char
René Char (1907–1988) was a French poet and Resistance leader from L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in Provence who commanded Maquis units as Capitaine Alexandre and published his best-known work, Feuillets d'Hypnos, in 1946.
René Clair
René Clair (René-Lucien Chomette, 1898-1981), French film director and writer; made Paris qui dort, Sous les toits de Paris, Le Million, and À nous la liberté; first film director elected to the Académie française (1960).
René Couteaux
René Couteaux (1909–1999) was a French histologist and neurobiologist who gave the synapse a morphological basis, naming the subneural apparatus, conceiving the presynaptic active zone, and winning the 1994 Balzan Prize for Biology.
René de Prie
René de Prie (1451–1519) was a French cardinal and bishop of Bayeux and Limoges, deposed by Pope Julius II in 1511 and reinstated by Leo X in 1514.
René Depestre
René Depestre is a Haitian-born poet, novelist, and essayist living in exile since 1946 who won the prix Renaudot in 1988 for Hadriana dans tous mes rêves.
René Descartes
René Descartes (1596–1650), French mathematician, scientist, and metaphysician, author of La Géométrie, the Discourse on Method, and the Meditations; founder of analytic geometry and of the mind–body dualism debate via the cogito and method of doubt.
René Dif
René Dif (born 1967, Copenhagen) is a Danish-Algerian singer, rapper, DJ, and actor, the male voice of eurodance group Aqua of "Barbie Girl" fame; later solo artist Ferrish Key, actor, and entrepreneur.
René Dubos
René Dubos (1901–1982) was a French-born American microbiologist at Rockefeller University who discovered gramicidin, one of the first antibiotics, and later won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for his writing on disease and the environment.
René Duprée
René Duprée (René Goguen), Canadian wrestler from New Brunswick, son of promoter Emile Dupree; youngest WWE tag team champion at 19 with La Résistance, later a long career in HUSTLE, All Japan, Wrestle-1, and Pro Wrestling NOAH.
Rene Duverger
René Duverger (1911–1983), French weightlifter, Olympic gold medalist in the lightweight (67.5 kg) class at Los Angeles 1932 with a 325.0 kg Olympic record total; ten-time French champion.
René Étiemble
René Étiemble (1909–2002) was a French essayist and Sorbonne professor of comparative literature, best known for the 1964 pamphlet Parlez-vous franglais? and for winning the 1988 Balzan Prize.
René F. Ketting
René F. Ketting is a Dutch RNA biologist who studies small RNAs and gene silencing, and has led the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz since 2012.
René Favaloro
René Favaloro, born René Gerónimo Favaloro, was an Argentine cardiac surgeon who pioneered coronary artery bypass surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in 1967 and returned to Argentina to found the Fundación Favaloro.
René Fonck
René Fonck (1894-1953), French First World War fighter pilot known as "l'as des as", top Allied ace with 75 confirmed victories; later Vosges deputy, failed 1926 transatlantic flyer, and figure of Vichy-era controversy.
René François Rohrbacher
René François Rohrbacher (1789–1856) was a French Catholic priest and ecclesiastical historian, born in Lorraine, whose 29-volume Histoire universelle de l'Église catholique became a major instrument in the decline of Gallicanism.
Rene Gagnon
Rene Arthur Gagnon (1926-1979), New Hampshire Marine who carried the second flag up Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima; long identified as a Rosenthal photo flag-raiser until the Marine Corps named Harold Keller in his place in 2019.
René Gateaux
René Eugène Gateaux was a French mathematician who worked on the calculus of functionals; killed in the First World War in 1914, he is known for the Gateaux derivative.
René Girard
René Girard (1923–2015), French-American historian and anthropologist of Stanford, developed mimetic theory: desire is imitative, imitation breeds rivalry, and scapegoating founds culture, which Christianity uniquely unveils.
René Goscinny
René Goscinny (1926–1977), French comics scriptwriter, co-creator of Astérix with Uderzo, Le Petit Nicolas with Sempé, Iznogoud with Tabary, and Lucky Luke's writer from 1955; founded Pilote in 1959 and Studios Idéfix in 1974.