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René Guénon
René Guénon, in Islam Abd al-Wahid Yahya, was a French metaphysician who founded the Traditionalist school, criticized the modern world, and lived in Cairo from 1930 until his death in 1951.
René H. Medema
René H. Medema is a Dutch cell biologist known for research on cell cycle control and mitosis, and Chief Scientific Officer of the Princess Máxima Center since 2024.
Rene H. Miller
Rene H. Miller (1916–2003) was an American aerospace engineer at MIT and a pioneer of helicopter rotor aeromechanics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1968.
Rene Hamel
René Hamel (René Nicolas Adrien Hamel, 1902–1992), French road cyclist; 1924 Paris Olympics gold in team road race and bronze in individual road race; 1924 French champion; father of Olympian Jean-Claude Hamel.
René Harcourt Miller
René Harcourt Miller (1916–2003) was an American aerospace engineer who spent nearly sixty years at MIT, pioneered helicopter rotor aeromechanics, and headed its aeronautics department.
Rene Hen
René Hen is a French-born neuroscientist at Columbia University who directs the Division of Systems Neuroscience and studies how new hippocampal neurons underlie antidepressant effects, mood, and anxiety.
René Higuita
René Higuita (El Loco), Colombian goalkeeper born 1966 in Medellín; 1989 Copa Libertadores winner with Atlético Nacional, 1990 World Cup keeper, and inventor of the famous scorpion kick at Wembley in 1995.
René Hoppe
René Hoppe, German bobsledder born 1976 in Oelsnitz, Saxony; Olympic four-man gold at Turin 2006 in André Lange's crew, plus five world titles; not related to Wolfgang Hoppe.
René II of Lorraine
René II of Lorraine (1451–1508), duke of Lorraine from 1473 and Bar from 1480, defeated and killed Charles the Bold at the Battle of Nancy in 1477, centralizing the two duchies' administration.
René J.M. Bindels
René J.M. Bindels is a Dutch physiologist who held the chair of Physiology at Radboud University Medical Center, known for identifying the kidney's calcium channel TRPV5 and magnesium channel TRPM6.
Rene Juchli
Rene Juchli (Rene H. Juchli) was an American physician from Amsterdam, New York, and U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who was chief medical officer of the Nuremberg tribunal in 1945 and judged Rudolf Hess to be feigning amnesia.
Rene Karabash (Рене Карабаш)
Rene Karabash (Рене Карабаш), pen name of Irena Hristova Ivanova (born 1989), is a Bulgarian poet and novelist whose debut novel She Who Remains won the Elias Canetti Prize and was shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize.
René Lacoste
René Lacoste (1904-1996), French tennis champion of the Four Musketeers, seven-time Grand Slam singles winner and Davis Cup victor, nicknamed the Crocodile, founded the Lacoste polo shirt brand and invented the steel racket.
René Laennec
René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781–1826), French physician at Paris's Hôpital Necker, invented the stethoscope in 1816 and founded mediate auscultation through his 1819 treatise De l'Auscultation Médiate.
René Lalique
René Lalique (1860–1945) was a French jeweler and glassmaker, celebrated for Art Nouveau jewelry and, after 1912, Art Deco glass, including perfume bottles for François Coty.
René Lammers
René Lammers, Dutch racing driver born 2008, son of Jan Lammers; 2023 FIA Karting European Champion in OK, Ferrari FDA scouting winner, MP Motorsport driver in Spanish F4 and Eurocup-3.
René Lefever
René Lefever, born in 1943, is a Belgian physicist at the Université libre de Bruxelles who works on dissipative structures, self-organization, and pattern formation, co-authoring landmark papers with Ilya Prigogine.
Rene Lemoine
René Lemoine (1905–1995), French foil fencer; Olympic team gold 1932 and silver 1936; world champion 1931; WWII Free French resistance leader in Bangui; distinct from other fencers named Lemoine.
René Leriche
René Leriche (1879–1955) was a French surgeon and physiologist, a pioneer of vascular surgery and the study of pain who gave his name to Leriche syndrome.
René M. Stulz
René M. Stulz is a financial economist who holds the Everett D. Reese Chair at Ohio State and is known for work on corporate control and firm value.
René Magritte
René Magritte (1898–1967), Belgian Surrealist painter, also called 'the treachery of images' artist. Born in Lessines, died in Brussels of pancreatic cancer; known for the pipe painting 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe', bowler hats, and record 2022 auction prices.
René Maran
René Maran (1887–1960) was a French writer and colonial administrator who in 1921 became the first Black writer to win the Prix Goncourt, for his novel Batouala.
René Marqués
René Marqués (1919–1979) was a Puerto Rican playwright, novelist, and essayist from Arecibo, best known for the drama La carreta (The Oxcart, 1953), a landmark of Puerto Rican theater.
René Meulensteen
René Meulensteen, Dutch football coach; Manchester United first-team coach under Sir Alex Ferguson 2007-2013, later Fulham manager, Australia and Iraq assistant, and Meulensteen Method founder.
Rene Millon
René Millon (1921–2016) was an American archaeologist at the University of Rochester best known for directing the Teotihuacán Mapping Project, the first complete map of the ancient city.
René Millon
René Millon (1921–2016) was an American archaeologist at the University of Rochester, best known for directing the Teotihuacán Mapping Project, the first complete map of the ancient city.
René Mitongo
René Mitongo (René Mitongo Muteba), Belgian centre-forward born 2008; Standard Liège academy product sold to Trabzonspor in July 2026 for €2.5 million plus 20% sell-on, loaned to Estrela da Amadora; Belgium youth international also eligible for DR Congo.
René Nyssen
René Nyssen (1891–1972) was a Belgian psychiatrist and university professor, trained at the Université libre de Bruxelles, who directed Ghent University's psychiatric clinic from 1934 to 1944.
René Obermann
René Obermann is a German telecommunications executive who led Deutsche Telekom as chief executive from 2006 to 2013 and chairs the board of Airbus SE.
René P. Schwarzenbach
René P. Schwarzenbach (born 1945) is a Swiss environmental chemist and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, known for the textbook Environmental Organic Chemistry and his 2006 Science paper on micropollutants.