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Renfe Class 333
The Renfe Class 333 is a six-axle diesel-electric locomotive built for the Spanish state railway Renfe between 1974 and 1976, and rebuilt in the 2000s.
Renfield
R.M. Renfield is Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula character, a lunatic-asylum inmate who eats living creatures for their life force under Dracula's telepathic influence. Famous as Dwight Frye's 1931 portrayal and the 2023 Nicholas Hoult film; namesake of Renfield's Syndrome.
Renfield (film)
Renfield is a 2023 American horror comedy film directed by Chris McKay, starring Nicholas Hoult as Dracula's long-suffering servant and Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula, released by Universal Pictures.
Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire is one of Scotland's 32 unitary council areas, south of the River Clyde, with main town Paisley. Population 189,270 in 2025; formed from Renfrew district in April 1996.
Renfrey Potts
Renfrey Burnard Potts (1925–2005) was an Australian applied mathematician and Rhodes Scholar who proposed the Potts model in 1952 and built applied mathematics at the University of Adelaide.
Renga
Renga (連歌) is a Japanese collaborative poetry form in which poets alternate 5-7-5 and 7-7 verses, flourishing for four centuries and giving rise to haiku.
Rengasdengklok
Rengasdengklok, a district in Karawang Regency, West Java, Indonesia; site of the 16 August 1945 incident in which young nationalists and PETA members took Sukarno and Hatta there to press an immediate proclamation of independence.
Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan
Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan (1952–2025) was an Indian cancer epidemiologist at IARC in Lyon whose trials in India established low-cost cervical cancer screening and single-dose HPV vaccination.
Reni Raion
Reni Raion (Ренійський район) was a district of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, centered on the Danube port of Reni; created 11 November 1940, abolished 17 July 2020, merged into Izmail Raion.
Reni Santoni
Reni Santoni (Reinaldo Santoni, 1938 or 1939 – August 1, 2020) was an American character actor, Chico Gonzalez in Dirty Harry and Poppie on Seinfeld, active from off-Broadway theater to a final 2012 role.
Renibus Therapeutics
Renibus Therapeutics is a private clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2015 in Southlake, Texas, developing treatments for cardio-renal and metabolic diseases, including RBT-1 and veverimer.
Renier Brentjens
Renier J. Brentjens is a Dutch-born American physician-scientist who pioneered CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapy for leukemia and received the 2024 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for discoveries leading to CAR T cells.
Renilla (sea pansy)
Renilla (sea pansy), genus Renilla Lamarck 1816, family Renillidae, Pennatulacea octocorals of American sandy shelves; R. reniformis western Atlantic; source of Renilla luciferase (coelenterazine, 480 nm) used in dual-luciferase assays; R. muelleri genome 172 Mb.
Renin
Renin: kidney enzyme, discovered by Tigerstedt and Bergman in 1898, that catalyzes the rate-limiting first step of the renin-angiotensin system, cleaving angiotensinogen; target of the direct renin inhibitor aliskiren.
Renin–angiotensin system
Renin–angiotensin system (RAAS), hormonal cascade of renin, angiotensin II, and aldosterone regulating blood pressure and volume; discovered from 1898, targeted by ACE inhibitors, ARBs, and renin inhibitors.
Renishaw
Renishaw plc is a British engineering company headquartered in Gloucestershire, founded in 1973 by David McMurtry and John Deer to commercialize the touch-trigger probe for measurement.
Renita Farrell Garard
Renita Farrell Garard (Renita Maree Farrell-Garard, born 1972, Townsville) is an Australian field hockey player who won Olympic gold with the Hockeyroos in 1996 and 2000, later a sports director and AM.
Renji Panicker (റെന്ജി പാണിക്കർ)
Renji Panicker (റെന്ജി പാണിക്കർ), Malayalam screenwriter-director-actor born 1958 (or 1960 in some sources), wrote Commissioner, The King, Lelam for Shaji Kailas and Joshiy, then became a popular character actor.
Renjing Lu Shicao
Renjing Lu Shicao, "Draft Poems from the Hut Within the World of Men," is the collected poetry of late Qing diplomat-poet Huang Zunxian and a central work of the Poetry Revolution.
Renjun (黄仁俊)
Renjun (黄仁俊, born 2000, Jilin) is a Chinese singer in SM Entertainment's NCT and NCT DREAM; debuted 2016 with "Chewing Gum" and released his first Chinese EP Echoes Between Us in June 2026.
Renly Baratheon
Renly Baratheon, also called the King in Highgarden, is the youngest Baratheon brother in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones; Lord of Storm's End, claimant king backed by the largest army, killed by a shadow assassin.
Renmark, South Australia
Renmark, South Australia: Riverland town founded 14 February 1887 by the Chaffey brothers as Australia's oldest irrigation settlement; home of the Renmark Irrigation Trust (1893) and the community-owned Renmark Hotel.
Renmatix
Renmatix, formerly SRIYA Innovations Inc., is a Pennsylvania company that makes plant-derived cellulosic sugars and lignin materials using its water-only Plantrose process, with investors including Bill Gates and Total.
Renminbi (人民币)
The renminbi (人民币), also called the Chinese yuan, is China's official currency, issued by the People's Bank of China and traded onshore as CNY and offshore as CNH.
Renn Dickson Hampden
Renn Dickson Hampden (1793–1868), born in Barbados, was an Anglican theologian, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1836, and Bishop of Hereford from 1848 to 1868.
Renn Hawkey
Renn Hawkey (born 1971) is an American keyboardist and film producer, founding member of Deadsy, husband of Vera Farmiga, producer of Higher Ground, and keyboardist of The Yagas, whose debut album Midnight Minuet appeared in 2025.
Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs (born 1971, Sydney) is an Australian former tennis player, doubles world No. 1 in 2000, six-time Grand Slam champion, 60 WTA doubles titles, four-time Olympian, later coach of Serena Williams and ESPN broadcaster.
Rennan da Penha
Rennan da Penha (Rennan Santos da Silva) is a Brazilian funk carioca DJ from Rio de Janeiro, creator of the Baile da Gaiola street party.
Rennell Island
Rennell Island, locally Mugaba or Mu Nggava, is a raised coral atoll in the Solomon Islands that UNESCO calls the largest raised coral atoll in the world.
Rennes
Rennes, capital of the Brittany region in western France, is a city of about 231,000 inhabitants (2023) known for its half-timbered historic center, the Parliament of Brittany building, the Marché des Lices, two metro lines, and TGV access 90 minutes from Paris.