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Rhea Perlman

Rhea Perlman (born 1948, Brooklyn) is an American actress, four-time Emmy winner as Carla Tortelli on Cheers (1982–1993), wife of Danny DeVito, later in Matilda, Barbie, Poker Face, and Too Much.

Rhea Pillai

Rhea Pillai, Indian model and Art of Living instructor born in London in 1965; ex-wife of Sanjay Dutt (married 1998, divorced 2005) and partner of Leander Paes; launched The Temple House fashion label in 2016.

Rhea Ripley

Rhea Ripley (Demi Bennett, born 1996, Adelaide) is an Australian WWE wrestler, first NXT UK Women's Champion, 2023 Royal Rumble winner from #1, fifth Women's Grand Slam Champion, and WWE Women's Champion injured in 2026.

Rhea Seehorn

Rhea Seehorn (born 1972, Norfolk, Virginia) is an American actress and director known as Kim Wexler on Better Call Saul and Carol Sturka on Pluribus; she won the 2026 Emmy for lead actress in a drama and the 2026 Golden Globe.

Rhea Sharma

Rhea Sharma (रिया शर्मा) is an Indian television actress known for playing Kanak in Tu Sooraj Main Saanjh, Piyaji and Mishti in Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke.

Rhea Singha

Rhea Singha (born 2004, Ahmedabad) is an Indian model, actress, and Miss Universe India 2024 winner who placed Top 30 at Miss Universe 2024 in Mexico and debuted in Telugu film Jetlee (2026).

RHEA-COVID19 trial

RHEA-COVID19 (NCT04627519) was a multicenter, randomized, open-label Indonesian trial testing Rhea Health Tone essential-oil blend as add-on therapy for 85 hospitalized adults with mild to moderate COVID-19, reporting reduced IL-6 and IFN-γ.

Rheasilvia

Rheasilvia is a giant impact basin about 500 km wide at the south pole of the asteroid Vesta, likely the source of most HED meteorites.

RHEB

RHEB (Ras homolog enriched in brain) is a small GTPase of the Ras superfamily and the direct activator of mTORC1, which controls cell growth and metabolism.

Rheged

Rheged (Reged, Reget) was a Brittonic kingdom of the Hen Ogledd in post-Roman northern Britain, famed through Taliesin's poems to King Urien; its location (Solway, Cumbria, or Galloway) and end under Bernician/Northumbrian expansion remain disputed.

Rheic Ocean

The Rheic Ocean was a Paleozoic ocean basin between Gondwana and Laurussia, opened about 490 Ma when Avalonia rifted from Gondwana, and closed in the Devonian–Carboniferous, producing the Variscan and Alleghanian orogenies and helping assemble Pangaea.

Rhein

Rhein, also known as cassic acid, is a naturally occurring anthraquinone carboxylic acid found in rhubarb, senna, and aloe, and the active metabolite of diacerein, a drug for osteoarthritis.

Rhein II

Rhein II (Rhine II) is a 1999 large-format digitally edited color photograph of the Rhine near Düsseldorf by Andreas Gursky; an edition of six C-prints, one sold for about $4.3 million in 2011.

Rheinberg

Rheinberg, a town in Kreis Wesel on the left Lower Rhine, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; former Electorate of Cologne toll and fortress town, first documented 1003, town rights 1232, Altes Rathaus 1449, Fossa Eugeniana endpoint.

Rheingold

Rheingold (also Highlanders) is a 1992 Jumbo board game by Reinhard Herbert: knights conquer Rhine castles, Spiel des Jahres 1993 recommended list, 6th Deutscher Spiele Preis, out of print.

Rheinisches Museum für Philologie

Rheinisches Museum für Philologie (RhM) is a German peer-reviewed journal of classical philology covering Greek and Roman languages, literature, and history, founded in 1827 as the oldest Classics journal still existing.

Rheinmetall

Rheinmetall AG, also known as Rheinmetall, is a German defense technology group in Düsseldorf that supplies armed forces with vehicles, weapons, ammunition, and air defense systems.

Rheinmetall Automotive

Rheinmetall Automotive was the civilian automotive-supplier arm of Germany's Rheinmetall AG, built from Kolbenschmidt Pierburg and sold to the Munich group AEQUITA in 2026, ending the parent's automotive business.

Rheinmetall Rh-120

The Rheinmetall Rh-120 is a German 120 mm smoothbore tank gun developed by Rheinmetall for the Leopard 2 and, as the M256, the M1A1/M1A2 Abrams.

Rheinmetall Sea Snake 30 mm

The Rheinmetall Sea Snake 30 is a remote-controlled naval weapon station with a 30 mm revolver cannon, firing up to 1,100 rounds per minute against drones and other close-range threats.

Rheinwiesenlager

The Rheinwiesenlager (Rhine meadow camps), officially Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosures, were American camps along the Rhine holding over a million German prisoners in 1945.

Rheita (lunar crater)

Rheita is a 70.81 km impact crater at 37.1°S, 47.2°E on the Moon's southeastern near side, named for astronomer Anton Maria Schyrle de Rheita; the ~450 km secondary-crater chain Vallis Rheita passes its southern wall.

Rhenald Kasali

Rhenald Kasali (born 1960, Jakarta) is an Indonesian professor of management science at Universitas Indonesia whose 2004 bestseller cHaNgE! sold over 100,000 copies and who founded the Rumah Perubahan social movement in Bekasi.

Rhenium

Rhenium is a rare, dense transition metal with atomic number 75, discovered in Germany in 1925 and used mainly in jet engine superalloys and refining catalysts.

Rhenium dichalcogenides

Rhenium dichalcogenides are layered semiconductors of formula ReX₂, including rhenium disulfide (ReS₂) and rhenium diselenide (ReSe₂), whose weak interlayer coupling makes bulk crystals behave like monolayers.

Rhenium diselenide

Rhenium diselenide (ReSe2) is a layered semiconductor of the transition metal dichalcogenide family, unusual for its distorted triclinic structure and used in photodetectors, transistors, and catalysis.

Rhenium disulfide

Rhenium disulfide (ReS₂) is a layered semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide whose layers are nearly decoupled, so it keeps a direct bandgap and near-identical Raman spectra from monolayer to bulk.

Rheno-Flemish mysticism

Rheno-Flemish mysticism, also called Rhineland mysticism, is the mystical theology that developed in the thirteenth century in Belgium and the Rhineland, centered on Strassburg and Cologne.

Rhenzy Feliz

Rhenzy Feliz (born 1997) is an American actor known for Alex Wilder in Marvel's Runaways, voicing Camilo Madrigal in Encanto, and Victor Aguilar in HBO's The Penguin.

Rheology

Rheology is the study of the flow and deformation of matter under mechanical force, covering viscosity, yield stress, and viscoelasticity, a term coined by E. C. Bingham in 1928.