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R. Duncan Luce
R. Duncan Luce, fully Robert Duncan Luce, was an American mathematical psychologist known for Luce's choice axiom, the 1957 book Games and Decisions, and founding UC Irvine's Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences.
R. F. Kuang
R. F. Kuang, pen name of Rebecca F. Kuang (匡靈秀, born 1996, Guangzhou), Chinese American novelist of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel (Nebula winner), Yellowface, Katabasis, and Taipei Story; Yale PhD student and Holy Cross writer in residence.
R. G. Armstrong
R.G. Armstrong (Robert Golden Armstrong Jr., 1917-2012), American character actor and playwright of the Actors Studio, known for TV Westerns and roles in Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country, Major Dundee, and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and Beatty's Dick Tracy as Pruneface.
R. G. Bhandarkar
R. G. Bhandarkar, Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar (1837–1925), was an Indian Sanskrit scholar, orientalist, and social reformer of Pune who led the Prarthana Samaj and pioneered Indological research.
R. G. D. Allen
R. G. D. Allen, or Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, was an English economist and statistician at the London School of Economics who co-founded modern demand theory with John Hicks in 1934.
R. Girirajan
R. Girirajan is an Indian politician and practicing advocate who represents Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam member, serving a term from 2022 to 2028.
R. Gordon Douglas
R. Gordon Douglas (1934–2025) was an American physician-scientist in infectious diseases known for human volunteer studies of respiratory viruses and for leading Merck's vaccine division from 1991 to 1999.
R. Gordon Wasson
R. Gordon Wasson (1898–1986), American J.P. Morgan banker and ethnomycologist; his 1957 Life article 'Seeking the Magic Mushroom' and María Sabina velada introduced Mexican psilocybin mushrooms to the world; proposed Amanita muscaria as Vedic soma.
R. Graham Barr
R. Graham Barr is a Scottish-born respiratory epidemiologist at Columbia University, where he is Chief of General Medicine and leads the MESA Lung Study, a long-running CT study of emphysema.
R. Graham Cooks
R. Graham Cooks is an American analytical chemist at Purdue University known for ambient ionization mass spectrometry, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
R. H. Bing
R. H. Bing (1914–1986) was an American mathematician known for work in geometric topology, especially 3-manifolds and decomposition theory, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1965.
R. H. Tawney
R. H. Tawney, or Richard Henry Tawney, was an English economic historian and Christian socialist who shaped the moral thought of the British Labour Party.
R. Hai
R. Hai ben Sherira, known as Hai Gaon, led the Talmudic academy of Pumbedita in Babylonia from 998 to 1038 and wrote nearly a thousand responsa.
R. Hai b. Mar R. Naḥshon
R. Hai b. Mar R. Naḥshon, also known as Hai ben Naḥshon, was a Babylonian Jewish scholar who served as Gaon of Sura in the late ninth century.
R. Hai b. R. Mar David
R. Hai b. R. Mar David (רב האי בר רב מר דוד) was a Babylonian gaon who headed the Academy of Pumbedita from 890 to 897.
R. Ḥananya b. R. Mesharsheya
R. Ḥananya b. R. Mesharsheya was gaon, or head, of the Academy of Pumbedita, entering office in 767 CE and succeeded in 771 by R. Malka b. Mar R. Aḥa.
R. Ḥanina
R. Ḥanina was the second Gaon, or head, of the Academy of Sura in the succession list of Sherira Gaon's Epistle, placed in the early seventh century.
R. Ḥaninai Kahana (son of a Abraham Kahana, the gaon)
R. Ḥaninai Kahana, also known as R. Ḥaninai Kahana b. Abraham, was gaon of the Pumbedita academy in Babylonia from 782 until 785 or 786, removed after displeasing the exilarch.
R. Hilai b. Naṭronai Gaon
R. Hilai b. Naṭronai Gaon (רב הילאי בן נטרונאי) was Gaon, head of the Academy of Sura, from about 896 to 904, the third generation of his family in the office.
R. Ḥiyya of Meshan
R. Ḥiyya of Meshan (רב חייא ממישן) was an early head of the Academy of Pumbedita, placed around 700 CE, known only from succession lists.
R. J. Dwayne Miller
R. J. Dwayne Miller is a chemist and physicist at the University of Toronto who pioneered ultrabright femtosecond electron sources recording atomic movies of molecules in motion.
R. J. Hampton
R.J. Hampton (Roderick Hampton Jr., born 2001, Dallas) is an American NBA guard, 24th pick of the 2020 draft by Milwaukee; played for Denver, Orlando, Detroit, and Miami, now an unrestricted free agent.
R. J. Hunter
R.J. Hunter (Ronald Jordan Hunter, born 1993) is a former NBA guard and Georgia State scoring leader (1,819 points) famous for the 2015 Baylor shot; now a Tulane assistant coach under his father Ron Hunter.
R. J. Maryland
R. J. Maryland (Russell James Maryland Jr., born 2004) is an American football tight end from Southlake, Texas, SMU's all-time leading tight-end receiver (1,495 yards), son of 1991 No. 1 pick Russell Maryland; undrafted 2026, signed by the Green Bay Packers.
R. J. Mitchell
R. J. Mitchell, also known as Reginald Joseph Mitchell, was a British aeronautical engineer, chief designer at Supermarine, best known for designing the Spitfire fighter.
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJRT), founded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1875, is the second-largest US tobacco company, known for Camel and owned by British American Tobacco since 2017.
R. J. Rushdoony
R. J. Rushdoony, born Rousas John Rushdoony, was an Armenian-American Calvinist theologian who founded Christian Reconstructionism and led the Chalcedon Foundation from 1965 until his death in 2001.
R. Jacob b. Mar R. Naṭronai
R. Jacob b. Mar R. Naṭronai (Yaʿakov bar Mar R. Naṭronai) was Gaon, or head, of the Academy of Sura from 911 to 924, a thirteen-year term.
R. Jacob ha-Kohen b. Mar Mordecai
R. Jacob ha-Kohen b. Mar Mordecai (רב יעקב בן מרדכי הכהן) was Gaon, or head, of the Academy of Sura in Babylonia, in office from 801 to 815.
R. Jacob of nehar Peḳod
R. Jacob of nehar Peḳod was a gaon, head of the Academy of Sura, recorded as entering office in 715 CE and succeeded by Mar R. Rabya.