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Roddy (Martian crater)
Roddy crater, Mars impact crater (~85–86 km wide) at ~21.6°S, 320.6°E in Margaritifer Terra/Mare Erythraeum, on Vinogradov's margin; known for large coalesced alluvial fans and inverted channels.
Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle (born 1958), Irish novelist of working-class Dublin, author of the Barrytown Trilogy, Booker Prize winner 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, and Fighting Words co-founder.
Roddy Lima
Roddy Lima is a Brazilian tech-house and techno DJ and producer known for releases on Black Book Records, Experts Only, Insomniac Records, and Drumcode, and for 2026 festival sets at EDC Las Vegas, Coachella, and Tomorrowland.
Roddy Llewellyn
Roddy Llewellyn, born Roderic Victor Llewellyn in Wales in 1947, is a British garden designer, journalist, and author who became widely known through his eight-year relationship with Princess Margaret.
Roddy McDowall
Roddy McDowall (Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall, 1928-1998), English-born actor and photographer; child star of How Green Was My Valley, played Cornelius and Caesar in Planet of the Apes, published the Double Exposure photography books.
Roddy Piper
Roddy Piper (Roderick George Toombs, 1954–2015), Canadian wrestler and actor billed from Glasgow, Scotland; WWE Hall of Famer (2005), host of Piper's Pit, WrestleMania I main-eventer, and star of They Live (1988).
Roddy Ricch
Roddy Ricch (Rodrick Wayne Moore Jr., born 1998) is a Compton rapper signed to Atlantic and Bird Vision whose debut album topped the Billboard 200 and whose "The Box" spent 11 weeks at Hot 100 number 1.
Roddy White
Roddy White (born 1981) is a former NFL wide receiver who played 11 seasons, 2005-2015, entirely with the Atlanta Falcons; drafted 27th overall from UAB, he set franchise records with 808 catches, 10,863 yards, and 63 touchdowns.
Rodent
A rodent is a mammal of the order Rodentia, defined by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each jaw, with over 2000 species including squirrels, beavers, rats, and mice.
Rodent Control
Rodent control manages rats and mice through sanitation, exclusion, trapping, rodenticides (anticoagulants like warfarin and brodifacoum), and fertility control, regulated by EPA restrictions and integrated pest management principles.
Rodenticide
Rodenticide: pesticide for killing rodents, mostly anticoagulant (anti-vitamin K) baits such as warfarin and brodifacoum, plus non-anticoagulants like zinc phosphide; regulated by EPA and EU biocide rules due to child, pet, and wildlife poisoning risks.
Rodeo
Rodeo, from Spanish rodear, is a competitive equestrian sport of vaquero origin with rough stock and timed events, governed by the PRCA, contested alongside the Mexican charreada and Native American rodeo traditions.
Rodeo (Travis Scott album)
Rodeo is Travis Scott's debut studio album, released September 4, 2015 on Grand Hustle/Epic. A dark, psychedelic trap record following Days Before Rodeo, with guests including Kanye West and The Weeknd; Metascore 64, later two-times platinum.
Rodeo Drive
Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills' three-block luxury shopping street between Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards, named for Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas; over 100 luxury brands, Fred Hayman's Giorgio boutique, Golden Triangle centerpiece, and a Pretty Woman film landmark.
Roderic
Roderic, the last Visigothic king of Spain, reigned from 710 to 711. He was defeated by an invading Arab army near Cádiz, leading to the kingdom's fall.
Roderic Alfred Gregory
Roderic Alfred Gregory was a British physiologist who isolated gastrin, the hormone stimulating gastric acid secretion, at the University of Liverpool, earning election as FRS in 1965.
Roderic Guigó
Roderic Guigó is a Spanish computational biologist who leads an RNA processing lab at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona and took part in the human genome project and ENCODE.
Roderic S. Lakes
Roderic S. Lakes is a mechanical engineer and Wisconsin Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the first 3D materials with a negative Poisson's ratio.
Roderich D. Süßmuth
Roderich D. Süßmuth is a German chemist and professor of biological chemistry at TU Berlin, known for peptide antibiotics and solving the structure of albicidin.
Roderich Moessner
Roderich Moessner is a German theoretical condensed matter physicist, director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden since 2007.
Roderick C. Young
Roderick C. Young, born 1966, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2020, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Roderick Chisholm
Roderick Milton Chisholm (1916–1999) was an American philosopher who spent his career at Brown University and became one of the most influential twentieth-century figures in epistemology and metaphysics.
Roderick J. A. Little
Roderick J. A. Little is a biostatistician known for methods for analyzing data with missing values and for model-based survey inference at the University of Michigan.
Roderick Joseph Little
Roderick Joseph (Rod) Little is an American biostatistician at the University of Michigan whose research on missing data shaped clinical-trials guidance, co-authoring the standard textbook with Donald Rubin.
Roderick K. Clayton
Roderick K. Clayton (1922–2011) was an American biophysicist at Cornell University who first isolated the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center in 1968, work that underpinned the 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Roderick MacKinnon
Roderick MacKinnon (born 1956) is an American structural biologist at Rockefeller University who won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining ion channel structures.
Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet (1792–1871), was a Scottish geologist who established the Silurian, Devonian, and Permian systems and directed the Geological Survey of Great Britain.
Roderick R. McInnes
Roderick R. McInnes is a Canadian human geneticist, the Alva Chair in Human Genetics at McGill University, known for work on eye development genes and inherited retinal degeneration.
Roderick Strong
Roderick Strong (Christopher Lindsey), American professional wrestler, "The Messiah of the Backbreaker"; Ring of Honor, PWG, PROGRESS, NXT Undisputed ERA, NXT North American/Cruiserweight/Tag Team Champion, and AEW International Champion.
Rodey Batiza
Rodey Batiza is a marine geologist and geophysicist whose 1986 Nature papers established that subtle deviations along the East Pacific Rise are real petrological and tectonic boundaries.