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Rödgen
Rödgen is an Augustan-era Roman military supply camp near Bad Nauheim in the Wetterau, Hessen, Germany, part of the Roman advance into Germania around 11 to 8 BC.
Rodger Bumpass
Rodger Bumpass, also known as Rodger Albert Bumpass, is an American voice actor born in 1951 who has voiced Squidward Tentacles on SpongeBob SquarePants since 1999.
Rodger Corser
Rodger Corser (born 1973, Melbourne) is an Australian actor and producer, lead in Rent, Underbelly, Rush, Doctor Doctor (Dr Hugh Knight), and Thai Cave Rescue; host of The Traitors Australia and The Floor.
Rodger Novak
Rodger Novak is a physician and biotechnology entrepreneur who co-founded CRISPR Therapeutics in 2013, led it as first CEO through its 2016 Nasdaq IPO, and left the board in 2023.
Rodger P. McEver
Rodger P. McEver, born 1948 in New Orleans, is an American hematologist known for discovering P-selectin and PSGL-1 during 36 years at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
Rodger Riney
Rodger Riney is an American businessman who founded the discount brokerage Scottrade in 1980 and sold it to TD Ameritrade for $4 billion in 2017.
Rodger Smitherman
Rodger Smitherman is an American Democratic politician and attorney who has represented Alabama's 18th Senate district since 1994, serving as Senate President Pro Tempore from 2009 to 2010.
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Rodgers and Hammerstein: American musical-theater team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, formed 1943. Created Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music; pioneered the integrated musical play and won 35 Tonys and 15 Oscars.
Rodgers Rop
Rodgers Rop, Kenyan marathon runner born 1976 in Nandi; won Boston 2002 (2:09:02) and New York 2002 (2:08:07), set 25 km world best 1:13:44 in Berlin 2001; marathon PB 2:07:32.
Rodhrasava (afi afi-rodrasavalodrasava)
Rodhrasava (lodhrasava, Lodhrasavam) is a classical Ayurvedic fermented asava of 29 plant drugs led by Lodhra (Symplocos racemosa), dosed 12–24 ml, used for gynecological, anti-obesity, and anti-diabetic indications.
Rodica Arba Puscatu
Rodica Arba-Pușcatu (née Pușcatu), born 1962, Romanian rower; two Olympic golds in the women's coxless pair (1984 with Elena Horvat, 1988 with Olga Homeghi-Bularda), plus 1980 eights bronze and 1988 eights silver.
Rodica Florea Serban
Rodica Florea Serban (Rodica Maria Florea-Șerban), Romanian rower born 1983, Olympic gold in the women's eight at Athens 2004 and bronze at Beijing 2008, with world silver medals in 2005 and 2007.
Rodin (Mercurian crater)
Rodin is a 229-km two-ring impact basin on Mercury at 21.1°, 18.2° (planetographic), one of the Calorian two-ring basins with Michelangelo, Bach, and Strindberg, named through the IAU planetary nomenclature system.
Rodina (political party)
Rodina (Родина, "Motherland"), All-Russian Political Party "Rodina", is a Russian nationalist party led by Alexei Zhuravlev. Created as a 2003 electoral bloc that won 9.02% in the Duma, merged into A Just Russia in 2006, revived in 2012, it now holds one Duma seat.
Rodina (Народно-патриотический союз «Родина») (political bloc)
Rodina (Народно-патриотический союз «Родина»), Russian nationalist-patriotic electoral bloc founded September 2003 by three parties; led by Rogozin, Glazyev, Baburin; won 9.02% in the 2003 Duma election; merged into A Just Russia in 2006.
Rodinia
Rodinia is a hypothesized supercontinent that assembled between roughly 1,300 and 900 million years ago and broke apart between about 830 and 650 million years ago.
Rodion Gataullin
Rodion Gataullin is a Russian pole vaulter, born in 1965 in Tashkent, who won silver at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and was first to clear 6 meters indoors.
Rodion Kuzmin
Rodion Osievich Kuzmin (Родион Осиевич Кузьмин) was a Soviet mathematician, born in 1891 and died in 1949, known for the Gauss–Kuzmin theorem and for proving 2^(√2) transcendental in 1930.
Rodion Malinovsky
Rodion Malinovsky (Родион Яковлевич Малиновский, 1898–1967) was a Soviet military commander who became Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1944 and Minister of Defense from 1957 until his death.
Rodion Raskolnikov (Родион Романович Раскольников)
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov (Родион Романович Раскольников), protagonist of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866): a 23-year-old impoverished ex-student who murders a pawnbroker to test his theory of "extraordinary" people, then confesses and goes to Siberian katorga.
Rodion Shchedrin (Родион Константинович Щедрин)
Rodion Shchedrin (Родион Константинович Щедрин, 1932–2025), Soviet and Russian composer and pianist, husband of Maya Plisetskaya; wrote Carmen Suite, Anna Karenina, seven operas, six piano concertos; led the Russian Composers' Union from 1973.
Rodízio
Rodízio: Brazilian fixed-price restaurant service where dishes, especially grilled meats on skewers (espeto corrido), are brought table to table in rotation. Created in Brazil in the mid-1960s with disputed authorship; also names São Paulo's vehicle restriction system.
Rodlin protein RdlA/B-like
Rodlin protein RdlA/B-like (InterPro IPR047736) is a bacterial protein family of secreted Streptomyces rodlins RdlA and RdlB, which build the amyloid rodlet layer on spore surfaces; RdlB forms fibrils, RdlA does not.
Rodmal Nagar
Rodmal Nagar, born in 1960, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh in the Lok Sabha since 2014.
Rodman Flender
Rodman Flender (born 1962, New York City) is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. Directed The Unborn, Leprechaun 2, Idle Hands, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, and Eat, Brains, Love; uncle of Timothée Chalamet.
Rodnae slova
Rodnae slova (Роднае слова, "Native Word") is a Belarusian-language monthly scientific and methodological journal for teaching Belarusian language and literature in schools, published since 1988.
Rodney A. Grant
Rodney A. Grant (Rodney Arnold Grant, born 1959) is an Omaha-tribe American actor, best known as Wind In His Hair in Dances with Wolves, with Western roles such as Crazy Horse and Mangas.
Rodney A. Hayward
Rodney A. Hayward is an American physician and health services researcher, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, known for the VA Diabetes Trial follow-ups and quality measurement research.
Rodney Alan Greenblat
Rodney Alan Greenblat (ロドニー・A・グリーンブラット), American painter and character designer born 1960 in Daly City, California; East Village artist in the 1985 Whitney Biennial and designer of PaRappa the Rapper.
Rodney Alcala
Rodney James Alcala, the "Dating Game Killer," was an American serial killer sentenced to death in California in 2010 for five 1977-1979 murders, given 25 years to life for two New York murders, and suspected in up to 130 deaths; he died on death row in 2021.