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Rodney Atkins
Rodney Atkins (born 1969, Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American country singer on Curb Records, known for six No. 1 hits from If You're Going Through Hell (2006) through Take a Back Road (2011) and the 2026 album True South.
Rodney Atkinson
Rodney Atkinson (1948–2026) was a British merchant banker, political economist, and eurosceptic campaigner who tried treason charges over Maastricht and nearly led UKIP; he was Rowan Atkinson's brother.
Rodney B. Croteau
Rodney B. Croteau is a biochemist at Washington State University's Institute of Biological Chemistry, known for working out how plants make terpenoids and for isolating the first taxol gene.
Rodney Baxter
Rodney Baxter (1940–2025) was an Australian mathematical physicist who exactly solved major lattice models in statistical mechanics and gave his name to the Yang–Baxter equation.
Rodney Bewes
Rodney Bewes (1937-2017), English actor, played Bob Ferris in The Likely Lads (1964-66) and its sequel (1973-74) with James Bolam; also created Dear Mother... Love Albert and toured one-man shows.
Rodney Blakestad
Rodney Blakestad is a physicist and research program manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), named a 2017 PECASE recipient, the highest US government honor for early-career scientists.
Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks, born 1954 in Adelaide, Australia, is an Australian roboticist and MIT professor emeritus known for the subsumption architecture, the 1991 paper "Intelligence without representation," and co-founding iRobot.
Rodney C. Ewing
Rodney C. Ewing (1946–2024) was an American mineralogist and materials scientist at Stanford known for research on radiation damage in minerals and nuclear waste disposal.
Rodney Carrington
Rodney Carrington, American stand-up comedian, singer, and actor from Longview, Texas; debut album Hangin' with Rodney (1998), ABC sitcom Rodney (2004–2006), Beer for My Horses with Toby Keith, Netflix special Here Comes the Truth.
Rodney Craig Scott
Rodney Craig Scott (Rod C. Scott) is a pediatric epileptologist and physician-scientist who leads the NLSTEPSS childhood status epilepticus study and a 2025 NIH neurostimulation award.
Rodney Creech
Rodney Creech is an American Republican politician serving his third term in the Ohio House of Representatives for the 40th district, after serving as a Preble County Commissioner.
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell (born 1950, Houston, Texas) is an American country and Americana singer-songwriter, Hot Band alumnus, two-time Grammy winner, and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member whose 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt produced five consecutive #1 country singles.
Rodney Dale Welch Bowersox
Rodney Dale Welch Bowersox is an American aerospace engineer at Texas A&M University known for hypersonic aerodynamics research and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Rodney Dangerfield
Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen, 1921-2004), American stand-up comedian and actor famous for "I don't get no respect"; opened Dangerfield's club, starred in Caddyshack, Easy Money, and Back to School, won a 1981 Grammy.
Rodney E. Phillips
Rodney E. Phillips is an Australian immunologist who spent 35 years at Oxford, where his group first described how HIV evades cytotoxic T cells, before becoming Dean of UNSW Medicine.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Rodney Frelinghuysen (born 1946) was the Republican U.S. representative for New Jersey's 11th District, 1995-2019, and chaired the House Appropriations Committee in 2017-2019 before retiring in 2018.
Rodney H. Falk
Rodney H. Falk is a British-trained cardiologist who directed the Cardiac Amyloidosis Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is known for his research on cardiac amyloidosis.
Rodney Harrison
Rodney Harrison, former NFL safety (San Diego Chargers 1994-2002, New England Patriots 2003-08), two-time Super Bowl champion, record 30.5 sacks by a defensive back, 30/30 club, NBC Football Night in America analyst.
Rodney Hill
Rodney Hill (1921–2011) was a British applied mathematician, a leader in the mathematical theory of plasticity and author of the 1950 textbook of that name.
Rodney Hood
Rodney Hood (born 1992) is an American NBA guard-forward, 6'8", drafted 23rd overall by Utah in 2014 out of Duke; also played for Cleveland, Portland, Milwaukee, and the Clippers.
Rodney J. Bartlett
Rodney J. Bartlett (born 1944) is an American theoretical and quantum chemist who pioneered coupled-cluster methods for molecules and has been a professor at the University of Florida since 1988.
Rodney J. Clifton
Rodney J. Clifton is a Brown University engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 for pioneering research on materials under extremely rapid loading.
Rodney J. Tabaczynski
Rodney J. Tabaczynski (1945–2025) was an American mechanical engineer who specialized in combustion modeling for spark-ignition engines at General Motors and Ford, retiring as Director of Powertrain and Research.
Rodney J. Weber
Rodney J. Weber, also published as R. J. Weber, is a professor at Georgia Tech who studies atmospheric aerosols affecting climate, air quality, and health, and developed the Particle-Into-Liquid Sampler.
Rodney Jerkins
Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins (born 1977, Pleasantville, NJ) is an American producer and songwriter behind "The Boy Is Mine," "Say My Name," "You Rock My World," and "Stay With Me," a four-time Grammy winner and 2025 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee.
Rodney Jory
Rodney Leonard (Rod) Jory, born 1938 in Adelaide, is an Australian physicist who founded the National Youth Science Forum and sent Australia's first team to the 1987 International Physics Olympiad.
Rodney K. Tweten
Rodney K. Tweten is an American microbiologist at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center who studies bacterial pore-forming toxins and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
Rodney King
Rodney Glen King (1965–2012), Sacramento-born Altadena laborer, whose 1991 videotaped LAPD beating, Simi Valley acquittals, 1992 LA riots, federal civil rights convictions, and $3.8 million civil award reshaped US police accountability.
Rodney L. Cool
Rodney L. Cool was an American experimental particle physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory whose measurements helped establish the quark as a building block of protons and neutrons.
Rodney Mullen
Rodney Mullen (John Rodney Mullen, born 1966, Gainesville, Florida) is an American skateboarder, nicknamed The Mutt, who invented the flatground ollie, kickflip, heelflip, and 360 flip, founded World Industries, and is called the godfather of street skating.