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Rodney Pattisson
Rodney Pattisson (born 1943), British sailor, double Olympic Flying Dutchman gold medalist (1968, 1972) and 1976 silver medalist; Britain's most successful Olympic yachtsman until Ben Ainslie in 2008.
Rodney Peete
Rodney Peete is a former NFL quarterback (1989–2004) who played for six teams, threw for 16,338 yards and 76 touchdowns, and won the 1988 Golden Arm Award at USC.
Rodney Pol
Rodney Pol is an American Democratic politician who represents Indiana's 4th Senate district in northwest Indiana and serves as caucus chair of the Senate Democrats.
Rodney R. Porter
Rodney R. Porter, also known as Rodney Robert Porter, was a British biochemist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for determining the chemical structure of antibodies.
Rodney Reed
Rodney Reed is a Texas death row inmate convicted in 1998 of the 1996 capital murder of Stacey Stites, maintaining his innocence while seeking DNA testing of the murder weapon.
Rodney Rothstein
Rodney Rothstein is an American geneticist at Columbia University known for work on DNA repair and genome stability, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Rodney S. Ruoff
Rodney S. Ruoff, also known as Rodney Ruoff, is a physical chemist and graphene researcher who directs the IBS Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials at UNIST in South Korea.
Rodney S. Tucker
Rodney S. Tucker is an Australian electrical engineer and Laureate Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, known for work on optical networking and telecommunications energy efficiency.
Rodney Sacks
Rodney Sacks is a South African-born lawyer and beverages executive who, with Hilton Schlosberg, bought Hansen Natural in 1990 and built it into Monster Beverage Corporation.
Rodney Smith
Rodney Smith, born in 1974, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Rodney Trotter
Rodney Trotter (Rodney Charlton Trotter, "Rodders") is the younger brother of Del Boy in BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, played by Nicholas Lyndhurst 1981–2003 and 2014; married Cassandra, Trigger calls him Dave.
Rodney W. Sippel
Rodney W. Sippel is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, New York State Assembly member for Brooklyn's 42nd District and Majority Whip, chaired the Brooklyn Democratic Party from January 2020 until 2026, when she declined reelection after a reform coalition won a majority of district leader seats.
Rodnikovoye field
Rodnikovoye field (Родниковое месторождение) is an oil field in the Surgut district of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Western Siberia, discovered in 1977, developed from 1986, and operated by Surgutneftegas.
Rodobens
Rodobens is a family-controlled Brazilian automotive and financial-services group founded in 1949 by Waldemar de Oliveira Verdi, headquartered in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo.
Rodolfo A. Ruiz II
Rodolfo A. Ruiz II, born 1979, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Southern District of Florida since 2019, after judging in Miami.
Rodolfo Aicardi
Rodolfo Aicardi (Marco Tulio Aicardi Rivera, 1946–2007), Colombian tropical singer of Magangué, voice of Los Hispanos and La Típica RA7; famous for 'Cariñito' and 'La Colegiala', called the king of Colombian December festivities.
Rodolfo Albano III
Rodolfo Taguinod Albano III, known locally as Rodito, is a Filipino politician serving as Governor of Isabela since 2019 after five terms as the province's 1st District representative.
Rodolfo Cadena
Rodolfo "Cheyenne" Cadena, a leader of the Mexican Mafia (La Eme) prison gang in California, helped formalize its blood oath and outside-street strategy; he was killed by rival Nuestra Familia members, triggering retaliatory killings.
Rodolfo Dirzo
Rodolfo Dirzo is a Mexican-born ecologist, the Bing Professor at Stanford University, best known for the concept of defaunation, the loss of animal populations from ecosystems.
Rodolfo Fierro
Rodolfo Fierro (1880 or 1882 – 1915) was a Mexican revolutionary and Villa's ruthless escort commander, nicknamed "El Carnicero", who drowned crossing a lagoon in Chihuahua.
Rodolfo Gonzalez
Rodolfo Gonzalez is a venture capital investor and General Partner at Foundation Capital, where he invests in fintech, crypto, and Latin America-facing startups and serves on the board of Platzi.
Rodolfo Graziani
Rodolfo Graziani (1882–1955), Italian marshal and colonial administrator, led Libya's reconquest and Ethiopia's occupation, served as Salò defense minister, and was tried for collaborationism in 1948–1950 but never for colonial crimes.
Rodolfo Gucci
Rodolfo Gucci (Maurizio D'Ancora), Italian film actor and businessman, youngest son of Gucci founder Guccio Gucci; joined the family firm after WWII, ran its Italian operations, and died in 1983 leaving half of Gucci to his son Maurizio.
Rodolfo Llinás
Rodolfo Llinás, born 1934 in Bogotá, Colombia, is a Colombian-American neuroscientist at NYU School of Medicine known for work on intrinsic neuron electrophysiology, the thalamocortical system, and magnetoencephalography.
Rodolfo Pizarro
Rodolfo Pizarro, full name Rodolfo Gilbert Pizarro Thomas, is a Mexican attacking midfielder for CF Pachuca, a three-time Liga MX champion and 2019 Gold Cup winner with Mexico.
Rodolfo R. Rodriguez
Rodolfo R. Rodriguez is an American bioengineer and diagnostics inventor, a National Academy of Engineering member best known for inventing the first automated blood-cell separator and cofounding Advanced Animal Diagnostics.
Rodolfo Teófilo
Rodolfo Teófilo, full name Rodolfo Marcos Teófilo, was a Brazilian pharmacist, novelist, and sanitarian in Ceará who led a private smallpox vaccination campaign and wrote the Naturalist novel A Fome (1890).
Rodolfo Terlizzi
Rodolfo Terlizzi (1896–1971), Italian foil fencer from Florence: Olympic team foil gold at Antwerp 1920, silver at Los Angeles 1932, 1930 Liège world team title, later Olympic referee and film fencing master.
Rodolfo Walsh
Rodolfo Walsh (1927–1977) was an Argentine investigative journalist and writer known for Operación Masacre (1957) and for the open letter he sent Argentina's military junta a day before his murder.