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Rodrigo Palacio
Rodrigo Sebastián Palacio, Argentine forward born 1982 in Bahía Blanca; starred for Boca Juniors, Genoa, Inter Milan, and Bologna; 27 Argentina caps, 2014 World Cup finalist; retired 2022, then played basketball.
Rodrigo Paz
Rodrigo Paz, born 1967, is a Bolivian politician and Christian Democratic Party member who has served as President of Bolivia since 2025, ending nearly two decades of MAS governance.
Rodrigo Pessoa
Rodrigo Pessoa is a Brazilian show jumping rider who won individual Olympic gold at the 2004 Athens Games and three consecutive FEI World Cup titles from 1998 to 2000.
Rodrigo Rêgo (footballer, born 2005)
Rodrigo Miguel Ferreira Rêgo, Portuguese winger born 2005 in Aveiro; youth at Porto and Famalicão, Benfica first-team debut 2025, sold to Brighton 2026 for ~€3.5m, on loan at Castellón.
Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Rodrigo Rey Rosa (born 1958, Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan novelist, short-story writer, and filmmaker, mentored by Paul Bowles and known for El material humano and Cárcel de árboles.
Rodrigo Santoro
Rodrigo Santoro (Rodrigo Junqueira dos Reis Santoro), born 1975 in Petrópolis, is a Brazilian actor known for Brainstorm, Carandiru, Xerxes in 300, Lost, Westworld, and the Venice-honored 7 Prisoners.
Rodrigo Teixeira (producer)
Rodrigo Abreu Teixeira (born 1976), Brazilian film producer and founder of RT Features in São Paulo; producer of I'm Still Here (Oscar, Best International Feature 2025), Call Me by Your Name, Frances Ha, The Witch, and Ad Astra.
Rodrigo V. Guerrero
Rodrigo V. Guerrero, born Rodrigo Guerrero Velasco in 1938, is a Colombian physician and epidemiologist who treated urban violence as a public health problem as mayor of Cali, winning the first Roux Prize in 2014.
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Rodrigo y Gabriela: Mexican instrumental acoustic guitar duo Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero, ex-buskers on Dublin's Grafton Street, whose thrash-metal-flavored percussive style won the 2020 Grammy for Mettavolution.
Rodrigo Zalazar
Rodrigo Zalazar Martínez (born 1999, Albacete) is a Uruguayan attacking midfielder, son of José Luis Zalazar; ex-Schalke and SC Braga, signed by Sporting CP for €30M in 2026, with 11 Uruguay caps and a 2026 World Cup squad place.
Rodrigues
Rodrigues, also called Rodrigues Island, is a 108 km2 autonomous volcanic island of Mauritius in the Mascarenes, 650 km northeast of Mauritius, named for Diogo Rodrigues (1528), French from 1735, British from 1809, autonomous since 2001.
Rodrigues Alves Park
Bosque Rodrigues Alves (Jardim Zoobotânico da Amazônia) is a 15-hectare urban Amazonian forest, botanical garden and zoo in central Belém, Pará, Brazil, inaugurated 25 August 1883, renamed in 1906 for President Rodrigues Alves, with 309 tree species and over 200,000 annual visitors.
Rodrigues solitaire
Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), extinct flightless pigeon of Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands; sister species of the dodo, closest living relative the Nicobar pigeon; last recorded 1761/1765.
Rodrigues' rotation formula
Rodrigues' rotation formula is a closed-form expression that converts a rotation by an angle about a fixed axis into the corresponding rotation matrix, derived by Olinde Rodrigues in 1840.
Rodriguez Jr. Live
Rodriguez Jr. Live is the live-performance alias of French electronic producer Olivier Mateu, formerly of The Youngsters, who performs melodic house and techno with synthesizers rather than DJing.
Rodriguez, Rizal
Rodriguez (Montalban), Rizal: Philippine municipality renamed Rodriguez in 1982 and back to Montalban by RA 11812 in 2022; largest Philippine municipality, 443,954 people in 2020, home of Wawa Gorge and Upper Wawa Dam.
Rodrygo
Rodrygo (Rodrygo Silva de Goes), Brazilian forward born 2001 in Osasco; Santos 2017-2019 then Real Madrid, 70 goals in 292 games, two Champions Leagues, 2022 semifinal brace vs Manchester City; Brazil international; ACL rupture March 2026 ruled him out of the 2026 World Cup.
Rodtang Jitmuangnon (รถถัง จิตรหงส์)
Rodtang Jitmuangnon (รถถัง จิตรเมืองนนท์), born Tinnakorn Srisawat 1997, Thai Muay Thai fighter, "The Iron Man"; ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Champion 2019-2024, stripped for missing weight; lost 2026 Takeru rematch.
Roe
Roe is the ripe egg mass of fish and shellfish (hard roe) or the testes of males (soft roe), eaten worldwide; only salt-cured sturgeon roe qualifies as caviar under FAO usage.
Roe deer
Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), Europe's most widespread ungulate, a small 22–30 kg deer known for embryonic diapause: July–August rut, December implantation, spring births of 1–3 fawns.
Roe Deer Observation Center
Roe Deer Observation Center (제주 노루생태관찰원), a Jeju City ecological park opened August 3, 2007 in Bonggae-dong on Geochin Oreum, where about 220 wild roe deer roam 50 ha with a 2.6 km trail, feeding programs, and Korea's first live-mammal biotope conservation designation.
Roe Messner
Roe Messner (Ronald Roe Messner, 1935–2025) was an American contractor from Wichita, Kansas, who built more than 1,700 churches and was chief contractor for Heritage USA.
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), the US Supreme Court decision recognizing a Fourteenth Amendment right to abortion and creating the trimester framework; reframed by Casey's undue burden standard, overruled by Dobbs in June 2022.
Roe v. Wade (film)
Roe v. Wade (2021 film), also shot under the alias 1973, is an American anti-abortion political drama by Nick Loeb and Cathy Allyn about the 1973 Supreme Court case, starring Loeb, Stacey Dash, and Jon Voight; released April 2, 2021, it grossed $23,561 and drew 17% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Roe-Hoan Yoon
Roe-Hoan Yoon is a mineral processing engineer and colloid scientist at Virginia Tech, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 and known for the commercial Microcel flotation process.
Roebuck Bay
Roebuck Bay (Yawuru Nagulagun) is a tropical embayment at Broome, Western Australia, a 1990 Ramsar site of 34,141 ha with 9 m tides, 160 km2 of mudflats, and over 300,000 migratory shorebirds annually.
Roecliffe Fort
Roecliffe Fort is a Flavian Roman fort and vicus near Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, found by geophysical survey before the A1 upgrade, occupied from about AD 71 into the 80s, and succeeded by Aldborough.
Roehampton Club
Roehampton Club: private members' multi-sports club in Roehampton, south-west London; founded 1901 as a Miller brothers officers' polo club, opened 1902 on 57 acres; former home of the Roehampton Cup, now 5,100-member club with golf, tennis, squash, croquet.
Rōei
Rōei (朗詠) is a Japanese court song genre, arising in the Heian period, in which a Chinese couplet read into literary Japanese is sung with wind instruments.
Roel Aaij
Roel Aaij is a Dutch particle physicist, senior scientific staff at Nikhef in Amsterdam since 2018, known for the 2015 pentaquark observation and leading LHCb's GPU-based trigger Allen.