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Roid rage
Roid rage, also called steroid rage, is aggression and irritability attributed to anabolic-androgenic steroid use; meta-analyses show a small self-reported aggression increase in trials, with causality and real-world doses still debated.
Roifman syndrome
Roifman syndrome (OMIM 616651, ORPHA:353298), also called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia-retinal dystrophy-immunodeficiency syndrome, is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive RNU4ATAC (2q14.2) minor spliceosome disorder with growth retardation, skeletal dysplasia, retinal dystrophy, and antibody deficiency.
Roig family
The Roig family is the Valencia-based Spanish family that founded, owns, and runs Mercadona, Spain's largest supermarket chain, led by Juan Roig and ranked third among Spain's richest families.
Roisin Conaty
Roisin Conaty (b. 1979) is an English stand-up comedian and actor, 2010 Edinburgh Best Newcomer winner, Jo in Man Down, creator and star of GameFace, Roxy in After Life, Taskmaster series 1 contestant, and deputy host then contestant on Last One Laughing UK.
Róisín Murphy
Róisín Murphy (born 1973, Arklow, Ireland) is an Irish singer and producer, formerly of the duo Moloko with Mark Brydon, known for Sing It Back and solo albums Ruby Blue, Overpowered, Róisín Machine, and Hit Parade.
Roivant Sciences
Roivant Sciences Ltd. (Nasdaq: ROIV), the Vant-model biopharma holding company founded by Vivek Ramaswamy in 2014, develops drugs through subsidiaries like Immunovant, Priovant, and Pulmovant; FDA approved LISRAYA (brepocitinib) in August 2026.
Roj TV
Roj TV (ڕۆژ تیڤی, 'sun'), also Med TV/Medya TV lineage, was a Danish-licensed Kurdish satellite channel (2004–2013) owned by Mesopotamia Broadcast, closed after Danish courts convicted it of promoting the PKK.
Roja (Philippine TV series)
Roja is a 2025 Philippine action-drama series produced by Dreamscape Entertainment, starring Donny Pangilinan and Kyle Echarri as estranged friends forced together by a resort hostage crisis.
Roja (soundtrack)
Roja is the 1992 debut soundtrack album of composer A. R. Rahman, written for Mani Ratnam's Tamil film, selling over 3 million units and winning Rahman a National Film Award.
Roja (ரோஜா) (film)
Roja (ரோஜா), 1992 Tamil drama by Mani Ratnam, produced by K. Balachander, starring Arvind Swamy and Madhoo. A.R. Rahman's debut score; first of his political trilogy; Hindi dub made it a pan-Indian hit.
Roja Ramani (రోజా రమాణి)
Roja Ramani (రోజా రమాణి), also Chemparathy Shobana, Indian actress and dubbing artist; child star of Bhakta Prahlada (1967, National Award for Best Child Artist), lead in Chemparathi (1972), later voice of 400-500+ Telugu films.
Roja Selvamani
Roja Selvamani (Sri Latha Reddy, born 1972) is a South Indian film actress turned Andhra Pradesh politician; YSRCP MLA from Nagari in 2014 and 2019, Tourism Minister 2022-2024, wife of director R.K. Selvamani.
Rojak
Rojak (rujak in Indonesia) is a Southeast Asian mixed fruit-and-vegetable salad with fermented prawn paste sauce, from Malay "mixture"; variants include Chinese, Malay, Indian (pasembur), and Penang rojak, attested in Java since 901 CE.
Rojava Revolution
The Rojava Revolution (19 July 2012 uprising in Kobane), also called the July 19 Revolution, created AANES in northeastern Syria on democratic-confederalist principles from Öcalan's ideology, with women's quotas and co-chairs, before dissolving into the Syrian state by 2026.
Rojbin Erden
Rojbin Erden is a Turkish actress and model, born August 15 (1996 or 2000 in sources), a conservatory opera graduate. Known as Melek in Gelsin Hayat Bildiği Gibi, Asi in Yabani, and Feride in Sevdiğim Sensin.
Rojdi
Rojdi is an agricultural town of the Indus civilization in Rajkot District, Saurashtra, Gujarat, India, occupied from about 2500 to 1700 BC and excavated by Gregory Possehl from 1982.
Rojé Stona
Rojé Stona (born 1999) is a Jamaican discus thrower who won gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics with an Olympic record of 70.00 m, becoming the first island-born Olympic throwing champion.
Rōjū
The rōjū (老中), also called toshiyori, was the senior council of the Tokugawa shogunate, normally four or five fudai daimyō who governed under the shogun until 1867.
Rōjū-shuza
Rōjū-shuza (老中首座) was the presiding first seat of the rōjū, the Tokugawa shogunate's highest permanent office, a post like prime minister held by figures such as Matsudaira Sadanobu.
Rokae Robotics (珞石机器人)
Rokae Robotics (珞石机器人) is a Chinese manufacturer of industrial robots, collaborative robots, and embodied-intelligence robots, founded by Tuo Hua in 2014 and headquartered in Zoucheng, Shandong.
Rokan-Dumai Oil Pipeline
The Rokan-Dumai Oil Pipeline is a 367 km crude oil pipeline in Riau, Indonesia, carrying oil from the Rokan Block to the Pertamina refinery at Dumai.
Rokapi Dorsa
Rokapi Dorsa (როკაპი) is a 2,200 km ridge system (dorsum) on Venus at 55°S, 222°E, named in 1997 after the Georgian main witch, one of 92 cataloged Venus dorsa.
Roketsan
Roketsan, formally Roketsan Roket Sanayi, is a Turkish rocket and missile manufacturer founded in 1988 and headquartered in Ankara, serving as Türkiye's national missile system house.
Rokid (灵伴科技（杭州）股份有限公司) (Lingban Technology)
Rokid, legally Hangzhou Lingban Technology Co., Ltd, is a Chinese maker of consumer AI glasses and industrial AR devices, founded in Hangzhou in 2014 by Zhu Mingming.
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (六花の勇者)
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (六花の勇者, Rokka no Yūsha) is an unfinished six-volume Japanese light novel series by Ishio Yamagata (Shueisha Dash-X Bunko, from 2011) and a 2015 12-episode anime: six chosen braves gather, seven appear, so one is a fake.
Rokkaku Yoshikata
Rokkaku Yoshikata (六角義賢; 1521–1598), later known as Rokkaku Shōtei, was a Sengoku-period daimyo who headed the Rokkaku clan from Kannonji Castle in southern Ōmi Province, Japan.
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (六ヶ所再処理工場) is Japan's first commercial spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, located in Rokkasho Village, Aomori Prefecture, and operated by Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited.
Roko Camaj
Roko Camaj (1941–2001), Albanian immigrant from Montenegro, WTC window washer for ABM Industries from 1973; hand-washed the South Tower's wide 107th-floor panes at 1,300 feet; died trapped on the 105th floor on 9/11, called the patron saint of window washers.
Roko's basilisk
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment posted on LessWrong in 2010, claiming a future AI could torture those who imagined it but did not help bring it into existence.
Rokoko
Rokoko names both a motion capture company (Smartsuit Pro II, Smartgloves, Coil Pro, Rokoko Studio, Rokoko Vision AI video mocap) and a 2013 board game by Cramer and the Malzes, a Kennerspiel nominee about dressmaking under Louis XV.