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Romain Duris
Romain Duris is a French actor discovered by Cédric Klapisch in Le Péril jeune, with seven César nominations including Best Actor for The Beat That My Heart Skipped.
Romain Fleury
Romain Fleury is a scientist in wave physics and electrical engineering who heads the Laboratory of Wave Engineering at EPFL in Switzerland, known for training physical neural networks.
Romain Franconville
Romain Franconville is a neuroscientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who studies the Drosophila central complex, the fly brain region hosting its internal compass, using connectomics and calcium imaging.
Romain Gary
Romain Gary (Roman Kacew, 1914–1980), French novelist, diplomat, and Free French pilot, only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice, in 1956 as Gary and in 1975 under the pseudonym Émile Ajar.
Romain Girouille
Romain Girouille, French recurve archer born 1988 in Saint-Doulchard; 2010 European individual champion, world team silver 2009 and 2011, Olympian at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, later coach of France's silver-medal Paris 2024 men's team.
Romain Grosjean
Romain Grosjean, the Phoenix, Swiss-born French racing driver; F1 2009-2020 with 10 podiums for Lotus; survived the fiery 2020 Bahrain crash at 67g; IndyCar since 2021 with Dale Coyne, Andretti, Juncos.
Romain Koszul
Romain Koszul is a French biologist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris who studies the three-dimensional organization of genomes and heads its Spatial Regulation of Genomes team.
Romain Lagarde
Romain Lagarde (Romain Mattis Lagarde), born 1997 in Lorient, is a French handball left back, Olympic gold medalist at Tokyo 2020, World silver 2023 and bronze 2019/2025, playing for HBC Nantes.
Romain Pauwels
Romain Pauwels (1943–2005) was a Belgian pulmonologist and professor of medicine at the University Hospital of Ghent who chaired the global asthma and COPD guideline initiatives GINA and GOLD.
Romain Quidant
Romain Quidant is a physicist in nanophotonics and plasmonics, Full Professor at ETH Zurich since 2020, known for thermoplasmonics and chip-scale vacuum levitation of nanoparticles.
Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland (1866–1944) was a French novelist, dramatist, and musicologist who won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature, known for the ten-volume novel Jean-Christophe and his wartime pacifist writings.
Romain Saïss
Romain Saïss (Romain Ghanem Paul Saïss), Moroccan-French centre-back born 1990 in Bourg-de-Péage; Wolves 2016-22 (206 apps), Besiktas, Al-Sadd; captained Morocco to the 2022 World Cup semifinals and won AFCON 2025.
Romain Teyssier
Romain Teyssier is a French computational astrophysicist and cosmologist, a Princeton professor since 2021, best known for creating the widely used RAMSES cosmological simulation code.
Romaine lettuce
Romaine lettuce (cos lettuce, Lactuca sativa var. longifolia) is an elongated-heading lettuce type from Egypt, higher in nutrients than iceberg, stored near 0°C for about 21 days, and a recurring vehicle for E. coli O157 outbreaks.
Romaine Quinn
Romaine Quinn is an American Republican politician who was mayor of Rice Lake at 19, served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 2015, and now serves in the State Senate.
Romaine-la-Prophétesse
Romaine-la-Prophétesse, born Romaine Rivière around 1760, was a free black insurgent and prophet who led thousands in Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution until his defeat in 1792.
Romaleidae
Romaleidae, commonly known as lubber grasshoppers, is a family of about 483 grasshopper species endemic to the Americas, named for their sluggish gait and mostly South and Central American in distribution.
Roman à clef
A roman à clef (German: Schlüsselroman), also called a key novel, is fiction in which real people, places, and events appear under invented names that informed readers can recognize.
Roman à thèse
A roman à thèse (French for "thesis novel") is a novel written to prove a political, philosophical, or religious doctrine, the argument taking precedence over the story.
Roman abacus
The Roman abacus was a calculating device used in ancient Rome, either a pebble-and-line counting board or a small portable bronze plate with sliding beads.
Roman Abramovich (Рома́н Арка́дьевич Абрамо́вич)
Roman Abramovich (Роман Абрамович) is a Russian billionaire investor who made his fortune in oil, owned Chelsea FC from 2003 to 2022, and was sanctioned in 2022.
Roman Agora of Athens
Roman Agora of Athens (Ρωμαϊκή Αγορά), also called the Agora of Caesar and Augustus: a 1st-century-BC Roman marketplace east of the Greek Agora, with the Gate of Athena Archegetis, Tower of the Winds, Vespasianae, and Fethiye Mosque; separate ticketed site.
Roman amphitheater at *Moridunum
Roman amphitheater at Moridunum (Carmarthen, Wales): 2nd-century AD earth-and-timber amphitheater of the Demetae's civitas capital, excavated 1968 and 1970, seating 4,500-5,000, scheduled monument CM206, one of seven surviving in Britain.
Roman amphitheater at Al(l)ifae
Roman amphitheater of ancient Allifae at Alife, Campania (Anfiteatro romano di Alife): early 1st-century AD oval arena, 107 x 84 m, discovered by aerial photography in 1976, half still buried, demolished in the 11th/12th century.
Roman amphitheater at Alalie/Aleria
Roman amphitheater at Aléria (Aleria/Alalia), Corsica: a very small elliptical arena building, principal axis 29.60 m (100 Roman feet), built over pre-Roman rampart remains destroyed in 259 BC, excavated by Jean Jehasse.
Roman amphitheater at Albano Laziale
The Roman amphitheater at Albano Laziale, known locally as the Anfiteatro Severiano, is an early 3rd-century amphitheater built for the soldiers of Legio II Parthica at Albano Laziale, Lazio.
Roman amphitheater at Amiternum
Roman amphitheater at Amiternum (anfiteatro romano di Amiternum): 1st-century AD brick amphitheater near San Vittorino, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, with 48 arches, seating roughly 5,000-6,000 for gladiatorial games and hunts; excavated 1880, restored 1996.
Roman amphitheater at Ariminum
Roman amphitheater at Ariminum (anfiteatro romano di Rimini): Hadrianic 2nd-century AD elliptical brick arena, 118 x 88 m, 60-arch portico, 10,000-12,000 spectators; later absorbed into Rimini's walls, only partially surviving in Emilia-Romagna.
Roman amphitheater at Augusta Raurica
Roman amphitheater at Augusta Raurica (Augst, Switzerland): remains of two amphitheaters, a theater-to-arena conversion around 110 CE with a 49 by 36 m arena, and a separate outskirt amphitheater around 170 CE.
Roman amphitheater at Béziers
Roman amphitheater at Béziers (Arènes Romaines, Amphithéâtre romain): 1st-century AD Gallo-Roman amphitheater on the Saint-Jacques hill, 110 x 90 m, about 13,000-15,000 seats, abandoned in the 3rd century, quarried and built over in the Middle Ages, excavated from 1991, inscribed Monument historique in 2013.