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Ron Shaich
Ron Shaich is an American restaurant entrepreneur who founded Panera Bread, built it into a $5 billion chain, and sold it to JAB in 2017 for $7.5 billion.
Ron Shamir
Ron Shamir (born 1953) is an Israeli computer scientist and computational biologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, known for the SAMBA biclustering algorithm and the Expander platform.
Ron Shelton
Ron Shelton, American filmmaker and former minor league second baseman (Baltimore Orioles farm system, 1967-1971), writer-director of Bull Durham (1988), White Men Can't Jump, Cobb, and Tin Cup; not the Federal Reserve nominee Judy Shelton or executives named Ron Shelton.
Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman (born 1946 in Pasco, Washington) is an American poet, critic, and editor who is one of the founders of Language poetry, known for the new sentence and the long poem Ketjak.
Ron Silver
Ron Silver (Ronald Arthur Silver, 1946–2009), American Tony-winning actor and activist; won the 1988 Tony for Speed-the-Plow, played Alan Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune, led Actors' Equity, and became a '9/11 Republican'.
Ron Simmons
Ron Simmons, American retired pro wrestler and FSU two-time All-American nose guard; as Faarooq in WWE. Won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship from Vader on Aug. 2, 1992, the first recognized African-American world champion in a major national promotion; 2012 WWE Hall of Famer.
Ron Stallworth
Ron Stallworth, first African-American detective of the Colorado Springs Police Department, infiltrated the local Ku Klux Klan in 1978-79 by phone while a white stand-in attended meetings; memoir Black Klansman inspired the 2018 film BlacKkKlansman.
Ron Swanson
Ron Swanson (Ronald Ulysses Swanson), played by Nick Offerman, is the libertarian director of Pawnee's Parks Department on NBC's Parks and Recreation, created by Mike Schur from a real government employee and known for his mustache and anti-government quotes.
Ron T. Gansevoort
Ron T. Gansevoort is a Dutch nephrologist and professor at the University of Groningen known for chronic kidney disease screening and polycystic kidney disease research.
Ron Tomsic
Ron Tomsic (Ronald Paul Tomsic, born 3 April 1933, Oakland) is an American basketball guard, Stanford 1952-55, who won 1956 Olympic gold at Melbourne, averaging 11.1 points, then played AAU ball, never the NBA.
Ron Turcotte
Ron Turcotte (1941-2025), Canadian Hall of Fame jockey from Drummond, New Brunswick, rode Secretariat to the 1973 Triple Crown, won 3,032 races, and was paralyzed in a 1978 Belmont Park fall.
Ron Vlaar
Ron Vlaar (born 1985, Hensbroek) is a Dutch former centre back for AZ Alkmaar, Feyenoord, and Aston Villa, a 32-cap Netherlands international, and now an AZ assistant coach.
Ron W. Miller
Ron W. Miller (1933–2019) was an American business executive and former Los Angeles Rams player who served as president and CEO of Walt Disney Productions until 1984.
Ron Waksman
Ron Waksman is an interventional cardiologist and researcher at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, known for developing vascular brachytherapy to treat restenosis in stented arteries.
Ron Washington
Ron Washington (born 1952, New Orleans) is a former MLB infielder, Texas Rangers manager 2007-14 (664-611, back-to-back AL pennants 2010-11), 2021 Braves World Series coach, Angels manager 2024-25, and Giants infield coach.
Ron Watkins
Ron Watkins, former administrator of 8chan and 8kun under owner Jim Watkins, suspected but unproven as QAnon's 'Q'; stylometric studies and an HBO documentary point to him, he denies it, and he lost a 2022 Arizona House primary.
Ron Watson (Maryland politician)
Ron Watson is an American Democratic politician who has represented District 23 in the Maryland State Senate since his 2021 appointment by Governor Larry Hogan.
Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley (Ronald Bilius Weasley) is the fictional best friend of Harry Potter in J.K. Rowling's series: youngest Weasley son, Gryffindor, locket-Horcrux destroyer, Hermione's husband, played by Rupert Grint.
Ron Weiss
Ron Weiss is an MIT professor of biological engineering and EECS, director of the MIT Synthetic Biology Center, and a pioneer of synthetic biology who programs cells with genetic circuits.
Ron White
Ron White, known onstage as "Tater Salad," is an American stand-up comedian from Texas and a founding member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, begun in 2000.
Ron Williamson
Ron Williamson (1953–2004), Ada, Oklahoma baseball draftee wrongfully convicted of the 1982 rape-murder of Debra Sue Carter, sentenced to death, exonerated by DNA in 1999 after 11 years; subject of Grisham's The Innocent Man.
Ron Winterton
Ron Winterton is an American politician and Republican member of the Utah Senate, elected in 2018 after serving as a Duchesne County commissioner, including as its chairman.
Ron Woodroof
Ron Woodroof (1950–1992), Dallas electrician diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, founded the Dallas Buyers Club in 1988, smuggling non-FDA-approved drugs from Mexico and Japan; subject of the 2013 film Dallas Buyers Club.
Ron Wyatt
Ron Wyatt (1933-1999), American Seventh-day Adventist nurse anesthetist and amateur archaeologist, claimed nearly 100 biblical finds including Noah's Ark at Durupınar and the Ark of the Covenant under Jerusalem; professional archaeologists rejected all as unsupported.
Ron Wyden
Ron Wyden, Democratic U.S. senator from Oregon since 1996 after eight House terms; Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, known for internet-freedom, surveillance-reform, and Medicare drug-negotiation work.
Ron Yuan
Ron Yuan (袁文忠, Ronald Winston Yuan, born 1973, New York City) is an American actor, martial artist, stunt choreographer, and director known for Fast & Furious, Mulan, Marco Polo, and Blade of the 47 Ronin.
Ron Zwanziger
Ron Zwanziger is an American diagnostics entrepreneur who founded and sold MediSense, Inverness Medical Technology, and Alere, then co-founded point-of-care diagnostics company LumiraDx in 2014, which was sold to Roche after insolvency in 2023.
Ron Zwerver
Ron Zwerver (Ronald Ferdinand Zwerver, born 1967, Amsterdam), Dutch volleyball opposite and Olympic champion at Atlanta 1996, silver at Barcelona 1992, 463 caps, 1992 Olympic MVP, Hall of Fame 2017.
Ron-Robert Zieler
Ron-Robert Zieler, German goalkeeper (born 1989, Cologne), 2014 World Cup squad member with 6 caps; Hannover 96 captain with 382 club appearances, now at 1. FC Köln.
Ron's Gone Wrong
Ron's Gone Wrong is a 2021 computer-animated comedy, the debut feature of London's Locksmith Animation, about a socially awkward boy whose robot best friend malfunctions.