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Rona Ambrose

Rona Ambrose (born 1969), Canadian Conservative politician, MP for Edmonton—Spruce Grove and Sturgeon River—Parkland, eight cabinet posts under Harper, interim party leader and Opposition Leader 2015–2017.

Rona Barrett

Rona Barrett (born 1936, New York) is an American entertainment reporter known as "Miss Rona," pioneer of TV celebrity journalism, Good Morning America editor, Entertainment Tonight correspondent, and founder of the Rona Barrett Foundation senior housing.

Rona Chasma

Rona Chasma is a 1,520-km-long rift canyon (chasma) on Venus near Phoebe Regio, centered at 2.5°S-ish, 288°E; IAU-named 2012 for the Maori Moon goddess who controls the tides.

Ronald "Slim" Williams

Ronald "Slim" Williams (also "Suga Slim"), born 1967, is the New Orleans-born co-founder and co-CEO of Cash Money Records, started in 1991 with brother Bryan "Birdman" Williams; he runs the business side and stays out of the public eye.

Ronald A. Arky

Ronald A. Arky is an American endocrinologist specializing in diabetes and metabolism who holds a distinguished professorship at Harvard Medical School and practices in Boston.

Ronald A. Butow

Ronald A. Butow is a molecular biologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center known for discovering retrograde signaling from yeast mitochondria to the nucleus.

Ronald A. DePinho

Ronald A. DePinho is an American cancer biologist known for telomere and telomerase research who served as president of MD Anderson Cancer Center from 2011 to 2017.

Ronald A. Guzman

Ronald A. Guzman, born in 1948 in Puerto Rico, is a senior federal judge in Illinois, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999 after serving as a magistrate judge.

Ronald A. Hites

Ronald A. Hites (1942, Detroit – January 5, 2024, Bloomington, Indiana) was an American environmental chemist and Distinguished Professor at Indiana University, regarded as the father of modern environmental mass spectrometry for his work on pollutants.

Ronald A. Howard

Ronald A. Howard (1934–2024) was an American engineer and Stanford professor who founded the discipline of decision analysis, introduced policy iteration and influence diagrams, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Ronald A. Laskey

Ronald A. Laskey, born 1945, is a British cell biologist and Emeritus Charles Darwin Professor at Cambridge, known for work on DNA replication control and cancer screening.

Ronald A. Malt

Ronald A. Malt (1931–2002) was an American surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard professor who led the first successful reattachment of a completely severed human limb, in 1962.

Ronald A. Milligan

Ronald A. Milligan, born 1954, is a Northern Ireland-born structural biologist at Scripps Research known for cryo-electron microscopy of molecular motors and the nuclear pore complex.

Ronald A. Rohrer

Ronald A. Rohrer is an American electrical engineer who pioneered circuit simulation and electronic design automation, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Ronald A. Yankee

Ronald A. Yankee was a physician-scientist in hematology and transfusion medicine who pioneered selecting platelet donors by HL-A matching, showing matched platelets restore responses in refractory patients.

Ronald Acuña Jr.

Ronald Acuña Jr., El De La Sabana, Venezuelan Braves outfielder (born 1997, La Guaira): 2018 NL Rookie of the Year, unanimous 2023 NL MVP, and first MLB player with 40 home runs and 70 stolen bases in a season; two ACL tears, 2025 All-Star return.

Ronald Adrian

Ronald Adrian is an American mechanical engineer and Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, known for developing particle image velocimetry, a leading method for measuring turbulent flow.

Ronald Araújo

Ronald Araújo (Ronald Federico Araújo da Silva), Uruguayan centre-back born 1999 in Rivera; Barcelona 2018-2026, 213 games, then loaned to Liverpool for 2026-27; Uruguay international with 29 caps.

Ronald B. Herberman

Ronald B. Herberman was an American immunologist credited with the discovery of natural killer cells and founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.

Ronald Bayer

Ronald Bayer is Professor Emeritus of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, known for work on the ethics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and tobacco control.

Ronald Bell (musician)

Ronald Nathan Bell, also known as Khalis Bayyan (1951–2020), American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer who co-founded Kool & the Gang with his brother Robert and wrote "Celebration," "Jungle Boogie," "Cherish," and "Ladies' Night"; Songwriters Hall of Fame 2018, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2024.

Ronald Benner

Ronald Benner is an oceanographer and biogeochemist, Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, known for the size-reactivity continuum hypothesis of oceanic dissolved organic matter.

Ronald Breaker

Ronald R. Breaker is an American RNA biologist, Sterling Professor at Yale University, who discovered riboswitches, metabolite-sensing RNAs that control gene expression, and created the first catalytic DNAs.

Ronald Brebner

Ronald Gilchrist Brebner (1881-1914), English amateur goalkeeper and dental surgeon; non-starter at London 1908, won football gold with Great Britain at Stockholm 1912, playing all three matches including the 4-2 final win over Denmark; died at 33 after a Boxing Day 1913 head injury with Leicester Fosse.

Ronald Breslow

Ronald Breslow (1931–2017) was an American organic chemist at Columbia University for over six decades who founded biomimetic chemistry, coined antiaromaticity, and developed the anticancer drug vorinostat.

Ronald Burkle

Ronald (Ron) Burkle, American billionaire investor, founder of The Yucaipa Companies (1986); supermarket buyouts (Fred Meyer, Ralphs, Dominick's, Pathmark), Clinton fundraiser, stakes in Soho House, Penguins, Uber, Airbnb; net worth about $3.3-3.9 billion in 2026.

Ronald C. Cohen

Ronald C. Cohen is an American atmospheric chemist at UC Berkeley known for research on nitrogen oxides and for leading the BEACO2N urban greenhouse-gas sensor network.

Ronald C. Desrosiers

Ronald C. Desrosiers is an American virologist who led the team that discovered simian immunodeficiency virus in 1984, the monkey virus closely related to HIV.

Ronald C. Kennedy

Ronald C. Kennedy, also known as Ronald Kennedy, was an American virus immunologist whose 1986 Science paper showed an anti-idiotypic antibody vaccine protected chimpanzees from hepatitis B.

Ronald C. Kessler

Ronald C. Kessler is an American psychiatric epidemiologist, McNeil Family Professor at Harvard Medical School, who led the US National Comorbidity Survey of mental disorders.