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Ronald C. Petersen
Ronald C. Petersen is an American neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, best known for establishing mild cognitive impairment as a recognized diagnostic category.
Ronald Clark O'Bryan
Ronald Clark O'Bryan, known as the "Candy Man," was a Texas optician executed in 1984 for fatally poisoning his eight-year-old son with cyanide-laced Halloween candy in 1974.
Ronald Coifman
Ronald Coifman, born 1941, is a Yale mathematician known for wavelet theory, Coiflets, and diffusion maps for extracting structure from data; he received the National Medal of Science.
Ronald Colman
Ronald Colman (Ronald Charles Colman, 1891-1958), English-born Hollywood leading man of silents and talkies; Oscar winner for A Double Life (1947), star of Bulldog Drummond, Lost Horizon, The Prisoner of Zenda, and Random Harvest.
Ronald Conaway
Ronald Conaway is an American biochemist and molecular biologist who discovered transcription factors controlling RNA polymerase II and the elongation factor elongin, working at the Stowers Institute from 2001 to 2021.
Ronald D. Miller
Ronald D. Miller (1939–2025) was an American anesthesiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who chaired its anesthesia department for 25 years and edited Miller's Anesthesia.
Ronald D. Moore
Ronald D. Moore (Ronald Dowl Moore, born 1964) is an American TV writer-producer: Star Trek TNG/DS9 writer, showrunner of Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009), Outlander, and For All Mankind.
Ronald D. Vale
Ronald D. Vale is an American cell biologist and biochemist who co-discovered the motor protein kinesin as a graduate student and won the 2012 Lasker Award.
Ronald D.G. McKay
Ronald D.G. McKay, also known as Ronald D. McKay, is a stem cell biologist and neuroscientist who identified stem cells in the mammalian central nervous system.
Ronald Darby
Ronald Darby, NFL cornerback (2015-2024): Bills, Eagles, Washington, Broncos, Ravens, Jaguars, Texans. Drafted 50th overall 2015; Super Bowl LII champion; retired after 10 seasons.
Ronald de Boer
Ronaldus (Ronald) de Boer, Dutch forward born 1970 in Hoorn, twin brother of Frank de Boer. Ajax 1995 Champions League winner, Barcelona (1999 LaLiga), Rangers, Qatar; 67 Netherlands caps, 13 goals.
Ronald de Wit
Ronald de Wit is a Dutch genitourinary medical oncologist and professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, known for trials establishing docetaxel, cabazitaxel, and pembrolizumab in urologic cancers.
Ronald de Wolf
Ronald de Wolf (born 1973) is a Dutch researcher in quantum computing and complexity theory at CWI and the University of Amsterdam, known for the polynomial method and the 2023 Gödel Prize.
Ronald DeFeo Jr.
Ronald DeFeo Jr. (1951-2021), American mass murderer who killed six family members at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York, on November 13, 1974; convicted 1975; his crime launched the disputed Amityville Horror haunting story he called a hoax.
Ronald dela Rosa
Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa (Ronald Marapon Dela Rosa), Filipino senator since 2019 and Duterte's PNP chief July 2016–April 2018 who led the drug war and devised Oplan Tokhang; ICC-wanted for murder as a crime against humanity and in hiding since May 2026.
Ronald DeVore
Ronald DeVore (born 1941) is an American applied mathematician known for approximation theory, wavelet compression, and compressed sensing, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.
Ronald DeWolf
Ronald DeWolf, born L. Ron Hubbard Jr., was the eldest son of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and later a public critic of the movement.
Ronald Dominique
Ronald Joseph Dominique, the Bayou Strangler, an American serial killer active in southeastern Louisiana 1997 to 2006, confessed to raping and strangling at least 23 men; arrested 2006, pleaded guilty to murder in 2008.
Ronald Drever
Ronald Drever (1931–2017) was a Scottish experimental physicist who co-founded LIGO and invented the optical techniques behind its 2015 gravitational-wave detection, dying months before the 2017 Nobel Prize went to his colleagues.
Ronald Dubner
Ronald Dubner (1934–2023) was an American pain researcher who led NIH's first pain research laboratory and later chaired pain sciences at the University of Maryland.
Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013), American legal philosopher at Yale, Oxford, and NYU, challenged H.L.A. Hart's legal positivism with interpretivism and law as integrity, arguing judges are bound by legal-moral principles; wrote Taking Rights Seriously and Law's Empire, won the Holberg and Balzan prizes.
Ronald E. Cape
Ronald E. Cape was a Canadian-born American biotechnology executive who co-founded Cetus Corporation in Berkeley, California in 1971 and led it until its 1991 sale to Chiron.
Ronald Ekers
Ronald Ekers, born 1941, is an Australian radio astronomer known for high-resolution imaging of the Galactic Centre and for directing the VLA and CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility.
Ronald F. Dorfman
Ronald F. Dorfman was a South African-born American pathologist, an emeritus Stanford professor who helped establish hematopathology as a field, described Rosai-Dorfman disease, and died in 2012 aged 89.
Ronald F. Probstein
Ronald F. Probstein (1928–2021) was an American mechanical engineer and fluid mechanician, a professor at MIT whose research on hypersonic flow and shock waves informed early spacecraft design and ballistic missile reentry physics.
Ronald Fagin
Ronald Fagin is an American computer scientist and IBM Fellow at IBM Research in San Jose, best known for Fagin's theorem, which founded finite model theory.
Ronald Fedkiw
Ronald Fedkiw is a Stanford computer science professor known for the Ghost Fluid Method and fluid simulation software used in films, earning two Scientific and Technical Academy Awards.
Ronald Finn
Ronald Finn (1930–2004) was a British physician and researcher in Liverpool who, with Sir Cyril Clarke, developed anti-D prophylaxis, the "Liverpool shot" preventing Rhesus disease in newborns, sharing the 1980 Lasker Award.
Ronald Fisher
Sir Ronald Fisher (1890–1962) was a British statistician and geneticist, considered the founder of modern statistics, who developed ANOVA, maximum likelihood, and experimental design at Rothamsted.
Ronald Florijn
Ronald Florijn, Dutch rower born 1961 in Leiden; two-time Olympic champion (double sculls with Nico Rienks, Seoul 1988; Holland Acht, Atlanta 1996), later KNRB national coach, father of Karolien and Finn Florijn.