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Ronald Freedman

Ronald Freedman (1917–2007) was an American sociologist and demographer at the University of Michigan who directed the first national US fertility survey and founded its Population Studies Center.

Ronald G. Crystal is an American physician-scientist in pulmonary medicine and gene therapy who developed the FDA-approved therapy for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and pioneered human adenovirus gene transfer.

Ronald G. Douglas

Ronald G. Douglas (1938–2018) was an American mathematician in operator theory, co-creator of Brown–Douglas–Fillmore theory of C-algebra extensions, longtime Stony Brook professor, and provost of Texas A&M University.

Ronald G. Haller

Ronald G. Haller is a neurologist and professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who directs a neuromuscular center and studies metabolic myopathies, including McArdle disease.

Ronald G. Larson

Ronald G. Larson, born 1953 in Minnesota, is an American chemical engineer at the University of Michigan known for polymer rheology and elastic flow instabilities.

Ronald G. Prinn

Ronald G. Prinn is an atmospheric scientist at MIT, where he is TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science and has led the AGAGE greenhouse gas monitoring network since 1978.

Ronald G. Strauss

Ronald G. Strauss was an American transfusion medicine physician and pediatric hematologist at the University of Iowa known for trials reshaping transfusion practice in premature infants.

Ronald G. Victor

Ronald G. Victor, also known as Ronald Victor, was an American cardiologist and hypertension researcher whose barbershop trials brought blood pressure in Black men under control.

Ronald G.W. Norrish

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish was a British physical chemist at Cambridge who shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, using flash photolysis.

Ronald Gene Simmons

Ronald Gene Simmons, also known as R. Gene Simmons, was an American retired Air Force master sergeant who killed 16 people, 14 of them family, near Dover and Russellville, Arkansas, December 22–28, 1987, the worst single-family mass murder in U.S. history; executed June 25, 1990.

Ronald Graham

Ronald Graham, full name Ronald Lewis Graham, is an American mathematician and computer scientist who spent most of his career at Bell Labs and is best known for Graham's number.

Ronald H. Coase

Ronald H. Coase was a British-born economist at the University of Chicago who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on transaction costs and property rights.

Ronald H. Gray

Ronald H. Gray is an Australian-born reproductive epidemiologist, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health known for HIV research in Rakai, Uganda.

Ronald H. Reeder

Ronald H. Reeder (1939–2019) was an American molecular biologist who studied ribosomal RNA gene transcription, working at Carnegie and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Ronald H. Schwartz

Ronald H. Schwartz is an American immunologist at NIH known for the 1986 ternary complex model of T-cell recognition and for defining T cell anergy.

Ronald H.A. Plasterk

Ronald Plasterk (born 1957) is a Dutch molecular biologist known for work on transposons and RNA interference in C. elegans, who later served twice as a Dutch minister.

Ronald Hanson

Ronald Hanson (born 1976) is a Dutch quantum physicist, Distinguished Professor at Delft University of Technology, known for the first loophole-free Bell test in 2015 and diamond quantum networks.

Ronald Holzwarth

Ronald Holzwarth, born 1969 in Stuttgart, is a German physicist who played a key role in developing the optical frequency comb and co-founded laser company Menlo Systems in 2001.

Ronald Howard (British actor)

Ronald Howard (1918–1996), English actor and writer, son of Leslie Howard, best known as Sherlock Holmes in the 1954–1955 American TV series of 39 films shot in France; also British B films and In Search of My Father.

Ronald Hughes

Ronald Hughes, the "hippie lawyer," was Leslie Van Houten's defense attorney in the 1970 Tate-LaBianca Manson trial. He defied Manson over testifying, vanished during a camping recess at Sespe Hot Springs, and was found dead months later, cause undetermined.

Ronald Hutton

Ronald Edmund Hutton, born in 1953, is a British historian at the University of Bristol and author of The Triumph of the Moon, a history of pagan witchcraft.

Ronald Isley

Ronald Isley (born 1941, Cincinnati) is the lead singer and founding member of the Isley Brothers, voice of "Shout" and "It's Your Thing," founder of T-Neck Records, the 1990s "Mr. Biggs" persona, and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (1992).

Ronald J. Falk

Ronald J. Falk is an American nephrologist at the UNC School of Medicine whose 1988 identification of MPO-ANCAs reshaped diagnosis of small-vessel vasculitis; he chaired UNC's Department of Medicine until 2025.

Ronald J. Konopka

Ronald J. Konopka (1947–2015) was an American geneticist who, as a graduate student in Seymour Benzer's Caltech laboratory, isolated the first circadian clock mutants in fruit flies and named the period gene.

Ronald J. Sokol

Ronald J. Sokol is an American pediatric gastroenterologist and hepatologist at the University of Colorado whose research established vitamin E deficiency as a treatable cause of neurologic disease.

Ronald J. Stouffer

Ronald J. Stouffer is an American climate modeler who spent 38 years at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, known for coupled climate models and simulations of abrupt Atlantic circulation change.

Ronald J. Wapner

Ronald J. Wapner is an American maternal-fetal medicine specialist and reproductive geneticist who directs reproductive genetics at Columbia University, pioneered chorionic villus sampling, and led landmark prenatal diagnosis trials.

Ronald J. Williams

Ronald J. Williams was an American computer scientist at Northeastern University who created the RTRL and REINFORCE algorithms and coauthored the landmark 1986 backpropagation paper in Nature.

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Ronald Jansen

Ronald Jansen (Franciscus Ronaldus Maria Jansen, born 1963) is a Dutch field hockey goalkeeper, 122 caps, Olympic gold 1996 and 2000 and bronze 1988, World Champion 1998; father of Yibbi Jansen. Distinct from ski jumper Ronald Jensen and a triathlete of the same name.