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Ronald John Weigel
Ronald John Weigel is an American surgeon-scientist known for research on hormone response in breast cancer and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.
Ronald Jones
Ronald "Ron" Jones (1934-2021), Welsh sprinter and sports administrator; equalled the 4x110yd world record (40.0) for Britain in 1963, captained GB at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, later QPR, Cardiff City, and Portsmouth executive, MBE 2001.
Ronald Karslake Starr Wood
Ronald Karslake Starr Wood (RKS Wood, 1919-2017) was an English plant pathologist and FRS at Imperial College London, founder of Physiological Plant Pathology, first president of the ISPP (1968) and BSPP (1982), author of the 1967 textbook Physiological Plant Pathology.
Ronald Kent Hanson
Ronald Kent Hanson is a Stanford mechanical engineer, there since 1972, known as a pioneer of laser diagnostics in combustion and shock-tube methods for measuring high-temperature chemical reaction rates.
Ronald Klein
Ronald Klein was an American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who led the Beaver Dam Eye Study and the Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retinopathy.
Ronald Kluger
Ronald Kluger is a chemist and professor at the University of Toronto known for research on thiamin diphosphate enzymes and hemoglobin-based red blood cell substitutes.
Ronald Koeman
Ronald Koeman, born 1963 in Zaandam, is a Dutch former defender and manager, the highest-scoring defender in football history with 253 goals, scorer of Barcelona's 1992 European Cup winner, and two-time Netherlands head coach until June 2026.
Ronald L. Buckwalter
Ronald L. Buckwalter is an American jurist, a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1990.
Ronald L. Davis
Ronald L. Davis is an American neuroscientist known for five decades of research on learning and memory in the fruit fly, including the dopamine-based mechanism of active forgetting.
Ronald L. Geer
Ronald L. Geer (born 1926) is an American mechanical engineer who spent his 35-year career at Shell Oil Company, contributing to deep-water offshore drilling including the Blue Water I vessel.
Ronald L. Gilman
Ronald L. Gilman, also known as Ronald Lee Gilman, is an American jurist and senior judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.
Ronald L. Nagel
Ronald L. Nagel (1936–2016) was a hematologist and geneticist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx who published over 300 papers on sickle cell disease and hemoglobin.
Ronald L. Phillips
Ronald L. Phillips (1940–2023) was an American maize geneticist at the University of Minnesota who first regenerated fertile corn plants from tissue culture in 1975.
Ronald Lacey
Ronald Lacey (1935-1991), English character actor best known as Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark; also Harris in Porridge, Himmler in Last Crusade, died of liver failure 1991.
Ronald Lauder
Ronald Lauder is an American business executive, art collector, and philanthropist, the youngest son of Estée Lauder, chairman of Clinique since 1994, and founder of the Neue Galerie in New York.
Ronald Levy (oncologist)
Ronald Levy, born in 1941, is an American medical oncologist and Stanford professor who pioneered monoclonal antibody therapy for lymphoma and helped develop rituximab, the first FDA-approved antibody cancer drug.
Ronald Llamas
Rolando "Ronald" M. Llamas is a Filipino political analyst, Akbayan co-founder, and Galahad Consulting chairman who served as Presidential Adviser for Political Affairs under Benigno Aquino III, 2011–2016, and now comments via Philstar columns and podcasts.
Ronald Lopatny
Ronald Lopatny (Роналд Лопатни), Croatian water polo player (1944–2022) who won Olympic gold with Yugoslavia at Mexico City 1968 and starred for Zagreb's Mladost, winning European Cups and Yugoslav titles.
Ronald M. Andersen
Ronald M. Andersen is an American health services researcher at UCLA, creator of the Behavioral Model of Health Services Use and a National Academy of Medicine member.
Ronald M. Bukowski
Ronald M. Bukowski is an American medical oncologist who specialized in genitourinary cancers at the Cleveland Clinic and co-led the TARGET trial, which established sorafenib for advanced kidney cancer.
Ronald M. Evans
Ronald M. Evans is an American molecular biologist at the Salk Institute known for discovering the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily, gene-regulating proteins targeted by many drugs.
Ronald M. Gould
Ronald M. Gould, born Ronald Murray Gould in 1946, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1999, appointed by President Clinton.
Ronald M. Summers
Ronald M. Summers is an American radiologist and tenured Senior Investigator at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he directs the Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-Aided Diagnosis Laboratory.
Ronald McDonald
Ronald McDonald, also known in Japan as Donald McDonald, is the clown mascot of McDonald's, created in 1963 and first played by Willard Scott; named national spokesman in 1966, he faded from advertising after 2016 clown-sighting fears and health criticism.
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC), rebranded 2025 as Ronald McDonald House, is a global nonprofit founded in Philadelphia in 1974 that provides Houses, Family Rooms, and Care Mobiles for families of hospitalized children in 60+ countries, with McDonald's as founding partner.
Ronald McNair
Ronald Erwin McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut, the second African American in space, who played saxophone aboard Challenger and died in its 1986 launch explosion.
Ronald Melzack
Ronald Melzack (1929–2019) was a Canadian psychologist at McGill University who co-authored the 1965 gate control theory of pain and developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire.
Ronald Meyer
Ronald (Ron) Meyer, born 1945, American entertainment executive; co-founder and president of Creative Artists Agency (1975-1995), 25-year Universal Studios chief and NBCUniversal vice chairman until his 2020 dismissal over a hush-money settlement.
Ronald Mulder
Ronald Mulder (born 1986, Zwolle) is a Dutch sprint speed skater, twin brother of Michel Mulder, bronze medalist in the 500 m at Sochi 2014 and Dutch 500 m record holder at 34.08.
Ronald N. Germain
Ronald N. Germain is an American immunologist who leads the Laboratory of Immune System Biology at NIAID, NIH, and studies how MHC presents antigen to T cells.