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Ronald Syme

Ronald Syme (1903–1989) was a New Zealand-born Oxford historian and classicist, knighted in 1959, whose The Roman Revolution (1939) reinterpreted the fall of the Roman republic.

Ronald T. Hay

Ronald T. Hay is a molecular biologist who holds the Chair of Molecular Biology at the University of Dundee, known for establishing SUMO conjugation as a regulatory mechanism in eukaryotes.

Ronald T. Raines

Ronald T. Raines is an American chemical biologist and protein chemist who has taught at MIT since 2017, after 28 years at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Ronald V. Schmidt

Ronald V. Schmidt (1944–2022) was an American electrical engineer known for research on acoustic surface waves and integrated optics at Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, and for co-founding SynOptics Communications.

Ronald van Vollenhoven

Ronald F. van Vollenhoven (born 1960) is a Dutch rheumatologist, professor and chief of rheumatology at Amsterdam UMC since 2016, known for treat-to-target lupus recommendations and the 2025 telitacicept trial.

Ronald W. Busuttil

Ronald W. Busuttil is an American transplant surgeon and physician-scientist at UCLA, where he founded the liver transplant program in 1984 and led over 7,200 transplants.

Ronald W. Davis

Ronald W. Davis is an American geneticist and Stanford professor who directs the Stanford Genome Technology Center and helped make the Human Genome Project finish early and cheaply.

Ronald W. Estabrook

Ronald W. Estabrook (1926–2013) was an American biochemist best known for defining the enzymatic properties of cytochrome P450, central to drug metabolism, while chairing biochemistry at UT Southwestern in Dallas.

Ronald W. Jones

Ronald W. Jones (1931–2022) was an American international trade economist and Xerox Professor at the University of Rochester, known for the 1965 hat calculus and early work on production fragmentation.

Ronald W. Masulis

Ronald W. Masulis is a financial economist and Scientia Professor of Finance at UNSW Business School in Sydney, known for research on corporate governance, seasoned equity offerings, and political connections.

Ronald W. Oppenheim

Ronald W. Oppenheim (1938–2021) was an American developmental neuroscientist at Wake Forest University who showed how programmed cell death of spinal motoneurons is regulated in chick embryos.

Ronald W. Schafer

Ronald W. Schafer (born 1938) is an American electrical engineer known for foundational work in digital signal processing and for co-authoring the canonical DSP textbooks with Alan V. Oppenheim.

Ronald Walsworth

Ronald L. Walsworth is an atomic and quantum physicist, Minta Martin Professor and founding director of the Quantum Technology Center at the University of Maryland, known for NV-diamond quantum sensing.

Ronald Wayne

Ronald Wayne is a retired engineer who co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, drafted its partnership agreement, and withdrew eleven days later for $800.

Ronald Weigel

Ronald Weigel (born 1959, Hildburghausen) is a German race walker and coach; East German double silver medallist (20 km and 50 km walk) at Seoul 1988, 50 km bronze at Barcelona 1992, 1983 world 50 km champion, later Australian and German national coach.

Ronald Wetzel

Ronald Wetzel is an American structural biologist and protein aggregation researcher, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine known for work on amyloid and polyglutamine aggregation.

Ronald Whitfield

Ronald Whitfield is an American politician and landscaping contractor who won the 2026 Republican primary for Texas's 18th Congressional District in Houston and will face Rep. Christian Menefee in the November general election.

Ronald Wilfred Gurney

Ronald Wilfred Gurney was a British physicist who co-explained alpha decay by quantum tunnelling in 1928 and gave his name to the Gurney model of explosive metal acceleration.

Ronald Woodman

Ronald Woodman is a Peruvian radio physicist who pioneered radar remote sensing of the upper atmosphere at Peru's Jicamarca Radio Observatory and won the Appleton Prize in 1999.

Ronald Worton

Ronald Worton, born in Winnipeg in 1942, is a Canadian geneticist who co-led the 1986 cloning of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene and later led the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.

Ronald Yara

Ronald Yara is an American semiconductor entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded S3 Incorporated in 1989 and Chips & Technologies, later a general partner at Tallwood Venture Capital.

Ronaldinho

Ronaldinho (Ronaldinho Gaúcho), Brazilian attacking midfielder and wide forward born 1980 in Porto Alegre; won the 2002 World Cup, two FIFA World Player of the Year awards (2004, 2005), the 2005 Ballon d'Or, and two La Liga titles and the 2006 Champions League with Barcelona; retired 2018, planning a 2026 Ravenna return.

Ronaldo

Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, "O Fenômeno", Brazilian striker born 1976; World Cup winner 1994 and 2002, two Ballon d'Or, three FIFA World Player of the Year awards; starred for Barcelona, Inter, and Real Madrid.

Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)

Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, O Fenômeno, Brazilian striker born 1976; two-time World Cup winner (1994, 2002), 15 World Cup goals, Ballon d'Or 1997 and 2002; played PSV, Barcelona, Inter, Real Madrid, Milan, Corinthians.

Ronaldo da Costa

Ronaldo da Costa (born 1970) is a Brazilian marathon runner from Descoberto, Minas Gerais, who set a world best of 2:06:05 at the 1998 Berlin Marathon.

Ronaldo Mouchawar

Ronaldo Mouchawar (رونالدو مشحور) is a Syrian entrepreneur who co-founded Souq.com, the Arab world's largest e-commerce platform, in Dubai in 2005 and led it until Amazon acquired it in 2017.

Ronaldo Rodríguez

Ronaldo 'Lazy Boy' Rodríguez (born 1999, Jiquipilas, Chiapas) is a Mexican UFC flyweight, 17-3-0, with 7 KO and 5 submission wins; UFC debut Feb 24, 2024; left flyweight in 2025 over weight-cut health issues.

Ronaldo Souza

Ronaldo 'Jacaré' Souza (born 1979, Vila Velha, Brazil) is a retired MMA middleweight and legendary Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor: three-time black belt world champion, 2005 ADCC absolute champion, Strikeforce middleweight titleholder, and top-five UFC contender.

Ronaldo Valdez

Ronaldo Valdez (James Ronald Dulaca Gibbs, 1947-2023), Filipino actor of nearly five decades, discovered by Dolphy for Pepe en Pilar (1966), grand slam winner for May Minamahal, died in Quezon City on December 17, 2023.

Ronaldo Vieira (footballer, born 1998)

Ronaldo Vieira, born 1998 in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, is a midfielder who rose from Leeds United's academy to Sampdoria in Serie A, then captained MLS's San Jose Earthquakes; brother Romario is also a footballer.