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Ronan (song)
Ronan is a 2012 Taylor Swift charity single about Ronan Thompson, an Arizona boy who died of neuroblastoma; written from mother Maya Thompson's blog, debuted at Stand Up to Cancer, later re-recorded for Red (Taylor's Version).
Ronan Darcy
Ronan Thomas Darcy (born 2000, Ormskirk) is an English attacking midfielder, a Bolton Wanderers academy graduate who later played for Swindon Town, Crawley Town, and Wigan Athletic, joining Wigan in January 2025 and released in September 2026.
Ronan Day-Lewis
Ronan Day-Lewis is a painter and filmmaker, son of Daniel Day-Lewis and Rebecca Miller, Yale-trained, whose debut feature Anemone (2025) co-written with his father marked the actor's return to screen.
Ronan Farrow
Ronan Farrow is an American investigative reporter at The New Yorker. He is known for exposing sexual-assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, helping launch the #MeToo movement.
Ronan Hale
Ronan Hale (Ronan Aiden Connolly Shea Chapman Hale, born 1998, Belfast) is a Northern Irish striker at Gillingham and Northern Ireland; ex-Birmingham City, Cliftonville and Ross County, switched from Republic of Ireland youth teams after 2025 Fifa clearance.
Ronan Keating
Ronan Keating (born 1977, Swords, Dublin) is an Irish pop singer, Boyzone's lead vocalist, and solo artist whose 1999 single "When You Say Nothing At All" began a career of 12 solo albums and 20 million solo records sold.
Ronan O'Gara
Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby union fly-half born 1977 in San Diego; Munster and Ireland record points scorer, 2009 Grand Slam hero, two Heineken Cups as player, and La Rochelle head coach winning the 2022 and 2023 Champions Cups.
Ronan Point
Ronan Point was a 22-storey tower block of flats in Canning Town, London, built of prefabricated concrete panels. A 1968 gas explosion collapsed its corner, killing five, and prompted new building-code rules against progressive collapse.
Ronan the Accuser
Ronan the Accuser, Marvel Comics Kree Supreme Public Accuser debuting in Fantastic Four #65 (1967), wielder of the Universal Weapon; MCU villain played by Lee Pace in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Captain Marvel (2019).
Roncador Field
Roncador Field is a giant deepwater, post-salt oil and gas field in the Campos Basin off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, discovered in 1996 and operated by Petrobras with Equinor.
Roncevaux Terra
Roncevaux Terra: bright northern terrain on Saturn's moon Iapetus, 1,284 km across, centered at 37°N 239.5°W, IAU-approved 1982, named for Roncevaux Pass of the Song of Roland; distinct from reddish Saragossa Terra.
Ronda
Ronda, Andalusian town in northwestern Málaga province, Spain, on a plateau split by the Tajo gorge of the Guadalevín river; Islamic Runda, taifa capital, conquered 1485; about 33,700 inhabitants and two million visitors in 2025.
Ronda Rousey
Ronda Rousey, American judoka, UFC women's bantamweight pioneer and WWE star; 2008 Olympic bronze, first UFC women's champion, 1,074-day reign, six defenses, 12-2 record, Hall of Fame.
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, American forward born 1995; Arizona star, 2015 first-round pick (23rd) who played for the Nets and Raptors, then starred as Jordan's naturalized player at the 2023 FIBA World Cup.
Rondalla
Rondalla: Spanish-origin plucked-string ensemble played with plectrums. In the Philippines it uses bandurria, laud, octavina, guitar, and bass; Valencian rondallas de pulso y púa are legally protected heritage, and Mexican university rondallas keep serenade traditions.
Rondanini Pietà
The Rondanini Pietà is Michelangelo's last sculpture, an unfinished marble group of the dead Christ upheld by his standing Mother, chiseled until days before his death in 1564.
Ronde Barber
Ronde Barber (Jamael Oronde Barber), Buccaneers cornerback 1997-2012, Super Bowl XXXVII champion, Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2023; NFL-record 215 consecutive starts at cornerback and 28 career sacks, most ever by a cornerback.
Rondeau
The rondeau is a medieval French fixed-form poem and song on two rhymes, whose opening line returns as a refrain; one of the three formes fixes.
Rondell Sheridan
Rondell Sheridan (born 1958, Chicago) is an American actor, comedian, and director known for Victor Baxter on That's So Raven, Cory in the House, and Raven's Home, plus Minor Adjustments, Cousin Skeeter, and stand-up comedy.
Rondi Reed
Rondi Reed (born 1952, Dixon, Illinois) is an American stage and screen actress, Steppenwolf ensemble member since 1978, 2008 Tony winner for August: Osage County, original Chicago Madame Morrible in Wicked, and Peggy on Mike & Molly (2010–2016).
Rondo
Rondo: a musical form in which a recurring refrain (A) in the tonic alternates with contrasting episodes, in layouts such as ABACA (five-part) and ABACABA (seven-part sonata rondo); derived from the French rondeau and typical of Classical finales.
Rondo Hatton
Rondo Hatton (1894-1946), American actor and former Tampa Tribune reporter whose acromegaly, attributed to World War I poison gas exposure, led Universal to cast him as the Creeper in The Pearl of Death, House of Horrors, and The Brute Man.
Rondo Heat Battery
The Rondo Heat Battery is an electric thermal energy storage system by Rondo Energy of Alameda, California, storing renewable electricity in refractory brick as high-temperature industrial heat.
Rondò Veneziano
Rondò Veneziano: Italian chamber orchestra founded by Gian Piero Reverberi (with Freddy Naggiar, 1979/1980), fusing Venetian Baroque music with pop rhythms and synthesizers; over 25 million records sold; Grand Return world tour from 2026.
Rondon Commission
The Rondon Commission (Comissão Rondon) was a Brazilian state expedition led by engineer Cândido Rondon that built telegraph lines across the Brazilian northwest between 1907 and 1915.
Rondônia
Rondônia, a Brazilian Amazon state with capital Porto Velho, created as Território do Guaporé in 1943 and a state in 1981; 1.58 million people (2022), heavy agribusiness, and among the most deforested Amazon states.
Rondonópolis
Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso municipality at the BR-163/BR-364 junction; third most populous city of the state (268,202 in 2026) and its second largest economy, an agribusiness and logistics hub.
Ronee Blakley
Ronee Blakley (Ronee Sue Blakley, born 1945) is an American actress and singer-songwriter, Oscar-nominated as Barbara Jean in Altman's Nashville (1975), a Bob Dylan collaborator, and Marge in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Ronen Alon
Ronen Alon is an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who studies how white blood cells exit blood vessels at infection and cancer sites.
Ronen Marmorstein
Ronen Marmorstein is a structural biologist and George W. Raiziss Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the 1992 GAL4-DNA and 1999 GCN5 histone acetyltransferase structures.