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Roommates (Malcolm Todd song)
"Roommates" is a 2023 single by American singer Malcolm Todd (Malcolm Hobert), produced with Charlie Ziman, released June 22, 2023 and later on the mixtape Sweet Boy; a TikTok-driven breakup song that led to his Columbia Records signing.
RoomPriceGenie
RoomPriceGenie is a Steinhausen, Switzerland-based company founded in 2017 whose revenue management system sets nightly room rates automatically for independent hotels, updating prices up to 24 times a day.
Rooms (TV series)
Rooms (1974–77) is a British ITV afternoon drama created by John Finch and produced by Thames Television, telling two-part stories of tenants renting bedsits at 35 Mafeking Terrace, London, with Sylvia Kay as landlady Dorothy Lawson.
Rooms by the Sea
Rooms by the Sea is a 1951 oil painting by Edward Hopper at the Yale University Art Gallery, showing an empty Cape Cod interior whose door opens onto the sea, one of only three known figureless Hopper interiors.
Rooney (band)
Rooney: Los Angeles power pop band formed 1999, fronted by Robert Schwartzman, brother of Jason Schwartzman. Debut album Rooney (Geffen, 2003) sold 500,000+ copies; first band to perform on The O.C.
Rooney family
The Rooney family has owned the Pittsburgh Steelers since Art Rooney Sr. founded the franchise in 1933, maintaining one of the longest family ownership runs in professional sports.
Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara (born 1985, Bedford, New York) is an American actress, sister of Kate Mara, known for Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Oscar- and Globe-nominated Carol, and indies like A Ghost Story.
Rooney Rule
Rooney Rule: NFL diversity hiring policy adopted in 2003, named for Steelers owner Dan Rooney, requiring teams to interview minority candidates for head coach, GM, and coordinator openings; expanded repeatedly, debated in effectiveness studies, and challenged by Florida's attorney general in 2026.
Roop Mallik
Roop Mallik is an Indian biophysicist and IIT Bombay professor known for showing that cellular cargoes reverse direction through a tug-of-war between opposing molecular motors.
Roop Singh
Roop Singh (Roop Singh Bais, 1910-1977), Indian field hockey inside left, younger brother of Dhyan Chand; won Olympic gold with British India at Los Angeles 1932 (13 goals in two matches) and Berlin 1936, scoring first in the final.
Roopa Ganguly
Roopa Ganguly, also known as Rupa Ganguly, is an Indian actress, playback singer, and politician from West Bengal, best known for playing Draupadi in B. R. Chopra's Mahabharat.
Roopa Koduvayur
Roopa Koduvayur, also credited as Roopa Kodayur, is an Indian actress and MBBS graduate from Vijayawada working in Telugu and Tamil cinema; her debut was Jyothi in Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya (2020), followed by Mr. Pregnant, Yamakaathaghi, and Sarangapani Jathakam.
Roopal Tyagi
Roopal Tyagi (born 1989) is an Indian choreographer and Hindi TV actress, known as Gunjan in Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke, a two-time Zee Rishtey Award winner and Bigg Boss 9 contestant.
Roopali H. Desai
Roopali H. Desai, born in 1978 in Toronto, is an American jurist serving as a Ninth Circuit judge since 2022, the first South Asian person appointed to that court.
Roopkund (रूपकुंड)
Roopkund (रूपकुंड), Skeleton Lake, is a glacial lake at 5,029 m in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, on the Nanda Devi Raj Jat route. Ancient DNA shows three groups: South Asians (~800 CE), eastern Mediterraneans (~1800 CE), one Southeast Asian.
Rooppur nuclear power plant
The Rooppur nuclear power plant (রূপপুর পারমাণবিক বিদ্যুৎকেন্দ্র) is Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant, under construction at Rooppur in Ishwardi with two Russian-built 1,200 MW reactors totaling 2,400 MW.
Roorkee (रुड़की)
Roorkee (रुड़की), city in Haridwar district, Uttarakhand, India, on the Ganga Canal 30 km from Haridwar; home of IIT Roorkee, founded 1847 as India's first engineering college, and of the Bengal Sappers.
Roose Bolton
Roose Bolton, the Leech Lord, is Lord of the Dreadfort in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones (played by Michael McElhatton); he betrayed and killed Robb Stark at the Red Wedding and was made Warden of the North.
Roosevelt Corollary
The Roosevelt Corollary, announced by Theodore Roosevelt on December 6, 1904, expanded the Monroe Doctrine by claiming U.S. 'international police power' over chronically unstable Latin American states, leading to the Dominican customs receivership and occupations of Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic before its 1934 abandonment.
Roosevelt family
Roosevelt family, Dutch-American dynasty of Claes van Rosevelt (New Amsterdam, c. 1650); Oyster Bay branch (Theodore) and Hyde Park branch (Franklin), two presidents, joined by Eleanor Roosevelt's 1905 marriage to FDR.
Roosevelt Highway (auto trail)
The Roosevelt Highway was the name of several 1910s and 1920s auto trails honoring Theodore Roosevelt, the best known running between Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon.
Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt Island, formerly Blackwell's Island and Welfare Island, is a two-mile-long East River island in Manhattan, New York City, once home to prisons and hospitals, now a residential community with the Cornell Tech campus, the 1976 aerial tramway, and a master lease running to 2078.
Roosevelt Island Tramway
The Roosevelt Island Tramway is an aerial tramway linking Roosevelt Island to Manhattan across the East River. Opened in 1976 as a temporary subway substitute, it became a permanent transit link.
Roosevelt Raceway
Roosevelt Raceway, Westbury, Long Island harness racing track; opened as a 1937 auto track (Vanderbilt Cup), pioneered nighttime harness racing in 1940 under George Morton Levy, peaked in the 1960s-1970s, closed July 1988.
Roosh V
Roosh V, the pen name of Daryush Valizadeh, is an American blogger known for seduction books and the manosphere site Return of Kings, which he later abandoned.
Rooster (song)
Rooster (song): 1992 Alice in Chains track from Dirt, written by Jerry Cantrell about his Vietnam War veteran father nicknamed Rooster; fourth single (February 1993), peaked at number 7 on Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks, with a Mark Pellington-directed video.
Rooster (TV series)
Rooster is a 2026 HBO Original half-hour comedy series created by Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses, starring Steve Carell as author Greg Russo at fictional Ludlow College, with Charly Clive, renewed for a second season.
Rooster (鸡) (zodiac)
The Rooster (鸡) is the tenth animal of the twelve-year Chinese zodiac, the only bird among them, and the sign of people born in years like 2005 and 2017.
Rooster Cogburn (film)
Rooster Cogburn (1975), a Universal Western directed by Stuart Millar and produced by Hal B. Wallis, is the True Grit sequel starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn as Cogburn and Eula Goodnight; 50% Tomatometer, $8 million domestic gross.
Rooster comb extract
Rooster comb extract (Gallus gallus), a sodium hyaluronate-rich ingredient (GRN 491, Bioiberica), used in foods, cosmetics, and dermal fillers; EFSA and FDA assessed it as safe.