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Rory Calhoun
Rory Calhoun (Francis Timothy McCown, 1922-1999), American film and TV actor, producer, and screenwriter; 1950s Western star, lead of CBS's The Texan (1958-1960), later Capitol's Judge Judson Tyler; final film Pure Country (1992).
Rory Collins
Sir Rory Collins is a British epidemiologist at Oxford who led large statin trials and, from 2005, UK Biobank, a cohort of 500,000 people; he was knighted in 2011.
Rory Cowan
Rory Cowan is an Irish actor best known for playing Mrs Brown's son Rory in Mrs Brown's Boys, a role he left in 2017 after 26 years.
Rory Culkin
Rory Hugh Culkin (born 1989, New York City) is an American actor, youngest brother of Macaulay and Kieran Culkin, known for You Can Count on Me, Signs, Scream 4, Lords of Chaos, Waco, and Columbus.
Rory Delap
Rory John Delap, English-born Republic of Ireland midfielder (11 caps, 1998-2004), famous for his 30-40 metre javelin-trained long throw-ins at Stoke City (2007-2013), which produced 25 Stoke goals in four seasons.
Rory Feek
Rory Feek (born 1965, Atchison, Kansas), American country singer-songwriter, half of Grammy-winning duo Joey + Rory; wrote "Some Beach"; blog and memoir This Life I Live; solo album Gentle Man (2021); remarried Rebecca 2024.
Rory Finneran
Rory Finneran (born 2008, Manchester) is an Irish defensive midfielder at Notts County on loan from Newcastle United; Blackburn's youngest ever player at 15, Ireland senior debutant in May 2026.
Rory Gallagher
Rory Gallagher, born William Rory Gallagher, was an Irish blues-rock guitarist and singer who led the trio Taste before recording eleven solo albums from 1971 to 1990.
Rory Gibbs
Rory Gibbs, British rower born 1994 in Akrotiri, Cyprus; Oxford Brookes oarsman. Fourth in the coxless four at Tokyo 2020, then Olympic gold in the men's eight at Paris 2024, plus two world and five European titles; now a mentor, speaker, and children's author.
Rory Gibson
Rory Gibson, American soap actor (born 1994 or 1995, Long Beach, CA); played Noah Newman on The Young and the Restless 2021-2023 and Michael Corinthos on General Hospital from May 2025, succeeding Chad Duell; films include A Night to Regret and Rebel Moon.
Rory Gilmore
Rory Gilmore, played by Alexis Bledel, is the bookish, ambitious daughter of Lorelai in Gilmore Girls (2000–2007) and its 2016 Netflix revival A Year in the Life; a Chilton valedictorian who attends Yale, drops out after Mitchum Huntzberger's criticism, and ends the revival pregnant.
Rory Guilday
Rory Guilday, American women's ice hockey defender from Chanhassen, Minnesota; Cornell 2021-2025, Ottawa Charge 2025 first-round PWHL pick, PWHL San Jose 2026; overcame optic nerve glioma, won 2026 Olympic gold with Team USA.
Rory Keenan
Rory Keenan (born 1980, Dublin) is an Irish actor, writer, and director of stage and screen, distinct from the American actor Rory Keane; known for Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Guard, Peaky Blinders, and Somewhere Boy.
Rory Kennedy
Rory Kennedy (Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy), American documentary filmmaker born 1968 in Washington, D.C., youngest child of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy; director of American Hollow, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Last Days in Vietnam, and the Boeing films Downfall and Freefall.
Rory Kinnear
Rory Kinnear (born 1978) is a British actor, son of Roy Kinnear, two-time Olivier winner for The Man of Mode and Othello's Iago, known for Hamlet, Bond's Bill Tanner, Black Mirror's first episode, Men, and The Rings of Power's Tom Bombadil.
Rory MacDonald (fighter)
Rory MacDonald, "The Red King," Canadian welterweight from Montreal, Tristar Gym protégé of Georges St-Pierre; Bellator welterweight champion, UFC 189 title challenger vs Lawler, retired 2022 at 23-10-1.
Rory McCann
Rory McCann, Scottish actor born 1969 in Glasgow, plays Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane in Game of Thrones (2011–2019). Also Kenny McLeod in The Book Group, Hot Fuzz, Slow West, Gladiator II, and Baylan Skoll in Ahsoka season 2.
Rory McGrath
Rory McGrath (Patrick Rory McGrath, born 1956) is an English comedian and writer from Cornwall, a Cambridge Footlights alumnus, co-founder of Hat Trick Productions, star of Who Dares Wins and Chelmsford 123, and a regular panellist on They Think It's All Over.
Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer (born 1989, Holywood), six-time major champion; completed the career Grand Slam at the 2025 Masters, first European to do so, with 30 PGA Tour wins and 122 weeks at world number one.
Rory McIlroy PGA Tour
Rory McIlroy PGA Tour (EA SPORTS Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR) is EA Tiburon's 2015 golf game for Xbox One and PS4, the first EA Sports title on Frostbite 3, replacing Tiger Woods PGA Tour but criticized for thin content.
Rory O'Driscoll
Rory O'Driscoll is an Irish-born venture capitalist who cofounded Scale Venture Partners in 1993, known for enterprise software investments including Omniture, ExactTarget, Box, and DocuSign.
Rory O'Malley
Rory O'Malley (Rory James O'Malley), born 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American musical theatre actor and Tony nominee who originated Elder McKinley in The Book of Mormon and played King George III in Hamilton, and co-founded Broadway Impact for marriage equality.
Rory Reid (journalist)
Rory Reid (born 1979) is an English motoring and technology presenter and journalist, formerly of BBC Top Gear and Extra Gear (2016–2019) and now YouTube Director at Auto Trader UK since 2019.
Rory Sabbatini
Rory Sabbatini (born 1976, Durban) is a South African-Slovak golfer, six-time PGA Tour winner (last: 2011 Honda Classic) and Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medalist for Slovakia, with a record final-round 61.
Rory Scovel
Rory Scovel, American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Greenville, South Carolina. Known for improvised stand-up, specials on Netflix, Max, and Comedy Central, and roles in Physical, Babylon, and Ground Floor.
Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart, British diplomat, author, and Conservative MP for Penrith and The Border 2010-2019, briefly International Development Secretary, fifth in the 2019 leadership contest, now co-host of The Rest Is Politics.
Rory Williams
Rory Williams is a fictional Doctor Who companion, a nurse and husband of Amy Pond, played by Arthur Darvill (2010–2012) alongside the Eleventh Doctor; known for dying and returning, the 2,000-year Last Centurion vigil, and departing in The Angels Take Manhattan.
ROS 2
ROS 2 (Robot Operating System 2) is an open-source robotics middleware suite, a ground-up redesign of ROS 1 built on the DDS standard for performance-critical real-time systems.
Ros Canter
Ros Canter (Rosalind Canter), British eventing rider born 1986; 2018 world double gold with Allstar B, Paris 2024 Olympic team gold, and three Badminton titles with Lordships Graffalo.
Ros Serey Sothea
Ros Serey Sothea was a Cambodian singer and songwriter, the country's most famous female star of the 1960s and early 1970s. She was granted the title "Queen with the Golden Voice."