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Rosie Okumura
Rosie Okumura (IRLrosie), American voice actor and musician in MODERNS, born 1985, known for scambaiting videos started after her mother lost $500 to a pop-up scam; 1.6M YouTube subscribers; voices Aoi Sakamoto in Sakamoto Days; founded IRL Investigations.
Rosie Perez
Rosie Perez (Rosa Maria Perez, born 1964) is a Brooklyn-born American actress, choreographer, and activist of Puerto Rican descent, Oscar-nominated for Fearless (1993), Fly Girls choreographer on In Living Color, and Emmy-nominated for The Flight Attendant.
Rosie Pino
Rosie Pino is an American Republican politician and Clifton, New Jersey councilwoman who won the 2026 GOP primary for New Jersey's 9th congressional district and will face Rep. Nellie Pou.
Rosie Rivera
Rosie Rivera, born Rosa Amelia Rivera in 1981, is an American businesswoman and author who managed singer Jenni Rivera's estate, Jenni Rivera Enterprises, from 2012 to 2021.
Rosie Ruiz
Rosie Ruiz (Rosie Vivas), Cuban-born American, falsely credited with winning the women's 1980 Boston Marathon in 2:31:56; stripped of the title eight days later and also disqualified from the 1979 New York City Marathon for subway-riding.
Rosie Sheehy
Rosie Sheehy, Welsh actress from Port Talbot and RADA graduate (2015), twice Olivier Best Actress nominee for Machinal (2025) and Guess How Much I Love You? (2026), with stage credits including Oleanna, The Oresteia, and screen work in Chernobyl and Pillion.
Rosie Shuster
Rosie Shuster (Rosalind Shuster), Canadian comedy writer, original Saturday Night Live staff writer and first wife of Lorne Michaels; daughter of Frank Shuster of Wayne & Shuster; two-time Emmy winner, creator of Roseanne Roseannadanna and Baba Wawa sketches.
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter, born from a 1942 Evans and Loeb song and tied to Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post cover and Miller's "We Can Do It!" Westinghouse poster, symbolizes American women war workers of World War II, later reclaimed as a feminist icon.
Rosie Witschas Ackermann
Rosie Witschas Ackermann (Rosemarie Ackermann, born 1952), East German high jumper, 1976 Olympic champion, first woman to clear 2.00 m (1977, ISTAF Berlin), last elite straddle jumper, seven world records.
Rosie Wrighting
Rosie Wrighting (born 1997) is the Labour MP for Kettering since 2024, youngest woman elected that year at 26; PPS at the MoD after resigning as health PPS in 2026.
Rosiglitazone
Rosiglitazone (brand name Avandia) is an oral thiazolidinedione drug for type 2 diabetes, approved in the US in 1999, that was restricted over 2007 heart attack concerns.
Rosika Schwimmer
Rosika Schwimmer (1877–1948) was a Hungarian-born feminist and pacifist who organized the 1915 International Congress of Women at The Hague, masterminded Henry Ford's Peace Ship, and lost a Supreme Court citizenship case.
Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh
Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh is an American politician and Republican member of the California State Senate, first elected in 2020 as the first Republican Latina senator and re-elected in 2024.
Rosin
Rosin (colophony) is the glassy solid left after turpentine is distilled from pine oleoresin; gum, wood, and tall oil grades; used for bow friction, soldering flux, paper sizing, and drug delivery.
Rosin sizing
Rosin sizing is an internal paper-sizing method that anchors rosin to paper fibers with alum to resist liquid penetration, first announced by Moritz Illig in 1807 and dominant for about 150 years.
Rosina M. Bierbaum
Rosina M. Bierbaum is an American ecologist and science policy expert who led national and international climate assessments and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Rosine Lallement
Rosine Lallement is a French astrophysicist and CNRS research director at the Paris Observatory who measures interstellar gas flowing through the heliosphere, using data from SOHO, Voyager, Hubble, and Gaia.
Rosiptor
Rosiptor (AQX-1125) is an investigational oral drug that activates the enzyme SHIP1, developed by Aquinox Pharmaceuticals and discontinued after phase 2 and 3 trials failed.
Rosita Espinosa
Rosita Espinosa is a Walking Dead survivor introduced in comic #53 (2008) and played by Christian Serratos from TV season 4; known for Abraham romance, the failed Negan shooting, and her season 11 finale death.
Roskilde
Roskilde is a Danish city on Zealand's Roskilde Fjord, 30 km west of Copenhagen, founded around 980 by Harald Bluetooth, home to the UNESCO-listed brick Gothic cathedral and royal mausoleum, the Viking Ship Museum, and Roskilde Festival.
Roskilde Cathedral
Roskilde Cathedral (Roskilde Domkirke), Zealand, Denmark: Scandinavia's first brick Gothic cathedral, begun about 1170 under Bishop Absalon, UNESCO World Heritage site since 1995, and burial church of Danish kings and queens since the 15th century.
Roskilde Festival
Roskilde Festival: Danish non-profit music and cultural festival held annually at Dyrskuepladsen, Roskilde, since 1971 (originally Sound Festival). Founded by students Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller; all profits, DKK 476 million since 1972, go to charity, with about 130,000 attendees and 30,000 volunteers.
Roskomnadzor
Roskomnadzor (Роскомнадзор), formally the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, is the Russian federal agency overseeing media and communications, established in 2008.
Roslagen
Roslagen is the coastal and archipelago region of Uppland, Sweden, north of Stockholm; name from the medieval rowing district Roden, known for Walloon ironworks, seafaring, and 15,000 islands.
Rösler Oberflächentechnik
Rösler Oberflächentechnik is a German family-owned manufacturer of surface finishing equipment based in Untermerzbach, Bavaria, founded in 1933 and producing mass finishing and shot blasting machines.
Roslyn (compiler)
Roslyn, formally the .NET Compiler Platform, is Microsoft's open-source compiler platform for C# and Visual Basic, opened in 2014 and powering Visual Studio, the dotnet CLI, and Mono.
Roslyn Kind
Roslyn Kind (born 1951), American singer and actress, younger half-sister of Barbra Streisand; RCA albums Give Me You (1969) and This Is Roslyn Kind (1970), Ed Sullivan Show appearances, Broadway's 3 from Brooklyn, and later independent singles.
Roslyn O. Silver
Roslyn O. Silver, born 1946, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona since 2013.
Roslyn Union Free School District
Roslyn Union Free School District (chartered December 1, 1904) is a Nassau County, New York public district on Long Island's north shore with five schools, about 3,329 students, and Roslyn High School as its centerpiece.
Rosmah Mansor
Rosmah Mansor, wife of Malaysian PM Najib Razak (2009–2018), PERMATA founder; convicted 2022 in the RM1.25 billion Sarawak solar bribery case, sentenced to 10 years, acquitted of money laundering charges in 2024.