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Rowena Green Matthews
Rowena Green Matthews is an American biochemist at the University of Michigan known for her work on folate and vitamin B12 enzyme mechanisms, especially methionine synthase.
Rowett Island
Rowett Island (Rowett, Isla) is a small island off Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, at about 61°17′S 55°13′W, named during Shackleton's 1921–22 expedition for sponsor John Quiller Rowett.
Rowing (sport)
Rowing (sport): competitive boat racing with sculling (two oars per rower) and sweep (one oar), governed by World Rowing (formerly FISA); ancient origins, Olympic sport, new beach sprint format at LA 2028.
Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's eight
Men's eight (coxed) at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, also the Boys in the Boat race: University of Washington crew won gold for the USA in 6:25.4, ahead of Italy and Germany at Grünau.
Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics (Tokyo 2020 regatta): 14 gender-equal events, 526 athletes from 80 countries, raced 23–30 July 2021 at the Sea Forest Waterway, Tokyo Bay, after pandemic postponement.
Rowing coastal beach sprints
Rowing coastal beach sprints: a head-to-head coastal rowing format with a beach run, 250 m slalom row, buoy turn, and sprint finish, about 600 m in 2–4 minutes. Debuting at LA28 after the 2015 Mediterranean Beach Games and 2019 Shenzhen Finals; raced in C1x, C2x, C4x+, and mixed boats.
Rowland (lunar crater)
Rowland is a 166.12-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's northern far side at 56.97°N, 162.52°W, IAU-named in 1970 for American physicist Henry Augustus Rowland, with satellite craters Rowland G through Y.
Rowland Biffen
Rowland Harry Biffen was a British geneticist and agricultural botanist at Cambridge who showed in 1912 that wheat's yellow rust resistance was inherited as a recessive Mendelian character.
Rowland George
Rowland David George (1905–1997), British rower nicknamed Roley, won Olympic gold in the men's coxless four at Los Angeles 1932 with Badcock, Edwards, and Beresford; later an RAF wing commander awarded the OBE and DSO.
Rowland Hill
Rowland Hill (1744–1833) was an English evangelical preacher who built Surrey Chapel in London in 1783, reportedly delivering some 22,000 sermons and drawing thousands to open-air preaching.
Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill
Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, known as "Daddy Hill," was a British general, a trusted commander under Wellington in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo.
Rowland Hussey Macy
Rowland Hussey Macy, known as R.H. Macy, was an American dry-goods merchant and former whaler who founded R.H. Macy & Co. in New York in 1858.
Rowland Pettit
Rowland Pettit (1927–1981) was an Australian-born organometallic chemist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, best known for the first synthesis of the tropylium ion.
Rowland W. Redington
Rowland W. Redington (1925–1995) was an American physicist who led General Electric teams in Schenectady, New York, driving advances in CT and MRI, including high-field imaging.
Rowland Wolfe
Rowland Wolfe (Merrill Rowland Wolfe, "Flip", 1914-2010), American tumbler and gymnast; won the only Olympic tumbling event, 1932 Los Angeles, with 56.7 points; later Manhattan Project chemist.
Rowlatt Act
The Rowlatt Act, formally the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, 1919 (Black Act), was a British Indian law passed 18 March 1919 allowing detention without trial, prompting Gandhi's first all-India satyagraha and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Rowley Douglas
Rowley Douglas (born 1977, Washington DC) is a British rowing coxswain who steered the Great Britain men's eight to Olympic gold at Sydney 2000 in 5:33.08, Britain's first eight gold since 1912, after 1999 world silver.
Rowley Island
Rowley Island: uninhabited island in Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada; Arctic Archipelago, area about 1,090-1,120 km2, DEW Line site FOX-1; distinct from an Ontario islet of the same name.
Rowley Shoals
Rowley Shoals: chain of three coral atolls (Mermaid, Clerke, Imperieuse Reefs) on the edge of Australia's northwest continental shelf, about 300 km west of Broome; pristine reefs with 233 coral and 688 fish species, protected as two marine parks.
Rowlf the Dog
Rowlf the Dog: piano-playing brown dog Muppet built in 1962 by Don Sahlin to Jim Henson's design for Purina Dog Chow commercials; first nationally known Muppet star on The Jimmy Dean Show (1963–1966), later The Muppet Show's resident pianist and Dr. Bob; performed by Henson, then Bill Barretta.
Rowntree's
Rowntree's, British confectionery company of York founded 1862 by Henry Isaac Rowntree; maker of KitKat, Smarties, Fruit Pastilles, Aero, After Eight; merged with Mackintosh 1969, acquired by Nestlé in 1988 for £2.5 billion.
Rowohlt Verlag
Rowohlt Verlag is a German publishing house founded in Leipzig in 1908 by Ernst Rowohlt, now based in Hamburg and known for the rororo paperback series.
Rowoon
Rowoon (로운, Kim Seok-woo, born 1996) is a South Korean actor and former lead vocalist of the boy group SF9 (debut 2016). Known for Extraordinary You, The King's Affection, The Matchmakers (2023 KBS Top Excellence), and Disney+'s The Murky Stream; left SF9 in September 2023 and enlisted for military service in October 2025.
Rowzeh-khani
Rowzeh-khani (روضهخوانی), also transliterated rawda-khani, is a Shiʿi Persian mourning ritual in which a reciter recounts and laments the martyrdom of Imam Ḥusayn at Karbala, named after the 1502 book Rawżat al-shohadāʾ.
Rox 01
The Rox 01 (极石01), also sold as the Polestones 01 or Polar Stone 01, is a large off-road-capable extended-range electric SUV from Chinese maker Rox Motor, first launched in China in 2023.
Rox Motor (极石汽车)
Rox Motor (极石汽车), also known as Jishi, is a Chinese new energy vehicle maker founded in Shanghai in January 2021 by Roborock CEO Chang Jing, maker of the ROX 01.
Roxana
Roxana (Roxane, Greek Rhōxánē), daughter of the Bactrian noble Oxyartes, married Alexander the Great in 327 BCE as his first wife, bore the posthumous heir Alexander IV, and was executed by Cassander at Amphipolis in 310 BCE.
Roxana Anghel
Roxana Anghel (Roxana-Iuliana Anghel), Romanian rower born 1998 in Câmpulung Moldovenesc; Paris 2024 Olympic gold in the women's eight and silver in the coxless pair with Ioana Vrînceanu; world and European champion.
Roxana Mehran
Roxana Mehran is an interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for her bleeding and kidney-injury risk scores.
Roxana Mînzatu
Roxana Mînzatu is a Romanian politician who serves as Vice-President of the European Commission for Social Rights and Skills, after being elected to the European Parliament in 2024.