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Raising of dams
Raising of dams, also called dam heightening or crest raising, is the modification of an existing dam to increase its crest elevation, enlarging reservoir storage or restoring flood safety.
Raising Sand
Raising Sand is the 2007 Rounder Records collaborative album by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, produced by T Bone Burnett; it reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and won five Grammys including Album of the Year.
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Joe Rosenthal's Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima photograph shows six Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, winning the 1945 Pulitzer Prize.
Raising Voices (TV series)
Raising Voices (Ni una más) is a Spanish Netflix teen drama, premiered May 31, 2024, adapted from Miguel Sáez Carral's 2021 novel. Eight 45-minute episodes star Nicole Wallace as Alma, a student exposing a rapist at her school.
Raisinghani vs Raisinghani
Raisinghani vs Raisinghani (रायसिंघानी vs रायसिंघानी) is a 2024 Hindi legal drama web series on SonyLIV, 102 episodes, starring Jennifer Winget, Karan Wahi, Reem Shaikh, and Sanjay Nath, ran February 12 to August 9, 2024.
Raistlin Majere
Raistlin Majere, Dragonlance wizard by Weis and Hickman, debuted 1984; frail golden-skinned twin of Caramon, hourglass eyes, red then Black Robes, attempted godhood after the War of the Lance.
Raita
Raita (रायता, Hindi rāytā) is a cold South Asian yogurt condiment mixed with cucumber, boondi, onion, mint, or fruit, served with biryani and spicy curries to cool chili heat; distinct from tzatziki, cacık, and mast-o-khiar.
Raith Real Estate
Raith Real Estate is the series of private equity real estate funds managed by Raith Capital Partners, a New York investment manager co-founded in 2012 by Bill Landis and Nelson Hioe.
Raith Rovers F.C.
Raith Rovers FC, Kirkcaldy club founded 1883 playing at Stark's Park in the SPFL Championship; 1994/95 Scottish League Cup winners on penalties over Celtic, three-time Challenge Cup winners, twice second-tier champions.
Raivis Melnis
Raivis Melnis is a Latvian politician and retired military officer serving as independent Minister for Defence of Latvia since May 2026, after a career in the National Armed Forces.
Raiymbek Batyr
Raiymbek Batyr (Райымбек батыр; full name Raiymbek Tukeuly, born 1705) was an eighteenth-century Kazakh warrior and commander who fought the Dzungars for over 30 years and liberated Zhetysu.
Raiza Wilson
Raiza Wilson, Indian model and Tamil actress (born 1989, Bangalore). Femina Miss India Miss Beautiful Smile; Bigg Boss Tamil 1 contestant (63 days, 9th place); lead in Pyaar Prema Kaadhal (2018); comeback film Nova: Phase One – The Arrival.
Raizen
Raizen, a Brazilian energy company formed by Shell and Cosan in 2011, is the world's largest sugarcane ethanol producer and sells fuel under the Shell brand.
Raízes do Brasil
Raízes do Brasil (Roots of Brazil) is a 1936 essay by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, a founding work of Brazilian historiography best known for the concept of the homem cordial.
Raj & DK
Raj & DK (Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK) are an Indian writer-director-producer duo from Andhra Pradesh, creators of The Family Man, Farzi, and Guns & Gulaabs, founders of D2R Films, with a multi-year Netflix partnership.
Raj Babbar (राज बब्बर)
Raj Babbar (राज बब्बर), Indian actor and politician born 1952 in Tundla, Uttar Pradesh; NSD-trained, debut Kissa Kursi Ka (1977), breakthrough Insaaf Ka Tarazu (1980); three Lok Sabha and two Rajya Sabha terms with Congress.
Raj Bhushan Choudhary
Raj Bhushan Choudhary, Indian politician and physician, BJP Minister of State for Jal Shakti and MP from Muzaffarpur, Bihar; won the 2024 Lok Sabha election with 619,749 votes after a 2019 defeat as a Vikasheel Insaan Party candidate.
Raj Chakraborty (রাজ চক্রবর্তী)
Raj Chakraborty (রাজ চক্রবর্তী), born 1975 in Halisahar, is a Bengali film director, producer and actor whose debut Chirodini Tumi Je Amar (2008) launched a commercially successful career, and a former Trinamool Congress MLA from Barrackpore who quit politics in May 2026 after losing the 2026 election.
Raj Chandra Bose (রাজ চন্দ্র বসু)
Raj Chandra Bose (রাজ চন্দ্র বসু) was an Indian mathematician and statistician, active mainly in the United States, known for design theory, finite geometry, and the BCH error-correcting codes.
Raj Chetty
Raj Chetty is an American economist and Harvard professor who studies economic mobility using large-scale data, known for finding that children earning more than their parents fell from 90% to 50%.
Raj Ganguly
Raj Ganguly, also known as Rajarshi Ganguly, is a venture capitalist who co-founded and co-leads B Capital, a multi-stage firm with more than $9 billion under management.
Raj Ghat and associated memorials
Raj Ghat, Delhi memorial complex marking Mahatma Gandhi's cremation site (31 January 1948): black marble platform, eternal flame, design by Vanu G. Bhuta, administered by the Rajghat Samadhi Committee, with associated leader memorials nearby.
Raj K. Goyal
Raj K. Goyal is a physician-scientist, Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a VA Boston staff physician, known for research on esophageal motility, Barrett's esophagus, and diabetic gastroparesis.
Raj Kapoor (राज कपूर)
Raj Kapoor (राज कपूर, 1924–1988), the Showman of Indian Cinema, was a Hindi film actor, director, and producer who founded R.K. Films in 1948 and made Awaara, Shree 420, Mera Naam Joker, and Bobby.
Raj Kaul
Raj Kaul, Kashmiri Pandit Sanskrit and Persian scholar, ancestor of the Nehru family; migrated to Delhi about 1716, granted a house by a canal (nahar), origin of the surname Nehru; the Farrukhsiyar Kashmir meeting is undocumented.
Raj Kiran (actor)
Raj Kiran Mahtani, also credited as Rajkiran, is a former Bollywood actor (debut Kaagaz Ki Nao, 1975; Karz 1980, Arth 1982, over 100 films) who has been missing since 2003; he is a different person from the Tamil actor Rajkiran.
Raj Kondur
Raj Kondur is an Indian venture and growth investor who co-founded Chrysalis Capital, later renamed ChrysCapital, with his Harvard Business School classmate Ashish Dhawan in 1999, and later joined Ascent Capital.
Raj Koothrappali
Rajesh Ramayan "Raj" Koothrappali, fictional particle astrophysicist on The Big Bang Theory played by Kunal Nayyar; originally named Dave, has selective mutism toward women, comes from a wealthy New Delhi family, and reappears in the 2026 spinoff Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.
Raj Kumar Chabbewal
Raj Kumar Chabbewal, born 1969, is an Indian Aam Aadmi Party politician and medical doctor who has represented Hoshiarpur, Punjab, in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Raj Kumar Lohia
Raj Kumar Lohia (born 1954) is an Indian industrialist who founded Lohia Corp in Kanpur in 1981, a leading maker of machinery for plastic woven fabric and technical textiles.