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Royce West
Royce West is an American politician and lawyer who has served as a Democratic Texas senator from District 23 since 1993 and is managing partner of the law firm West & Associates.
Royce White
Royce White (Royce Alexander White) is an American former basketball player drafted 16th overall by Houston in 2012 whose NBA career was shaped by a mental-health dispute.
Roydell Williams (running back)
Roydell Williams is an American football running back from Hueytown, Alabama, who played college football for Alabama and Florida State before signing with the Detroit Lions in 2026.
Roye
Roye, Somme, France: town near a Gallo-Roman vicus (Rodium) with two excavated villas west of the A1, showing five centuries of settlement from late Gallic enclosed farms to a villa abandoned around 410 AD.
ROYGBIV
ROYGBIV (Roy G. Biv) is the mnemonic for the visible spectrum's color order, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, from Newton's seven-color division in Opticks (1704), longest to shortest wavelength.
Røyken
Røyken (Old Norse Hraukvín) was a municipality in Buskerud, Norway, established 1837, population 22,635 (2019), merged with Hurum and Asker into Asker kommune on 1 January 2020.
Röyksopp
Röyksopp, Norwegian electronic duo of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland formed 1998 in Bergen, known for Melody A.M. (2001), The Understanding, Junior, Senior, The Inevitable End, Do It Again with Robyn, and Profound Mysteries.
Royler Gracie
Royler Gracie (born 1965, Rio de Janeiro), son of Hélio Gracie, is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu and ADCC champion: four world titles 1996-1999, three ADCC golds 1999-2001, famous losses to Sakuraba and Eddie Bravo, later teaching in San Diego.
Royllo Insula
Royllo Insula is a 103 km island-like feature (insula) on Titan at 68.30°N, 297.20°, approved by the IAU in 2015 and named for a phantom Atlantic island on 15th-century maps near Antilla and St. Brandan.
Royston Drenthe
Royston Drenthe, Dutch former winger (Feyenoord, Real Madrid, Everton loan, one Netherlands cap 2010, 2007 U21 Euro MVP), retired 2023; suffered a stroke in October 2025 and remains in rehabilitation.
Roystonea regia
Roystonea regia, the Cuban royal palm (palma real), is a large Arecaceae palm native to southern Florida, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Cuba's national tree, reaching 34.5 m, IUCN Least Concern, widely planted ornamentally and used for oil, feed, and thatch.
Roz Doyle
Roz Doyle is the fictional radio producer of The Dr. Frasier Crane Show on KACL 780AM in the sitcom Frasier (1993-2004), played by Peri Gilpin. Named after the real Wings producer Roz Doyle who died in 1991; Lisa Kudrow was recast; Roz rose to KACL station manager and returned in the 2023 Paramount+ revival.
Roz Kelly
Roz Kelly, born Rosalind Schwartz in 1943 in Mount Vernon, New York, is an American actress best known as Pinky Tuscadero on Happy Days and for the horror film New Year's Evil (1980).
Roza Galiyeva
Roza Galiyeva (Rozaliya Ilfatovna Galiyeva), Uzbek-born Russian artistic gymnast born 1977 in Olmaliq; 1992 Olympic team gold with the Unified Team, 1996 team silver with Russia, 1991 world team champion, 1996 European beam champion.
Roza Salikhova
Roza Salikhova (Роза Галямовна Салихова, 1944–2026), Soviet volleyball player, two-time Olympic champion (1968 Mexico City, 1972 Munich), 1970 world champion, Hall of Fame inductee 2014.
Roza Shanina (Роза Георгиевна Шанина)
Roza Georgiyevna Shanina (Роза Георгиевна Шанина), Soviet female sniper of the 3rd Belorussian Front, credited with 59 confirmed kills, first woman of her front awarded the Order of Glory, killed in East Prussia in January 1945.
Roza Terenzi
Roza Terenzi is the alias of Katie Campbell, an Australian DJ and producer from Perth whose playful blend of breaks, house, electro, and trance made her a leftfield club fixture.
Rozália Biró
Rozália Biró (born 1965) is a Romanian politician of the UDMR, a Deputy in the Chamber of Deputies since 2016 who earlier served as Senator from 2012 to 2016.
Rozaliya Nasretdinova
Rozaliya Nasretdinova (Розалия Хайдяровна Насретдинова, born 1997, Moscow) is a Russian sprint freestyle and butterfly swimmer, Youth Olympic double champion 2014, 2016 world short-course mixed relay champion, and Rio 2016 Olympian.
Rozanolixizumab
Rozanolixizumab (Rystiggo) is a humanized IgG4 anti-FcRn monoclonal antibody that lowers circulating IgG; approved 2023 for anti-AChR or anti-MuSK antibody-positive generalized myasthenia gravis in adults, given as weekly subcutaneous infusions for 6 weeks.
Rozdilna-Izmail Gas Pipeline
The Rozdilna-Izmail Gas Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline running from Rozdilna in Ukraine through southern Moldova to Izmail, part of the Trans-Balkan route to the Balkans.
Rozella
Rozella, genus of 27 species of unwalled endobiotic parasites of water molds and zoosporic fungi, earliest-diverging fungal lineage in Cryptomycota (Rozellomycota), with uniflagellate zoospores and walled resting spores.
Rozellomycota
Rozellomycota (Cryptomycota, Rozellida) is an early-diverging fungal phylum containing the parasitic genus Rozella and many uncultured environmental lineages, sister to Microsporidia, lacking chitin-rich walls in observed stages.
Rozen Maiden (ローゼンメイデン)
Rozen Maiden (ローゼンメイデン), Peach-Pit's gothic fantasy manga about hikikomori Jun Sakurada and Shinku in the Alice Game; serialized 2002-2007 in Comic Birz, 2008-2014 in Weekly Young Jump, with a prequel Rozen Maiden 0, four anime series, and a 2025 Seven Seas Collector's Edition.
Rozhkovskoye Gas and Condensate Field
The Rozhkovskoye gas and condensate field is a pre-salt gas and condensate field in West Kazakhstan, discovered in 2008, commissioned in December 2023, and operated by Ural Oil and Gas.
Rozonda Thomas
Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas (born 1971), American singer, dancer, and actress; member of TLC with T-Boz and Left Eye; four Grammys, 65 million records, RIAA diamond; later TV host of Second Chance Love.
Roztocze Biosphere Reserve
Roztocze Biosphere Reserve (Transgraniczny Rezerwat Biosfery Roztocze), a UNESCO transboundary biosphere reserve designated 19 June 2019, joining Poland's Roztocze with Ukraine's Roztochya reserve (2011) on the Polish-Ukrainian border near Zamość and Lviv.
Rozvi Empire
The Rozvi Empire was an African state in Butua, south-western Zimbabwe, ruled by the Changamire dynasty from the late 1600s until its collapse in the 1830s.
Rozz Williams
Rozz Williams (Roger Alan Painter, 1963–1998), American singer and artist, founder of deathrock band Christian Death (Only Theatre of Pain, 1982), later Shadow Project, Premature Ejaculation, and solo spoken-word work; died by suicide at 34.
RP (complexity class)
RP, short for randomized polynomial time, is the complexity class of decision problems solvable in polynomial time by randomized algorithms that never accept a no-instance, sitting between P and BPP.