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Raj Kumari Thapa
Raj Kumari Thapa is an Indian politician of the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha who serves as Deputy Speaker of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly, representing the Rangang-Yangang constituency since her 2024 election win.
Raj Kundra (राज कुंद्रा)
Raj Kundra (राज कुंद्रा) is a British-born Indian businessman and former co-owner of the Rajasthan Royals IPL franchise whose ventures span entertainment, apps, and hospitality; he is married to the actor Shilpa Shetty.
Raj Makkar
Raj Makkar, born Rajendra R. Makkar, is an American interventional cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles who led the PARTNER trials of transcatheter aortic-valve replacement.
Raj N Singh
Raj N Singh is an American materials scientist at Oklahoma State University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for pioneering ceramic matrix composites used in jet engines.
Raj Neervannan
Raj Neervannan is an Indian-origin technology executive who co-founded AlphaSense, the New York market-intelligence company, with Jack Kokko in 2011 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer.
Raj of Sarawak
The Raj of Sarawak was an independent state on Borneo ruled by the Brooke family, the "White Rajahs", from 1841 until its cession to Britain in 1946.
Raj Rajaratnam
Raj Rajaratnam is a Sri Lankan-born American hedge fund manager who founded the Galleon Group in 1997 and was convicted on insider trading charges in 2011.
Raj Reddy
Raj Reddy (Dabbala Rajagopal Reddy), born 1937 in India, is an Indian-American computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who shared the 1994 Turing Award for pioneering large-scale artificial intelligence systems.
Raj Shamani
Raj Shamani, born 1997 in Indore, is an Indian entrepreneur, podcaster, and content creator who hosts the business podcast Figuring Out and co-founded the venture studio House of X.
Raj Shekhar Singh
Raj Shekhar Singh is an Indian venture capitalist who co-founded z21 Ventures in 2022, an early-stage fund investing in AI, enterprise software, and healthcare startups across the US-India corridor.
Raj Thackeray (राज ठाकरे)
Raj Thackeray (राज ठाकरे), Maharashtra politician and Bal Thackeray's nephew, founded the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena in 2006 after leaving the Shiv Sena; MNS peaked at 13 assembly seats in 2009 and allied with Uddhav in 2025.
Raj Thakur
Raj Thakur (রাজ ঠাকুর), known as the Raikat of Baikunthapur, was a hereditary office of the Koch Behar kingdom, founded in the early sixteenth century by Sishya Singha.
Rāj-Nāndgaon
Rāj-Nāndgaon (राजनंदगांव), formerly Nandgram, is a city in central Chhattisgarh, India, capital of the former princely state of Raj Nandgaon and headquarters of Rajnandgaon district, formed 1973 from Durg district.
Raj–Koti
Raj–Koti (రాజ్–కోటి), also known as Raj and Koti, was a Telugu film music composer duo who scored around 180 films between the early 1980s and 1995.
Raja
Raja (Sanskrit राजा, rāja) is the South Asian royal title meaning king or ruler, first attested in the Rigveda; distinct from maharaja (a higher title) and nawab, and used historically in India and still in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Raja (Tamil actor)
Raja is the screen name of Daggubati Raja (born Venkatesh), an Indian actor named by Bharathiraja, active mainly in Tamil cinema from the 1980s until his 2019 return.
Raja (राजा) (1995 film)
Raja (राजा) is a 1995 Hindi romantic drama directed by Indra Kumar and starring Sanjay Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit, with music by Nadeem-Shravan and a blockbuster box-office run.
Raja Abdullah of Klang
Raja Abdullah bin Raja Jaafar was a nineteenth-century Malay chief of Klang in Selangor whose 1857 tin-mining expedition to Ampang set in train the growth of Kuala Lumpur.
Raja Alem
Raja Alem (رجاء عالم) is a Saudi novelist and playwright from Mecca whose symbolic fiction centers on Mecca itself. In 2011 she was the first woman to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Raja Ali Haji
Raja Ali Haji (c. 1808 – c. 1873) was a Bugis-Malay scholar, poet, and historian of Penyengat Island in the Riau-Lingga Sultanate, best known for Gurindam Dua Belas.
Raja Ampat Islands
Raja Ampat, an Indonesian archipelago and regency in Southwest Papua of about 1,500 islands including Waigeo, Misool, Salawati, and Batanta, holds 75% of the world's coral species, a 10-area marine protected network, UNESCO Geopark status, and faces nickel mining pressure.
Raja Babu (film)
Raja Babu is a 1994 Hindi comedy-drama directed by David Dhawan, starring Govinda and Karisma Kapoor, a remake of the Tamil film Rasukutti; a Super Hit with the songs "Sarkailo khatiya" and "Aa ee oo" and a Filmfare win for Shakti Kapoor.
Raja Balwant Singh of Jasrota
Raja Balwant Singh of Jasrota (1724–1763) was a small hill ruler near Jammu, remembered chiefly as the patron and frequent subject of the Pahari painter Nainsukh.
Raja Bell
Raja Bell (born 1976) is a former NBA shooting guard from the U.S. Virgin Islands, undrafted, known as a 3-and-D specialist with the Phoenix Suns, two All-Defensive selections, and a Kobe Bryant feud; now co-hosts The Ringer's Real Ones.
Raja CA (نادي الرجاء الرياضي)
Raja Club Athletic (نادي الرجاء الرياضي), Raja CA, is a Moroccan football club founded 20 March 1949 in Casablanca's Derb Sultan; 20-time Botola champion, 2021 CAF Confederation Cup winner, plays at Stade Mohammed-V.
Raja Chandu Lal
Raja Chandu Lal (راجا چندو لال), also known as Shadan, was a Khatri administrator and poet who served the Nizams of Hyderabad as Diwan, dying there in 1845.
Raja clavata
Raja clavata, the thornback ray or roker, an eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean skate of family Rajidae; oviparous, laying 140-160 egg cases yearly; IUCN Near Threatened globally, Endangered in the Mediterranean.
Raja Dahir
Raja Dahir (راجا داہر) was a Brahman ruler of Sindh from the dynasty founded by his father Chach, killed in 712 CE fighting the Arab general Muhammad bin Qasim.
Raja Deen Dayal
Raja Deen Dayal (राजा दीन दयाल) was an Indian photographer who served as court photographer to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad and died in 1905.
Raja Desingh
Raja Desingh (ராஜா தேசிங்கு), also known as Raja Tej Singh, was a Bundela Rajput chieftain who ruled Gingee fort and died resisting the Nawab of Arcot in 1714.