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Rudaki District
Rudaki District (Ноҳияи ба номи Абуабдулло Рӯдакӣ), Tajikistan, a District of Republican Subordination around Dushanbe; center Somoniyon; 518,200 residents (2020 census); renamed from Lenin District in 2003 after poet Rudaki.
Rudamun
Rudamun, also spelled Rudamon and known as Usermaatre Rudamun, was a pharaoh of the Theban Twenty-third Dynasty during the Third Intermediate Period, reigning in the mid-eighth century BC.
Rudaux (Martian crater)
Rudaux is a 107-km-wide IAU-approved impact crater on Mars at 38.03°N, 50.96°E, named in 1973 for Lucien Rudaux, the French astronomer and space artist (1874-1947), near Moreux and Protonilus Mensae.
Rudbeckia
Rudbeckia, commonly called coneflowers or black-eyed Susans, is a genus of about 30 daisy-family flowering plants native to North America, with yellow or orange rays around a raised dark central cone.
Rudbeckia hirta
Rudbeckia hirta, black-eyed Susan or gloriosa daisy, is a North American Asteraceae forb, annual to short-lived perennial, with yellow ray flowers and a dark cone; Maryland's state flower since 1918, with four varieties and many cultivars.
Rudbeckia laciniata
Rudbeckia laciniata, cutleaf coneflower or sochan, a North American perennial Asteraceae with cut leaves, edible young leaves, livestock toxicity, and invasive status in Europe and Japan.
Rudd Concession
The Rudd Concession was an 1888 mining agreement by which Lobengula, King of Matabeleland, granted Charles Rudd and associates exclusive mineral rights in exchange for rifles, ammunition, and monthly payments.
Rudder
The rudder is the movable control surface hinged to the trailing edge of an aircraft's vertical stabilizer, used to control yaw. Operated through rudder pedals, it coordinates turns and enables spin recovery.
Rudderless
Rudderless is a 2014 American musical drama, William H. Macy's directorial debut, starring Billy Crudup as a grieving father who forms a band from his dead son's demo tapes; Sundance closing night film.
RudderStack
RudderStack is an open-source, agentic warehouse-native customer data platform founded in 2019 by Soumyadeb Mitra. It collects, unifies, and activates customer data in the customer's own warehouse, stores no data itself, and offers 200+ destinations.
Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite
A Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite is a layered two-dimensional variant of the perovskite structure, named for Ruddlesden and Popper, whose late-1950s compounds underpin stable perovskite solar cells.
Ruddlesden–Popper perovskite solar cells
Ruddlesden–Popper perovskite solar cells use a layered two-dimensional perovskite light absorber whose bulky organic cations improve stability against moisture, heat, and light at some cost to efficiency.
Rude (song)
Rude (song): debut 2014 reggae-pop single by Canadian band Magic! (distinct from the 2026 Hearts2Hearts track "RUDE!"); six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, UK No. 1, Juno winner, 8.6 million units in 2014.
Rude boy
Rude boy (rudie, rudy): Jamaican youth subculture from 1960s Kingston, unemployed young men in sharp tonic suits and pork-pie hats, subject of ska and rocksteady records, later influencing British skinheads and two-tone ska.
Rude Boy (Rihanna song)
Rude Boy, Rihanna dancehall-pop single from Rated R (2009), written with Ester Dean and produced by Stargate; five weeks at Billboard Hot 100 number one in 2010, 4x Platinum, last dancehall chart-topper before Work.
Rudeboy Plays Urban Dance Squad ft DJ DNA
Rudeboy Plays Urban Dance Squad ft DJ DNA is a live band formed in 2022 by two Urban Dance Squad members to perform the band's catalog.
Rudeboyz
Rudeboyz are a South African production and DJ group from Durban, recording as the duo Andile T and Masive Q, whose 2015 EP helped carry gqom beyond South Africa.
Rudhiram (രുധിരം)
Rudhiram (രുധിരം) is a 2024 Malayalam psychological survival-revenge thriller, Jisho Lon Antony's directorial debut, starring Raj B Shetty as Dr Mathew Rosy and Aparna Balamurali as Swathy; released 13 December 2024, 124 minutes, U/A, Rising Sun Studios, mixed reviews.
Rudhramadevi (film)
Rudhramadevi (రుద్రమదేవి) is a 2015 Telugu-language 3D biographical action film by Gunasekhar starring Anushka Shetty as the Kakatiya queen Rudrama Devi, with Allu Arjun and Rana Daggubati; India's first historical stereoscopic 3D film, released 9 October 2015.
Rudi Fasan
Rudi Fasan is an Italian-born chemical biologist who joined UT Dallas in 2023 as a CPRIT Scholar, engineering myoglobin and P450 enzymes for carbene- and nitrene-transfer reactions useful in making pharmaceuticals.
Rudi Fink
Rudi Fink is a retired East German amateur boxer, born 1958 in Cottbus, who won the 1980 Olympic featherweight gold medal in Moscow and later worked as a boxing coach.
Rudi Garcia
Rudi Garcia, French football manager born 1964 in Nemours; won 2011 Ligue 1-Coupe de France double with Lille, coached Roma, Marseille, Lyon, Al-Nassr, Napoli, and Belgium (2025-2026, World Cup quarterfinalist).
Rudi Glockshuber
Rudi Glockshuber, full name Rudolf Glockshuber, is a Swiss biochemist and Professor Emeritus at ETH Zurich known for research on protein folding, disulfide-forming bacterial enzymes, and adhesive pili of uropathogenic E. coli.
Rudi J. Planta
Rudi J. Planta is a molecular biologist at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam who traced yeast ribosomes, from precursor RNA to a complete census of ribosomal protein genes.
Rudi Liebrechts
Rudi (Rudie) Liebrechts, Rutgerus Gerardus Liebrechts, Dutch allround speed skater and amateur cyclist born in Vlaardingen; fourth in the 1964 Olympic 10,000 m, world allround bronze 1961 and 1964, 3,000 m world record 4:26.8 in 1965.
Rudi Lüttge
Rudi Lüttge was a German race walker who finished 13th in the 50 km walk at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and set an unratified 1948 world record.
Rudi Schmid
Rudi Schmid (1922–2007) was a Swiss-born American hepatologist at UCSF, chief of gastroenterology from 1966 and dean of its medical school from 1983 to 1989.
Rudi Schuricke
Rudi Schuricke (1913–1973) was a German Schlager singer and tenor whose 1943 recording "Capri-Fischer" became the first great postwar hit and earned him the first gold record given a postwar performer.
Rudi Völler
Rudi Völler (Rudolf Völler, born 1960), German striker, 1990 World Cup winner, 47 goals in 90 caps; coached Germany to the 2002 final; DFB sporting director since 2023.
Rüdiger Dornbusch
Rüdiger Dornbusch (1942–2002) was a German-born MIT economist whose 1976 overshooting model of exchange rates, co-authorship with Stanley Fischer, and Latin American policy work shaped international macroeconomics.