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Ruger Blackhawk

The Ruger Blackhawk is a single-action, six-shot revolver introduced in 1955 by Sturm, Ruger & Co. as its first centerfire handgun, styled after the Colt Single Action Army.

Ruger M77

The Ruger M77, also known as the Ruger Model 77, is a bolt-action hunting rifle made by Sturm, Ruger & Company of Connecticut and introduced in 1968.

Ruger Mini-14

The Ruger Mini-14 is a lightweight, gas-operated semi-automatic rifle made by Sturm, Ruger & Co., designed by L. James Sullivan and William B. Ruger and introduced in 1973.

Ruger P series

The Ruger P series is a line of semi-automatic pistols made by Sturm, Ruger & Company from 1987 to 2013, starting with the 9 mm P85.

Ruger SR-556

The Ruger SR-556 is a semiautomatic, AR-15-pattern rifle made by Sturm, Ruger & Company from 2009 to the mid-2010s, Ruger's first entry into the AR-style rifle market.

Ruger Standard

The Ruger Standard, also called the Ruger Mark I, is a .22 Long Rifle semi-automatic pistol introduced in 1949 as Sturm, Ruger & Co.'s first product.

Rugged Island

Rugged Island (Isla Rugosa, formerly Ragged Island) is a 10.4 km² island west of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, charted by sealers and named by Capt. J.P. Sheffield in February 1820.

Ruggero De Maria

Ruggero De Maria is an Italian oncology researcher and full professor of General Pathology at the Università Cattolica in Rome, known for identifying colon-cancer-initiating cells in 2007.

Ruggero Deodato

Ruggero Deodato (1939-2022), Italian director nicknamed Monsieur Cannibal, made Cannibal Holocaust (1980), the controversial Amazon-set precursor of found-footage horror that led to his arrest on snuff-film suspicions.

Ruggero Ferrario

Ruggero Ferrario (1897-1976), Italian track and road cyclist from Milan; won gold in the team pursuit at Antwerp 1920 with Giorgetti, Carli, and Magnani, finished 4th in the 50 km, and won the first Coppa Bernocchi in 1919.

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), Italian verismo opera composer, librettist, and pianist from Naples, wrote Pagliacci (1892), paired with Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana; also Zazà, La Bohème, operettas, and the song Mattinata for Caruso.

Ruggero Oddi

Ruggero Oddi (1864–1913) was an Italian physiologist who, as a medical student in Perugia, discovered the sphincter of Oddi and performed the first biliary manometry.

Ruggero Razza

Ruggero Razza is an Italian politician of Brothers of Italy who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2024, chairing the delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries.

Ruggero Tita

Ruggero Tita (born 1992, Rovereto) is an Italian sailor who helms the Nacra 17 and, with Caterina Banti, won Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.

Ruggiero Torelli

Ruggiero Torelli (1884–1915) was an Italian algebraic geometer, son of the mathematician Gabriele Torelli, whose 1913 papers contain the Torelli theorem: a smooth projective curve is determined by its Jacobian.

Rugila

Rugila, also spelled Ruga or Rua, was a ruler of the Huns who united the loosely organized Hunnic groups in Europe, won tribute from Constantinople, and died around 434.

Rugosa

Rugosa, also called rugose, horn, or tetracorals, is an extinct order of Ordovician to Permian solitary and colonial corals with calcite skeletons, four-quadrant septa, and about 1,337 known species.

Rugrats

Rugrats is a Nickelodeon animated series created by Klasky, Csupo, and Germain, premiering August 11, 1991, following babies led by Tommy Pickles; nine seasons, three films, and a 2021 CGI Paramount+ revival.

Rugrats (2021 TV series)

Rugrats (2021 TV series), also called the Rugrats reboot or revival, is a Nickelodeon CG-animated reimagining of the 1991 series, premiering May 27, 2021 on Paramount+ with the original baby voice cast returning and three seasons through 2026.

Rugrats Go Wild

Rugrats Go Wild, also known as Rugrats Meet the Wild Thornberrys, is a 2003 American animated crossover film in which the shipwrecked Pickles family meets the Thornberrys on a tropical island.

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie is a 2000 American animated comedy film, the second Rugrats feature, following the toddlers to Paris where Chuckie searches for a new mother.

Rugrats: Retro Rewind Collection

Rugrats: Retro Rewind Collection is a 2026 Limited Run Games compilation (Mighty Rabbit Studios) of six Rugrats games from 1998-2001, including Search for Reptar, on Switch, PS5, and PC, with save states, rewind, and CRT filters; Metacritic 44.

Ruha Benjamin

Ruha Benjamin is an American sociologist at Princeton University who studies how technology reproduces inequality and coined the "New Jim Code"; she won a 2024 MacArthur Fellowship.

Ruhani Bai Begum

Ruhani Bai Begum, also written Ruhaani Bai, is known as the mother of Mastani and the wife of Chhatrasal, though little about her is verifiable.

Ruhanika Dhawan

Ruhanika (Ruhaanika) Dhawan, born 2007, is an Indian television actress known as Ruhi Bhalla in Yeh Hai Mohabbatein (2013–2019); debut Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch Bahuein (2012), films Jai Ho and Ghayal Once Again, BBA student, KKK 15 contestant.

Ruhi Çenet

Ruhi Çenet (Muhammed Ruhi Çenet), Turkish documentary YouTuber born 1990; channel 'Ruhi Çenet Videoları' since 2012; over 19 million subscribers, 18-language dubs; known for Hasidic Brooklyn documentary and hantavirus-ship incident.

Ruhi Singh

Ruhi Singh is an Indian actress and model from Jaipur, Rajasthan. She became known for her work in Hindi and South Indian streaming series, including Runaway Lugaai and Bang Baang.

Ruhizzi

Ruhizzi, also rendered Ruhiza, was a Late Bronze Age Syrian town east of the Anti-Lebanon, known from the mid-14th-century BCE Amarna letters, whose ruler Arsawuya allied with Aitukama of Kadesh.

Ruhnama

The Ruhnama, meaning Book of the Soul, is a two-volume spiritual and moral text written by Turkmenistan's first president, Saparmurat Niyazov, published in 2001 and 2004.

Ruhollah Khomeini (روح‌الله مصطفوی خمینی)

Ruhollah Khomeini (روح‌الله مصطفوی خمینی), also Ruhollah Musavi, 1902-1989, Iranian Shi'ite cleric, author of velayat-e faqih, leader of the 1979 revolution, and first Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.