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R. Kumar
R. Kumar (Dr. ரா. குமார்), TVK MLA for Velachery, Chennai, and since 21 May 2026 Tamil Nadu's Minister for Artificial Intelligence, IT and Digital Services in the Vijay cabinet; won 2026 with 80,430 votes (43.5%).
R. L. Burnside
R. L. Burnside (1926–2005) was a Mississippi hill country blues guitarist and singer, Fat Possum Records' biggest-selling act, known for slide-driven juke-joint boogie, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion collaboration A Ass Pocket of Whiskey, and late-career crossover fame.
R. L. Moore
R. L. Moore, born Robert Lee Moore, was an American mathematician at the University of Texas known for point-set topology, a term he coined, and the Moore method.
R. L. Stine
R.L. Stine (Robert Lawrence Stine, born 1943, Columbus, Ohio) is the American author of the Goosebumps and Fear Street children's horror series, with over 400 million books sold in 35 languages.
R. Lanier Anderson III
Robert Lanier Anderson III, born 1936, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit since 2009.
R. Lawrence Edwards
Richard Lawrence Edwards, known as R. Lawrence or Larry Edwards, is an American isotope geochemist at the University of Minnesota who developed modern uranium-thorium dating of climate records.
R. Lee Ermey
R. Lee Ermey (Ronald Lee Ermey, 1944–2018), American actor and 11-year Marine Corps staff sergeant and drill instructor; famous as improvised-insult Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Golden Globe nominee, later History Channel host and Toy Story's Sarge.
R. Leonard Brooks
R. Leonard Brooks, full name Rowland Leonard Brooks, was an English mathematician at Trinity College, Cambridge, known for Brooks's theorem on graph coloring and for work on squaring the square.
R. Luke DuBois
R. Luke DuBois is an American composer and data artist known for works that compress large cultural datasets, such as Billboard charts and dating profiles, into single pieces.
R. Luke Wiseman
R. Luke Wiseman is a molecular biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for research on proteostasis and stress-responsive signaling pathways.
R. Lyndon Arscott
R. Lyndon (Lyn) Arscott is a British petroleum engineer who led health, safety, and environment work at Chevron and the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers.
R. M. Ballantyne
R. M. Ballantyne (Robert Michael Ballantyne, 1825–1894) was a Scottish writer of juvenile adventure fiction whose The Coral Island (1858) influenced Treasure Island and Lord of the Flies.
R. M. Foster
R. M. Foster, born Ronald Martin Foster (1896–1998), was an American mathematician at AT&T and Bell Labs known for the 1924 reactance theorem, a first breakthrough in network synthesis.
R. M. Hare
R. M. Hare (Richard Mervyn Hare, 1919–2002), English Oxford moral philosopher, creator of universal prescriptivism and two-level utilitarianism; author of The Language of Morals and Moral Thinking, and of the essay asking whether Kant could have been a utilitarian.
R. M. Veerappan (ஆர். எம். வீரப்பன்)
R. M. Veerappan (ஆர். எம். வீரப்பன்), also RMV or Rama Veerappan (1926–2024), was a Tamil Nadu film producer and politician who founded Sathya Movies, produced Baashha and Rickshawkaran, managed MGR, and helped found the AIADMK before leading his own MGR Kazhagam.
R. M. Williams (company)
R.M.Williams is an Australian footwear and apparel company founded in 1932 by Reginald Murray Williams, known for elastic-sided boots handcrafted in Adelaide from a single piece of leather.
R. Madhavan
R. Madhavan (born Madhavan Ranganathan, 1970, in Jamshedpur) is an Indian actor, writer, producer, and director in Tamil and Hindi cinema, known for Alaipayuthey, 3 Idiots, and Rocketry.
R. Madhavan filmography
The R. Madhavan filmography covers the screen work of the Indian actor Ranganathan Madhavan, born 1970 in Jamshedpur, across Hindi, Tamil, and other-language cinema since 1996, with breakthroughs in Alaipayuthey and 3 Idiots.
R. Malka b. Mar R. Aḥa
R. Malka b. Mar R. Aḥa was Gaon, or head, of the Academy of Pumbedita from 771 to 773, known only through later chronicles and Sherira Gaon's Epistle.
R. Manasseh b. Mar R. Joseph
R. Manasseh b. Mar R. Joseph was a Gaon of the geonic period, when Geonim headed the Babylonian academies; nothing specific is recorded of his tenure.
R. Mari ha-Levi b. R. Mesharsheya
R. Mari ha-Levi b. R. Mesharsheya (Hebrew רב מרי הלוי בן משרשיא) was head of the Sura academy in the geonic period, succeeding Rav Haninai Kahana b. R. Huna.
R. Mark Wightman
R. Mark Wightman, full name Robert Mark Wightman, is an American analytical chemist and neurochemist who developed fast-scan cyclic voltammetry, tracking subsecond dopamine fluctuations in the brain of behaving animals.
R. Mattithiah b. Mar R. Rabbi
R. Mattithiah b. Mar R. Rabbi was Gaon of the Academy of Pumbedita in Abbasid Babylonia, serving from about 860 to 869 after succeeding Menahem b. Joseph.
R. Mebasser Kahana b. Mar R. ḳimoi Gaon
R. Mebasser Kahana b. Mar R. ḳimoi Gaon, also called Mubashshir ben Rav Kimoi Ha-Kohen, was Gaon of Pumbedita from 917 until his death in 925 or 926.
R. Menahem b. Mar R. Joseph Gaon b. Ḥiyya
R. Menahem b. Mar R. Joseph Gaon b. Ḥiyya was Gaon of the Academy of Pumbedita in Abbasid Babylonia around 858–861, son of the earlier gaon Joseph bar Ḥiyya.
R. Michael Blaese
R. Michael Blaese (1939–2025) was an American immunologist at the NIH who co-led the first approved human gene therapy trial, treating ADA-deficient SCID in 1990.
R. Michael Liskay
R. Michael Liskay is an American geneticist at Oregon Health & Science University who studies DNA mismatch repair and created knockout mice showing how its failure drives mutation and cancer.
R. Michael Roberts
R. Michael Roberts, born 1940, is an American reproductive biologist and biochemist at the University of Missouri known for identifying interferon tau, the pregnancy signal of ruminant embryos.
R. Morris Bullock
R. Morris Bullock is an American organometallic chemist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who directs the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis and develops cheap-metal electrocatalysts for hydrogen.
R. Moses (var. Mesharsheya) Kahana b. Mar Jacob
R. Moses (var. Mesharsheya) Kahana b. Mar Jacob (Hebrew: רב משה כהנא בר יעקב) was Gaon, or head, of the rabbinic academy of Sura in ninth-century Babylonia, from 832.