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Ruslan Stratonovich (Руслан Леонтьевич Стратонович)
Ruslan Stratonovich (Руслан Леонтьевич Стратонович), born in 1930, was a Soviet physicist and mathematician at Lomonosov Moscow State University known for the Stratonovich integral and nonlinear filtering.
Ruslan Zakharov
Ruslan Albertovich Zakharov (Руслан Альбертович Захаров), born 1987, Russian short track and speed skater; Olympic gold in the 5,000 m relay at Sochi 2014 and silver in the team pursuit at Beijing 2022, the first Russian to medal in both sports.
Ruslana (Руслана Степанівна Лижичко)
Ruslana (Руслана Степанівна Лижичко, born 1973, Lviv) is a Ukrainian singer who won Eurovision 2004 with Wild Dances (280 points), Ukraine's first victory, and served as an MP in 2006–07.
Ruslana Korshunova (Руслана Сергеевна Коршунова)
Ruslana Korshunova (Руслана Коршунова), the "Russian Rapunzel," was a Kazakhstani model of the Nina Ricci Nina campaign who died in a 2008 Manhattan fall ruled suicide, later linked to Epstein flight logs.
Rusowsky
Rusowsky is the stage name of Ruslán Mediavilla (born 1999, Valladolid), a Spanish bedroom pop and electronic R&B artist from Madrid whose debut album DAISY (2025) reached number 1 in Spain in 2026, displacing Rosalía.
Ruspina
Ruspina was a Phoenicio-Punic coastal town in the Tunisian Sahel, identified with Monastir, and the first African city to ally with Julius Caesar in 46 BC.
Russ (rapper)
Russ (Russell Vitale, born 1992, Secaucus NJ, Atlanta-based) is an American rapper-singer-producer who writes, produces, mixes, and masters his own songs; SoundCloud DIY breakout, Columbia 2016, DIEMON label, "Losin' Control" 8x platinum. Distinct from Russ Millions, the UK drill rapper.
Russ Abbot
Russ Abbot, born Russell Allan Roberts in 1947 in Chester, England, is a retired English comedian and actor whose 1980s Saturday-night sketch series drew 18 million viewers an episode.
Russ B. Altman
Russ B. Altman, known as Russ Altman, is an American biomedical data scientist and Stanford professor known for building the PharmGKB pharmacogenomics knowledge base and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Russ Ballard
Russ Ballard (Russell Glyn Ballard, born 1945, Waltham Cross) is an English rock singer-songwriter, Argent frontman 1969-1974, and writer of hits recorded by Rainbow, Hot Chocolate, Kiss, Santana, and America; solo albums since 1974.
Russ Cook
Russ Cook, the Hardest Geezer, is a British endurance athlete from Worthing who in 2024 became the first person known to run Africa's full length, Cape Agulhas to Ras Angela, 16,300 km in 352 days.
Russ E. Davis
Russ E. Davis (1941–2022) was an American physical oceanographer and engineer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who studied internal waves and invented autonomous ocean-observing instruments.
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold (Russell Dana Feingold, born 1953) is a Wisconsin Democratic lawyer and politician, U.S. Senator 1993-2011, co-sponsor of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance act, sole senator to vote against the USA PATRIOT Act, and 2010 and 2016 Senate race loser to Ron Johnson.
Russ Fulcher
Russ Fulcher is an American politician and Republican U.S. representative for Idaho's 1st congressional district since 2019, after ten years in the Idaho State Senate.
Russ Goodman
Russ Goodman is an American politician and Republican member of the Georgia State Senate from the 8th district, elected in 2020 and serving since January 2021.
Russ Howard
Russ Howard (born 1956, Midland, Ontario) is a Canadian curler, two-time Brier and world champion (1987, 1993), 2006 Olympic gold medallist with Team Gushue, and originator of the Moncton Rule, the free guard zone.
Russ Kunkel
Russ Kunkel (Russell Kunkel, born 1948, Pittsburgh) is an American session drummer, songwriter, and producer, the rhythmic anchor of 1970s LA singer-songwriter records (Sweet Baby James, Tapestry, Blue), member of The Section and The Immediate Family.
Russ Meyer
Russ Meyer (Russell Albion Meyer, 1922-2004), American sexploitation filmmaker, director of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Vixen, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls; independent producer, combat photographer, Playboy photographer, coined bosomania.
Russ Millions (musician)
Russ Millions, also known as Russ Splash, is an English UK drill rapper from Lewisham, London, whose 2021 single "Body" with Tion Wayne was the first drill track to top the UK chart.
Russ Nichols
Russ Nichols (Clayton W. "Russ" Nichols), born 1947 in Glen Cove, New York, American slalom canoeist; 14th in C-2 with John Evans at the 1972 Munich Olympics, 12th at the 1973 Worlds, 1971 Meran wildwater C1 team bronze.
Russ Tamblyn
Russ Tamblyn, born Russell Irving Tamblyn in 1934, is an American actor best known as Riff in West Side Story (1961) and Dr. Jacoby in Twin Peaks.
Russ Vis
Russ Vis (Russell John Vis, 1900-1990), American freestyle wrestler; won 1924 Paris Olympic gold at 145 lb lightweight and four straight National AAU titles 1921-24; NWHOF Distinguished Member 1977.
Russefeiring
Russefeiring is the Norwegian graduation celebration in which upper secondary students (russ) party for weeks from 1 to 17 May in red coveralls, with decorated buses, russemusikk, health risks and rising policy attention to exclusion and cost.
Russel Arnold
Russel Arnold (Russel Premakumaran Arnold, "Rusty"), born 1973 in Colombo, is a former Sri Lankan left-handed batting all-rounder and off-break bowler who played 44 Tests and 180 ODIs from 1997 to 2007, retired during the 2007 World Cup, and became a leading cricket commentator.
Russel E. Caflisch
Russel E. Caflisch is an applied mathematician known for work on kinetic theory, Monte Carlo methods, and epitaxial growth modeling; he directs NYU's Courant Institute and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Russel L. Honoré
Russel L. Honoré (born 1947) is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, the "Category 5 General" who commanded Joint Task Force Katrina in 2005 and later led the post-January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol security review.
Russel Wright
Russel Wright (1904–1976) was an American industrial designer from Lebanon, Ohio, whose inexpensive American Modern dinnerware, sold from 1939 to 1959, brought modern design into ordinary American homes.
Russell (locomotive)
Russell is a 2-6-2 side tank steam locomotive built by Hunslet of Leeds in 1906 for the Portmadoc, Beddgelert & South Snowdon Railway, preserved in North Wales.
Russell (lunar crater)
Russell is a 103.37-km IAU-named lunar crater at 26.51 N, 75.55 W, adopted in 1964 and honoring Henry Norris Russell and John Russell; it lies beside the larger Struve crater in the Russell-Struve volcanic complex.
Russell 2000 Index
The Russell 2000 Index is a US small-cap stock index maintained by FTSE Russell, holding the roughly 2,000 smallest companies in the Russell 3000 and benchmarking most US small-cap funds.