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Russell A. Alger
Russell A. Alger (Russell Alexander Alger), 1836-1907, Michigan lumber baron, Union cavalry brevet major general, governor 1885-1886, McKinley's criticized Secretary of War 1897-1899, and U.S. Senator 1902-1907.
Russell A. DeBose-Boyd
Russell A. DeBose-Boyd is an American biochemist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for defining how cells degrade HMG CoA reductase, the rate-limiting enzyme of cholesterol synthesis.
Russell A. Hulse
Russell A. Hulse is an American physicist who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Joseph Taylor for discovering the first binary pulsar at Arecibo in 1974.
Russell Alan Hulse
Russell Alan Hulse is an American physicist who, as a graduate student in 1974, discovered the first binary pulsar at Arecibo, earning the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Joseph Taylor.
Russell Banks
Russell Banks (1940–2023) was an American novelist and short story writer whose fiction portrayed working-class lives in the rural Northeast; Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter were both Pulitzer Prize finalists.
Russell Brand
Russell Edward Brand (born 1975, Grays, Essex), English comedian, actor, radio host, and author; star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek, later YouTube/Rumble commentator; charged with rape and sexual assault in April 2025.
Russell Brown (judge)
Russell Brown (born 1965) is a Canadian jurist and former puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (2015-2023), formerly a University of Alberta law professor, who resigned during a Canadian Judicial Council review.
Russell Bufalino
Russell Bufalino, born Rosario Alfredo Bufalino (1903–1994), was a Sicilian-born American Mafia boss who led the northeastern Pennsylvania crime family from Kingston for over three decades.
Russell Cave National Monument
Russell Cave National Monument, near Bridgeport, Alabama, is a National Park Service archeological site proclaimed by Kennedy in 1961 on 310 donated acres, preserving a rock shelter used for about 12,000 years.
Russell Coleman
Russell Coleman is an American attorney and Republican politician serving as Kentucky's 52nd attorney general since 2024, after serving as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
Russell Coutts
Sir Russell Coutts (born 1962) is a New Zealand sailor, five-time America's Cup winner, 1984 Finn Olympic gold medalist, RC44 class co-creator, and co-founder and CEO of the SailGP foiling catamaran league with Larry Ellison.
Russell Crowe
Russell Crowe (born 1964, Wellington, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised actor who won the Best Actor Oscar for Gladiator (2000) and earned three consecutive nominations, later starring in A Beautiful Mind, The Loudest Voice, and Nuremberg.
Russell D. Dupuis
Russell D. Dupuis (born 1947) is an American materials scientist and electrical engineer who developed MOCVD, the process that manufactures most of the world's LEDs and laser diodes.
Russell D. Fernald
Russell D. Fernald is an American neurobiologist and Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology, Emeritus, at Stanford University, known for showing that social behavior changes neurons in the brain.
Russell D. Gray
Russell D. Gray is a New Zealand psychologist and evolutionary linguist who applies Bayesian phylogenetic methods to language history, known for work on Indo-European origins and crow tool use.
Russell D. Hull
Russell D. Hull is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Calgary who directs its Thrombosis Research Unit; his New England Journal trials shortened heparin treatment and established low-molecular-weight heparin.
Russell D. Meller
Russell D. Meller is an American industrial engineer specializing in facility layout and distribution center design, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.
Russell Davies
Russell Davies (born 1946, Barmouth, Wales) is a British journalist and broadcaster, distinct from Russell T Davies; Observer/Sunday Times critic, BBC Radio 2 Song Show host, Brain of Britain chair, editor of the Kenneth Williams diaries.
Russell Dlamini
Russell Mmiso Dlamini, Prime Minister of Eswatini appointed by King Mswati III on 3 November 2023; former first CEO of the NDMA; known for self-described disruptive leadership and the Nkwe reform programme.
Russell Duncan
Russell P. Duncan (1917-2009), American lawyer and Yale swimmer; captain of the 1940 Yale team and member of the world record 4x100 yd freestyle relay (3:30.7, Feb 3, 1940); Yale Law 1946, Navy WWII subchaser commander.
Russell E. Morris
Russell E. Morris is a chemist, the Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews since 2016, known for ionothermal synthesis and the ADOR route to zeolites.
Russell E. Train
Russell E. Train, born Russell Errol Train, was an American lawyer and federal judge who served as the second Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 1973 to 1977.
Russell E. Vance
Russell E. Vance is an American immunologist, Professor at UC Berkeley and an HHMI Investigator since 2013, known for defining how innate immunity detects bacterial pathogens.
Russell E. Ware
Russell E. Ware is an American pediatric hematologist directing the Division of Hematology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital since 2013, known for hydroxyurea trials in children with sickle cell anemia.
Russell F. Doolittle
Russell F. Doolittle (1931–2019) was an American biochemist at the University of California, San Diego who explained how fibrin polymerizes to clot blood and built phylogenetic trees from protein sequences.
Russell family shooting
The Russell family shooting, also called the Russell family murders, was a familicide in which Russell killed family members, then shot himself in the left lung and survived.
Russell Fry
Russell Fry is an American Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 7th congressional district since 2023, after seven years in the South Carolina House.
Russell G. Foster
Russell G. Foster is a British neuroscientist, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford, best known for discovering a third photoreceptor in the vertebrate eye regulating sleep and circadian rhythms.
Russell G. Jones
Russell G. Jones, also known as Russell Jones, is a cancer metabolism and immunometabolism researcher who chairs the Department of Metabolism and Nutritional Programming at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Russell G. Meyerand Jr.
Russell G. Meyerand Jr. (1933–2003) was an American plasma physicist and corporate research executive at United Technologies who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978.