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Russell Garcia
Russell Garcia, born 1970 in Portsmouth, is an English field hockey coach and former player who won Olympic gold with Great Britain at the 1988 Seoul Games.
Russell Group
The Russell Group is a self-selected association of 24 research-intensive UK universities, founded in 1994 and named after Russell Square, London; it dominates UKRI research funding (53%) and advocates on policy.
Russell H. Taylor
Russell H. Taylor is a computer scientist, the John C. Malone Professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a pioneer of medical robotics who created the Robodoc surgical system.
Russell H. Wiesner
Russell H. Wiesner, also published as Russell Wiesner, is a hepatologist and retired Mayo Clinic professor of medicine known for liver transplantation and the MELD score.
Russell Hantz
Russell Hantz (Russell Dennis Hantz), American reality TV contestant on CBS's Survivor: Samoa, Heroes vs. Villains, Redemption Island, and Australian Survivor 2018; two-time finalist who never won, known for idol hunting and villain persona.
Russell Harmer
Russell Thomas Harmer (1896-1940), British sailor and Royal Signals officer, won 1936 Olympic gold in the 6-metre class as crew of Lalage at Kiel; not the shooter Russell Mark or gymnast Ernestine Russell.
Russell Harvard
Russell Harvard (born 1981, Pasadena, Texas) is a third-generation Deaf American actor known for There Will Be Blood, The Hammer, Mr. Wrench on Fargo, Tribes (Theatre World Award), and Broadway's King Lear and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Russell Henley
Russell Henley (born 1989, Macon, Georgia) is an American PGA Tour golfer, six-time tour winner including the 2013 Sony Open debut and 2025 Arnold Palmer Invitational, 2025 Ryder Cup member, ranked sixth in the OWGR.
Russell Henry Chittenden
Russell Henry Chittenden (1856–1943) was an American physiological chemist at Yale, professor there from 1882 to 1922, best known for low-protein diet experiments that challenged European protein standards.
Russell Hitchcock
Russell Hitchcock (born 1949) is the Australian lead vocalist of soft rock duo Air Supply, formed with Graham Russell in 1975 after meeting in Jesus Christ Superstar; seven straight US top five hits, 6,000+ concerts, Nashville solo album. Not the Robyn Hitchcock of the Soft Boys.
Russell Hornsby
Russell Hornsby (born 1974) is an American stage, film, and television actor known for Lincoln Heights, Grimm's Hank Griffin, Maverick Carter in The Hate U Give, and BMF, with August Wilson stage credits including Fences and Jitney.
Russell Howard
Russell Howard (born 1980) is a British stand-up comedian and TV presenter known for Mock the Week, Russell Howard's Good News, The Russell Howard Hour, and large-scale world comedy tours.
Russell Industrial Center
The Russell Industrial Center is a former Detroit auto-body factory designed by Albert Kahn, now used as affordable artist studios and a venue for electronic music and rave events.
Russell Island
Russell Island: name shared by an Arctic island in Barrow Strait, Nunavut (74°N, 98°25′W), a Glacier Bay, Alaska island named for Israel Cook Russell, a Gulf Islands BC island, and a populated Moreton Bay, Queensland island.
Russell J. Barrnett
Russell J. Barrnett (1920–1989) was an American cell biologist and cytochemist who spent 1959 to 1989 at Yale School of Medicine, pioneering enzyme localization at the electron microscope level.
Russell J. Hemley
Russell J. Hemley, born 1954 in Berkeley, California, is an American high-pressure physicist who led Carnegie's Geophysical Laboratory and joined the University of Illinois Chicago in 2019.
Russell J. Holmes
Russell J. Holmes is a chemical engineering and materials science professor at the University of Minnesota known for engineering energy transport in organic semiconductors for OLEDs and solar cells.
Russell John Allgor
Russell John Allgor is an operations researcher who was Amazon's first research scientist and chief scientist of logistics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Russell Johnson
Russell Johnson (1924–2014), American character actor, played Professor Roy Hinkley on Gilligan's Island (1964–67, 98 episodes); WWII Army Air Forces veteran shot down over the Philippines; distinct from other people named Russell Johnson.
Russell Kane
Russell Kane, English stand-up comedian, actor, and writer; won the 2010 Edinburgh Comedy Award and Melbourne Barry Award, hosts the Evil Genius podcast, and tours the show HyperActive.
Russell Kay
Russell Kay is a Scottish video game developer and businessman who co-founded DMA Design in Dundee, the studio later renamed Rockstar North, and programmed the PC version of Lemmings.
Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk (1918-1994), American traditionalist conservative thinker, author of The Conservative Mind (1953), founder of Modern Age, exponent of the moral imagination and Ten Conservative Principles.
Russell L. Carson
Russell L. Carson is an American private equity investor who co-founded Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in 1979, a healthcare and information services buyout firm that raised over $27 billion.
Russell L. Gruen
Russell L. Gruen is an Australian trauma surgeon and health services researcher, known for the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery, who became HKUST's first Clinical Professor in 2025.
Russell L. Tedrake
Russell L. Tedrake is a roboticist and MIT professor who directs CSAIL's Center for Robotics, created the Drake toolbox, and leads robotics research at the Toyota Research Institute.
Russell Lande
Russell Scott Lande, born in Mississippi in 1951, is an American evolutionary geneticist who founded evolutionary quantitative genetics and formulated the first quantitative models of sexual selection.
Russell Lissack
Russell Lissack, born 1981 in Chingford, London, is the lead guitarist of Bloc Party and of Pin Me Down; known for an effects-pedal-driven Telecaster sound, Novacub, the 2022 solo EP Algorhythms, and Ash touring work.
Russell M. Nelson
Russell M. Nelson (1924–2025), heart surgeon and 17th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (2018–2025); apostle from 1984; oldest-ever president; succeeded by Dallin H. Oaks.
Russell Mael
Russell Mael, younger brother of Ron Mael, is the American lead vocalist of the art-pop duo Sparks, known for falsetto vocals on "This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us", the Giorgio Moroder album No. 1 in Heaven, and the film musical Annette.
Russell Mark
Russell Mark (Russell Andrew Mark), Australian clay-target shooter born 1964 in Ballarat; won Olympic double trap gold at Atlanta 1996 (189 points) and silver at Sydney 2000; competed at six Games, 1988-2012.