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Russell Martin (footballer)
Russell Martin (born 1986, Brighton) is a Scottish former defender, 29 Scotland caps, and manager of Leicester City; previously MK Dons, Swansea, Southampton (2024 Championship play-off promotion), and Rangers, known for possession-based football.
Russell Means
Russell Means (Oglala Lakota, 1939–2012), AIM leader who led the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation, later an actor in The Last of the Mohicans and author of Where White Men Fear to Tread.
Russell Mockridge
Russell Mockridge was an Australian track and road cyclist who won two gold medals at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and is rated Australia's finest cyclist ever.
Russell Mulcahy
Russell Mulcahy (born 1953, Melbourne) is an Australian director known for MTV-era videos (Duran Duran, Elton John, "Video Killed the Radio Star"), the films Razorback and Highlander, and TV including Teen Wolf and Queer as Folk.
Russell N. Van Gelder
Russell N. Van Gelder is an American ophthalmologist and physician-scientist who has chaired the University of Washington's ophthalmology department since 2008, known for uveitis research and the KIO-301 vision-restoration trial.
Russell Okung
Russell Okung, former NFL offensive tackle (Seahawks, Broncos, Chargers, Panthers), drafted 6th overall in 2010, two-time Pro Bowler, Super Bowl XLVIII champion, and first NFL player paid partly in bitcoin.
Russell Ott
Russell Ott is an American Democratic politician and member of the South Carolina Senate from District 26, elected in 2024 after 11 years in the State House.
Russell Peters
Russell Peters (born Russell Dominic Peters, 1970), Canadian stand-up comedian. Broke out via his 2004 Comedy Now! special on YouTube; first comedian to sell out Toronto's Air Canada Centre (2007); Peabody and Emmy winner for Hip-Hop Evolution.
Russell Poldrack
Russell Poldrack, born 1967, is an American cognitive neuroscientist and Stanford psychology professor who uses brain imaging to study how the brain gives rise to the mind.
Russell Poole
Russell Poole, LAPD Robbery/Homicide detective who investigated the 1997 murder of Biggie Smalls (Christopher Wallace), alleging officer David Mack and Suge Knight were involved; resigned 1999, sued the LAPD, died 2015.
Russell R. O'Neill
Russell R. O'Neill, also known as Russell Richard O'Neill, was an American mechanical engineer and logistics researcher who served as dean of UCLA's engineering school from 1974 to 1983.
Russell Ross
Russell Ross (1929–1999) was an American pathologist at the University of Washington who proposed in 1973 the response-to-injury hypothesis of atherosclerosis, recasting the disease as a response to arterial injury.
Russell S. Schwartz
Russell S. Schwartz is an American computational biologist, a Carnegie Mellon professor and ISCB Fellow who joined DARPA's Biological Technologies Office as a program manager in 2026.
Russell Senate Office Building
The Russell Senate Office Building, also known as the Old Senate Office Building, is the oldest of the three US Senate office buildings, opened in Washington, D.C., in 1909.
Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons (born 1957, Queens, New York) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Def Jam Recordings with Rick Rubin in 1984, built Rush Communications, Phat Farm, and Def Comedy Jam, and since 2017 faces sexual assault allegations he denies.
Russell Smyth
Russell Smyth, born 1969, is an Australian economist and Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Professor at Monash University, known for research on energy economics, China, and empirical legal studies.
Russell T Davies
Russell T Davies (Stephen Russell Davies, born 1963) is a Welsh screenwriter, showrunner of Doctor Who (2005–2010 and 2022–2026), and creator of Queer as Folk, It's a Sin, and Tip Toe.
Russell Taylor Johns
Russell Taylor Johns is an American petroleum engineer, professor at Penn State, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for hydrocarbon recovery algorithms.
Russell Terrier
Russell Terrier, called Jack Russell Terrier by the FCI and UKC, is a 10-12 inch predominantly white English fox-working terrier with a compressible chest, AKC-recognized in 2012, needing 90 minutes to two hours of daily exercise.
Russell Tovey
Russell Tovey, born 1981 in Billericay, Essex, is an English actor known for Being Human's George Sands, Rudge in The History Boys, Looking, and Years and Years, plus the Talk Art podcast.
Russell Tribunal
The Russell Tribunal (International War Crimes Tribunal) was an unofficial 1966–67 tribunal convened by Bertrand Russell to investigate US conduct in Vietnam; sessions in Stockholm and Roskilde found the US guilty of aggression, war crimes, and genocide.
Russell Viner
Russell Viner is an Australian-born British pediatrician and Professor of Adolescent Health at UCL, who led the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2018 to 2021.
Russell Vought
Russell Vought, American political operative, twice Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump (confirmed 2020, renominated 2024), key Project 2025 architect, Center for Renewing America founder, advocate of presidential impoundment.
Russell Watson
Russell Watson (born 1966, Salford) is an English classical crossover tenor, nicknamed the People's Tenor. Debut album The Voice (2000) topped UK and US classical charts; four Classical BRITs, 7m+ albums, two brain tumors survived.
Russell West Glacier
Russell West Glacier, also West Russell Glacier or Glaciar Russel del Weste, is an outlet glacier on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, at 63°40′S 58°50′W, forming a through glacier with Russell East Glacier and named for FIDS surveyor Victor Ian Russell.
Russell Westbrook
Russell Westbrook, NBA point guard (born 1988), 2017 MVP, 9-time All-Star, drafted 4th in 2008 by Seattle; retired August 12, 2026 after 18 seasons as all-time triple-double leader (209) with 27,176 points.
Russell Williams (criminal)
David Russell Williams (Russ Sovka), born 1963 in Cardiff, Wales, is the ex-colonel who commanded CFB Trenton and confessed in 2010 to murdering Jessica Lloyd and Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, two sexual assaults, and 82 fetish break-and-enters; sentenced to life with no parole for 25 years.
Russell Wilson
Russell Wilson is an American former NFL quarterback who led the Seattle Seahawks to their first Super Bowl title and retired in 2026 after 14 seasons.
Russell Wong
Russell Wong (born 1963) is the Chinese American actor of The Joy Luck Club and Vanishing Son, distinguished from several namesake professionals by his film career and MANAA award.
Russell Young (physicist)
Russell Young, also Russell D. Young, was an American physicist at the National Bureau of Standards who built the Topografiner, a forerunner of the scanning tunneling microscope.