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Ryder (company)

Ryder, formally Ryder System, Inc., is an American logistics and transportation company headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida, founded in 1933 and serving more than 40,000 customers across North America.

Ryder Cup

The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's team golf match play competition between 12-player teams from Europe and the United States, first played in 1927 for Samuel Ryder's 17-inch gold chalice; 28 matches over three days, 14.5 points to win, next at Adare Manor 2027.

Ryder Lyons

Ryder Lyons, Folsom High School quarterback and top-2026 recruit, committed to BYU football in June 2025; California Gatorade Player of the Year with 9,859 career passing yards.

Rye

Rye (Secale cereale) is a winter-hardy cereal grain, a secondary domesticate from a weed of wheat and barley fields, dominant in medieval Germany from about 1000 CE; today the EU grows 68.4 percent of world output, used for bread, feed, spirits, and cover cropping.

Rye bread

Rye bread is bread made from rye flour (Secale cereale), often blended with wheat in North America (about 20% rye) but often 100% rye in Europe; dense, sourdough-fermented, high in fiber (~10 g/100 g), with a lower insulin response than wheat bread.

Rye Lane

Rye Lane (2023) is a British romantic comedy, Raine Allen-Miller's feature debut, starring Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson as two South Londoners bonding over breakups; Sundance premiere, 16 BIFA nominations.

Rye whiskey

Rye whiskey is an American whiskey distilled from a mash of at least 51 percent rye grain, once the dominant American whiskey and spicier than bourbon.

Rye, East Sussex

Rye, East Sussex: historic former Cinque Port town on a sandstone outcrop at the Rother, Brede, and Tillingham confluence, once a major medieval port, now landlocked, heritage-focused, and flood-risk managed.

Rye, New York

Rye is a city in Westchester County, New York, on Long Island Sound about 25 miles north of New York City. Founded 1660, chartered as a city in 1942, the state's most recent; home to Playland, the first planned US amusement park.

Ryen Russillo

Ryen Russillo, American sports media host and podcaster, NBA and college football analyst; ESPN Radio's SVP & Russillo co-host (2009-2015), later podcast host at The Ringer and Barstool Sports.

Ryeowook

Ryeowook (려욱), born Kim Ryeo-wook in 1987, is a South Korean singer best known as the main vocalist of Super Junior and a solo ballad artist since 2016.

Ryfast

Ryfast is a road project in Rogaland, Norway, completed in 2020, giving Ryfylke a ferry-free link to Stavanger through three tunnels, including the world's longest subsea road tunnel.

Ryff's psychological well-being scales

Ryff's psychological well-being scales, or SPWB, are self-report questionnaires measuring six dimensions of eudaimonic well-being, published by Carol D. Ryff in 1989 and widely used in aging research.

RyhB

RyhB is an E. coli small regulatory RNA discovered in 2002 by Massé and Gottesman. Fur-repressed under iron repletion, it mediates the iron-sparing response, repressing iron-using enzymes (sdhCDAB, sodB) and promoting siderophore synthesis.

Ryhor Baradulin

Ryhor Baradulin (Рыгор Барадулін; 1935–2014) was a Belarusian lyric poet, essayist, and translator who published more than 70 collections and was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Ryk Neethling

Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer born 1977 in Bloemfontein; Olympic gold 4x100m freestyle relay Athens 2004 (world record 3:13.17), 100m IM world records, four Olympics 1996-2008, later Val de Vie marketing director.

Ryka Aoki

Ryka Aoki, American poet, composer, and novelist; author of He Mele a Hilo (2014) and Light From Uncommon Stars (2021), which won the Otherwise, Alex, and Stonewall Awards and was a Hugo finalist.

Rylan Clark

Rylan Clark (Ross Richard Clark, born 1988) is an English TV presenter and broadcaster who finished fifth on The X Factor in 2012, won Celebrity Big Brother 2013, and hosts BBC Radio 2's Rylan on Saturday.

Rylan J. Lundgren

Rylan J. Lundgren is a Canadian organic chemist and professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, known for reversible decarboxylation of organic acids and carbon isotope exchange.

Rylands Library Papyrus P52

Rylands Library Papyrus P52, also called the St. John's Fragment, is a Greek papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John, chapter 18, held in Manchester.

Rylands v Fletcher

Rylands v Fletcher, also cited as John Rylands and Jehu Horrocks v Thomas Fletcher, is the 1868 House of Lords case establishing strict liability for escapes of dangerous things accumulated on land in non-natural use.

Rylee Arnold

Rylee Arnold (born 2005) is an American pro dancer on Dancing with the Stars from Provo, Utah; Lindsay Arnold's youngest sister; DWTS Juniors runner-up; type 1 diabetes advocate; partners included Harry Jowsey, Stephen Nedoroscik, Scott Hoying, and Connor Wood.

Ryley Sanders

Ryley Sanders (born 2005) is a Tasmanian AFL midfielder for the Western Bulldogs, drafted pick 6 in 2023, Larke Medal winner and All-Australian captain at the 2023 U18 Championships.

Ryman Auditorium

Ryman Auditorium, the "Mother Church of Country Music," is a 2,362-seat Nashville concert hall opened in 1892 as the Union Gospel Tabernacle and home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974.

Rynchops

Rynchops, the skimmers, a genus of three tern-like seabirds (Black, African, Indian Skimmer) in Laridae, named by Linnaeus in 1758; they uniquely skim-feed in flight with the elongated lower mandible, foraging by touch even at night.

Ryne Sandberg

Ryne Sandberg (1959-2025), "Ryno," Hall of Fame Chicago Cubs second baseman, 1984 NL MVP, 282 home runs, 9 Gold Gloves, died July 28, 2025 of prostate cancer.

Rynin (lunar crater)

Rynin is a 77.88-km-wide impact crater on the Moon at 46.78°N, 103.73°W, IAU-approved in 1970 and named for Soviet rocketry scientist Nikolaj Alexsevitch Rynin (1877–1942).

Ryō Horikawa (堀川りょう)

Ryō Horikawa (堀川りょう), born 1958 in Osaka, is a Japanese voice actor known as Vegeta's voice since 1989, plus Heiji Hattori, Andromeda Shun, and Reinhard; he heads Aslead Company.

Ryo Kiyuna

Ryo Kiyuna (喜友名諒, born 1990) is an Okinawan Japanese karateka, first Olympic men's kata champion (Tokyo 2020) and first male kata athlete with four World Karate Championships titles (2014-2021).

Ryō no Gige

Ryō no Gige (令義解) is the official commentary on Japan's Yōrō Code, completed in 833 under Kiyohara no Natsuno; since the code itself is lost, it is the law's principal source.