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RAKE receiver
A RAKE receiver is a radio receiver architecture that combines delayed multipath copies of a signal instead of discarding them, introduced by Price and Green in 1958.
Rake Yohn
Rake Yohn (Edward Carl Webb, born 1975) is an American TV personality and chemist, a CKY Crew member seen in Viva La Bam, Jackass, Haggard, and Jackass 3D; he holds a Penn State chemistry degree and works with synthetic materials.
Rakeem Christmas
Rakeem Christmas is an American and U.S. Virgin Islands basketball player who broke out as a Syracuse senior, then played for the NBA's Indiana Pacers from 2015 to 2017.
Rakes of the Old Court
Rakes of the Old Court (Craii de Curtea-Veche) is a 1929 Romanian novel by Mateiu I. Caragiale following three dissolute Bucharest men through taverns and gambling dens.
Rakesh Agrawal (chemical engineer)
Rakesh Agrawal is an American chemical engineer at Purdue University who received the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation for energy-efficient gas liquefaction and separation.
Rakesh Bedi (राकेश बेदी)
Rakesh Bedi (राकेश बेदी), Indian film, TV, and theatre actor born 1954 in New Delhi, FTII graduate; known for Chashme Buddoor, Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, Shrimaan Shrimati, and Jameel Jamali in Dhurandhar.
Rakesh Gangwal
Rakesh Gangwal is an Indian-born American billionaire airline executive who co-founded IndiGo, India's largest airline by market share, and chaired Southwest Airlines from 2024 to 2025.
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (राकेश झुनझुनवाला)
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (राकेश झुनझुनवाला), also known as Rakesh Radheyshyam Jhunjhunwala, was an Indian billionaire investor and trader, called the "Big Bull of Dalal Street", who died in 2022.
Rakesh K. Jain
Rakesh K. Jain is a tumor biologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for the vascular normalization hypothesis and the 2013 National Medal of Science.
Rakesh Kumar (cancer biologist)
Rakesh Kumar is a cancer biologist known for research on the MTA1 and PAK1 signaling proteins in metastasis, holding tenured professorships at MD Anderson and George Washington University.
Rakesh Maria (राकेश मारिया)
Rakesh Maria (राकेश मारिया), 1981-batch Maharashtra IPS officer, Mumbai Police Commissioner 2014-2015, led the 1993 blasts and 26/11 probes, questioned Ajmal Kasab, and wrote the memoir Let Me Say It Now.
Rakesh Rathore
Rakesh Rathore (राकेश राठौर), Congress MP from Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh since June 2024; former BJP Sitapur MLA (2017), formerly BSP and SP; Teli OBC leader; discharged in a 2025 rape case by the Allahabad High Court in 2026.
Rakesh Roshan (राकेश रोशन)
Rakesh Roshan (राकेश रोशन), also known as Rakesh Roshan Lal Nagrath, is an Indian filmmaker born in 1949 who directed Khudgarz and Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai.
Rakesh Sachan
Rakesh Sachan is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party cabinet minister in Uttar Pradesh, who earlier represented Fatehpur in the Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014.
Rakesh Sharma (राकेश शर्मा)
Rakesh Sharma (राकेश शर्मा) is a retired Indian Air Force officer who became the first Indian citizen in space, flying to the Salyut 7 station aboard Soyuz T-11 in 1984.
Rakesh Shukla (Madhya Pradesh politician)
Rakesh Shukla is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who serves as a cabinet minister in Madhya Pradesh, holding the New and Renewable Energy portfolio.
Rakesh Singh (Madhya Pradesh politician)
Rakesh Singh is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician serving as Madhya Pradesh's Public Works minister, after four Lok Sabha terms representing Jabalpur from 2004 to 2023.
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (राकेश ओमप्रकाश मेहरा)
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (राकेश ओमप्रकाश मेहरा), born 1963 in New Delhi, is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer of Rang De Basanti, Delhi-6 and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, founder of Flicks/Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Pictures.
Rakhaldas Banerji
Rakhaldas Banerji, also known as R. D. Banerji, was an Indian archaeologist and historian who excavated Mohenjo-daro in 1922–23, establishing its great antiquity and its link to the Indus civilization.
Rakhee Gulzar
Rakhee Gulzar (born Rakhee Mazumdar) is an Indian actress of Hindi and Bengali cinema. She worked in approximately 91 films from 1967 to 2025, earning several awards.
Rakhee Thakrar
Rakhee Thakrar (born 1984, Leicester) is an English actor known for Shabnam Masood in EastEnders, teacher Emily Sands in Netflix's Sex Education, and Lottie Bell in Wonka (2023); also Karen Pirie's Bel Richmond and a Sands charity ambassador.
Rakhi Aur Hathkadi (राखी और हथकड़ी)
Rakhi Aur Hathkadi (राखी और हथकड़ी) is a 1972 Hindi action-drama directed by S.M. Sagar, produced by S. Noor, starring Ashok Kumar, Asha Parekh, and Vijay Arora, with R.D. Burman music and Majrooh Sultanpuri lyrics.
Rakhi Sawant (राखी सावंत)
Rakhi Sawant (राखी सावंत), born Neeru Bheda, 1978, Mumbai: Indian dancer, item-song performer, Hindi film and TV actress and politician, known for Bigg Boss, Rakhi Ka Swayamwar, and a 2014 political foray.
Rakhigarhi (राखीगढ़ी)
Rakhigarhi (राखीगढ़ी), also Rakhi Garhi, is a major Harappan Indus Valley city site in Hisar district, Haryana, India, with seven mounds over about 350 hectares, ASI excavations since 1997-98, a large Mound 7 cemetery, and the only published Harappan ancient genome.
Rakhim Chakhkiyev
Rakhim Chakhkiyev is a retired Russian boxer, born in 1983 in Tobolsk, who won Olympic heavyweight gold at Beijing 2008 and later held several cruiserweight professional titles.
Rakhine offensive (2023–present)
The Rakhine offensive is a campaign launched by the Arakan Army against Myanmar's military junta in November 2023, capturing 14 of Rakhine State's 17 townships.
Rakhine people
Rakhine (Arakanese) people: Theravada Buddhist ethnic group of Rakhine State, western Myanmar, about 3 million strong (6.2% of population, 2014 census); heirs of the Arakanese kingdom conquered in 1784, distinct from the Muslim Rohingya minority.
Rakhine State (ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်)
Rakhine State (ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်), formerly Arakan, is Myanmar's westernmost coastal state, capital Sittwe, 17 townships, about 3.22 million people. Distinguished by the Rohingya crisis, the Arakan Army's post-2023 capture of 14 of 17 townships, and a UNDP famine warning.
Rakia
Rakia (rakija, ракија) is the Balkans' collective fruit brandy, double-distilled at 40-50% ABV from grapes, plums or other fruit, distinct from anise-flavored Turkish rakı, with 12 Bulgarian EU-protected varieties.
Rakibul Hussain
Rakibul Hussain, born in 1964, is an Indian National Congress politician from Assam who represents Dhubri in the Lok Sabha and served as an Assam minister from 2002 to 2016.