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Raku ware
Raku ware (raku-yaki, 樂焼): Kyoto hand-formed tea-ceremony pottery started by Chōjirō under Sen no Rikyū around 1579; no wheel, small single-piece kiln, red or black glaze; distinct from Western 'raku' firing.
Rakuchū Rakugai-zu (Uesugi version)
The Rakuchū Rakugai-zu (Uesugi version) is a pair of six-panel folding screens attributed to Kanō Eitoku that depicts mid-16th-century Kyoto and has been a National Treasure since 1995.
Rakugo (落語)
Rakugo (落語), Japanese comic storytelling: one seated performer plays all characters with only a fan and hand towel, ending in a punchline (ochi). Two traditions, Edo and Kamigata, over 300 years of history.
Rakuichi rakuza
Rakuichi rakuza (楽市楽座, "free markets, open guilds") was a sixteenth-century Japanese policy abolishing privileged market guilds and levies; Oda Nobunaga issued its most famous edict in 1577.
Rakul Preet Singh
Rakul Preet Singh (born 1990, New Delhi) is an Indian actress in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil cinema; debut Gilli (2009), Telugu hits Sarrainodu, Nannaku Prematho, Dhruva, Bollywood hit De De Pyaar De, and Surpanakha in Ramayana (2026).
Rakuten
Rakuten, also known as Rakuten Group (楽天グループ株式会社), is a Japanese technology group whose e-commerce, fintech, and mobile businesses achieved 29 consecutive years of revenue growth through FY2025.
Rakuten Kobo
Rakuten Kobo is a Canadian company based in Toronto that sells eBooks and makes Kobo eReaders. It was spun out of Indigo in 2009 and acquired by Japan's Rakuten in 2012.
RAL colour standard
The RAL color standard, created by the German institute RAL in 1927, defines numbered shades used as binding references for paints, coatings, and plastics in industry and design.
Raleek Brown
Raleek Brown (born 2003) is a Texas Longhorns running back from Stockton, California, a former five-star Mater Dei recruit who starred at Arizona State in 2025 with 1,141 rushing yards and first-team All-Big 12 honors before transferring to Texas for 2026.
Raleigh Bicycle Company
Raleigh Bicycle Company is a British bicycle brand founded in Nottingham in the 1880s, once the world's largest bicycle maker and known for the Chopper.
Raleigh–Durham International Airport
Raleigh–Durham International Airport (RDU) is a public airport in Morrisville, North Carolina, serving the Research Triangle; in 2025 it handled about 15.6 million passengers across a record 80 nonstop destinations.
Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina: state capital founded 1792 as a planned city on land bought from Joel Lane, named for Sir Walter Raleigh. Second-largest NC city, 506,306 residents (2025), Research Triangle hub, council-manager government since 1947.
Ralf Aron
Ralf Aron, born 1998 in Tallinn, is an Estonian racing driver who won the 2015 Italian Formula 4 Championship and now races GT3 cars for Mercedes-AMG.
Ralf Baron
Ralf Baron is a German neurologist and pain researcher who heads neurological pain research at University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, known for work on neuropathic pain and CRPS.
Ralf Bartenschlager
Ralf Bartenschlager is a German virologist known for developing the hepatitis C virus replicon system, which opened the route to drugs that cure hepatitis C.
Ralf Brudel
Ralf Brudel is a German rower born in 1963 in Potsdam who won Olympic gold in the men's coxless four for East Germany at Seoul 1988 and silver in the coxed four for unified Germany at Barcelona 1992.
Ralf Dahrendorf
Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf (1929–2009), was a German-British sociologist and liberal politician known for his conflict theory of society, his critique of role theory, and leading the London School of Economics.
Ralf Ehrenbrink
Ralf Ehrenbrink (born 1960, Bielefeld) is a German three-day event rider, Olympic team gold medalist for West Germany at Seoul 1988 on Uncle Todd and team bronze medalist for Germany at Barcelona 1992 on Kildare; later Chief National Eventing Coach.
Ralf Gold
Ralf Gold, born 1960, is a German neurologist and neuroimmunology researcher who has held the neurology chair at Ruhr University Bochum since 2006, known for multiple sclerosis therapy research including fumarates.
Ralf Hütter
Ralf Hütter (born 1946, Krefeld) is the German musician who co-founded Kraftwerk with Florian Schneider in Düsseldorf in 1970 and remains its only original member, leading the pioneering electronic band behind Autobahn.
Ralf I. Kaiser
Ralf I. Kaiser, born 1966 in Germany, is a physical chemist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa who directs the W. M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry.
Ralf J. Adams
Ralf J. Adams (born 1966) is a German vascular biologist who directs the Department of Tissue Morphogenesis at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster.
Ralf J. Sommer
Ralf J. Sommer, born 1963 in Würselen, is a German evolutionary developmental biologist and director at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen since 1999, known for using the nematode Pristionchus pacificus as his model organism.
Ralf Jungmann
Ralf Jungmann is a biophysicist best known as co-developer of DNA-PAINT, a nanometer-precision imaging method, and leads molecular imaging research at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.
Ralf Kettemann
Ralf Kettemann (born 1986, Crailsheim) is a German football coach, SC Paderborn head coach since July 2025, who won Bundesliga promotion in his first professional season via the 2026 play-off against Wolfsburg.
Ralf Kowalsky
Ralf Kowalsky is an East German race walker who competed for TSC Berlin, became European U20 champion in 1981, and set world bests in 1982 that were never ratified.
Ralf Küppers
Ralf Küppers is a German molecular geneticist and B-cell immunologist, professor at University Hospital Essen since 2004, known for establishing the B-cell origin of Hodgkin lymphoma.
Ralf Little
Ralf Little (born 1980) is an English actor, writer, and producer known as Antony Royle in The Royle Family, Jonny in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, and DI Neville Parker in Death in Paradise from 2020.
Ralf Ludwig
Ralf Ludwig is a German physical chemist and professor at the University of Rostock, known for his 2001 review "Water: From Clusters to the Bulk".
Ralf Metzler
Ralf Metzler is a German theoretical physicist who has held a chair professorship at the University of Potsdam since 2011, known for anomalous diffusion and weak ergodicity breaking.