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Ralph Bishop
Ralph English Bishop (1915-1974), American basketball center from the University of Washington; only collegian on the 1936 U.S. Olympic team, winning gold at Berlin 1936; later Denver Nuggets AAU player and coach, 1947 Chicago Stags draft pick.
Ralph Bock
Ralph Bock is a German plant molecular biologist known for chloroplast genetic engineering and discovering horizontal genome transfer between grafted plants, directing a Max Planck Institute in Potsdam since 2004.
Ralph Boston
Ralph Boston (1939–2023), American long jumper, 1960 Rome Olympic champion, silver 1964, bronze 1968; set six world records 1960–65, first to clear 27 feet, final mark 8.35 m.
Ralph Bown
Ralph Bown (1891–1971) was an American electrical engineer who led AT&T's transatlantic radio telephone research, became research director at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and won the IRE Medal of Honor in 1949.
Ralph Bradshaw
Ralph Bradshaw, also known as Ralph A. Bradshaw, is an American biochemist known for determining the amino-acid sequence of nerve growth factor and for later work in proteomics.
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Ralph Breaks the Internet (Wreck-It Ralph 2) is Disney Animation's 2018 sequel in which Ralph and Vanellope go online to save Sugar Rush; directed by Rich Moore and Phil Johnston, Oscar-nominated, $201.1M US gross.
Ralph Breyer
Ralph Theodore Breyer (1904-1991), American freestyle swimmer; 1924 Paris Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay with a 9:53.4 world record; Northwestern NCAA and Big Ten champion.
Ralph Brown
Ralph William John Brown (born 1957, Cambridge, England) is an English actor and writer known for Danny in Withnail & I, Aaron in Alien³, Ric Olié in Star Wars Episode I, and his Samuel Beckett Award-winning play Sanctuary.
Ralph Bunche
Ralph Johnson Bunche (1904–1971), American political scientist and UN diplomat; first African American Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1950) for mediating the 1949 Palestine armistice agreements between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.
Ralph C. Williams
Ralph C. Williams Jr. (1928–2020) was an American rheumatologist known for work on rheumatoid factor and for founding rheumatology divisions at Minnesota and New Mexico.
Ralph Capone
Ralph "Bottles" Capone (Raffaele James Capone, 1894–1974), older brother of Al Capone, ran the Chicago Outfit's bottling operations, was Public Enemy No. 3, was convicted in 1931, and later lived in Mercer, Wisconsin.
Ralph Carmel
Ralph Carmel is an American hematologist affiliated with New York Methodist Hospital and Weill Cornell who defined food-cobalamin malabsorption and reported differing pernicious anemia patterns among black women in 1978.
Ralph Carter
Ralph Carter (born 1961) is an American actor and singer, Tony-nominated on Broadway as Travis in Raisin and best known as Michael Evans on the CBS sitcom Good Times, 1974-1979.
Ralph Choufani
Ralph Choufani is a private equity investor who co-founded the pan-European firm Aspirity Partners in 2025, after ten years as Partner at Abry Partners in London.
Ralph Craig
Ralph Cook Craig (1889-1972), American sprinter, won the 100 m and 200 m double at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics; 1948 US flagbearer and yachting alternate, not a competitor.
Ralph Crawshaw
Ralph Shelton Crawshaw (1921–2014) was a Portland, Oregon psychiatrist best known for his work with mentally ill and addicted physicians and for co-designing the Oregon Health Plan.
Ralph D. Feigin
Ralph D. Feigin was an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician who led pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital from 1977 until his death in 2008.
Ralph D. Masiello
Ralph D. Masiello is an electric power systems engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who led analysis behind California's 2013 mandate to procure 1,325 megawatts of storage.
Ralph d'Escures
Ralph d'Escures was a Norman-born monk and bishop who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1114 until his death in 1122, after earlier terms as abbot of St Martin's at Séez and bishop of Rochester.
Ralph de Leon
Ralph de Leon (Rafael August Arayata de Leon), Filipino actor, model, and former Ateneo judoka; UAAP -73 kg gold medalist; rose to fame on Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Collab Edition as 2nd Big Placer duo RaWi with Will Ashley; starred in Zoomers, High Street, The Secrets of Hotel 88.
Ralph DeBerardinis
Ralph J. DeBerardinis is an American physician-scientist at UT Southwestern in Dallas who studies nutrient use in tumors and inherited metabolic diseases, showing in 2017 that human lung tumors consume lactate as fuel.
Ralph Dorfman
Ralph Dorfman (1911–1985) was an American biochemist who studied steroid hormone synthesis, directed the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, and helped develop the first oral contraceptive.
Ralph Doubell
Ralph Doubell (Ralph Douglas Doubell, born 1945), Australian runner who won the 1968 Olympic 800m in 1:44.3, equaling Peter Snell's world record; still the last Australian male Olympic track champion.
Ralph Dunkley
Ralph Dunkley (born 18 January 1930) is a British former lecturer and Polytechnic Harriers middle-distance runner, member of the 1953 world-record 4x1500m relay team (15:27.2) with Pirie, Law, and Nankeville, and 1953 Kinnaird Trophy mile winner.
Ralph E. Cross
Ralph E. Cross was an American machine tool builder and manufacturing engineer who led Detroit's Cross Company, later Cross & Trecker, and was called a father of automation.
Ralph E. Fadum
Ralph E. Fadum (1912–2000) was an American civil engineer and pioneer in soil mechanics who served as dean of engineering at North Carolina State University.
Ralph E. Gomory
Ralph E. Gomory, born 1929, is an American applied mathematician who founded the field of integer programming and led IBM's Research Division from 1970 to 1986.
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914–1994), American novelist and essayist from Oklahoma City, author of Invisible Man (1952), the first African American winner of the National Book Award (1953); also wrote Shadow and Act and the posthumous Juneteenth.
Ralph Elmer Wilson
Ralph Elmer Wilson (1886–1960) was an American astronomer known for measuring stellar radial velocities and compiling the 1953 General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities, listing 15,107 stars.
Ralph Emerson
Ralph Emerson (1912–1979) was an American mycologist and botanist who spent his career at UC Berkeley, known for experimental work on aquatic fungi, especially Allomyces, and thermophilic fungi.