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Ralph Emery
Ralph Emery, born Walter Ralph Emery, was an American broadcaster known as the dean of country music broadcasting, inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
Ralph Erskine Cleland
Ralph Erskine Cleland (1892–1971) was an American botanist and geneticist at Indiana University who proved that chromosome circles explain the evening primrose genus Oenothera's unusual genetics.
Ralph F. Hirschmann
Ralph F. Hirschmann (1922–2009) was a German-born American medicinal chemist at Merck who led the first solution synthesis of an enzyme, ribonuclease S, in 1969.
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes (Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes), British actor and director born 1962 in Ipswich; Oscar-nominated for Schindler's List, The English Patient, and Conclave; Tony winner for Hamlet; directed Coriolanus and the Paris Opera's Eugene Onegin.
Ralph Fitch
Ralph Fitch was an English merchant and traveler who journeyed through Mughal India and Southeast Asia from 1583 to 1591, met the emperor Akbar, and advised the East India Company's founders.
Ralph Flanders
Ralph Flanders was a Vermont machine-tool executive, banker, and Republican US senator from 1946 to 1959 who co-founded ARD, America's first venture capital firm, and led the 1954 censure of Joseph McCarthy.
Ralph Foody
Ralph Wesley Foody (1928–1999), American Chicago character actor; played gangster Johnny in Home Alone's fake film Angels with Filthy Souls and its Home Alone 2 sequel, source of "Keep the change, ya filthy animal."
Ralph Forbes
Ralph Forbes (Ralph Forbes Taylor, 1904–1951) was an English stage and film actor, not Ralph Fiennes or Bryan Forbes, known for John Geste in Beau Geste (1926), 1930s costume films, and 13 Broadway shows.
Ralph Fowler
Ralph Howard Fowler was an English mathematical physicist at Cambridge who in 1926 explained white dwarf stars as degenerate matter and supervised Dirac, Chandrasekhar, and Mott.
Ralph Fox
Ralph Hartzler Fox (1913–1973) was an American topologist at Princeton University who led a leading knot theory group and created the Fox calculus and n-coloring test.
Ralph G. Nuzzo
Ralph G. Nuzzo is an American chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for self-assembled monolayers on gold and the 2022 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience.
Ralph Garman
Ralph Garman, born 1964 in Philadelphia, is an American actor, comedian, and radio host known for hosting The Joe Schmo Show, voicing Family Guy characters, 18 years on KROQ's Kevin & Bean, and the Hollywood Babble-On and Ralph Report podcasts.
Ralph Garruto
Ralph Garruto is an American biomedical anthropologist at Binghamton University, known for studying neurodegenerative disease in Pacific Island populations and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.
Ralph Gonzales
Ralph Gonzales is an American physician-scientist in general internal medicine who serves as Associate Dean for Clinical Innovation and Chief Innovation Officer at UCSF Health, known for research on antibiotic prescribing and antimicrobial resistance.
Ralph H. Baer
Ralph H. Baer (1922–2014), German-American engineer, father of video games; invented the Brown Box prototype at Sanders Associates, basis of the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, the first home console; also created Simon; over 150 patents.
Ralph H. Hruban
Ralph H. Hruban is a Johns Hopkins pathologist who directs the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center and characterized the precursor lesions of pancreatic cancer.
Ralph H. Wetmore
Ralph H. Wetmore (1892–1989) was a Canadian-born American botanist and Harvard professor who pioneered experimental plant morphogenesis and tissue culture, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1954.
Ralph Hansch
Ralph Hansch (Ralph Lawrence Hansch, 1924-2008), Canadian ice hockey goaltender for the Edmonton Mercurys, won gold at the 1952 Oslo Winter Olympics; wore number 0, the only Olympic player ever to do so, then became an Edmonton firefighter.
Ralph Hartley
Ralph Hartley (Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley) was an American electronics researcher at Bell Telephone Laboratories who invented the Hartley oscillator and, in 1928, an early measure of information.
Ralph Hasenhüttl
Ralph Hasenhüttl, Austrian football manager and former striker (born 1967), known as the 'Alpine Klopp'; promoted Aalen and Ingolstadt, led RB Leipzig to second place, managed Southampton 2018–2022 and Wolfsburg 2024–2025.
Ralph Heap
Ralph Heap is an American politician and retired orthopedic surgeon serving as a Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives from the 10th district, elected in 2024.
Ralph Henstock
Ralph Henstock (1923–2007) was a British mathematician who independently created the Henstock–Kurzweil gauge integral and held the pure mathematics chair at the New University of Ulster.
Ralph Hise
Ralph Hise is an American Republican politician representing North Carolina's 47th Senate district, serving as Deputy President Pro Tempore and a former mayor of Spruce Pine.
Ralph Holman
Ralph Holman (1918–2012) was an American lipid biochemist at the Hormel Institute in Minnesota who introduced omega nomenclature and the Holman index for fatty acid deficiency.
Ralph Hotere
Ralph Hotere (Hone Papita Raukura Hōtere, 1931–2013) was a New Zealand painter of Te Aupōuri descent, based at Port Chalmers near Dunedin and known for his minimalist black paintings.
Ralph Hutton
Ralph Hutton (born 1948), Canadian swimmer nicknamed the Iron Man; 1968 Olympic 400 m freestyle silver medallist and world record holder (4:06.5); 24 major Games medals for Canada.
Ralph I. Horwitz
Ralph I. Horwitz is an American clinical epidemiologist and internist, a National Academy of Medicine member who led medicine at Yale, Case Western Reserve, Stanford, and GlaxoSmithKline.
Ralph Ineson
Ralph Ineson (born 1969, Leeds) is an English actor known as Chris Finch in The Office, William in The Witch, and Galactus in The Fantastic Four: First Steps; also a video game voice actor (Cid in Final Fantasy XVI, Lorath in Diablo IV) with a distinctive deep voice.
Ralph J. Cicerone
Ralph J. Cicerone (1943–2016) was an American atmospheric chemist known for work on ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect, and president of the National Academy of Sciences from 2005 to 2016.
Ralph J. Greenspan
Ralph J. Greenspan, also known as Ralph Greenspan, is a neuroscientist at UC San Diego who studies the genetic and neural basis of behavior in fruit flies.