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Ralph Johnson (musician)
Ralph Johnson (born 1951) is the American drummer, percussionist, and vocalist of Earth, Wind & Fire, joining in 1972; a six-time Grammy winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and author of the memoir Rhythm & Fire.
Ralph Keeling
Ralph Keeling is an American geochemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who directs the Mauna Loa CO2 record and first demonstrated that fossil-fuel burning depletes atmospheric oxygen.
Ralph Kimball
Ralph Kimball, American data warehouse pioneer, author of The Data Warehouse Toolkit (1996), founder of Red Brick Systems and the Kimball Group, who formalized and popularized dimensional modeling and the star schema; his bottom-up method is usually contrasted with Bill Inmon's top-down approach.
Ralph Kiner
Ralph Kiner (1922-2014), Hall of Fame left fielder, led the NL in home runs seven straight seasons (1946-52), hit 369 career homers, and broadcast Mets games for over 50 years.
Ralph Krupke
Ralph Krupke is a German nanoscientist, professor of molecular nanostructures at TU Darmstadt since 2011, best known for the 2003 dielectrophoretic separation of metallic from semiconducting carbon nanotubes.
Ralph L. Brinster
Ralph L. Brinster, born 1932, is an American geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania known for the first transgenic mice, the 1982 supermouse, and spermatogonial stem cell transplantation.
Ralph L. Disney
Ralph L. Disney (1928–2014) was an American industrial engineer and applied probabilist known as the father of queueing networks, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Ralph L. Keeney
Ralph L. Keeney is an American decision analyst, emeritus professor at Duke and USC, known for value-focused thinking and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Ralph L. Nachman
Ralph L. Nachman is an American hematologist, professor emeritus of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, and National Academy of Medicine member whose platelet research helped launch modern vascular biology.
Ralph L. Sacco
Ralph L. Sacco was an American neurologist and stroke epidemiologist who founded the Northern Manhattan Study and in 2010 became the first neurologist to serve as American Heart Association president.
Ralph Lane
Sir Ralph Lane (c. 1532-October 1603), Elizabethan soldier, governor of the 1585-1586 Roanoke colony and later muster-master general of Ireland; killed Pemisapan in 1586 and wrote the evasive Roanoke 'Account' published by Hakluyt.
Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren, born Ralph Lifschitz, is an American fashion designer who founded his namesake luxury clothing company, starting with a tie line called Polo in 1967.
Ralph Lauren Corporation
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE: RL), founded by Ralph Lauren in 1967 and listed in 1997, is a New York-based luxury lifestyle company selling apparel, home, fragrances, and hospitality through retail, wholesale, and licensing, with $8.115 billion Fiscal 2026 revenue.
Ralph Leroy Nafziger
Ralph Leroy Nafziger, known as Roy, was an American baking executive who built Nafziger Bakeries across the Midwest and founded Interstate Bakeries in Kansas City in 1930, the company whose line leads to Hostess Brands.
Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton (1893–1953) was an American cultural anthropologist who wrote The Study of Man (1936) and gave anthropology its standard distinction between status and role.
Ralph Lynde Disney
Ralph Lynde Disney (1928–2014) was an American industrial engineer and applied probabilist known as the father of queueing networks, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Ralph M. Steinman
Ralph Marvin Steinman (1943–2011) was a Canadian immunologist at The Rockefeller University who discovered the dendritic cell, winning the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Ralph M. Sussman
Ralph M. Sussman was a New York physician at Beth Israel Hospital whose 1956 New England Journal of Medicine paper coined the term "iodide mumps".
Ralph Macchio
Ralph Macchio (Ralph George Macchio Jr., born 1961) is the American actor known as Daniel LaRusso in The Karate Kid (1984) and Cobra Kai (2018– ), also The Outsiders and My Cousin Vinny.
Ralph Mann
Ralph Vernon Mann (1949–2025) was an American 400-meter hurdler, Olympic silver medalist at Munich 1972 and 440-yard hurdles world record holder, who became a leading sports biomechanist.
Ralph Manza
Ralph Manza (Raffaele P. Manza, 1921-2000), American character actor with 125+ screen credits; Banacek sidekick, Newhart, Blazing Saddles, Get Shorty, Dave, Godzilla; distinct from Ralph Mann the sprinter.
Ralph Massullo
Ralph Massullo is an American Republican politician and physician who won a December 2025 special election to the Florida Senate's 11th district after four terms in the Florida House.
Ralph McQuarrie
Ralph McQuarrie (1929–2012), American concept artist and illustrator, created the defining concept art of the original Star Wars trilogy, including Darth Vader, C-3PO, and R2-D2, and shared the 1985 Visual Effects Oscar for Cocoon.
Ralph McTell
Ralph McTell (born Ralph May, 1944) is an English folk singer-songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist, best known for 'Streets of London' (No. 2 UK single, 1975), the Ivor Novello Award, and over 50 years on the British folk scene.
Ralph Meeker
Ralph Meeker (Ralph Rathgeber, 1920-1988), American stage, film, and TV actor; originated Hal Carter in Broadway's Picnic and played Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and Cpl. Paris in Paths of Glory.
Ralph Menzies
Ralph Leroy Menzies, Utah death row prisoner convicted in 1988 of the 1986 murder of Maurine Hunsaker, elected firing squad execution; dementia competency litigation stayed his 2025 execution, and he died of natural causes in November 2025.
Ralph Merkle
Ralph Merkle, born 1952 in Berkeley, California, is an American computer scientist who independently invented public-key cryptography in 1974 and created the Merkle tree data structure.
Ralph Metcalfe
Ralph Harold Metcalfe (1910-1978), American Olympic sprinter and Illinois congressman; four Olympic medals including 1936 4x100m relay gold, CBC founder, broke with Chicago's Daley machine.
Ralph Modjeski
Ralph Modjeski, born Rudolf Modrzejewski, was a Polish-born American civil engineer, one of the pre-eminent American bridge designers, who worked in truss, cantilever, and suspension construction.
Ralph Molyneux Combe
Sir Ralph Molyneux Combe (1872–1946) was a British colonial jurist, son of Maj.-Gen. James John Coombe, who served as Attorney-General of the East Africa Protectorate and of Nigeria and as Chief Justice of Nigeria 1918–1929, knighted in 1920.