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Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is an American attorney and consumer advocate whose 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed catalyzed the consumer movement; he later ran for president three times.
Ralph Norman
Ralph Norman, born 1953, is an American Republican politician and U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 5th district since 2017, after serving in the state House.
Ralph Northam
Ralph Shearer Northam (born 1959), Virginia Democratic physician-politician: pediatric neurologist, Army doctor, state senator, lieutenant governor, and 73rd governor 2018-2022, known for Medicaid expansion and the 2019 yearbook controversy.
Ralph O. Wallerstein
Ralph O. Wallerstein (1922–2009) was a German-born American hematologist and internist, chief of clinical hematology at San Francisco General Hospital for nearly 30 years and a UCSF clinical professor.
Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
Ralph P. Boas, Jr. (1912–1992) was an American mathematician at Northwestern University who wrote the standard monograph on entire functions and led the Mathematical Association of America.
Ralph Pearson
Ralph Pearson (1919–2022) was an American physical inorganic chemist who developed the hard and soft acids and bases (HSAB) rule, taught at Northwestern and UC Santa Barbara, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.
Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland
Ralph George Algernon Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland (born 1956), British peer and author who inherited the dukedom in 1995 on his brother Henry's death, manages the Percy estates including Alnwick Castle and Syon House, and wrote Lions of the North and Lions of the Red Rose.
Ralph Purchase
Ralph Purchase (Ralph Kenneth Purchase, 1916-2000), American coxswain of the University of California eight that won gold in the men's eights at the 1948 London Olympics, later a Zellerbach Corp. executive.
Ralph R. Beistline
Ralph R. Beistline (born 1948) is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the District of Alaska, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.
Ralph R. Erickson
Ralph R. Erickson (born 1959) is an American jurist, a senior judge on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals appointed by President Trump in 2017.
Ralph R. Isberg
Ralph R. Isberg is an American microbial pathogenesis researcher at Tufts University, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator from 1990 to 2017, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009.
Ralph R. Weichselbaum
Ralph R. Weichselbaum is an American physician-scientist in radiation oncology who chairs radiation oncology at the University of Chicago and defined the oligometastasis stage of cancer spread.
Ralph Raphael
Ralph Alexander Raphael (1921–1998) was a British organic chemist who held senior chairs at Glasgow and Cambridge and published the 1955 monograph Acetylenic Compounds in Organic Synthesis.
Ralph Recto
Ralph Recto is a Filipino politician who serves as Executive Secretary under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., having previously been Finance secretary, a senator, and a Batangas representative.
Ralph Richardson
Ralph Richardson (1902-1983), English stage and film actor of the Olivier-Gielgud-Richardson trio; Old Vic co-director, knighted 1947; famed Falstaff, Peer Gynt, The Fallen Idol, The Heiress.
Ralph Riley
Sir Ralph Riley (1924–1999) was a British wheat cytogeneticist who discovered the Ph gene controlling chromosome pairing, enabling transfer of useful traits from wild relatives into wheat.
Ralph Rose
Ralph Waldo Rose (1884 or 1885-1913) was an American shot putter from Healdsburg, California, who won six Olympic medals including shot put golds in 1904 and 1908, set the first official IAAF shot put world record of 15.54 m in 1909, and refused to dip the US flag at the 1908 London opening ceremony.
Ralph Rossetti
Ralph Rossetti was a researcher at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, first author of the 1983 quantum size effect paper cited in the 2023 Nobel Prize background.
Ralph S. Gens
Ralph S. Gens was an American electric power transmission engineer who led Bonneville Power Administration's 500 kV grid and HVDC introduction, elected to the NAE in 1983.
Ralph S. Goldsmith
Ralph S. Goldsmith was an American endocrinologist and authority on bone metabolism, known for two 1966 New England Journal of Medicine papers on hypercalcemia, who later led the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Ralph S. Paffenbarger
Ralph S. Paffenbarger (1922–2007) was an American epidemiologist and Stanford professor who pioneered the epidemiologic study of physical activity, following more than 50,000 Harvard and Pennsylvania alumni for decades.
Ralph S. Phillips
Ralph Saul Phillips (1913–1998) was an American mathematician at Stanford who worked in functional analysis and scattering theory and co-developed Lax–Phillips scattering theory with Peter Lax.
Ralph S. Quatrano
Ralph S. Quatrano was an American plant biologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for showing how abscisic acid regulates drought-response genes in plants.
Ralph S. Wolfe
Ralph S. Wolfe (1921–2019) was an American microbiologist and biochemist at the University of Illinois, an authority on methanogens who discovered coenzyme M and unique methanogenesis coenzymes.
Ralph Sampson
Ralph Sampson (born 1960, Harrisonburg, Virginia) is a 7'4" Hall of Fame center, three-time national player of the year at Virginia, 1983 first overall pick, 1984 NBA Rookie of the Year, and half of Houston's Twin Towers with Hakeem Olajuwon.
Ralph Sarchie
Ralph Sarchie is a retired New York City police sergeant who describes himself as a Catholic demonologist, assisting priests at exorcisms; his cases inspired the 2014 film Deliver Us from Evil.
Ralph Schoellhammer
Ralph Schoellhammer (Ralph Gert Schöllhammer), born 1982, is an Austrian political scientist who heads the Center for Applied History and International Relations Theory at Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest.
Ralph Scully
Ralph Scully is a molecular biologist and Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, known for linking BRCA1 to DNA repair.
Ralph Siegel
Ralph Siegel, born 1945 in Munich, is a German Schlager composer and producer with over 2,000 registered titles, who won the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest with "Ein bisschen Frieden".
Ralph Slatyer
Ralph Slatyer (1929–2012) was an Australian plant physiologist and ecologist who worked on plant–water relations at CSIRO and the Australian National University, and as Australia's first Chief Scientist, 1989–1992, established the Cooperative Research Centres program.