All articles starting with R

Ralph Spearow

Ralph Spearow (Albert Ralph Spearow, 1895-1980), American pole vaulter for the University of Oregon; sixth at the 1924 Paris Olympics (3.70 m) and cleared an unratified 4.22 m in Tokyo, November 1924.

Ralph Spotts

Ralph Spotts (Ralph Lewis Spotts, 1875–1924), American trapshooter and NYAC member; won gold in men's team trap at Stockholm 1912 (USA 532, his score 90), placed tenth in individual trap, three-time U.S. trapshooting champion, New York real estate broker.

Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford

Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford (died 31 August 1372), English soldier and magnate, founding Knight of the Garter, seneschal of Aquitaine, created earl in 1351; husband of Margaret Audley.

Ralph Stanley

Ralph Stanley (1927-2016), Dr. Ralph Stanley, American bluegrass banjo player and tenor singer from Dickenson County, Virginia; co-founder of the Stanley Brothers and Clinch Mountain Boys; won the 2002 Grammy for "O Death" on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack.

Ralph Steadman

Ralph Steadman (born 1936) is a British illustrator and caricaturist, visual partner of Hunter S. Thompson and defining artist of gonzo journalism, known for ink-splattered satire, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Alice in Wonderland, and Gonzovation books.

Ralph T. Yang

Ralph T. Yang (1942–2025) was a Chinese-born American chemical engineer at the University of Michigan, known for inventing zeolite and metal-organic framework adsorbents for fuel desulfurization and carbon dioxide capture.

Sep 27, 2026

Ralph Torres

Ralph DLG Torres is an American Republican politician who served as Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands from 2015 to 2023 and is the 2026 Republican nominee for governor.

Ralph Tresvant

Ralph Tresvant (born 1968, Roxbury, Boston), nicknamed Rizz, is the American R&B tenor who fronted New Edition on "Candy Girl" and scored the 1990 solo hit "Sensitivity"; also a 2026 radio host.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was an English composer of nine symphonies, The Lark Ascending, and Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, central to reviving English music.

Ralph W. Gerard

Ralph W. Gerard (1900–1974) was an American neurophysiologist whose work on nerve metabolism helped establish the biochemical basis of nerve-impulse conduction; he coined the word "Neuroscience" in the 1950s.

Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience

Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience: the Society for Neuroscience's highest honor, a lifetime-achievement award named for SfN founder Ralph Waldo Gerard (1900–1974); recent recipients include Joshua Sanes (2025) and Nora D. Volkow (2024).

Ralph W. Kuncl

Ralph W. Kuncl is an American neurologist and ALS researcher who served as the 11th president of the University of Redlands from 2012 to 2021, after provostships at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Rochester.

Ralph W. Muller

Ralph W. Muller is an American health-system executive who served as chief executive of the University of Chicago Hospitals and the University of Pennsylvania Health System from 2003 to 2019.

Ralph Waite

Ralph Waite (1928-2014), American actor, Presbyterian minister, and two-time congressional candidate, best known as John Walton Sr. on CBS's The Waltons (1972-1981) and as Jackson Gibbs on NCIS; Emmy-nominated for The Waltons and Roots.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American essayist, poet, and philosopher, leader of New England Transcendentalism; author of Nature, "Self-Reliance," and "The American Scholar"; Unitarian minister turned lecturer and abolitionist; influenced Nietzsche, Thoreau, Dewey, and James.

Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff

Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff (1897–1994) was an American chemist and crystallographer whose 1922 tables introduced the Wyckoff positions, and who pioneered X-ray studies of proteins.

Ralph Wedgwood (pediatric immunologist)

Ralph Wedgwood, or Ralph J. Wedgwood, was an English-born American pediatric immunologist who co-founded pediatric immunology, chairing Pediatrics at the University of Washington from 1963 to 1972.

Sep 20, 2026

Ralph Weissleder

Ralph Weissleder is a physician scientist and Thrall Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School who directs the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, developing molecular imaging technologies, nanoparticles, and miniaturized diagnostics for cancer.

Ralph Wiggum

Ralph Wiggum is a fictional 8-year-old student in The Simpsons, son of Police Chief Clancy Wiggum, voiced by Nancy Cartwright, known for non sequiturs like "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" and episodes "I Love Lisa" and "This Little Wiggy".

Ralph Wilson Stadium

Ralph Wilson Stadium, also Rich Stadium, New Era Field, Bills Stadium, and Highmark Stadium, was the Buffalo Bills' open-air home in Orchard Park, NY, opened 1973, capacity about 71,600, replaced in 2026.

Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog

Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog are Looney Tunes characters created by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese, debuting in "Don't Give Up the Sheep" (1953). Across seven shorts (1953–1963), wolf and sheepdog punch a shared time clock, fight on the job, and stay friends off it.

Ralph Works Chaney

Ralph Works Chaney (1890–1971) was an American paleobotanist at the University of California, Berkeley, who first used fossil leaves to infer ancient climates and helped reveal the dawn redwood.

Sep 20, 2026

Ralph Wright

Ralph Wright (1930–1990) was a South African-born British hepatologist and clinical immunologist, professor at Southampton, best known for linking the Australia antigen to chronic liver disease.

Sep 19, 2026

Ralphie Choo

Ralphie Choo is the stage name of Juan Casado Fisac, a Spanish singer and producer from Madrid whose debut album Supernova was released in 2023.

Ralphie May

Ralphie May (Ralph Duren May, 1972-2017), American stand-up comedian, Last Comic Standing season 1 runner-up, four Comedy Central and two Netflix specials, died of cardiac arrest in Las Vegas at 45.

Ralphs

Ralphs (Ralphs Grocery Company) is an American supermarket chain founded in Los Angeles in 1873, now a Kroger division running about 185 Southern California stores.

Ralston Purina

Ralston Purina, also known as Ralston Purina Company, was an American company founded in St. Louis in 1894, a leading pet food maker acquired by Nestlé in 2001 for $10.3 billion.

Ralstonia

Ralstonia is a genus of Gram-negative Betaproteobacteria in the Burkholderiaceae, proposed by Yabuuchi et al. in 1995 and named after bacteriologist E. Ralston. It includes the bacterial wilt pathogen R. solanacearum species complex and opportunistic clinical species such as R. pickettii.