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R. Sanders Williams
R. Sanders Williams, known as Sandy Williams, is an American cardiologist and molecular biologist who served as dean of Duke University School of Medicine and president of the Gladstone Institutes.
R. Sarathkumar
R. Sarathkumar (Ramanathan Sarathkumar, born 1954, New Delhi), the 'Supreme Star' of Tamil cinema, is an Indian actor, producer and politician with over 150 films, multiple Filmfare and Tamil Nadu State awards, Rajya Sabha and Tenkasi MLA tenures, and AISMK founder who merged his party with the BJP in 2024.
R. Scott Hawley
R. Scott Hawley (Robin Scott Hawley) was an American geneticist at the Stowers Institute known for dissecting meiosis in fruit flies and the cohesin explanation of the maternal age effect.
R. Scott Poethig
R. Scott Poethig is an American plant developmental biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who pioneered the genetic analysis of the juvenile-to-adult transition in plant shoots.
R. Scott Williams
R. Scott Williams (Robert S. Williams) is a structural biologist who leads the Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory at NIEHS, studying how cells recognize and repair DNA strand breaks.
R. Sean Morrison
R. Sean Morrison is an American geriatrician and palliative medicine researcher who chairs the Brookdale Department at Mount Sinai and founded the National Palliative Care Research Center in 2005.
R. Shalom b. Mar R. Mishael
R. Shalom b. Mar R. Mishael was a gaon, or head, of the Academy of Sura in Babylonia, holding the office from 904 to about 911.
R. Shankar Nair
R. Shankar Nair is a Chicago-based structural and civil engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for his design of innovative bridges and building structures.
R. Sherira
R. Sherira, also known as R. Sherira ben Hanina, was gaon of the Academy of Pumbedita from 968 and author of the classic Epistle of Rav Sherira Gaon.
R. Shinwai
R. Shinwai was the 21st Gaon, or head, of the Academy of Pumbedita in Babylonia, assigned the year 781 CE in a modern reconstruction; almost nothing else is recorded about him.
R. Stephen Berry
R. Stephen Berry (1931–2020) was an American chemical physicist and University of Chicago professor known for the Berry pseudorotation, cluster science, finite-time thermodynamics, and early energy policy analysis.
R. Suzanne Zukin
R. Suzanne Zukin was an American cellular and molecular neuroscientist who spent her career at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for work on glutamate receptors, epigenetics, and neuronal death.
R. Thomas Weitz
Ralf Thomas Weitz is a solid-state physicist and full professor at the University of Göttingen since 2020, known for the quantum anomalous Hall effect in bilayer graphene.
R. V. Ranjithkumar
R. V. Ranjithkumar (TVK) is the Kancheepuram MLA and Tamil Nadu Minister for Forests, elected in 2026 with 91,350 votes and inducted into C. Joseph Vijay's cabinet on 21 May 2026.
R. V. S. Mani
R. V. S. Mani (Ramaswamy Venkata Subra Mani), born 1959, is a retired Central Secretariat Service officer who was Under Secretary in the Home Ministry's Internal Security Division 2006–2010, signed the 2009 Ishrat Jahan affidavits, wrote The Myth of Hindu Terror, and received the Padma Shri in 2026.
R. Vinoth
R. Vinoth (ஆர். வினோத்), Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam MLA for Kumbakonam (AC 171) since 2026 and Tamil Nadu's agriculture minister from 21 May 2026; won by 679 votes with 78,650 votes, not to be confused with other politicians named Vinoth.
R. W. Southern
R. W. Southern (Richard William Southern, 1912–2001) was a British medieval historian at Oxford whose 1953 book The Making of the Middle Ages reshaped medieval studies.
R. Wayne Alexander
R. Wayne Alexander (Robert Wayne Alexander) was an American cardiologist who directed cardiology and chaired medicine at Emory University, studying angiotensin II and vascular oxidative stress.
R. Yehudai b. Mar R. Naḥman (the celebrated Yehudai Gaon)
R. Yehudai b. Naḥman (יהודאי בר נחמן), known as Yehudai Gaon, was Gaon of the Sura academy in the mid-eighth century, traditionally blind, and the first gaon with an attributed book, the Halakhot Pesukot.
R. Yom-Ṭob Kahana b. Mar R. Jacob
R. Yom-Ṭob Kahana b. Mar R. Jacob was Gaon, or head, of the Academy of Sura from 924 to 928, succeeded by Saadia Gaon; nothing else of him survives.
R. Ẓemaḥ b. Mar R. Ḥayyim
R. Ẓemaḥ b. Mar R. Ḥayyim, also written Ẓemaḥ ben Ḥayyim, was Gaon, or head, of the Sura academy in Babylonia from 889 to 895.
R. Ẓemaḥ b. Mar R. Kafnai (var. Pappai)
R. Ẓemaḥ b. Mar R. Kafnai (var. Pappai) was Gaon, or head, of the Academy of Pumbedita in Babylonia, in office from 935 or 936 to 938.
R... Rajkumar (आर... राजकुमार)
R... Rajkumar (आर... राजकुमार) is a 2013 Hindi action comedy romance film directed by Prabhu Deva, starring Shahid Kapoor as Romeo Rajkumar and Sonakshi Sinha as Chanda.
R.A. the Rugged Man
R.A. the Rugged Man (Richard Thorburn, born 1974, Long Island) is an American underground rapper whose Jive and Priority albums were shelved before his 2004 debut Die, Rugged Man, Die; known for the Uncommon Valor verse and Nature Sounds albums.
R.C. Pro-Am
R.C. Pro-Am (Championship Pro-Am) is Rare's 1988 NES isometric radio-controlled racing game published by Nintendo, with 32 tracks, missiles and bombs, NINTENDO-letter car upgrades, and sequels on Game Boy and NES.
R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant
The R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant is a single-reactor plant on Lake Ontario near Rochester, New York, the smallest nuclear power plant in the United States.
R.E.M.
R.E.M. (rapid eye movement) was an American alternative rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by Stipe, Buck, Mills, and Berry; 85 million records sold, eight UK number-one albums, 2007 Rock Hall induction, 2011 breakup, 2024 one-song reunion.
R.E.P.O.
R.E.P.O. (Retrieve, Extract and Profit Operation) is a 2025 Steam Early Access co-op horror extraction game by Sweden's Semiwork for 1-6 players, built in Unity on Photon PUN, selling about 8.7 million copies in March 2025.
R.I.P.D.
R.I.P.D., short for Rest In Peace Department, is a 2013 American supernatural action-comedy film in which Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds play deceased officers hunting hidden spirits.
R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned
R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned is a 2022 direct-to-video supernatural Western comedy prequel to R.I.P.D., directed by Paul Leyden, starring Jeffrey Donovan as Sheriff Roy Pulsipher, set in 1876, released November 15, 2022.