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Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar (रमाबाई भीमराव आंबेडकर)

Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar (रमाबाई भीमराव आंबेडकर) was the first wife of B. R. Ambedkar and is remembered in the Ambedkarite movement as a figure of sacrifice.

Ramabai Ranade

Ramabai Ranade (रमाबाई रानडे) was an Indian social worker and early women's-rights activist, wife of Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade, who led the Seva Sadan and Bombay's suffrage movement.

Ramabhadra

Ramabhadra (रामभद्र) was a king of the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty of northern India, reigning from about 833 to 836 between his father Nagabhata II and his son Mihira Bhoja.

Ramachandra

Ramachandra (रामचन्द्र), also styled Ramadeva, was a Yadava king who ruled Devagiri in the Deccan from 1271 to about 1310, becoming a tributary of the Delhi Sultanate after Ala-ud-din Khalji's 1294 invasion.

Ramachandra Bharati

Ramachandra Bharati was the 20th Jagadguru of the Dakshinamnaya Sringeri Sharada Peetham, an Advaita Vedanta monastery in Karnataka, whose 43-year pontificate from 1517 to 1560 fell within the Vijayanagara period.

Ramachandra Deva I

Ramachandra Deva I (ରାମଚନ୍ଦ୍ର ଦେବ) was the first Raja of the Bhoi dynasty of Khurda, who built a kingdom in coastal Orissa in the middle of the 16th century.

Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha (born 1958, Dehradun) is an Indian historian and biographer based in Bengaluru, author of The Unquiet Woods, India After Gandhi, and the two-volume Gandhi biography; Fukuoka Prize 2015.

Ramachandran Ottapathu

Ramachandran Ottapathu, known as Ram, is a Botswana-based retail executive and chartered accountant who has served as chief executive of Choppies, Botswana's largest retail chain, since 2004.

Ramachandran plot

The Ramachandran plot, also called the Ramachandran diagram, is a graph of a polypeptide's backbone torsion angles φ and ψ, introduced by G. N. Ramachandran in 1963.

Ramachandran S. Vasan

Ramachandran S. Vasan, also published as Vasan S. Ramachandran, is an Indian-born American cardiologist and Founding Dean of the School of Public Health at UT Health San Antonio.

Ramacharita

Ramacharita (रामचरित) is a Sanskrit court epic composed by Sandhyakara Nandi under the Pala king Madanapala, telling the Ramayana and the restoration of Pala power in Bengal simultaneously.

Ramacharitam

Ramacharitam (രാമചരിതം), also called Irāmacaritam, is an epic poem generally regarded as the earliest extant literary work in Malayalam, retelling the Yuddha Kanda of Valmiki's Ramayana.

Ramacharitam of Sandhyakara Nandin

Ramacharitam (रामचरितम्) is a 12th-century Sanskrit court epic by Sandhyakara Nandin that recounts Rama's story and, in the same verses, the history of Bengal's Pala dynasty.

Ramaco Resources

Ramaco Resources is an American coal mining company in West Virginia and Virginia, founded by Randall Atkins in 2011, now developing rare earths at its Brook Mine in Wyoming.

Ramada

Ramada, also known as Ramada Inn, is a midscale hotel brand franchised by Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, founded in 1954 as a roadside motel chain in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Ramadan (رمضان)

Ramadan (رمضان) is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk; it commemorates the Qurʾān's revelation and ends with Eid al-Fitr.

Ramadan al-Suwayhli

Ramadan al-Suwayhli (رمضان السويحلي) was a Tripolitanian leader who resisted the Italian occupation of Libya, won the Battle of Qardabiya in 1915, and founded the Tripolitanian Republic in 1918.

Ramadan oil field

The Ramadan oil field is an offshore oil field in the central Gulf of Suez, Egypt, discovered in 1974 with reserves of several hundred million barrels and operated by GUPCO.

Ramadan Sobhi

Ramadan Sobhi (Ramadan Sobhi Ahmed, born 1997), Egyptian winger from Al Ahly who played for Stoke City, Huddersfield Town, and Pyramids FC, won the 2025 CAF Champions League, earned 37 Egypt caps, and received a four-year doping ban upheld in 2026.

Rāmadeva

Rāmadeva (रामदेव), known as Ramdevji, Ramdev Pir, or Baba Ramdev, is a saint of Pokhran in Rajasthan who took samadhi in 1459 and is venerated by Hindus and Muslims.

Ramadhanya Charite

Ramadhanya Charite (ರಾಮಧಾನ್ಯ ಚರಿತೆ, "The Story of Rama's Grains") is a 16th-century Kannada allegorical kavya by the poet-saint Kanakadasa, in which nine grains quarrel and ragi is vindicated over rice.

Ramadi

Ramadi (الرمادي) is the capital of Iraq's Anbar Governorate on the Euphrates, about 100 km west of Baghdad. Founded as an Ottoman administrative center in the 1860s-1870s, seized by ISIS in May 2015 and retaken in December 2015, with 295,105 residents in the 2024 census.

Ramagundam

Ramagundam (రామగుండం), the "Coal City," is an industrial city in Peddapalli district, Telangana, India, on the Godavari River; 2011 population 229,644, home to NTPC's 2,600 MW super thermal power station, SCCL coal mining, and RFCL fertilizer plant.

Ramagundam Fertilizers and Chemicals

Ramagundam Fertilizers and Chemicals is an Indian joint venture company that owns and operates a natural gas-based ammonia and urea plant at Ramagundam in Peddapalli district, Telangana.

Ramagundam power station

Ramagundam Super Thermal Power Station is a 2,600 MW coal-fired power station owned by NTPC Limited at Ramagundam in Telangana, India, commissioned from 1983 onward.

Ramagupta

Ramagupta (रामगुप्त) was a Gupta ruler in India, traditionally the eldest son and brief successor of Samudragupta, known from the play Devichandraguptam, copper coins, and a Vidisha inscription.

Ramah in Benjamin

Ramah in Benjamin was a biblical town in the tribe of Benjamin, a border fortress between Israel and Judah, traditionally identified with al-Ram near Jerusalem.

Ramaini

Ramaini (रमैनी) is a poetic form associated with the 15th-century poet Kabir; written in the chaupai meter, it is one of the three main sections of his Bijak, alongside Sabad and Sakhi.

Ramaiya Vastavaiya

Ramaiya Vastavaiya is a 2013 Hindi romantic drama directed by Prabhu Deva, produced by Kumar Taurani (Tips Industries), starring debutant Girish Kumar, Shruti Haasan, and Sonu Sood; a remake of Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana that flopped at the box office.

Ramakanta Rath

Ramakanta Rath, ରମାକାନ୍ତ ରଥ (1934–2025), was an Indian Odia-language poet and leading modernist who won the Saraswati Samman for Sri Radha, and a civil servant who retired as Chief Secretary of Odisha.