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Ramdas Athawale (रामदास बंडू आठवले)
Ramdas Athawale (रामदास आठवले), born 1959, is an Indian Dalit politician, president of the Republican Party of India (Athawale) faction, thrice Lok Sabha member, Rajya Sabha MP from Maharashtra since 2014, and Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment since 2016.
Ramdas Gandhi (रामदास मोहनदास गांधी)
Ramdas Gandhi, also known as Ramdas Mohandas Gandhi, was the third son of Mohandas and Kasturba Gandhi, born in 1897, who lit his father's funeral pyre at Rajghat in 1948.
Ramdev (रामदेव)
Ramdev (रामदेव), also Baba Ramdev, born Ram Kisan Yadav in 1965, is an Indian yoga guru who popularized yoga via Aastha TV and co-founded Patanjali Ayurved, later facing Supreme Court action over misleading medicine ads.
Ramdev Pir (रामदेव पीर)
Ramdev Pir, also called Ramdevji or Ramshah Pir, is a folk deity of Rajasthan, a Tanwar Rajput sant whose Ramdevra shrine draws millions of pilgrims each August and September.
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (रामधारी सिंह 'दिनकर', 1908–1974), Hindi poet called Rashtrakavi, author of Rashmirathi, Kurukshetra, and Urvashi; Jnanpith 1972, Sahitya Akademi 1959, Padma Bhushan 1959, Rajya Sabha member 1952–1964.
Ramdhenu
Ramdhenu (ৰমধেনু, "Rainbow") was an Assamese-language literary magazine published from 1950, edited by Jnanpith laureate Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya, that named the Ramdhenu era of modern Assamese literature.
Rameen Beroukhim
Rameen Beroukhim is a cancer geneticist and neuro-oncologist at Dana-Farber, Harvard, and the Broad Institute, known for the 2010 pan-cancer copy-number survey and the GISTIC algorithm.
RaMell Ross
RaMell Ross (born 1982) is an American filmmaker, photographer, and Brown University visual art professor; creator of Hale County This Morning, This Evening and the POV-driven Oscar-nominated Nickel Boys.
Ramelteon
Ramelteon (Rozerem), FDA-approved July 22, 2005 by Takeda, is a prescription MT1/MT2 melatonin receptor agonist for sleep-onset insomnia; 8 mg at bedtime, not a controlled substance, contraindicated with fluvoxamine.
Ramen (ラーメン)
Ramen (ラーメン) is a Japanese wheat-noodle soup of Chinese origin with tare, broth, noodles, and toppings; styles include shoyu, miso, shio, and tonkotsu. Key facts: first instant ramen (Nissin, 1958), record 124.21 billion instant servings in 2025, Japan 885.5 billion yen shop market.
Ramenskiy Gorodskoy Okrug
Ramenskiy Gorodskoy Okrug (Раменский городской округ), Ramensky Urban District, is a Moscow Oblast district formed in 2019 by merging Ramensky Municipal District settlements, centered on Ramenskoye, area 139,746 ha, population about 273,000.
Ramesh Aravind (ರಮೇಶ್ ಅರವಿಂದ್)
Ramesh Aravind (ರಮೇಶ್ ಅರವಿಂದ್), born 1964 in Bangalore, is a Kannada film actor, director, and TV presenter also active in Tamil and Telugu cinema; known for America! America!, Amruthavarshini, Hoomale, and directing Rama Shama Bhama and Accident.
Ramesh Awasthi
Ramesh Awasthi is an Indian BJP politician who has represented Kanpur in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after more than three decades as a journalist and news anchor.
Ramesh Babu
Ghattamaneni Ramesh Babu (1965-2022), Telugu actor and producer, elder son of superstar Krishna and brother of Mahesh Babu; hero debut Samraat (1987), hit Bazaar Rowdy, later produced Arjun.
Ramesh Bikal
Ramesh Bikal (रमेश विकल), born Rameshwar Prasad Chalise (1928–2008), was a Nepali short story writer, novelist, and playwright known for social realism; he won the Madan Puraskar in 1962.
Ramesh Chennithala
Ramesh Chennithala, born 1956, is an Indian National Congress politician serving as a Kerala minister with Home, Vigilance, Prisons, Fire and Rescue, and Coir portfolios, after leading the opposition from 2016 to 2021.
Ramesh Deo (रमेश देओ)
Ramesh Deo (रमेश देओ), born Ramesh Thakur, veteran Marathi and Hindi film actor, producer, and director (1929–2022); star of Anand as Dr Prakash Kulkarni; over 450 films.
Ramesh Giri
Ramesh Giri is a Nepali-born organic and organometallic chemist, born in Chitwan, Nepal, and a professor at Pennsylvania State University known for palladium-catalyzed C–H functionalization and nickel-catalyzed migratory alkene functionalization.
Ramesh Jigajinagi
Ramesh Jigajinagi, also known as Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Bijapur, Karnataka, in the Lok Sabha since 2009.
Ramesh Juneja
Ramesh Juneja is an Indian pharmaceutical businessman who co-founded Delhi-based Mankind Pharma in 1995 with his brother Rajeev, serving as Executive Chairman of India's fourth-largest drug company by value.
Ramesh Khanna (ரமேஷ் கண்ணா)
Ramesh Khanna (ரமேஷ் கண்ணா, also credited Ramesh Kanna), born 1955 in Chennai, is a Tamil cinema actor, comedian, dialogue writer, and director who began in R.S. Manohar's drama troupe, assisted Vikraman and K.S. Ravikumar, directed Thodarum (1999), and wrote Aadhavan.
Ramesh Narayan
Ramesh Narayan, born 1950 in Bombay, is an Indian-born American astrophysicist at Harvard known for accretion theory and the Event Horizon Telescope's first black hole image.
Ramesh Patel
Ramesh Unka Patel, New Zealand field hockey player born 1953 in Auckland; won gold at Montreal 1976 with brother Mohan, played at Munich 1972 and Los Angeles 1984, 123 NZ caps, later first Hockey New Zealand CEO.
Ramesh Pillai
Ramesh S. Pillai is a Swiss-based RNA biologist, a full professor at the University of Geneva since 2016, known for work on piRNAs and RNA modifications.
Ramesh Pokhriyal
Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' (born 1959), BJP politician, Chief Minister of Uttarakhand 2009–2011 and India's Union Education Minister 2019–2021 who oversaw NEP 2020; also a Hindi author; his honorary doctorates drew controversy.
Ramesh Raskar
Ramesh Raskar is an Indian-born computer scientist and MIT Media Lab professor who directs the Camera Culture group, won the 2016 Lemelson-MIT Prize, and is known for femto-photography.
Ramesh Shivdasani
Ramesh Shivdasani is a physician-scientist and Harvard Medical School professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for identifying NF-E2's role in platelet formation and studying colorectal cancer initiation.
Ramesh Sippy (रमेश सिप्पी)
Ramesh Sippy (रमेश सिप्पी), born Ramesh Sipahimalani in Karachi in 1947, is an Indian Hindi-cinema director and producer, son of G. P. Sippy, best known for Sholay (1975), Buniyaad, Shakti, and the Padma Shri.
Ramesh T. Jaisinghani
Ramesh T. Jaisinghani is an Indian businessman who co-founded Polycab India, one of four brothers who turned a family electrical shop into India's largest wires and cables company by revenue.
Ramesh Tawadkar
Ramesh Tawadkar is an Indian politician from Goa and a BJP minister holding the Art & Culture, Sports & Youth Affairs, and Tribal Welfare portfolios since 2025.