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Petru Iosub
Petru Iosub, Romanian rower born 1961 in Fălticeni; with Valer Toma won the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic men's coxless pair (6:45.39), Romania's first men's rowing gold, after a 1980 coxless four.
Phelan Hill
Phelan Hill (born 1979, Bedford) is a British rowing coxswain, CBE, who steered the GB men's eight to Rio 2016 Olympic gold, London 2012 bronze, and three straight World Championship titles, 2013 to 2015.
Philip Fleming
Philip Fleming (1889-1971), British rower and banker, won 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold in the men's eight, stroking Leander Club past New College, Oxford; later chaired Flemings Merchant Bank.
Philipp Wende
Philipp Wende (born 1985, Wurzen, Germany) is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's quadruple sculls at London 2012 and Rio 2016, plus 2015 world and 2014 European bronze medals.
Phillip Wilson
Phillip Wilson (born 1996, Wellington) is a New Zealand rower, Olympic gold medallist in the men's eight at Tokyo 2020, and seventh-place finisher in the coxless pair with Dan Williamson at Paris 2024.
Piero Poli
Piero Poli, born 1960, Italian rower and physician; Olympic gold in men's quadruple sculls at Seoul 1988 with Farina, Tizzano, and Abbagnale; fourth at Los Angeles 1984; later an orthopedic and sports-medicine doctor and FISA Sport Medicine Commission member.
Pierre Houin
Pierre Houin (Pierre Albert Houin), French rower born 1994 in Toul, Olympic gold medalist in lightweight men's double sculls at Rio 2016 with Jérémie Azou; world and European champion 2017; retired 2021, now CNOSF director.
Poul Hartmann
Poul Richard Hartmann (1878–1969), Danish rower and bookbinder from Nykøbing Falster; won gold in coxed fours inriggers at Stockholm 1912, beating Sweden by 12 seconds; long-serving club board member.
Primo Baran
Primo Baran (born 1943, Treviso) is an Italian rower, Olympic gold medalist in the coxed pair at Mexico City 1968 with Renzo Sambo and coxswain Bruno Cipolla; also European champion 1967 and World bronze medalist 1966.
Ralf Brudel
Ralf Brudel is a German rower born in 1963 in Potsdam who won Olympic gold in the men's coxless four for East Germany at Seoul 1988 and silver in the coxed four for unified Germany at Barcelona 1992.
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.
Ramona Balthasar
Ramona Balthasar (Ramona Franz), born 1964 in Forst, East German rower; gold in the women's eight at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, 1985 world quadruple sculls champion, later a nurse in Erkelenz.
Ramona Kapheim
Ramona Kapheim (née Jahnke), born 1958 in Strasburg, is a former East German rower for SC DHfK Leipzig who won Olympic gold in the women's coxed four at Moscow 1980 and world silver in the 1979 eight.
Ran Laurie
Ran Laurie (William George Ranald Mundell Laurie, 1915-1998): British oarsman and physician, stroke of three winning Cambridge Boat Races, and 1948 Olympic coxless pair gold medallist with Jack Wilson (not Beresford); father of Hugh Laurie.
Rasmus Quist
Rasmus Quist (Rasmus Nicolai Quist Hansen, born 1980, Middelfart) is a Danish rower who with Mads Rasmussen won lightweight double sculls gold at London 2012, bronze at Beijing 2008, and world titles in 2006 and 2007.
Raymond Etherington Smith
Raymond Broadley Etherington-Smith (1877-1913), English surgeon and rower nicknamed "Ethel"; won 1908 Olympic gold in the men's coxed eight at seven for Leander, and died of peritonitis after surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
Renato Petronio
Renato Petronio (1891-1976), Italian rowing coxswain born in Piran, founded SN Pullino of Isola d'Istria, won coxed-four gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and four European titles.
Renzo Sambo
Renzo Sambo (1942–2009), Italian rower from Treviso; Olympic gold in the coxed pair with Primo Baran and cox Bruno Cipolla at Mexico 1968, later a coach for Para-rowing.
Richard Beesly
Richard Beesly was a British rower who won Olympic gold in the coxless fours at the 1928 Amsterdam Games and rowed in three winning Cambridge Boat Race crews.
Richard Budgett
Richard Budgett (born 1959, Glasgow) is a British physician and Olympic rower who won coxed-four gold at Los Angeles 1984 with Steve Redgrave, then served as IOC Medical and Scientific Director 2012–2024 after leading Team GB and London 2012 medical services.
Richard Schmidt
Richard Schmidt (born 1987, Trier) is a German rower, 2012 Olympic gold and 2016/2021 silver medalist in the men's eight, six-time world champion in the Deutschland Achter, 2024 Thomas Keller Medal recipient, now a hydrogen energy researcher at Wilo.
Rob Waddell
Rob Waddell, New Zealand rower (born 1975, Te Kuiti), Olympic single sculls gold at Sydney 2000, world champion 1998 and 1999, Team New Zealand grinder, fourth in double sculls at Beijing 2008.
Robert Cudmore
Robert Cudmore (Collier Robert Cudmore, 1885–1971), Australian-born rower, lawyer, and politician; won 1908 Olympic gold in the coxless four for Great Britain with Magdalen College, Oxford, later led the LCL in South Australia's Legislative Council.
Robert Farnan
Robert Farnan (Robert E. Farnan, 1877–1939), American rower of the Seawanhaka Boat Club, Brooklyn; won 1904 St. Louis Olympic gold in men's coxless pairs with Joseph Ryan and a 1905 US fours title.
Robert Marland
Robert Davies Marland (born 1964, Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's eight at Barcelona 1992, and two-time world silver medalist (1990, 1991).
Robert Morrison
Robert Erskine Morrison (1902-1980), British rower, gold medalist in the men's coxless fours at the 1924 Paris Olympics with Eley, Macnabb, and Sanders; Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge oarsman and engineer.
Robert Zimonyi
Róbert Zimonyi (Zverzsina), Hungarian-American rowing coxswain (1918–2004): 1948 Olympic bronze for Hungary in coxed pairs, defected after 1956, won 1964 Tokyo gold coxing the US men's eight at age 46.
Rodica Arba Puscatu
Rodica Arba-Pușcatu (née Pușcatu), born 1962, Romanian rower; two Olympic golds in the women's coxless pair (1984 with Elena Horvat, 1988 with Olga Homeghi-Bularda), plus 1980 eights bronze and 1988 eights silver.
Rodica Florea Serban
Rodica Florea Serban (Rodica Maria Florea-Șerban), Romanian rower born 1983, Olympic gold in the women's eight at Athens 2004 and bronze at Beijing 2008, with world silver medals in 2005 and 2007.
Roelof Klein
Roelof Klein (1877-1960), Dutch rower from Delft club Laga; with François Brandt won the 1900 Paris Olympic coxed pair, first Dutch Olympic gold, using an unknown French boy coxswain; also bronze in the eight.