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Rawbank
Rawbank is the largest bank in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by assets, founded in 2002 in Kinshasa by the Rawji family, who still control it.
RD Tata
RD Tata (1856–1926) was an Indian businessman and founding director of Tata & Sons who helped complete Tata Steel and was the father of JRD Tata.
Reimann family
The Reimann family is a German business family, among Europe's wealthiest, that controls JAB Holding, whose brands include Pret A Manger, Panera Bread, and JDE Peet's.
Religare Enterprises
Religare Enterprises is a New Delhi-based financial services holding company, founded in 1984, whose largest business is Care Health Insurance; the Burman family has been its promoter since 2025.
Renáta Kellnerová
Renáta Kellnerová is a Czech billionaire, widow of PPF co-founder Petr Kellner, who died in 2021; she and her three daughters own 100% of the Prague-based investment group.
René Benko
René Benko, born 1977 in Innsbruck, is an Austrian real estate investor who built Signa Holding, whose 2023 collapse was Austria's largest insolvency; he was convicted of insolvency fraud in 2025.
Republic Biscuit Corporation
Republic Biscuit Corporation, known as Rebisco, is a family-owned Philippine snack-food manufacturer founded by Jacinto Ng Sr. in 1963, exporting to 48 countries and controlling Asia United Bank.
Rethmann family
The Rethmann family is a German business family that wholly owns Rethmann SE & Co. KG in Selm, with recycling, logistics, animal by-products, and mobility divisions.
Ricardo Castellar de Faria
Ricardo Castellar de Faria (born 1975) is a Brazilian entrepreneur who founded Granja Faria, Brazil's largest commercial egg producer, and Global Eggs, an international egg holding.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
Ricardo Salinas Pliego is a Mexican billionaire businessman who controls Grupo Salinas, has chaired TV Azteca since 1993, rebuilt Grupo Elektra, and founded Banco Azteca.
Richard Elman (commodities trader)
Richard Elman is a British commodities trader who founded Noble Group in Hong Kong in 1986 and built it into Asia's biggest commodity trader before its 2018 collapse.
Rimbunan Hijau Group
Rimbunan Hijau Group, whose name means "Forever Green," is a Malaysian conglomerate founded in Sibu, Sarawak, in 1975 by Tiong Hiew King, spanning timber, palm oil, property, and Chinese-language media.
Robert G. Coyiuto Jr.
Robert G. Coyiuto Jr. is a Filipino businessman who chairs insurer Prudential Guarantee, founded PGA Cars, and holds a major stake in the Philippines' power grid operator.
Robert Ng
Robert Ng Chee Siong is a Hong Kong property magnate who chaired the Sino Group from 1991 until 2025 and, with his brother Philip, controls Singapore's Far East Organization.
Roberto Colaninno
Roberto Colaninno (1943–2023) was an Italian entrepreneur and chair of Immsi who led Olivetti's record 1999 takeover of Telecom Italia and turned Piaggio into Europe's largest scooter maker.
Roberto Hernández Ramírez
Roberto Hernández Ramírez is a Mexican banker and investor who co-founded the brokerage Accival in 1971, won Banamex in the 1991 privatization, and sold it to Citigroup in 2001 for $12.5 billion.
Roberto Medina
Roberto Medina is a Brazilian event producer who created the Rock in Rio festival in 1985 and, as president of Rock World, has organized every edition since.
Rodobens
Rodobens is a family-controlled Brazilian automotive and financial-services group founded in 1949 by Waldemar de Oliveira Verdi, headquartered in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo.
Rodolphe Saadé
Rodolphe Saadé, born in Lebanon in 1970, is a French-Lebanese businessman who has been chairman and CEO of the Marseille container shipping group CMA CGM since 2017.
Ronnie C. Chan
Ronnie C. Chan, also known as Ronnie Chan (陈启宗), is a Hong Kong property executive who led Hang Lung Group from 1991 to 2024 and co-founded the investment group Morningside.
Roy Thomson
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet (1894–1976), was a Canadian newspaper publisher who built a chain of small-town dailies into one of the world's largest media groups.
Royal Golden Eagle Group
Royal Golden Eagle Group is a Singapore-headquartered natural resources group controlled by Indonesian-born tycoon Sukanto Tanoto, with businesses in pulp and paper, viscose, and palm oil.
RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group
The RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, also known as the RPSG Group, is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata, created in 2011 when Rama Prasad Goenka's businesses were divided between his sons.
Rubén Coppel Luken
Rubén Coppel Luken is a Mexican billionaire, one of five brothers who own Grupo Coppel, and chairs its BanCoppel bank and Afore Coppel pension fund.
Rubens Menin
Rubens Menin is a Brazilian civil engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded MRV Engenharia in 1979 and Banco Inter, and won EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2018.
Rufino Vigil González
Rufino Vigil González, born 1948 in Mexico City, is a Mexican steel businessman who chairs Industrias CH and Grupo Simec and owns about 63 percent of it.
Ruparelia Group
The Ruparelia Group is a family-owned Ugandan conglomerate founded by Sudhir Ruparelia in 1985, spanning hospitality, real estate, education, and finance, and known for the 2016 collapse of Crane Bank.
Ryan Beedie
Ryan Beedie is a Canadian real estate developer who has led Beedie, British Columbia's largest industrial developer, since 2001 and founded the Beedie Luminaries scholarship program.
S. K. Burman
S. K. Burman, or Sourindra Mohan Burman, was a 19th-century Calcutta physician and Ayurveda practitioner who founded Dabur in 1884 to make Ayurvedic medicines; the name came from "Daktar Burman".
S.S. Lootah Group
S.S. Lootah Group is a Dubai-based, family-owned diversified business house founded in 1956 by Haj Saeed bin Ahmed Lootah, who also founded the world's first Islamic bank.