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Rana Kumbha
Rana Kumbha, also known as Maharana Kumbhakarna, was the ruler of Mewar from 1433 to 1468 who defeated the Sultanate of Malwa and built or rebuilt 32 fortresses, including Kumbhalgarh.
Rana Lakha
Rana Lakha (लाखा) was a Maharana of Mewar who ruled from Chittor from 1382 to 1421, remembered for conquering Badnor and discovering the Jawar silver mines.
Rana Sanga (संग्राम सिंह प्रथम)
Rana Sanga (Sangram Singh I, संग्राम सिंह प्रथम), Sisodia Rana of Mewar c. 1508/1509–1528, defeated Malwa, Gujarat, and Ibrahim Lodi, then led the Rajput confederacy against Babur at Khanwa (16 March 1527) and was defeated.
Rana Sikandar Hayat
Rana Sikandar Hayat (born 1987, Phool Nagar, Kasur) is a PML-N politician, MPA for PP-183 Kasur-IX, and Punjab's Provincial Minister for School Education since March 2024, with additional charge of Higher Education; former Chairman Kasur District Council.
Rana Yared
Rana Yared is an American venture capital investor and General Partner at Balderton Capital in London, who joined in 2020 after fourteen years at Goldman Sachs.
Ranajit Malla
Ranajit Malla (रणजीत मल्ल) was the last Malla king of Bhaktapur in the Kathmandu Valley, ruling from 1722 to 1769, when Prithvi Narayan Shah's conquest ended Malla rule.
Ranasinghe Premadasa (රණසිංහ ප්රේමදාස)
Ranasinghe Premadasa (රණසිංහ ප්රේමදාස), UNP politician, Prime Minister 1978–1989 and President of Sri Lanka 1989–1993; known for Janasaviya, Gam Udawa, and the One Million Housing Scheme; assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber on 1 May 1993.
Ranavalona I
Ranavalona I (c. 1790/1792–1861), queen of Madagascar 1828–1861, widow and successor of Radama I; pursued autarky, expelled foreigners in 1835, persecuted Christians until 1861, used tangena ordeal and fanompoana labor, succeeded by Radama II.
Ranavalona II
Ranavalona II, born Princess Ramoma, was queen of Madagascar from 1868 to 1883, the first Merina monarch to reign as a Christian, under whom Protestant Christianity became the state religion.
Ranavalona III
Ranavalona III, born Princess Razafindrahety in 1861, was the last queen of Madagascar, reigning from 1883 until the French abolished the monarchy and exiled her in 1897; she died in Algiers in 1917.
Ranbir Singh (businessman)
Ranbir Singh, often printed as Ranjit Singh, co-founded with Gurbax Singh the 1937 Amritsar drug-distribution firm whose blended name became Ranbaxy, one of India's largest pharmaceutical companies.
Ranbir Singh Gangwa
Ranbir Singh Gangwa, born in 1964, is an Indian BJP politician serving as a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Haryana under Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini.
RAND Corporation
RAND Corporation, originally Project RAND (Research AND Development), is a Santa Monica-based American nonprofit policy think tank founded 1948 from a 1945 Air Forces-Douglas Aircraft project; it runs four FFRDCs and pioneered systems analysis.
Rand Paul
Rand Paul, Kentucky's Republican junior senator since 2011, ophthalmologist, Homeland Security Committee chairman, Audit the Fed sponsor, 2016 presidential candidate, and Senate libertarian standard-bearer.
Rand Rebellion
The Rand Rebellion, also called the Rand Revolt, was a 1922 armed uprising by white gold mineworkers on the Witwatersrand, crushed by Jan Smuts's government.
Randal Cremer
Randal Cremer, or Sir William Randal Cremer, was an English carpenter, trade unionist, and politician who won the 1903 Nobel Peace Prize for his arbitration campaign.
Randal Mangham
Randal Mangham is an American Democratic politician who represents Georgia's 55th State Senate district, covering parts of Gwinnett and DeKalb County, and has focused on healthcare, education, and voting access.
Randall Arrington
Randall Arrington is an American politician and Republican candidate for the U.S. House in Louisiana's 1st District, challenging Majority Leader Steve Scalise in the November 2026 primary.
Randall Dale Adams
Randall Dale Adams, American man wrongfully convicted of the 1976 murder of Dallas officer Robert Wood; David Ray Harris was the real killer. Exonerated in 1989 after Errol Morris's film The Thin Blue Line.
Randall Davidson
Randall Davidson, Baron Davidson of Lambeth, served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1903 to 1928, during which he established the Church Assembly and acted as a moderate.
Randall Gair Doherty
Randall Gair Doherty, also called Aleister Atatürk, Aleister Macalpine, and Count Charles Edward D'Arquires (1937–2002), was the son of occultist Aleister Crowley and Patricia Doherty; he claimed the title Adjudicator of the Supreme Council of Great Britain and sought a 1976 meeting with Harold Wilson.
Randall Morck
Randall Morck is a Canadian economist at the University of Alberta, best known for his 1988 work linking managerial ownership to firm valuation and for research on pyramidal business groups.
Randall Woodfield
Randall Brent Woodfield (born 1950), the I-5 Killer or I-5 Bandit, is a Portland State football player drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1974 who became a serial killer along Interstate 5, sentenced to life plus 90 years.
Randall Wright
Randall Wright is a monetary economist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known as a pioneer of the search-theoretic approach to money with Kiyotaki and Lagos.
Randaula Khan
Randaula Khan (رندولہ خان) was a general of the Adil Shahi kingdom of Bijapur who conquered Bangalore and the Karnataka country in 1639 under Sultan Muhammad Adil Shah.
Randhir Jaiswal
Randhir Jaiswal, 1998-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, is Official Spokesperson and Additional Secretary (XP) of India's Ministry of External Affairs since January 2024; former consul general in New York.
Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten is an American labor leader and attorney who has led the 1.8 million-member American Federation of Teachers since 2008, after presiding over New York City's United Federation of Teachers.
Randi Zuckerberg
Randi Zuckerberg, born Randi Jayne Zuckerberg, is an American technology executive who spent six years at Facebook as director of marketing before founding Zuckerberg Media.
Randolfe Rodrigues
Randolfe Rodrigues, born Randolph Frederich Rodrigues Alves in 1972, is a Brazilian Workers' Party senator for Amapá serving as Leader of the Government in the National Congress under President Lula.
Randolph Apperson Hearst
Randolph Apperson Hearst (1915-2000), American newspaper executive, board chairman of Hearst Corp. 1973-1996, last surviving son of William Randolph Hearst, father of Patricia Hearst, kidnapped by the SLA in 1974.