Society and history

Ransom Dunn

Ransom Dunn (1818–1900) was an American Free Will Baptist minister, professor, and acting president of Hillsdale College whose 6,000-mile fundraising circuit built its first campus.

Sep 24, 2026

Ransom of Atahualpa

The Ransom of Atahualpa (Rescate de Atahualpa) was the 1532 agreement by which the captured Inca ruler promised gold and silver to Pizarro for his release.

Oct 21, 2026

Räntemåla Moose Park (Räntemåla Gård), Eringsboda, Blekinge, Sweden: a fenced moose park, Blekinge's only, one of two Swedish operators with a written moose guarantee; 30-hectare enclosure, July-August 17:00 tours, SEK 250 adults.

Ranuccio Farnese

Ranuccio Farnese was an Italian cardinal of the Farnese family and a grandson of Pope Paul III, a cardinal from 1545 until his death in 1565.

Ranvir Singh

Ranvir Singh, born 1977 in Preston, is a British journalist and presenter, political editor and newsreader on ITV's Good Morning Britain, 2020 Strictly Come Dancing semi-finalist, and host of ITV's Riddiculous.

Rao Abdul Kareem

Rao Abdul Kareem is a Pakistani police officer and Inspector General of Punjab Police since 3 February 2026, replacing Dr Usman Anwar, who became FIA director general. A 1996 CSS-joined PSP officer from Nawabshah, he earlier headed the Special Branch Punjab.

Rao Chunda's capture of Mandore

Rao Chunda's capture of Mandore (मंडोर की विजय) was, in Jodhpur tradition, the gift of Mandore, ancient capital of Marwar, to the Rathore chief Rao Chunda.

Rao Deva (Hada Chauhan)

Rao Deva (राव देवा) was a Hada Chauhan chief, first Rao of Bundi, who took the town from its Meena chief and gave his clan's name to the Hadauti region.

Rao Inderjit Singh (राव इंद्रजीत सिंह)

Rao Inderjit Singh (राव इंद्रजीत सिंह), born 1950 in Rewari, is a six-term Lok Sabha MP from Gurgaon, Haryana, a BJP Union Minister of State for Statistics, Planning, and Culture, son of former chief minister Rao Birender Singh, and a former Congress leader who switched parties in 2014.

Rao Jodha

Rao Jodha (राव जोधा) was a Rathore ruler of Marwar, in present-day Rajasthan, who reigned from 1438 to 1489 and founded the city of Jodhpur in 1459.

Rao Jodha's capture of Mandore

Rao Jodha's capture of Mandore in 1453 was the recapture of the Marwar capital from Mewar by the Rathore chief Rao Jodha, after a pre-dawn assault on the fort.

Rao Luhua

Rao Luhua (饶陆华, born 1965) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Shenzhen Clou Electronics in 1996, led it to its 2007 Shenzhen listing, and lost control by 2021.

Rao Narbir Singh

Rao Narbir Singh is an Indian BJP politician and Haryana minister, first elected to the state assembly in 1987 and sworn in as a minister four times.

Rao Narender Singh

Rao Narender Singh is an Indian National Congress politician serving as president of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, appointed in 2025 after three terms in the Haryana assembly.

Rao Rajendra Singh

Rao Rajendra Singh, born in 1958, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician representing Jaipur Rural in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after serving in the Rajasthan assembly for Shahpura from 2003 to 2018.

Rao Ranmal

Rao Ranmal (राव रणमल) was the Rathore ruler of Marwar, with his capital at Mandore, from 1427 until his assassination at Chittor in 1438, and regent of Mewar for the young Maharana Kumbha.

Rao Ratan Singh of Bundi

Rao Ratan Singh (राव रतन सिंह) was the Hara Rajput chief who ruled Bundi in southern Rajasthan from 1607 to 1631, remaining fiercely loyal to the Mughal emperor Jahangir.

Rao Tula Ram

Rao Tula Ram (राव तुला राम) was a leader of Rewari who became a rebel commander in the 1857 Indian rebellion, dying in exile in 1863.

Rao Xianhong

Rao Xianhong (饶先宏) is a Chinese semiconductor engineer and associate professor who co-founded Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics in 2006 and was first completer of China's JM5400 embedded GPU.

Sep 24, 2026

Raombana

Raombana (1809–1855) was a Merina historian and private secretary to Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar, regarded as the first Malagasy historian; educated in Britain, he secretly wrote an 8,000-page history in English.

Raoul Dandurand

Raoul Dandurand was a Canadian lawyer and Liberal Party senator who served 44 years in the Senate and held ministerial positions in every Mackenzie King cabinet.

Raoul Hedebouw

Raoul Hedebouw is a Belgian politician who has led the Workers' Party of Belgium (PVDA-PTB) since 2014, sitting in the Chamber of Representatives and campaigning against cost-of-living measures.

Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg (1912–?), Swedish diplomat and businessman, saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews in Budapest in 1944 with protective passports and safe houses; arrested by Soviet forces in January 1945, he disappeared in Soviet custody, and his exact fate remains unresolved.

Rapa Nui people

The Rapa Nui are the indigenous Polynesian people of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile, settled from Eastern Polynesia around 1250 CE, annexed by Chile in 1888, decimated to 111 people by 1877, and now about 7,500 strong.

Rapanu

Rapanu, also written Rap'anu, was a scribe and high official of the kingdom of Ugarit on the north Syrian coast in the 13th century BC.

Rapanu archive

The Rapanu archive is the private library of tablets from the house of Rapanu, a diplomat at Ugarit on the Syrian coast, buried by the city's destruction around 1190–1185 BC.

Rape

Rape is a crime in which a person is subjected to a sexual act without their consent, whether through physical force, threats, incapacitation, or coercion.

Rape by deception

Rape by deception, also called rape by fraud or sex by deception, is sex obtained through lies or non-disclosure that vitiates consent. Covers fraud in factum versus inducement, Lawrance, CPS guidance, US, Canadian, Israeli, and Indian law, and stealthing.

Rape by gender

Rape by gender covers how rape law and statistics treat victims and perpetrators by gender: gender-specific versus gender-neutral statutes, consent-based reforms, CDC NISVS rape and made-to-penetrate definitions, and prevalence and reporting differences for women and men.