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Rattanbai Jinnah
Rattanbai Jinnah, also called Ruttie (Rattanbai Petit), 1900–1929, was the Parsi-born second wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan; she converted to Islam, married him in 1918 aged 18, bore daughter Dina, separated in 1928, and died on her 29th birthday.
RattanIndia Power
RattanIndia Power Limited is a listed Indian thermal power generator promoted by Rajiv Rattan after the 2014 Indiabulls split, operating the 1,350 MW Amravati coal plant in Maharashtra.
Ratu Epeli Ganilau
Ratu Epeli Ganilau (1951–2023) was a Fijian military officer and politician, Commander of the Fiji Military Forces from 1991 to 1999 and later chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs.
Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu
Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu is a Fijian politician and the 7th President of Fiji, elected by Parliament after serving as Speaker. He is the high chief of the Cakaudrove confederacy, holding the title of Tui Cakau.
Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna
Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, born Josefa Lalabalavu Vanayaliyali Sukuna (1888–1958), was a Fijian chief, lawyer, and statesman who created the Native Land Trust Board and shaped indigenous Fijian administration.
Raul Bolanos Cacho Cue
Raúl Bolaños Cacho Cué is a Mexican politician of the Ecologist Green Party, a former senator elected in 2018 who became President of the Chamber of Deputies in 2026.
Raúl Castro
Raúl Castro (Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz), born 1931, is a Cuban revolutionary who led Cuba from 2006 to 2018 and remained a central power figure after retiring.
Raul Fernandes (diplomat)
Raul Fernandes (1877–1968) was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, and diplomat who twice served as Foreign Minister and presided over the 1947 Petrópolis conference that produced the Rio Treaty.
Raúl Grijalva
Raúl Manuel Grijalva (1948–2025), Arizona Democratic congressman, twelve-term House member for Tucson-area districts, chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, Progressive Caucus leader, environmental and tribal advocate; died in office March 13, 2025; succeeded by daughter Adelita Grijalva.
Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro
Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, "El Cangrejo," born 1985, grandson of Raúl Castro, Interior Ministry colonel and former head of his grandfather's security detail; unofficial Cuban interlocutor in 2026 US-Cuba talks despite no government post.
Raul Hilberg
Raul Hilberg (1926–2007), Austrian-born American political scientist at the University of Vermont, founder of Holocaust studies; author of The Destruction of the European Jews (1961, revised 1985 and 2003), which framed the Holocaust as a bureaucratic process.
Raúl Jalil
Raúl Jalil is an Argentine politician and former economist serving his second term as Governor of Catamarca, having earlier been mayor of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca from 2011 to 2019.
Raúl Labrador
Raúl R. Labrador is an American Republican politician and attorney serving as Idaho's attorney general, elected in 2022 after representing Idaho's 1st district in Congress from 2011 to 2019.
Raúl Leoni
Raúl Leoni Otero (1905–1972) was a Venezuelan lawyer and founding leader of Acción Democrática who served as president from 1964 to 1969, handing power to the opposition in 1969.
Raúl M. Arias-Marxuach
Raúl Manuel Arias-Marxuach, born 1967 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a United States district judge appointed by President Trump in 2019 and chief judge since 2021.
Raúl Prebisch
Raúl Prebisch (1901–1986) was an Argentine economist who founded the Central Bank of Argentina, led ECLAC and UNCTAD, and promoted structuralist economics, the first Latin American school of development criticism.
Raul Ruiz
Raul Ruiz, born in 1972, is an American emergency physician and Democratic U.S. Representative for California's 25th district since 2023, having represented the 36th district from 2013 to 2023.
Raúl Torrez
Raúl Torrez is an American attorney and Democrat serving as Attorney General of New Mexico since 2023, after serving as Bernalillo County District Attorney from 2017 to 2022.
Raumesh Akbari
Raumesh Akbari (born 1984) is a Democratic Tennessee state senator for District 29 in Memphis and Senate Minority Leader, previously House District 91 member, attorney, and sponsor of the anti-slavery-punishment constitutional amendment.
Rav Ashi (רב אשי)
Rav Ashi was a Babylonian amora who led the academy of Sura for over 50 years and, with Ravina, is traditionally named as redactor of the Babylonian Talmud.
Rav Wilding
Rav Wilding (Ravin Mika Wilding, born 1977), British TV presenter and former Metropolitan Police detective; Crimewatch host 2004-2011, Crimewatch Live since 2009, Scam Interceptors and Morning Live presenter, two-time BAFTA winner.
Rava (רבא) (amora)
Rava (רבא), full name Abba bar Joseph bar Ḥama, was a fourth-generation Babylonian amora who led the academy at Mahoza until his death around 352 CE.
Ravada A. Chandrasekhar
Ravada A. Chandrasekhar (Ravada Azad Chandrasekhar), 1991-batch Kerala cadre IPS officer and former Intelligence Bureau Special Director, has been Kerala's DGP and State Police Chief since July 2025, earlier a murder accused in the 1994 Koothuparamba firing before acquittal.
Ravandi
Ravandi (راوندی) was a Persian historian from Ravand near Kashan, Iran, who wrote the Rahat al-sudur, a history of the Great Seljuks completed around 1204.
Raven banner
Raven banner (hrafnsmerki), Viking war flag of the 9th to 11th centuries, first recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 878; later sagas credit it with prophetic magic, and York raven coins and the Bayeux Tapestry preserve its imagery.
Raven Rock Mountain Complex
Raven Rock Mountain Complex (RRMC), also called Site R, is an underground DoD continuity-of-operations facility on the Pennsylvania-Maryland border, operational since 1953 as a hardened backup command center to the Pentagon.
Ravenloft
Ravenloft, the Domains of Dread or Demiplane of Dread, is Dungeons & Dragons' gothic horror campaign setting: nightmare demiplanes in the Shadowfell, each imprisoning a Darklord such as Strahd von Zarovich; first a boxed setting in 1990.
Ravensbrück concentration camp
Ravensbrück was the largest Nazi concentration camp for women, built by the SS near Fürstenberg, 50 miles north of Berlin, in 1939. An estimated 130,000 women passed through it; as many as 40,000 died. The Red Army liberated it on 30 April 1945.
Ravi Adusumalli
Ravi Chandra Adusumalli is an Indian-American venture capitalist who founded Elevation Capital's India operations, then called SAIF Partners India, in 2002, investing early in Paytm, MakeMyTrip, Swiggy, and Meesho.
Ravi Ahuja
Ravi Ahuja is an American media executive who has been Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment since January 2025, after leading Sony Pictures Television.