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Renaissance philosophy
Renaissance philosophy (c. 1400–1600): scholastic Aristotelianism remained dominant while humanists recovered Platonism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and skepticism; Ficino translated Plato, and Copernicanism challenged the Aristotelian cosmos.
Renaissance Technologies
Renaissance Technologies, also known as RenTech, is an American quantitative hedge fund firm founded by mathematician Jim Simons in 1982, based in East Setauket, New York.
Renaming of the state as Dai Viet
In 1054 the Vietnamese state then called Dai Co Viet took the new name Dai Viet, meaning "Great Viet", under the Ly dynasty king Ly Thanh Tong.
RENAMO
RENAMO is a Mozambican political party founded in 1977, known for fighting the FRELIMO government during a civil war until a 1992 peace agreement.
RENAMO insurgency (2013–2019)
The RENAMO insurgency (2013–2019) was a low-level armed conflict in central Mozambique in which RENAMO resumed fighting the FRELIMO government, ending with the 2019 Maputo Accord.
Renan Santos
Renan Santos (Renan Antônio Ferreira dos Santos, born 1984, São Paulo) is a Brazilian activist, MBL co-founder, and Missão party president who ran for president in 2026, winning 2.24% of valid votes.
Renard Johnson
Renard U. Johnson, El Paso businessman and founder of METI Inc., won the December 2024 runoff to become El Paso's first Black mayor; sworn in January 6, 2025 for the 2025–2028 nonpartisan term.
Renata Janik
Renata Janik is a Polish politician who has served as Marshal of Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship since 2024, having earlier been Deputy Marshal from 2018 to 2024 and a member of the Sejm.
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.
Renata Salecl
Renata Salecl is a Slovene philosopher, sociologist, and legal theorist of the Ljubljana Lacanian school, known for books on anxiety, choice, and ignorance, including The Tyranny of Choice.
Renati Cholas
The Renati Cholas (రేనాటి చోళులు) were Telugu-speaking chieftains who ruled the Renadu region in present-day Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh, with their capital at Erikal.
Renato Andrade
Renato Andrade is a Brazilian co-founder of Merama, a Latin American e-commerce brand holding company founded in 2020, and served as its CEO Brazil until 2025.
Renato Corona
Renato Corona (1948–2016), Filipino jurist, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court from May 2010; removed in 2012 by impeachment conviction for SALN non-disclosure in a 20–3 Senate vote.
Renato Schifani
Renato Schifani (born 1950) is an Italian politician of Forza Italia who serves as President of Sicily and was President of the Senate from 2008 to 2013.
Renaud Camus
Renaud Camus (born 1946, Chamalières), French avant-garde writer, author of Tricks and the Journal d'un voyage en France, later originator of the far-right 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory, convicted in 2014 for hate-speech provocation.
Renaud Van Ruymbeke
Renaud Van Ruymbeke (1952-2024), French investigating judge in the Boulin, Urba, Elf, Clearstream, Karachi, Kerviel, and Cahuzac affairs; signed the 1996 Geneva Appeal, cleared by the CSM in Clearstream, retired 2019.
Renchuan Pharmacy (Chifeng pharmacy chain)
Renchuan Pharmacy (赤峰人川大药房) was the largest drugstore chain in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, founded in 2001 and sold to LBX Pharmacy for RMB 680 million in 2020.
Rendaku (連濁)
Rendaku (連濁), or sequential voicing, is the Japanese morphophonological process voicing the initial consonant of a compound's second element (te+kami to tegami). Blocked by Lyman's Law, favored in native words, resisted in Sino-Japanese and loanwords.
Render unto Caesar
"Render unto Caesar", also known as "Give unto Caesar", is Jesus's answer in the Synoptic Gospels to a trap question about paying Roman taxes to the empire.
Rendition of Mysore
The Rendition of Mysore was the formal restoration of the princely state of Mysore to its Wodeyar dynasty by the British on 25 March 1881.
Rendlesham Forest incident
Rendlesham Forest incident, also called Britain's Roswell: reported USAF sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters, Suffolk, in December 1980, documented by the Halt memo and explained skeptically as a meteor, the Orford Ness lighthouse, and bright stars.
René Aust
René Aust, German AfD politician born 1987 in Lüdinghausen; MEP since 2024, head of the AfD delegation and co-chair of the Europe of Sovereign Nations group with Stanisław Tyszka; formerly Thuringian state parliament 2019–2024.
René Barrientos
René Barrientos Ortuño, Bolivian Air Force general and vice president, led the 4 November 1964 coup against Paz Estenssoro, co-ruled with Ovando Candia, was elected president in 1966, signed the Military-Peasant Pact, and died in a 1969 helicopter crash.
René Belbenoît
René Belbenoît (1899–1959), French convict and author of Dry Guillotine (1938), escaped French Guiana's penal colony in 1935 after four prison breaks and reached Los Angeles, later advising Warner Bros.
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.
René Carmona
René Carmona is an applied mathematician and the Paul M. Wythes '55 Professor of Engineering and Finance at Princeton University, known for mean field games and emissions market models.
René Cassin
René Cassin was a French jurist who drafted Free France's legal texts in 1940, presided over the European Court of Human Rights, and won the 1968 Nobel Peace Prize.
René de Prie
René de Prie (1451–1519) was a French cardinal and bishop of Bayeux and Limoges, deposed by Pope Julius II in 1511 and reinstated by Leo X in 1514.
René Descartes
René Descartes (1596–1650), French mathematician, scientist, and metaphysician, author of La Géométrie, the Discourse on Method, and the Meditations; founder of analytic geometry and of the mind–body dualism debate via the cogito and method of doubt.
René Fonck
René Fonck (1894-1953), French First World War fighter pilot known as "l'as des as", top Allied ace with 75 confirmed victories; later Vosges deputy, failed 1926 transatlantic flyer, and figure of Vichy-era controversy.