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Renn Dickson Hampden
Renn Dickson Hampden (1793–1868), born in Barbados, was an Anglican theologian, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1836, and Bishop of Hereford from 1848 to 1868.
Rennie Davis
Rennie Davis (Rennard Cordon Davis, 1940-2021) was an SDS leader, MOBE project director, and Chicago Seven defendant convicted of inciting a riot and later overturned on appeal; he later followed Guru Maharaj Ji and worked on environmental projects.
Rennyo
Rennyo (蓮如, 1415–1499) was a Japanese Pure Land Buddhist priest and eighth head of Honganji who, after being driven from Kyoto in 1465, rebuilt the movement and is often considered the second founder of Jōdo Shinshū.
Reno U-Haul murders
Reno U-Haul murders: January 3, 1994 robbery-murders of U-Haul employees Peggy Crawford and Keith Christopher in Reno, Nevada, by Alvaro Calambro and Duc Cong Huynh; $2,400 stolen; Calambro executed 1999.
Renovaro Inc.
Renovaro Inc., formerly Enochian Biosciences, was a Los Angeles-based biotechnology company that developed preclinical cell and gene therapies for cancer and HIV before renaming itself Lunai Bioworks in 2025.
Renren Jucai
Renren Jucai (人人聚财) was a Chinese peer-to-peer lending platform founded by Xu Jianwen in Shenzhen in 2011, known for car-title loans before its supervised exit in 2020.
Renrenche (人人车)
Renrenche was a Chinese C2C used-car platform founded in April 2014 in Beijing by former Baidu executive Li Jian, backed by Tencent, Didi Chuxing, and Goldman Sachs.
Renrendai
Renrendai (人人贷) was a Beijing-based peer-to-peer lending platform founded in 2010 by Zhang Shishi, Li Xinhe, and Yang Yifu, one of China's largest until the P2P sector was shut down in 2020.
RenrenYouXin Group
RenrenYouXin Group (人人友信集团) is a Beijing-based Chinese financial group founded by Li Xinhe, Zhang Shishi, and Yang Yifu, best known for the P2P lending platform Renrendai.
Renseneb
Renseneb, written rn(.i)-snb(w), was a king of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty attested on the Turin King List and a glazed steatite bead, with a four-month reign around 1777 BC.
Renshou Palace incident
The Renshou Palace incident (仁寿宫变) was a palace coup at the end of the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, who died at Renshou Palace in 604.
Rensis Likert
Rensis Likert (1903–1981) was an American social psychologist who invented the Likert scale for measuring attitudes and co-founded the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), founded 1824 in Troy, New York by Stephen Van Rensselaer with Amos Eaton, is the first U.S. technological research university, enrolling about 7,000 students across five schools.
Rent and Household Tax Edict of Jian'an 9
The Rent and Household Tax Edict of Jian'an 9 (建安九年租調令) was a tax decree issued by Cao Cao in 204, fixing land rent at four sheng of grain per mu.
Rent Is Too Damn High Party
Rent Is Too Damn High Party (Rent Is 2 Damn High), a single-issue New York political party founded by Jimmy McMillan, known for his viral 2010 gubernatorial debate slogan and ballot-name lawsuits.
Rent regulation
Rent regulation, also called rent control or rent stabilization, is the body of laws limiting residential rents and often the conditions for ending tenancies, in force since the First World War.
Rent-seeking
Rent-seeking, also called rent-seeking behavior, is the socially costly pursuit of government-created wealth transfers; Gordon Tullock originated the idea in 1967 and Anne Krueger named it in 1974.
Rent-to-own
Rent-to-own, or rental-purchase, is a contract letting consumers lease goods or homes and buy them later; goods terms run up to 18 months with no credit checks, housing deals set a future sale price, with option fees of 1%-7%.
Rent2Cash
Rent2Cash is a Rome-based Italian fintech and proptech startup, founded in 2024, that buys lease credits so landlords get immediate liquidity while it collects future rents.
Rental agreement
A rental agreement is a written or oral contract granting a tenant the right to occupy property for short periods, typically month to month, in exchange for rent.
Rentap
Rentap, born Libau anak Ningkan, was an Iban war leader in Sarawak who led the most sustained Iban resistance to Brooke rule from his stronghold on Bukit Sadok.
Renting
Renting, also known as contract rent, is paying a landlord for the temporary use of a property under a lease, covering housing, commercial space, land, or equipment.
Rentokil Initial
Rentokil Initial is a British business-services group providing pest control and hygiene services in 89 countries, formed in 1996 and generating £5.5 billion in 2024 revenue.
Renuka (रेणुका)
Renuka (रेणुका), also worshipped as Yellamma, is a Hindu goddess of the Deccan, wife of the sage Jamadagni and mother of Parashurama, with her main temple at Saundatti, Karnataka.
Renuka Chowdhury (రేణుక చౌదరి)
Renuka Chowdhury (రేణుక చౌదరి), Congress Rajya Sabha MP from Telangana since 2024, former Union minister of state for Women and Child Development, ex-TDP leader mentored by NTR, and two-time Khammam Lok Sabha winner (1999, 2004).
Renuka Ramnath
Renuka Ramnath is an Indian private equity investor who founded Mumbai-based Multiples Alternate Asset Management in 2009 after leading ICICI Venture, and chairs Tata Communications.
Renville Agreement
The Renville Agreement was a truce and set of political principles signed on 17 January 1948 between the Netherlands and Indonesia aboard USS Renville in Jakarta Bay.
Renxuan Restoration
The Renxuan Restoration (仁宣之治) was the roughly eleven-year Ming dynasty period of lenient governance and military restraint under the emperors Renzong and Xuanzong, remembered as a rare stretch of peace and clean administration.
Renzo Novatore
Renzo Novatore, pen name of Abele Ricieri Ferrari (1890–1922), Italian individualist anarchist and writer from Arcola, La Spezia; WWI deserter sentenced to death, author of Verso il Nulla Creatore, killed violently.
Renzo Rosso
Renzo Rosso, born in 1955, is an Italian fashion entrepreneur who founded Diesel in 1978 and created OTB, the group owning Diesel, Maison Margiela, and Jil Sander.