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Riaan Stassen
Riaan Stassen is a South African banker who co-founded Capitec Bank and was its chief executive from 2004 to 2013, building it into a major retail bank.
Riad al-Sulh
Riad al-Sulh (رياض الصلح) was a Lebanese statesman and the first prime minister of independent Lebanon, serving from 1943 and again from 1947 to 1951.
Rialto Real Estate Fund V - Debt
Rialto Real Estate Fund V - Debt, LP is a Delaware real estate debt fund managed by Miami-based Rialto Capital Management, launched with over $2.6 billion.
Rianne Letschert
Rianne Letschert is a Dutch politician of the D66 party and Minister of Education, Culture and Science since 2026, previously informateur in the Jetten government formation.
Riau-Lingga Sultanate
The Riau-Lingga Sultanate (Kesultanan Riau-Lingga) was a Malay sultanate in the Riau archipelago, ruled from Lingga from 1824 until the Dutch abolished it in 1911.
Riaz Pasha
Riaz Pasha (رياض باشا), also written Mustafa Riyad Pasha, was an Egyptian statesman who served three times as prime minister of Egypt between 1879 and 1894, dying in 1911.
Rib-Hadda
Rib-Hadda, also written Rib-Adda, was king of Byblos on the Lebanese coast around 1370 to 1340 BC, a vassal of Egypt who wrote more Amarna letters than anyone else.
Riba (ربا)
Riba (ربا) is an Arabic term in Islamic law meaning excess or increase: any compensation over a loan's principal or barter exchange that the Qur'an prohibits.
Ribbit Capital
Ribbit Capital is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Meyer "Micky" Malka that invests in fintech and cryptocurrency startups, including Coinbase and Robinhood.
Ribbon Communications
Ribbon Communications is an American communications technology company, formed in 2017 by merging Sonus Networks and GENBAND, supplying session border controllers and IP networking equipment.
Ribbon of Saint George (Георгиевская лента)
Ribbon of Saint George (Георгиевская лента, St George ribbon): black-and-orange bicolor ribbon created in 1769 for Russia's Order of St George, revived as the Soviet Guards ribbon, mass-distributed since 2005, and legally protected in Russia since 2022.
Ribemont-sur-Ancre
Ribemont-sur-Ancre, a Celtic and Gallo-Roman sanctuary site in the Somme, France, holds Northern Gaul's largest excavated human bone assemblage, about 23,000 remains of 508 warriors, interpreted as a post-battle war monument.
Ribon Therapeutics
Ribon Therapeutics was a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2015 to develop PARP inhibitors for cancer and inflammatory disease, and it ceased operations in 2024.
Ric Prado
Ric Prado (Enrique Prado, born 1950) is a Cuban exile who became a CIA paramilitary officer, Contra trainer, Bin Laden Task Force co-founder, Counterterrorist Center Chief of Operations during 9/11, Blackwater VP, and author of the 2022 memoir Black Ops.
Ricardian equivalence
Ricardian equivalence is the proposition that financing government spending by debt rather than taxes leaves aggregate demand unchanged, since households save to pay future taxes.
Ricardo Balbín
Ricardo Balbín (1904–1981) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who led the Radical Civic Union and ran four times for president of Argentina, losing each time.
Ricardo Cabrera
Ricardo Cabrera is an American politician, the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in California's 51st Congressional District in 2026, who owns a cybersecurity company.
Ricardo Castellar de Faria
Ricardo Castellar de Faria (born 1975) is a Brazilian entrepreneur who founded Granja Faria, Brazil's largest commercial egg producer, and Global Eggs, an international egg holding.
Ricardo de Arruda
Ricardo de Arruda is a Brazilian-born crypto investor who joined Paradigm in 2025 as a Partner, Investing & Research, known for work on sybil detection and airdrop distribution.
Ricardo Eichmann
Ricardo Francisco Eichmann, born 1955 near Buenos Aires, is a German archaeologist who led the German Archaeological Institute's Orient Department from 1996 to 2021 and studies Near Eastern music archaeology.
Ricardo Flores Magón
Ricardo Flores Magón (1873–1922), Mexican anarchist journalist, founded Regeneración and led the Partido Liberal Mexicano; precursor of the Mexican Revolution, exiled in the US, died in Leavenworth prison.
Ricardo H. Hinojosa
Ricardo H. Hinojosa is an American jurist, a federal district judge in Texas appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983 who served as chief judge from 2009 to 2016.
Ricardo Hausmann
Ricardo Hausmann, born 1956, is a Venezuelan-born economist who directs Harvard's Growth Lab, created growth diagnostics and economic complexity, and served as Venezuela's planning minister.
Ricardo J Caballero
Ricardo J Caballero is a macroeconomist who holds the Ford International Professorship of Economics at MIT, where he has taught since 1992, and is known for work on safe asset scarcity and crisis policy.
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno (1859–1945) was a Costa Rican lawyer and politician who served three terms as president, and is the only Costa Rican to have headed all three branches of government.
Ricardo López (stalker)
Ricardo López, the Björk stalker, Uruguayan-born pest control worker born 1975 in Montevideo; mailed a sulfuric acid letter bomb to Björk's London home in September 1996, filmed a 22-hour video diary, and died by suicide on camera; the bomb was intercepted.
Ricardo Monreal Ávila
Ricardo Monreal Ávila is a Mexican politician of Morena who serves as a federal deputy and leads the party's caucus in the Chamber of Deputies.
Ricardo Palma
Ricardo Palma (1833–1919) was a Peruvian writer, journalist, and librarian, author of the Tradiciones peruanas, who rebuilt and directed the National Library of Peru from 1883 to 1912.
Ricardo Pérez Godoy
Ricardo Pío Pérez Godoy was a Peruvian army general who led the July 1962 coup deposing President Manuel Prado Ugarteche and headed the governing junta until his removal in March 1963.
Ricardo Reis
Ricardo Reis, born 1978, is a Portuguese macroeconomist who holds the A.W. Phillips Professorship at the London School of Economics and is known for the sticky-information model of price setting developed with N. Gregory Mankiw.