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Rock Machine Motorcycle Club
The Rock Machine Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club founded in Montreal, best known for fighting the Hells Angels in the Quebec Biker War.
Rockbridge Network
Rockbridge Network is a conservative donor coalition founded in 2019 by JD Vance and Chris Buskirk, focused on the MAGA movement.
Rockefeller family
The Rockefeller family, known as the Rockefellers, is an American industrial, banking, and philanthropic dynasty founded by John D. Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil dominated American petroleum from 1870.
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a private American philanthropy founded in 1913 by John D. Rockefeller Sr. and his son John D. Rockefeller Jr., one of the largest in the United States.
Rockefeller Republican
Rockefeller Republican: moderate-liberal GOP faction named for Nelson Rockefeller, four-time New York governor and Ford's vice president; activist government, civil rights support, hawkish foreign policy; declined after 1964 Goldwater fight.
Rockefeller University
The Rockefeller University, founded 1901 in New York as the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, was the first US biomedical research institute; renamed a university in 1965, with 26 Nobel Prizes among 256 faculty.
Rocket Internet
Rocket Internet was a Berlin-based company builder founded in 2007 by the Samwer brothers that created startups by copying proven business models into new markets, listing in Frankfurt in 2014.
Rocketlane
Rocketlane is an enterprise software startup founded in April 2020 by Srikrishnan Ganesan, Vignesh Girishankar, and Deepak Bala, selling an AI-powered professional services automation platform.
Rockford crime family
The Rockford crime family, also known as the Zammuto crime family or the Rockford Mafia, was a small Italian American Mafia family based in Rockford, Illinois, led by Sicilian-born bosses.
Rockland Power Partners
Rockland Power Partners is the private equity fund series of Rockland Capital, a Texas firm making control investments in US and UK power generation assets.
RocknRolla
RocknRolla is a 2008 British crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, in which a crooked land deal by a Russian mobster draws every layer of London's criminal underworld into a scramble for millions.
Rockwood Capital Real Estate Partners
Rockwood Capital is a New York-based real estate private equity investment manager, majority-owned by Colliers International Group since 2022, with over $10 billion in assets under management.
Rocky De La Fuente
Rocky De La Fuente (Roque De La Fuente Guerra), San Diego real estate entrepreneur and perennial candidate; 2016 Democratic primary contender, Reform Party and American Delta Party nominee, 2018 nine-state Senate primary loser, 2020 Alliance and Reform Party nominee, and ballot-access litigant.
Rod (Slavic religion)
Rod is a Slavic deity of kinship, birth, and fate, worshipped with the female Rozhanitsy; both are known only from medieval Christian sermons condemning their feasts.
Rod Ansell
Rod Ansell (Rodney William Ansell, 1954–1999) was an Australian bushman and buffalo hunter in the Northern Territory whose 1977 outback survival ordeal inspired the film Crocodile Dundee.
Rod Blagojevich
Rod Blagojevich, full name Milorad Blagojevich, is an American Democrat who served as the 40th governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009 before his removal on corruption charges.
Rod Blagojevich corruption charges
Rod Blagojevich corruption charges: 2008 federal case against Illinois' 40th governor for allegedly selling Obama's U.S. Senate seat; impeachment, 2011 conviction, 14-year sentence, 2020 commutation, 2025 pardon.
Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher (b. 1967), American columnist and author of The Benedict Option, Live Not by Lies, and Crunchy Cons; former senior editor at The American Conservative, now in Budapest with the Danube Institute and Substack.
Rod Drury
Rod Drury is a New Zealand technology entrepreneur who co-founded cloud accounting software company Xero in 2006, led it as chief executive until 2018, and was knighted in 2026.
Rod Ferrell
Rod Ferrell (Roderrick Justin Ferrell, born 1980, Murray, Kentucky) led the teenage "Vampire Clan" and murdered Richard and Naoma Wendorf in Eustis, Florida, in 1996 at age 16; death sentence commuted 2000 to life without parole.
Rod Liddle
Rod Liddle (Roderick Edwin Liddle, 1960–2026), British columnist and broadcaster; editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme 1998–2002, later Sunday Times, Sun, and Spectator associate editor; first blogger censured by the PCC.
Rod of Asclepius
Rod of Asclepius: single serpent on a staff, attribute of the Greek god of medicine Asclepius and the true emblem of medicine, often confused with Hermes' two-snake winged caduceus, wrongly adopted by the US Army Medical Corps in 1902.
Rod of Iron Ministries
Rod of Iron Ministries, also known as the World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, is a gun-centered church in Pennsylvania founded by Sean Moon, son of Sun Myung Moon.
Rod Pelton
Rod Pelton is an American politician and Republican member of the Colorado Senate from the 35th district, elected in 2022 after two terms in the Colorado House.
Rod Rosenstein
Rod Rosenstein (born 1965) is an American lawyer, 37th Deputy Attorney General of the United States (2017-2019) and former U.S. Attorney for Maryland (2005-2017) who wrote the Comey firing memo and appointed Robert Mueller special counsel.
Rod Smith (politician)
Rod Smith is an American attorney and Democratic politician from Florida who served as a state senator, State Attorney, and chairman of the Florida Democratic Party.
Rodacy Kamraci
Rodacy Kamraci (Compatriots Comrades) is a Polish far-right, pro-Russian, antisemitic movement led by Wojciech Olszański and Marcin Osadowski; its party was deregistered in 2024 and its leaders convicted and prosecuted on hate-speech charges.
Rodadero Sea Aquarium and Museum
Rodadero Sea Aquarium and Museum, also known as Acuario Rodadero, is a Santa Marta, Colombia, marine exhibition founded in 1965, currently rebranding as Centro de Vida Marina.
Roddie Edmonds
Roddie Edmonds (Roderick W. Edmonds, 1919-1985), U.S. Army master sergeant of Knoxville, Tennessee, senior NCO of 1,200 American POWs at Stalag IX-A, Ziegenhain, who declared "We are all Jews here" on January 27, 1945, saving about 200 Jewish prisoners; Righteous Among the Nations 2015, posthumous Medal of Honor 2026.
Roderic
Roderic, the last Visigothic king of Spain, reigned from 710 to 711. He was defeated by an invading Arab army near Cádiz, leading to the kingdom's fall.