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Rokurokubi
Rokurokubi (轆轤首, ろくろ首), Japanese yōkai with a freely stretching neck, distinct from the head-detaching nukekubi; first attested in 1638 haikai, derived from Chinese flying-head lore, depicted by Toriyama Sekien and transmitted abroad by Lafcadio Hearn.
Roland Benabou
Roland Bénabou is a French economist working in behavioral and political economics, best known for his theory of motivated beliefs developed with Jean Tirole and his 2013 paper "Groupthink".
Roland Burris
Roland Burris, Illinois Democratic politician, was US senator 2009–2010, appointed by Governor Rod Blagojevich to fill Barack Obama's seat; former comptroller, attorney general; ethics admonition, no charges.
Roland Freisler
Roland Freisler (1893-1945), Nazi jurist, State Secretary in the Reich Justice Ministry 1934-1942, Wannsee Conference participant, and President of the Volksgerichtshof from 1942, known for show trials, mass death sentences, and death in a 1945 Berlin air raid.
Roland Fryer
Roland G. Fryer, Jr. is an American economist at Harvard who won the 2015 John Bates Clark Medal and became the youngest African American there to receive tenure.
Roland Gutierrez (Texas politician)
Roland Gutierrez is an American Democratic politician and attorney who has represented District 19 in the Texas Senate since 2021, after six terms in the Texas House of Representatives.
Roland L. Bragg
Roland Leon Bragg (1923–1999), Maine-born US Army paratrooper of the 513th PIR, 17th Airborne Division, won the Silver Star and Purple Heart in the Battle of the Bulge for driving a captured German ambulance 20 miles under fire; Fort Bragg was renamed for him in 2025.
Roland Lescure
Roland Lescure is a French politician serving as Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industrial, Energy, and Digital Sovereignty, after holding the industry and energy portfolio.
Roland Martin (journalist)
Roland Martin, also Roland Sebastian Martin, is an American journalist and commentator, former Chicago Defender executive editor, CNN contributor 2007-2013, TV One's NewsOne Now host, and founder of #RolandMartinUnfiltered and the Black Star Network.
Rolando Galman
Rolando Galman, Filipino man killed at Manila airport August 21, 1983, moments after Ninoy Aquino; military named him the communist-hired assassin, but the Agrava Board and 1990 retrial treated him as a scapegoat victim.
Role
Role (social role): the expected behavior attached to a social position or status in sociology and social psychology. Also gender roles, role theory, social role theory (Eagly, Wood). Defined by Banton and Merton, learned via socialization, and measurably shaping labor-market outcomes.
Role model
Role model: exemplar whose behavior others observe and emulate, a term coined by Robert K. Merton in reference group theory. Distinguished from mentors (no prior relationship required); effectiveness depends on competence, similarity, and attainability.
Role of Christianity in civilization
Role of Christianity in civilization: Christianity's influence on politics, law, learning, charity, and colonial expansion from Constantine's conversion and medieval Christendom to today's global-south-centered faith, with debates over its benefits and harms.
Role reversal (psychotherapy)
Role reversal is a psychodrama technique in which a client temporarily enacts another person's role, such as a family member's, to see the situation through their eyes.
Role theory
Role theory: sociological and social psychology framework explaining behavior as enactment of roles tied to social positions, with structural and symbolic interactionist traditions, concepts like role conflict and strain, and documented criticisms.
Rolf Schock Prizes
The Rolf Schock Prizes are four international prizes awarded since 1993 in logic and philosophy, mathematics, visual arts, and musical arts, funded by Rolf Schock's bequest.
Rolling forecast
A rolling forecast is a financial forecast that always extends a fixed number of periods ahead and is updated monthly or quarterly as actual results replace the forecast.
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone (also Rolling Stone Magazine) is the American monthly magazine of music, film, TV, and politics founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph J. Gleason, now published by Penske Media after Wenner's 2017 sale.
Rollins College
Rollins College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in Winter Park, Florida, on Lake Virginia just north of Orlando. Chartered in 1885, it is Florida's first recognized college.
Rollo
Rollo (Hrolf, c. 860–c. 930) was the Viking chieftain who founded Normandy under the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte with Charles the Simple, was baptized as Robert in 912, and became ancestor of William the Conqueror; his origins, Danish or Norwegian, remain disputed.
Rom Braslavski (רום ברסלבסקי)
Rom Braslavski, a German-Israeli man and former IDF soldier, was taken hostage by Palestinian Islamic Jihad on October 7, 2023. He was held for 738 days.
ROM Technologies, Inc.
ROM Technologies, Inc., known publicly as ROMTech and formerly ROM3 Rehab LLC, is a private digital rehabilitation company in Brookfield, Connecticut. It sells PortableConnect, a clinician-prescribed at-home physical therapy system for joint-replacement patients.
Roma called Roy
Roma, also called Roy, was High Priest of Amun at Thebes in Egypt's 19th Dynasty, succeeding his elder brother Bakenkhons and serving under Ramesses II, Seti II, and Amenmesse.
Romaine Quinn
Romaine Quinn is an American Republican politician who was mayor of Rice Lake at 19, served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 2015, and now serves in the State Senate.
Romaine-la-Prophétesse
Romaine-la-Prophétesse, born Romaine Rivière around 1760, was a free black insurgent and prophet who led thousands in Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution until his defeat in 1792.
Roman Abramovich (Рома́н Арка́дьевич Абрамо́вич)
Roman Abramovich (Роман Абрамович) is a Russian billionaire investor who made his fortune in oil, owned Chelsea FC from 2003 to 2022, and was sanctioned in 2022.
Roman annexation of Nabataea
The Roman annexation of Nabataea, also known as the Annexation of Nabataea, was Trajan's 106 CE occupation of the Nabataean kingdom, which became the province of Arabia Petraea.
Roman annexation of Osroene
The Roman annexation of Osroene (الحاق اورشوئن به روم) was Caracalla's 212/13 deposition of King Abgar IX, ending Abgarid rule and making Edessa a Roman colonia.
Roman Armenia
Roman Armenia is the modern name for the Kingdom of Armenia under Roman influence from 66 BCE, when Tigran II submitted to Pompey, until its partition in 387 CE.
Roman army
The Roman army, known in Latin as Exercitus Romanorum, was ancient Rome's land force, lasting from the seventh century BC through the Republic, the Principate, and Late Antiquity.