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Rome–Carthage treaty of 279 BC
The Rome–Carthage treaty of 279 BC was a defensive agreement against Pyrrhus of Epirus, the first of their recorded treaties to pledge mutual military aid.
Rome–Carthage treaty of 348 BC
The Rome–Carthage treaty of 348 BC, the second Romano-Carthaginian treaty, renewed the Republic's first treaty with Carthage, adding Tyre and Utica and barring Rome from southern Spain.
Rome–Carthage treaty of 509 BC
The Rome–Carthage treaty of 509 BC was the first known treaty between Rome and Carthage, concluded in the Roman Republic's first year and preserved by Polybius.
Romell Broom
Romell Broom, Ohio death row inmate convicted of the 1984 rape-murder of Tryna Middleton, survived a botched 2009 lethal injection after 18 failed needle sticks; courts allowed a second attempt, but he died of COVID-19 in 2020.
Roméo Dallaire
Roméo Dallaire (born 1946), retired Canadian lieutenant-general and senator, commanded UNAMIR in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide; later author, PTSD advocate, and founder of the Dallaire Institute against child soldiers.
Romeo Jalosjos Sr.
Romeo "Nonong" Garcia Jalosjos Sr., Filipino congressman for Zamboanga del Norte and TAPE Inc. co-founder (Eat Bulaga!), convicted in 1997 of child rape, reelected from prison, released 2009, died August 2, 2026 at 85.
Romer v. Evans
Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996): Supreme Court case striking down Colorado's Amendment 2, which barred local protection against sexual-orientation discrimination, under the Equal Protection Clause's rational basis review due to animus.
Romero Rodrigues
Romero Rodrigues is a Brazilian entrepreneur who co-founded the price-comparison site Buscapé in 1998, ran it until its $342 million sale to Naspers in 2009, and became a venture capital partner.
Romesh Chunder Dutt
Romesh Chunder Dutt (रमेशचंद्र दत्त) was an Indian Civil Service officer and economic historian who became the first Indian to hold executive charge of a district, in 1883.
Romesh Wadhwani
Romesh Wadhwani (रमेश वाधवानी) is an Indian-American software entrepreneur who founded Aspect Development, Symphony Technology Group (STG) in 2002, and SymphonyAI, and chairs SymphonyAI and ConcertAI.
Romi Savova
Romi Savova, also known as Romina Savova, is a Bulgarian-born British fintech entrepreneur who founded the online pension provider PensionBee in 2014 and led its 2021 London Stock Exchange listing.
Romila Thapar (रोमिला थापर)
Romila Thapar (रोमिला थापर), born 30 November 1931, is India's preeminent historian of early India, JNU emerita professor, 2008 Kluge Prize co-winner, author of History of India (1966) and NCERT textbooks, and critic of colonial and nationalist historiography.
Romina Pourmokhtari
Romina Pourmokhtari is a Swedish Liberalerna politician who served as Minister for Climate and the Environment and as a Member of the Riksdag until 2026.
Rommel myth
Rommel myth, or Desert Fox legend: the constructed image of Erwin Rommel as a chivalrous, apolitical genius, built by Nazi propaganda, British wartime praise, and postwar works by Young, Liddell Hart, and the 1951 film, and revised since 1977.
Romney family
Romney family: American political family of George W. Romney (Michigan governor, HUD secretary), wife Lenore (1970 Senate candidate), and son Mitt (Massachusetts governor, 2012 nominee, Utah senator).
Romuald
Romuald (Romualdo), c. 950 to 19 June 1027, was an Italian monk from Ravenna whose reform combined Benedictine community life with hermits' solitude, founding the Camaldolese order at Camaldoli.
Romuald Schild
Romuald Schild (1936–2021) was a Polish archaeologist of the Stone Age in Central Europe and northeastern Africa, and director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology in Warsaw.
Romuald Traugutt
Romuald Traugutt was a Polish general and the last dictator of the January Uprising against Russian rule, leading its National Government from October 1863 until his arrest.
Romualdez family
The Romualdez family is a Philippine political dynasty based in Leyte province, the family of former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos and one of the country's best-known clans.
Romualdo Pacheco
Romualdo Pacheco (1831–1899), Californio statesman: first California-born and first Latino governor of California in 1875, and first Hispanic-American voting U.S. Representative, winning his 1876 House seat by one vote.
Rómulo Betancourt
Rómulo Betancourt was a Venezuelan politician and journalist who founded Acción Democrática and served twice as president of Venezuela, from 1945 to 1948 and 1959 to 1964.
Rómulo Gallegos
Rómulo Gallegos (1884–1969), Venezuelan novelist and president, author of Doña Bárbara, Cantaclaro, and Canaima; elected president in December 1947 with 73.6% of the vote, overthrown November 1948, exiled to Cuba and Mexico, returned 1958.
Romulus
Romulus, legendary founder and first king of Rome, twin of Remus, son of Mars and Rhea Silvia; killed Remus over the city's founding, credited with the Senate, vanished and worshipped as Quirinus, but not historically attested.
Romulus and Remus
Romulus and Remus, twin founders of Rome in Roman myth: sons of Mars and Rhea Silvia, suckled by a she-wolf, quarrel over the city walls, Romulus kills Remus; Varro dated the founding to 753 BC.
Romulus Augustulus
Romulus Augustulus, boy puppet Western Roman emperor (31 October 475 to 4 September 476), son of Orestes, deposed by Odoacer; a usurper never recognized by the East, unlike Julius Nepos.
Romulus Capital
Romulus Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2008 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Krishna Gupta, then an MIT undergraduate, to lead seed and Series A rounds for B2B and deep-technology companies.
Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi
Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi, born 1973 in Miskolc, is a Hungarian retired lieutenant general and Tisza Párt politician who has served as Minister of Defense since 2026, after leading the Hungarian Defence Forces.
Ron Alting
Ron Alting is an American Republican politician representing Indiana's 22nd Senate district since 1995, and chair of the Senate Committee on Public Policy since 2011.
Ron Boschma
Ron Boschma is a Dutch geographer and professor of Regional Economics at Utrecht University, a founder of evolutionary economic geography and winner of the 2024 Vautrin Lud prize.
Ron Clark
Ron Clark (born 1953) is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Texas appointed by George W. Bush in 2002.