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Ron Stallworth

Ron Stallworth, first African-American detective of the Colorado Springs Police Department, infiltrated the local Ku Klux Klan in 1978-79 by phone while a white stand-in attended meetings; memoir Black Klansman inspired the 2018 film BlacKkKlansman.

Ron W. Miller

Ron W. Miller (1933–2019) was an American business executive and former Los Angeles Rams player who served as president and CEO of Walt Disney Productions until 1984.

Ron Watkins

Ron Watkins, former administrator of 8chan and 8kun under owner Jim Watkins, suspected but unproven as QAnon's 'Q'; stylometric studies and an HBO documentary point to him, he denies it, and he lost a 2022 Arizona House primary.

Ron Watson (Maryland politician)

Ron Watson is an American Democratic politician who has represented District 23 in the Maryland State Senate since his 2021 appointment by Governor Larry Hogan.

Ron Williamson

Ron Williamson (1953–2004), Ada, Oklahoma baseball draftee wrongfully convicted of the 1982 rape-murder of Debra Sue Carter, sentenced to death, exonerated by DNA in 1999 after 11 years; subject of Grisham's The Innocent Man.

Ron Winterton

Ron Winterton is an American politician and Republican member of the Utah Senate, elected in 2018 after serving as a Duchesne County commissioner, including as its chairman.

Ron Wyatt

Ron Wyatt (1933-1999), American Seventh-day Adventist nurse anesthetist and amateur archaeologist, claimed nearly 100 biblical finds including Noah's Ark at Durupınar and the Ark of the Covenant under Jerusalem; professional archaeologists rejected all as unsupported.

Ron Wyden

Ron Wyden, Democratic U.S. senator from Oregon since 1996 after eight House terms; Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, known for internet-freedom, surveillance-reform, and Medicare drug-negotiation work.

Ron Zwanziger

Ron Zwanziger is an American diagnostics entrepreneur who founded and sold MediSense, Inverness Medical Technology, and Alere, then co-founded point-of-care diagnostics company LumiraDx in 2014, which was sold to Roche after insolvency in 2023.

Rona Ambrose

Rona Ambrose (born 1969), Canadian Conservative politician, MP for Edmonton—Spruce Grove and Sturgeon River—Parkland, eight cabinet posts under Harper, interim party leader and Opposition Leader 2015–2017.

Rona Barrett

Rona Barrett (born 1936, New York) is an American entertainment reporter known as "Miss Rona," pioneer of TV celebrity journalism, Good Morning America editor, Entertainment Tonight correspondent, and founder of the Rona Barrett Foundation senior housing.

Ronald A. Guzman

Ronald A. Guzman, born in 1948 in Puerto Rico, is a senior federal judge in Illinois, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999 after serving as a magistrate judge.

Ronald Clark O'Bryan

Ronald Clark O'Bryan, known as the "Candy Man," was a Texas optician executed in 1984 for fatally poisoning his eight-year-old son with cyanide-laced Halloween candy in 1974.

Ronald DeFeo Jr.

Ronald DeFeo Jr. (1951-2021), American mass murderer who killed six family members at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York, on November 13, 1974; convicted 1975; his crime launched the disputed Amityville Horror haunting story he called a hoax.

Ronald dela Rosa

Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa (Ronald Marapon Dela Rosa), Filipino senator since 2019 and Duterte's PNP chief July 2016–April 2018 who led the drug war and devised Oplan Tokhang; ICC-wanted for murder as a crime against humanity and in hiding since May 2026.

Ronald DeWolf

Ronald DeWolf, born L. Ron Hubbard Jr., was the eldest son of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and later a public critic of the movement.

Ronald Dominique

Ronald Joseph Dominique, the Bayou Strangler, an American serial killer active in southeastern Louisiana 1997 to 2006, confessed to raping and strangling at least 23 men; arrested 2006, pleaded guilty to murder in 2008.

Ronald Dworkin

Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013), American legal philosopher at Yale, Oxford, and NYU, challenged H.L.A. Hart's legal positivism with interpretivism and law as integrity, arguing judges are bound by legal-moral principles; wrote Taking Rights Seriously and Law's Empire, won the Holberg and Balzan prizes.

Ronald E. Cape

Ronald E. Cape was a Canadian-born American biotechnology executive who co-founded Cetus Corporation in Berkeley, California in 1971 and led it until its 1991 sale to Chiron.

Ronald Freedman

Ronald Freedman (1917–2007) was an American sociologist and demographer at the University of Michigan who directed the first national US fertility survey and founded its Population Studies Center.

Ronald Gene Simmons

Ronald Gene Simmons, also known as R. Gene Simmons, was an American retired Air Force master sergeant who killed 16 people, 14 of them family, near Dover and Russellville, Arkansas, December 22–28, 1987, the worst single-family mass murder in U.S. history; executed June 25, 1990.

Ronald H. Coase

Ronald H. Coase was a British-born economist at the University of Chicago who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on transaction costs and property rights.

Ronald Hughes

Ronald Hughes, the "hippie lawyer," was Leslie Van Houten's defense attorney in the 1970 Tate-LaBianca Manson trial. He defied Manson over testifying, vanished during a camping recess at Sespe Hot Springs, and was found dead months later, cause undetermined.

Ronald Hutton

Ronald Edmund Hutton, born in 1953, is a British historian at the University of Bristol and author of The Triumph of the Moon, a history of pagan witchcraft.

Ronald L. Buckwalter

Ronald L. Buckwalter is an American jurist, a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1990.

Ronald L. Gilman

Ronald L. Gilman, also known as Ronald Lee Gilman, is an American jurist and senior judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.

Ronald Lauder

Ronald Lauder is an American business executive, art collector, and philanthropist, the youngest son of Estée Lauder, chairman of Clinique since 1994, and founder of the Neue Galerie in New York.

Ronald Llamas

Rolando "Ronald" M. Llamas is a Filipino political analyst, Akbayan co-founder, and Galahad Consulting chairman who served as Presidential Adviser for Political Affairs under Benigno Aquino III, 2011–2016, and now comments via Philstar columns and podcasts.

Ronald M. Andersen

Ronald M. Andersen is an American health services researcher at UCLA, creator of the Behavioral Model of Health Services Use and a National Academy of Medicine member.

Ronald M. Gould

Ronald M. Gould, born Ronald Murray Gould in 1946, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1999, appointed by President Clinton.