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Ronnie Biggs
Ronnie Biggs (Ronald Arthur Biggs), English Great Train Robber of August 1963; jailed 30 years, escaped Wandsworth 1965, lived in Rio de Janeiro 35 years, returned to UK 2001, freed 2009, died 2013.
Ronnie C. Chan
Ronnie C. Chan, also known as Ronnie Chan (陈启宗), is a Hong Kong property executive who led Hang Lung Group from 1991 to 2024 and co-founded the investment group Morningside.
Ronnie Cromer
Ronnie Cromer is an American politician and pharmacist who is a Republican member of the South Carolina Senate from the 18th district, covering Lexington, Newberry, and Richland counties.
Ronnie Knight
Ronnie Knight (1934–2023), London club owner of the A&R and Tin Pan Alley, ex-husband of Barbara Windsor, Costa del Crime fugitive, jailed seven years in 1995 for handling Security Express robbery proceeds.
Ronnie Lee Gardner
Ronnie Lee Gardner, Utah death row inmate convicted of the 1985 murder of attorney Michael Burdell during a courthouse escape attempt; chose death by firing squad and was the last US prisoner executed that way, June 18, 2010, until South Carolina resumed the method in 2025.
Ronnie Sabb
Ronnie Sabb is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate from District 32, first elected in 2014.
Ronny Conway
Ronny Conway is an American venture capital investor who founded A.Capital in Menlo Park after leading seed investing at Andreessen Horowitz, backing Notion and OpenAI.
Ronny Jackson
Ronny Jackson (born 1967) is a Republican U.S. representative for Texas's 13th District since 2021, retired Navy rear admiral, White House physician to Presidents Obama and Trump (2013–2018), and withdrawn 2018 VA nominee.
Rōnō Party
Rōnō Party (労農党) is a Japanese abbreviation for two political parties, above all the prewar Labor-Farmer Party of 1926, Japan's most active legal proletarian party until its banning in 1928.
Rōnōha
Rōnōha (労農派, "Labor-Farmer faction") was a group of Japanese Marxist theorists who, from the late 1920s, opposed the Japan Communist Party and the Kōza-ha in the Japan Capitalism Debate.
Ronovo Surgical
Ronovo Surgical (瑞龙诺赋, 瑞龙外科) is a Chinese surgical-robotics startup founded in 2019 in Shanghai by Dr. Ma Changzheng and Dr. Mao Ying, whose modular Carina robot won NMPA approval in March 2025.
Rony Banerjee
Rony Banerjee is an Indian business executive who led VSL Ventures, Vikram Solar's engineering and distribution arm in Kolkata, before moving to the listed parent in 2025.
Room 39
Room 39, also Office 39 or Bureau 39, is North Korea's secretive Workers' Party foreign-currency bureau, created in the 1970s, funding the Kim leadership through trade, counterfeiting, narcotics, and cyber crime despite sanctions.
Room 40
Room 40 was the British Admiralty's First World War codebreaking section, formed October 1914, which decrypted about 15,000 German messages, misread Scheer's callsign before Jutland, and revealed the Zimmermann telegram.
Roommate
Roommate: a person sharing living space with a non-family co-tenant, mainly to cut housing costs. Covers the economics of shared rents, college roommate matching, and the matching-theory roommate problem.
RoomPriceGenie
RoomPriceGenie is a Steinhausen, Switzerland-based company founded in 2017 whose revenue management system sets nightly room rates automatically for independent hotels, updating prices up to 24 times a day.
Roopali H. Desai
Roopali H. Desai, born in 1978 in Toronto, is an American jurist serving as a Ninth Circuit judge since 2022, the first South Asian person appointed to that court.
Roosevelt Corollary
The Roosevelt Corollary, announced by Theodore Roosevelt on December 6, 1904, expanded the Monroe Doctrine by claiming U.S. 'international police power' over chronically unstable Latin American states, leading to the Dominican customs receivership and occupations of Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic before its 1934 abandonment.
Roosevelt family
Roosevelt family, Dutch-American dynasty of Claes van Rosevelt (New Amsterdam, c. 1650); Oyster Bay branch (Theodore) and Hyde Park branch (Franklin), two presidents, joined by Eleanor Roosevelt's 1905 marriage to FDR.
Root race
In Theosophy, a root race, or culture epoch, is one of seven evolutionary stages of humanity taught by Helena Blavatsky in The Secret Doctrine, including the Lemurian and Atlantean races.
Root–Takahira Agreement
The Root–Takahira Agreement (高平・ルート協定) was a 1908 exchange of notes between Elihu Root and Ambassador Kogoro Takahira affirming the Pacific status quo and the Open Door principle in China.
Rootcloud
Rootcloud (树根互联股份有限公司, now 树根科技) is a Chinese industrial internet platform company based in Guangzhou, founded in 2016 as a spin-out from Sany Heavy Industry Group.
Roots Canada
Roots Canada is a Canadian lifestyle brand and retailer of apparel, leather goods, and footwear, founded in Toronto in 1973 by Michael Budman and Don Green.
Roper Technologies
Roper Technologies is a diversified technology company holding 29 niche-leading businesses, mostly vertical market software, with 2025 revenue of $7.9 billion and free cash flow of $2.5 billion.
Roper v. Simmons
Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005): 5–4 Supreme Court decision abolishing the death penalty for offenders under 18 at the time of the crime, overturning Stanford v. Kentucky and grounding Graham, Miller, and Montgomery.
Roque Sáenz Peña
Roque Sáenz Peña was an Argentine lawyer and politician, president of Argentina from 1910 until his death in office in 1914, who promoted secret and compulsory voting.
Rorschach test
Rorschach test, also called the inkblot test (Psychodiagnostik, 1921), a projective personality assessment using ten standard inkblots designed by Hermann Rorschach, scored by systems such as Exner's Comprehensive System and R-PAS, and long contested for validity.
Rory O'Driscoll
Rory O'Driscoll is an Irish-born venture capitalist who cofounded Scale Venture Partners in 1993, known for enterprise software investments including Omniture, ExactTarget, Box, and DocuSign.
Rory Reid (journalist)
Rory Reid (born 1979) is an English motoring and technology presenter and journalist, formerly of BBC Top Gear and Extra Gear (2016–2019) and now YouTube Director at Auto Trader UK since 2019.
Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart, British diplomat, author, and Conservative MP for Penrith and The Border 2010-2019, briefly International Development Secretary, fifth in the 2019 leadership contest, now co-host of The Rest Is Politics.