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Rosa DeLauro
Rosa DeLauro, Democratic U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 3rd District since 1991, former chair and current ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, first EMILY's List director, born New Haven 1943.
Rosa Icela Rodríguez
Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez is a Mexican politician who has served as Secretary of the Interior since 2024, after serving as the first woman to hold the federal security office.
Rosa Liliana Matzkin
Rosa Liliana Matzkin is an econometrician and the Charles E. Davidson Professor of Economics at UCLA, known for nonparametric identification and elected 2023 president of the Econometric Society.
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg (Róża Luksemburg, 1871–1919), Polish-German Marxist theorist and SDKPiL co-founder; wrote Die Akkumulation des Kapitals (1912), opposed Polish independence, co-founded the KPD, murdered in Berlin 15 January 1919.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks (Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, 1913–2005), American civil rights activist whose December 1, 1955 refusal to yield her Montgomery bus seat sparked the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott and ended bus segregation via Browder v. Gayle.
Rosachely Rivera
Rosachely Rivera Santana (born 1980) is a Puerto Rican New Progressive Party politician, Secretary of State of Puerto Rico since July 2025 and previously mayor of Gurabo 2017 to 2025, the first woman elected to that mayoralty.
Rosalia Lombardo
Rosalia Lombardo (1918–1920), the Sicilian "Sleeping Beauty", a child mummy in Palermo's Capuchin Catacombs, embalmed, probably by Alfredo Salafia, and studied by CT.
Rosalía Mera
Rosalía Mera was a Spanish businesswoman who co-founded the clothing retailer Zara with her then-husband Amancio Ortega, opening the first store in A Coruña in 1975.
Rosalind Osgood
Rosalind Osgood is an American politician and Democrat representing District 32 in the Florida Senate; she was previously a Broward County School Board member and leads a nonprofit.
Rosalyn Higgins
Dame Rosalyn Higgins is a British barrister and scholar who served on the International Court of Justice from 1995 to 2009, the first woman judge and President.
Rosalynn Carter
Rosalynn Carter (Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter, 1927–2023), First Lady 1977–1981 and mental health advocate; honorary chair of the President's Commission on Mental Health, Carter Center co-founder, founder of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers.
Rosamond L. Naylor
Rosamond L. Naylor, known as Roz Naylor, is an American environmental economist at Stanford who studies aquaculture, climate impacts on agriculture, and food price volatility.
Rosanna Gabaldón
Rosanna Gabaldón is an American Democratic politician serving in the Arizona Senate since 2021, after serving in the Arizona House from 2013 to 2021 and on the Sahuarita Town Council from 2009 to 2012.
Rosanna M. Peterson
Rosanna Malouf Peterson, born 1951, is a senior U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of Washington, appointed by Obama in 2010 and chief judge from 2011 to 2016.
Rosanna Scotto
Rosanna Scotto, Brooklyn-born co-host of Good Day New York on WNYW FOX 5 since 1986, five-time Emmy winner, former WTBS and WABC reporter, and co-owner of the Fresco by Scotto restaurant.
Rosary
The rosary is a Catholic Marian devotion combining vocal prayers counted on beads with meditation on mysteries in the lives of Jesus and Mary, officially approved in 1569.
Rosas era
The Rosas era (época de Rosas) is the period of Argentine history, 1829 to 1852, when Juan Manuel de Rosas dominated the Argentine Confederation from Buenos Aires.
Roscoe Pound
Roscoe Pound (1870–1964) was an American legal scholar, Harvard Law School dean 1916–1936, and founder of sociological jurisprudence and the social engineering theory of law; he was also a trained botanist with a lichen named roscoepoundia after him.
Rose al-Yusuf
Rose al-Yusuf (روز اليوسف), born Fatimah al-Yusuf, was a Lebanese-born Egyptian actress and journalist who founded the weekly magazine Rose al-Yusuf in Cairo in 1925.
Rose Bowl Game
The Rose Bowl Game, "The Granddaddy of Them All," is college football's oldest bowl game, first played January 1, 1902 in Pasadena (Michigan 49, Stanford 0), tied to the Big Ten and Pac-12 since 1947 and now a College Football Playoff quarterfinal site.
Rose d'Or
Rose d'Or (Golden Rose): international TV, audio and online programme award founded 1961 in Montreux by Marcel Bezençon with Swiss SSR and the EBU; moved to Lucerne, Brussels, Berlin, London; now run with C21Media.
Rose Hanbury
Rose Hanbury (Sarah Rose Hanbury, born 1984), Marchioness of Cholmondeley, is a British aristocrat married to the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, living at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, an EACH patron, linked to 2019 onward unproven Prince William affair rumors she denies.
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Mary Alphonsa, 1851–1926), daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, founded the Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer and Rosary Hill Home (1901), the first US hospice; declared Venerable in 2024.
Rose Kennedy
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890–1995), American political matriarch, daughter of Boston mayor Honey Fitz, wife of ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., mother of nine including President John F. Kennedy; campaigned for her sons and preserved JFK's birthplace.
Rose of Lima
Rose of Lima, born Isabel Flores de Oliva (1586–1617), was a Peruvian Dominican tertiary known for severe penances and canonized in 1671 as the first saint of the Americas.
Rose Report (early reading)
The Rose Report (Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading, Jim Rose, March 2006) recommended systematic synthetic phonics for beginner readers in England, replacing the searchlights model with the simple view of reading, leading to Letters and Sounds and the phonics screening check.
Rose Revolution (ვარდების რევოლუცია)
The Rose Revolution (ვარდების რევოლუცია), also called the Georgian Revolution, was the peaceful November 2003 change of power in Georgia after a disputed parliamentary election.
Rose Selfridge
Rose Selfridge, born Rosalie Amelia Buckingham (1860–1918), was a Chicago property developer who built the Rosalie Villas in Hyde Park and married retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge in 1890.
Rose West
Rose West (Rosemary Letts, born 1953) is a British serial killer convicted in 1995 of ten murders committed with her husband Fred at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester; she is serving a whole life tariff.
Rose Wilder Lane
Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968), American journalist, novelist, and libertarian theorist, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder; edited the Little House books, wrote The Discovery of Freedom (1943), and, with Paterson and Rand, shaped modern American libertarianism.