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Rosie the Riveter

Rosie the Riveter, born from a 1942 Evans and Loeb song and tied to Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post cover and Miller's "We Can Do It!" Westinghouse poster, symbolizes American women war workers of World War II, later reclaimed as a feminist icon.

Rosie Wrighting

Rosie Wrighting (born 1997) is the Labour MP for Kettering since 2024, youngest woman elected that year at 26; PPS at the MoD after resigning as health PPS in 2026.

Rosika Schwimmer

Rosika Schwimmer (1877–1948) was a Hungarian-born feminist and pacifist who organized the 1915 International Congress of Women at The Hague, masterminded Henry Ford's Peace Ship, and lost a Supreme Court citizenship case.

Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh

Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh is an American politician and Republican member of the California State Senate, first elected in 2020 as the first Republican Latina senator and re-elected in 2024.

Roslyn O. Silver

Roslyn O. Silver, born 1946, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona since 2013.

Roslyn Union Free School District

Roslyn Union Free School District (chartered December 1, 1904) is a Nassau County, New York public district on Long Island's north shore with five schools, about 3,329 students, and Roslyn High School as its centerpiece.

Rosmah Mansor

Rosmah Mansor, wife of Malaysian PM Najib Razak (2009–2018), PERMATA founder; convicted 2022 in the RM1.25 billion Sarawak solar bribery case, sentenced to 10 years, acquitted of money laundering charges in 2024.

Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat (born 1979) is an American conservative author and Catholic convert who was a New York Times op-ed columnist from 2009 to 2026, the youngest in the paper's history, wrote Bad Religion, To Change the Church, The Decadent Society, and Believe, and joined 60 Minutes in 2026.

Ross Freeman

Ross H. Freeman (1948–1989) was an American engineer who invented the field-programmable gate array and co-founded Xilinx in San Jose in 1984, entering the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2009.

Ross Fubini

Ross Fubini is an American venture capitalist who founded XYZ Venture Capital in 2017, known for writing Anduril's first check and investing in defense and Palantir-alumni startups.

Ross Garon

Ross Garon is a quantitative investor who has served as Global Head of Quantitative Strategies at Millennium Management since 2020, after leading Point72's Cubist Systematic Strategies unit.

Ross Goodman

Ross Goodman, full name Ross Carl Goodman, is an American criminal defense attorney in Las Vegas, Nevada, and founder of Goodman Law Group, established in 2001.

Ross Levine

Ross Eric Levine is an American finance economist, Professor Emeritus at Berkeley Haas and a Hoover Institution senior fellow, who studies how finance and regulation shape growth.

Ross Masood

Ross Masood (راس مسعود) was an Indian educationist who served as vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and was a close friend of E. M. Forster.

Ross Perot

Ross Perot (1930-2019), Texas billionaire founder of EDS and Perot Systems, ran for president as an independent in 1992, winning 18.9% of the vote, and as the Reform Party nominee in 1996 with 8%.

Ross Perot 1992 presidential campaign

Ross Perot's 1992 independent presidential campaign: billionaire Texan who announced on Larry King Live, spent $65 million, dropped out in July, re-entered October 1, ran infomercials with James Stockdale, and won 18.9 percent of the popular vote with zero electoral votes, the best third-party result since 1912.

Ross Perot Jr.

Ross Perot Jr. (Henry Ross Perot Jr.) is a Texas real estate developer and pilot who founded Hillwood and flew the first helicopter flight around the world in 1982.

Ross School of Business

The Stephen M. Ross School of Business (Michigan Ross) is the University of Michigan's AACSB-accredited business school in Ann Arbor, founded in 1924. Known for action-based learning, MAP consulting projects, a No. 4 BBA, and No. 1-ranked supply chain and executive education programs.

Ross Turner

Ross Turner is an American politician and Republican member of the South Carolina Senate, representing District 8 since 2013 and leading its Income Tax Subcommittee.

Ross Ulbricht

Ross Ulbricht (born 1984), creator of the Silk Road darknet market as "Dread Pirate Roberts"; convicted 2015 on seven counts, sentenced to life, appeals failed, pardoned by Trump January 21, 2025.

Ross University School of Medicine

Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM, Ross Med) is a for-profit Caribbean medical school founded in 1978 in Dominica, now based in Barbados, CAAM-HP accredited since 2009, with U.S. clinical rotations and a 96% first-time residency attainment rate.

Ross Worthington

Ross Worthington is an American Republican political aide serving since 2025 as Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting, after running Trump's speechwriting operation.

Rossie D. Alston, Jr.

Rossie D. Alston, Jr., born 1957, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2019, nominated by President Trump.

Rossmann

Rossmann is a German drugstore chain headquartered in Burgwedel near Hannover, founded by Dirk Rossmann, who opened Germany's first self-service drugstore in 1972; it remains family-controlled and operates 5,209 stores.

Rostam Farrokhzad

Rostam Farrokhzad (رستم فرخزاد) was a Sasanian military commander and regent for Yazdgard III who led the imperial army against the Arab-Muslim conquest and died at the Battle of Qadisiyya in the mid-630s.

Rostislav I

Rostislav I (Ростислав Мстиславич, in baptism Michael) was a Rurikid prince, prince of Smolensk from 1125 and grand prince of Kiev from 1159 to 1167.

Rostom of Kartli

Rostom of Kartli, also known as Rostom-Khan, born Khosrow Mirza, was a Georgian prince of the Bagrationi dynasty who ruled Kartli as a Safavid-appointed viceroy from 1632 or 1633 until 1658.

Rostov strike of 1902

The Rostov strike of 1902 (Ростовская стачка 1902 года) was a general strike in Rostov-on-Don, led by the RSDRP's Don Committee, ending when police fired on workers.

Rostow's stages of growth

Rostow's stages of growth is a five-stage model of economic development proposed by Walt Whitman Rostow in 1959, running from traditional society to high mass consumption.

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (1817–1887) was an American clergyman and biblical scholar, president of Union Theological Seminary and compiler of a topical analysis of the Bible.