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Route 128 (technology corridor)
Route 128 is the technology corridor of electronics, computer, and defense firms that grew along Boston's circumferential highway after World War II, peaking in the 1980s.
Route 92 Medical
Route 92 Medical is a privately held medical technology company, founded in 2016 by Tony Chou, that develops catheter systems for endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke.
Route from the Varangians to the Greeks
The Route from the Varangians to the Greeks (путь из варяг в греки) was a medieval trade route linking the Baltic Sea with the Byzantine Empire through Kyivan Rus'.
Rouz Jazayeri
Rouz Jazayeri is a venture capital investor and co-founder of Catapult Ventures, a seed-stage deep technology fund, after a decade at Intel and time at Kleiner Perkins.
Rowan Dean
Rowan Dean, Australian advertising executive and conservative commentator born in Canberra; Foster's Lager and Hamlet 'Photobooth' copywriter, Gruen panellist, Spectator Australia editor, Sky News Outsiders co-host.
Rowan Finnegan
Rowan Finnegan is an American investor and entrepreneur who co-founded Featherlight Capital, a London firm anchoring next-generation climate fund managers, after founding Regenerative and co-founding The Conduit.
Rowan University
Rowan University, formerly Glassboro State College, is a public research university in Glassboro, New Jersey. Founded in 1923, it was renamed after Henry Rowan's $100 million gift in 1992.
Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams, born Rowan Douglas Williams in 1950, is a Welsh Anglican theologian and poet who served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012.
Rowland Hill
Rowland Hill (1744–1833) was an English evangelical preacher who built Surrey Chapel in London in 1783, reportedly delivering some 22,000 sermons and drawing thousands to open-air preaching.
Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill
Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, known as "Daddy Hill," was a British general, a trusted commander under Wellington in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo.
Rowland Hussey Macy
Rowland Hussey Macy, known as R.H. Macy, was an American dry-goods merchant and former whaler who founded R.H. Macy & Co. in New York in 1858.
Rowlatt Act
The Rowlatt Act, formally the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, 1919 (Black Act), was a British Indian law passed 18 March 1919 allowing detention without trial, prompting Gandhi's first all-India satyagraha and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Rowohlt Verlag
Rowohlt Verlag is a German publishing house founded in Leipzig in 1908 by Ernst Rowohlt, now based in Hamburg and known for the rororo paperback series.
Roxana
Roxana (Roxane, Greek Rhōxánē), daughter of the Bactrian noble Oxyartes, married Alexander the Great in 327 BCE as his first wife, bore the posthumous heir Alexander IV, and was executed by Cassander at Amphipolis in 310 BCE.
Roxana Mînzatu
Roxana Mînzatu is a Romanian politician who serves as Vice-President of the European Commission for Social Rights and Skills, after being elected to the European Parliament in 2024.
Roxanne Persaud
Roxanne Persaud is an American politician and Democrat representing Brooklyn's 19th district in the New York State Senate, elected in November 2015 after serving in the State Assembly.
Roxelana
Roxelana (Hürrem Sultan, Haseki Hürrem), born c. 1505 in Rohatyn, died April 1558 in Constantinople, was a Slavic captive who became Suleiman the Magnificent's legal wife, the first haseki, and a diplomatic and political power.
Roy Amara
Roy Amara (1925–2007) was an American researcher and forecaster who served as president and CEO of the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, known for Amara's Law.
Roy Asberry Cooper Jr.
Roy Asberry Cooper Jr. (born 1957) is a Democratic politician, 75th governor of North Carolina 2017-2025 and four-term attorney general; he expanded Medicaid and is the Democratic Senate nominee against Michael Whatley in 2026.
Roy B. Dalton, Jr.
Roy B. Dalton, Jr., also known as Roy Bale Dalton, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Roy Barnes
Roy Eugene Barnes, born 1948, Democratic 80th governor of Georgia 1999-2003, nicknamed King Roy; passed the 2000 education reform act and changed the state flag, then lost the 2002 upset to Sonny Perdue and a 2010 run to Nathan Deal.
Roy Bean
Roy Bean (c. 1825–1903), saloonkeeper and justice of the peace at Langtry, Texas, self-styled "Law West of the Pecos," who held court in his Jersey Lilly saloon, never hanged anyone, and became a Texas folk legend.
Roy Benavidez
Roy Benavidez (Raul Perez Benavidez, 1935-1998), Army Special Forces master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor in 1981 for his May 2, 1968 rescue of a surrounded team west of Loc Ninh, Vietnam, after earlier receiving the Distinguished Service Cross.
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt (born 1950) is a Republican former U.S. senator and representative from Missouri, House majority whip and majority leader, Senate Republican Policy Committee chair, and Rules Committee chairman, serving 2011–2023.
Roy C. Geary
Roy C. Geary (Robert Charles Geary, 1896–1983) was an Irish statistician known for Geary's C, the Geary ratio, and the Geary–Khamis method for comparing real incomes between countries.
Roy Cohn
Roy Marcus Cohn (1927–1986), American lawyer: Rosenberg trial prosecutor, Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel, and New York fixer whose clients ranged from Donald Trump to Mafia bosses; disbarred in 1986, died of AIDS.
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper (born 1957), Democrat, 75th governor of North Carolina 2017–2025 and former four-term state attorney general; known for Medicaid expansion covering 600,000+, a 2021 carbon-neutrality law, and the 2026 Senate race against Michael Whatley.
Roy D'Andrade
Roy D'Andrade was an American anthropologist who helped found cognitive anthropology, taught at UC San Diego, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
Roy DeMeo
Roy Albert DeMeo, Gambino crime family soldier and leader of the DeMeo crew, ran the Gemini Lounge murder operation and New York's largest car theft ring; killed by his own crew January 10, 1983.
Roy Freiman
Roy Freiman is an American Democratic politician who has represented New Jersey's 16th district in the General Assembly since 2018, serving as Deputy Majority Leader.