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Roy Jeffs
Roy Jeffs (Leroy Barlow Jeffs, 1992-2019), a son of FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs, left the sect in February 2014 and publicly described his father's abuses before dying by suicide at age 26.
Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead (1920–2003), British Labour Home Secretary, Chancellor, first and only British president of the European Commission, and founder and first leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Roy K. Altman
Roy K. Altman, born Roy Kalman Altman in 1982, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President Trump in 2019.
Roy Klopfenstein
Roy Klopfenstein is an American politician and farmer serving as a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 82nd district, chairing the Agriculture Committee.
Roy Kusumoto
Roy Kusumoto (楠本) is an American engineer who founded Solectron in Milpitas, California in 1977, growing the circuit-board shop into the dominant electronics manufacturing services firm before its 2007 sale to Flextronics.
Roy Levy
Roy Levy is an American educational psychometrician and quantitative methodologist at Arizona State University, the only education-related recipient of a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.
Roy Mann
Roy Mann (רוי מן) is an Israeli software entrepreneur who co-founded monday.com in Tel Aviv in 2012 and has served as its Co-CEO since, taking the company public on the Nasdaq in 2021.
Roy Moore
Roy Moore (Roy Stewart Moore, born 1947), Alabama chief justice twice disciplined over the Ten Commandments monument and same-sex marriage orders, 2017 Republican Senate nominee, and defamation litigant against Senate Majority PAC.
Roy Prasad
Roy Prasad is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in semiconductors and EDA software who co-founded The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) in 1992, naming it, and led P-CAD, Castelle, and Invarium.
Roy Radner
Roy Radner (1927–2022) was an American mathematical economist and microeconomic theorist at New York University, known for the economic theory of teams, the turnpike theorem, and Radner equilibrium.
Roy Reznik
Roy Reznik is an Israeli software engineer who co-founded the cloud security company Wiz in 2020, its VP of Research and Development, after co-founding Adallom, sold to Microsoft in 2015.
Roy Romer
Roy Romer (born October 31, 1928) is a Democratic politician, 39th governor of Colorado 1987-1999, three-time elected, later DNC general chair and LAUSD superintendent 2000-2006.
Roy Shaw
Roy "Pretty Boy" Shaw (1936-2012), East London armed robber and unlicensed bare-knuckle boxer, jailed 18 years for a 1963 security van robbery, who fought Lenny McLean three times.
Roy Thomson
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet (1894–1976), was a Canadian newspaper publisher who built a chain of small-town dailies into one of the world's largest media groups.
Roy W. Allen
Roy W. Allen (1882–1968) was an American businessman who founded the Lodi, California, root beer stand that grew into the A&W chain, named for Allen and partner Frank Wright.
Roy Welensky
Roy Welensky (1907–1991), Rhodesian politician, ex-railway union leader and boxer, was Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1956–1963, defending white minority rule until the federation's dissolution.
Roy Zisapel
Roy Zisapel is an Israeli technology executive who co-founded Radware, a Tel Aviv cybersecurity company traded on Nasdaq, and has led it as President and CEO since 1997.
Royal Academy of Artillery, Fortification and Design
The Royal Academy of Artillery, Fortification and Design (Real Academia de Artilharia, Fortificação e Desenho) was a military engineering school founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1792.
Royal Aeronautical Society
Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), founded 12 January 1866 as the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, is the world's oldest aeronautical society, a London-based professional body and charity with over 25,000 members, renamed Royal in 1918.
Royal African Company
The Royal African Company was an English joint-stock company chartered by Charles II in 1672 to hold a monopoly on English trade with West Africa, above all the slave trade.
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force (RAF), UK's independent air force formed 1 April 1918 from the RFC and RNAS. 33,840 personnel, Typhoon and F-35B fleets, 12 F-35A ordered 2025 for NATO nuclear mission, Tempest from 2035.
Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5
Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 and S.E.5a: British WWI single-seat biplane fighter designed by Folland, Kenworthy, and Goodden; first flight 22 November 1916; 5,205 built; 138 mph; 2,704 credited victories.
Royal and noble styles
Royal and noble styles, such as His Majesty and His Grace, are forms of address distinct from titles. Covers UK sovereign styles, Letters Patent of 1917 to 2025 governing Royal Highness, and peerage courtesy styles.
Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico
The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico (Real y Pontificia Universidad de México) was the university of colonial New Spain, opened in Mexico City in 1553.
Royal Annals of Egypt
The Royal Annals of Egypt are annalistic records of Egyptian kings surviving in seven stone fragments, of which the Palermo Stone is the best known.
Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes
Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB, the Buffs): British male fraternal and charitable order founded 1822 at the Harp Tavern near Drury Lane by Joseph Lisle and W. Sinnett; named from the song "We'll chase the Buffalo", never royally chartered, with lodges across the Commonwealth.
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), British Army medical corps formed by Royal Warrant 23 June 1898; served Sudan to Afghanistan, pioneered penicillin use and facial surgery, earned 29 Victoria Crosses, merged into Royal Army Medical Service in November 2024.
Royal Army Medical Service
Royal Army Medical Service (RAMS), the British Army corps formed 15 November 2024 by amalgamating the Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Army Dental Corps, and Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, covering all Army medical care.
Royal Artillery
Royal Artillery (Royal Regiment of Artillery, the Gunners): artillery arm of the British Army, founded 26 May 1716 by George I at Woolwich; 14 Regular and 7 Reserve regiments, now headquartered at Larkhill, distinct from the Honourable Artillery Company.
Royal assent
Royal assent is the monarch's agreement that turns a bill passed by the UK Parliament or a devolved legislature into an act of law. A convention-bound formality since the last refusal by Queen Anne in 1708, granted by Commission or, since the Royal Assent Act 1967, by notification in each House.