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1,666 profilesRashi
c. 1040 – 13 July 1105
Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, c. 1040 - 1105) was a medieval French rabbi whose comprehensive commentaries on the Hebre...
Ratan Tata
28 December 1937 – 9 October 2024
Ratan Tata was an Indian industrialist who led the Tata Group as chairman of Tata Sons from 1991 to 2012. Trained as an...
Raúl Alfonsín
12 March 1927 – 31 March 2009
Raúl Alfonsín was an Argentine lawyer and politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina fro...
Ravi Shankar
7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012
Ravi Shankar was an Indian sitarist and composer regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century a...
Ravidas
c. 1450 – c. 1520
Ravidas was a North Indian mystic poet-saint of the Bhakti movement, active in the Varanasi region during the 15th and e...
Ray Charles
23 September 1930 – 10 June 2004
Ray Charles was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist who pioneered the genre of soul music by fusing rhythm and b...
Ray Eames
15 December 1912 – 21 August 1988
Ray Eames was an American artist, designer, and filmmaker who, in partnership with her husband Charles Eames, shaped mid...
Ray Kroc
5 October 1902 – 14 January 1984
Ray Kroc was an American businessman who turned McDonald's from a small California hamburger operation into a global fas...
Raymond Loewy
5 November 1893 – 14 July 1986
Raymond Loewy was a French-born American industrial designer often called the father of industrial design. Over a long c...
Razia Sultana
c. 1205 – October 1240
Razia Sultana was the Sultan of Delhi from 1236 to 1240 and the first and only woman to rule the Delhi Sultanate. The da...
Rembrandt van Rijn
15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669
Dutch Golden Age painter and etcher, master of light and shadow, whose portraits and biblical scenes made him one of the...
Remedios Varo
16 December 1908 – 8 October 1963
Remedios Varo was a Spanish-Mexican Surrealist painter. Her meticulous, jewel-like paintings blended science, mysticism,...
Ren Zhengfei
25 October 1944 – present
Ren Zhengfei is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded the telecommunications equipment company Huawei in Shenz...
René Cassin
5 October 1887 – 20 February 1976
René Cassin was a French jurist and judge who was a principal drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A ve...
René Descartes
31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650
French philosopher and mathematician, often called the father of modern philosophy, who coined "cogito, ergo sum" and in...
René Magritte
21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967
René Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his witty and thought-provoking images that challenge observers'...
Richard Arkwright
23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792
Sir Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and entrepreneur who patented the water frame for spinning cotton and pion...
Richard Branson
18 July 1950 – present
Richard Branson is a British businessman, born in London in 1950, who founded the Virgin Group. He began with the magazi...
Richard Dawkins
26 March 1941 – present
Richard Dawkins (born 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author known for popularizing the gene-centred view...
Richard Feynman
11 May 1918 – 15 February 1988
American theoretical physicist celebrated for his work in quantum electrodynamics, his contributions to the Manhattan Pr...
Richard Francis Burton
19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British explorer, orientalist, soldier, and translator who spoke more than...
Richard Leakey
19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022
Richard Leakey was a Kenyan palaeoanthropologist, conservationist and public official. The son of Louis and Mary Leakey,...
Richard Nixon
9 January 1913 – 22 April 1994
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 to 1974...
Richard the Lionheart
8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199
Richard I of England, known as the Lionheart, was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. A central Christian...
Richard Wagner
22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer and theatre director best known for his operas, or 'music dramas', incl...
Rigoberta Menchú
9 January 1959 – present
Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a K'iche' Maya human rights activist from Guatemala. She rose to international prominence for he...
Rita Levi-Montalcini
22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012
Rita Levi-Montalcini was an Italian neurologist who, with Stanley Cohen, discovered nerve growth factor (NGF), a key pro...
Roald Dahl
13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990
Roald Dahl (1916–1990) was a British author born in Wales to Norwegian parents, best known for children's books includin...
Robert Aumann
8 June 1930 – present
Robert Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician and game theorist based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His wo...
Robert Boyle
25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher and chemist, often regarded as the first modern chemist...
Robert Burns
25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796
Robert Burns (1759-1796) was a Scottish poet and lyricist, widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and a pionee...
Robert Burns Woodward
10 April 1917 – 8 July 1979
Robert Burns Woodward was an American organic chemist widely regarded as one of the greatest of the twentieth century. H...
Robert F. Kennedy
20 November 1925 – 6 June 1968
Robert Francis Kennedy was an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1...
Robert Goddard
5 October 1882 – 10 August 1945
Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) was an American engineer, professor, and physicist credited with creating and build...
Robert Hooke
28 July 1635 – 3 March 1703
Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was an English polymath, natural philosopher, and architect, one of the most versatile scientis...
Robert Johnson
8 May 1911 – 16 August 1938
Robert Johnson was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose landmark recordings from 1936 and 1937 prof...
Robert Kahn
23 December 1938 – present
Robert E. Kahn (born 1938) is an American electrical engineer who, with Vint Cerf, invented the TCP/IP protocols that fo...
Robert Koch
11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910
Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist who was one of the principal founders of modern bacteriology. He i...
Robert Louis Stevenson
13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, Kidna...
Robert Mugabe
21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019
Robert Mugabe was a Zimbabwean politician who led the country from independence in 1980 until 2017, first as Prime Minis...
Robert Noyce
12 December 1927 – 3 June 1990
Robert Norton Noyce was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel Corporat...
Robert Schuman
29 June 1886 – 4 September 1963
Robert Schuman was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of France and is considered one...
Robert Schumann
8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic of the Romantic era. Renowned f...
Robert the Bruce
11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329
Robert I, popularly known as Robert the Bruce, was King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329. He led Scotland duri...
Roberto Clemente
18 August 1934 – 31 December 1972
Roberto Clemente (1934-1972) was a Puerto Rican baseball right fielder who played his entire eighteen-season Major Leagu...
Roger Bacon
c. 1219 – c. 1292
Roger Bacon (c. 1219-1292) was an English Franciscan friar and philosopher, known as Doctor Mirabilis, who emphasized th...
Roger Bannister
23 March 1929 – 3 March 2018
Roger Bannister was a British middle-distance runner and neurologist who became the first person to run a mile in under...
Roger Federer
8 August 1981 – present
Roger Federer is a Swiss former professional tennis player who won 20 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record eigh...