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Ra, Sun - (died 1993), singer-songwriter, musician
Raab, Julius - (1881-1964), politician and Austrian Bundeskanzler
Rabelais, Francois - (ca. 1493-1553), Renaissance writer
Racah, Giulio - (born 1909), Italian mathematician and physicist
Rachmaninov, Sergei - (1873-1943), Russian composer
Racine, Jean - (1639-1699), classicist playwright
Radbruch, Gustav - (born 1878), German law professor
Radcliffe, Ann - (1764-1823), writer
Radcliffe, Daniel - (born 1989), actor
Radek, Karl Bernhardovich - (1885-1939)
Rademacher, Pete - (born 1929), boxer
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli - (1888-1975), Indian philosopher
Radishchev, Alexander - (1749-1802), social critic
Radner, Gilda - (1946-1989), comedian
Rae, John - (1813-1893), travelled widely through the Canadian Arctic
Raedwald of East Anglia - (616-627), British monarch
Raffarin, Jean-Pierre - (born 1948)
Raffles, Thomas Stamford - (1781-1826), founder of Singapore
Raft, George - (1895-1980), actor
Rafter, Patrick - tennis player
Ragnald of the Isle of Man - (1248-1249), king
Rahman, Mujibur - (1920-1975), Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Rahn, Helmut - athlete
Rai, Aishwarya - (born 1973), actress, Miss World, 1994
Raikkonen, Kimi - Finnish race driver
Raimi, Sam - (born 1959), US director, producer
Raimi, Ted - actor
Raine, Craig - (born 1944), poet
Rainer, Luise - (born 1910), actor
Rainey, Gertrude Ma - (1886-1939), blues singer
Rainier III of Monaco - (1898-1977), Monaco prince
Rains, Claude - (1889-1967), British actor (The Invisible Man, Casablanca)
Raitt, Bonnie - (born 1949), singer-songwriter, musician
Rajagopalachari, Chakravarti - (1878-1972), Indian statesman, also known as Rajaji
Rajanubhab, Damrong - (1862–1943), Thai prince, administrator, historian
Rajneesh, Osho - (1931-1990), Indian spiritualist
Raleigh, Sir Walter - (1554?-1618), English explorer
Rall, Ted - (born 1963), American political cartoonist
Ramakrishna - (1836-1886)
Raman, C. V. - (1888-1970), Nobel Prize Physics, 1930
Ramanujan, Srinivasa Aaiyangar - (1887-1920), mathematician
Rameau, Jean Philippe - (1683-1764), composer, opera composer
Ramelow, Carsten - (born 1974), football player, National Team of Germany
Rameses II - (c. 1320 BC-1224 BC), Egyptian Pharaoh
Rameses III - Egyptian Pharaoh
Ramirez, Jose Luis - world champion boxer
Ramiro I of Asturias - Asturian monarch
Ramis, Harold - (born 1944), actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer
Ramon, Ilan - (1954-2003), astronaut
Ramone, Dee Dee - (1952-2002), musician
Ramone, Joey - (1952-2001), musician
Ramone, Johnny - (born 1951), musician
Ramone, Marky - (born 1956), musician
Ramones, Adal - (born 1969), comedian, show host
Ramos Horta, Jose - (born 1949)
Ramos, Alexis - (born 1982), singer, participant of Protagonistas De La Musica
Ramos, Jorge - news reporter
Ramos, Ramon - basketball player involved in accident
Rampal, Jean Pierre - (1922-2000), French flautist
Rampling, Charlotte - (born 1945), actress
Ramsay, Allan - (1713-1784), painter
Ramsay, William - (born 1852), Scottish chemist
Ramses - Egyptian pharaoh
Ramsey, Frank P. - (1903-1930), philosopher
Rand, Ayn - (1905-1982), US philosopher & Atlas Shrugged writer
Rand, Paul - (died 1996), famous American graphic designer of corporate logos
Randall, Tony - (born 1920), US actor
Randi, James - (born 1928), Canadian-born skeptic and stage magician
Randolph, John - (born 1773), politician
Randolph, Peyton - US politician
Randolph, Thomas - (1605-1635), poet
Rank, J. Arthur - (1888-1972), producer
Rank, Otto - (1884-1939), pioneer psychologist
Rankin, Ian - author
Rankin, Jeannette - (1880-1973), the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives
Rankin, Robert - author
Rankine, William John Macquorn - (1820-1872), Scottish engineer and physicist
Ransome, Arthur - (1884-1967), Swallows and Amazons series
Raschi, Victor John Angelo Vic - (1919-1988), Major League Baseball pitcher
Rasetti, Franco - (died 2001), physicist
Rashid al Din Tabib - vizier and historian, (1247-1318)
Rasmussen, Jorgen Skafte - (1878-1964)
Rasmussen, Knud Johan Victor - (1879-1933)
Rasmussen, Steen Eiler - (1898-1990), Danish architect
Rasputin, Grigori - (1872-1919), Russian priest
Rathbone, Basil - (1892-1967), South-African born actor
Rathenau, Walther - (1867-1922), foreign minister (DDP)
Rather, Dan - (born 1931), American news anchor
Rattigan, Terence - (1911-1977), dramatist
Rattle, Simon - (born 1955), conductor
Ratzenberger, John - (1947), actor
Ratzenberger, Roland - (died 1994), Formula 1 driver
Ratzinger, Joseph - (born 1927), Cardinal
Rau, Johannes - (born 1931), federal president (SPD)
Rauschenberg, Robert - (born 1925), American visual artist
Rautavaara, Tapio - (1915-1979), Finnish singer and athlete
Ravaisson Mollien, Jean Gaspard Felix - (died 1900), French philosopher
Ravel, Maurice - (1875-1937), French composer
Raven, Symone - (born 1985), actress
Ravenscroft, Thurl - (born 1914), voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger")
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan - (1896-1953), author
Rawls, John - (1921-2002), philosopher
Rawls, Lou - (born 1935), musician
Ray, Gene - (born 1927), cubic thinker
Ray, James Earl - (1928-1998), confessed to the shooting of Martin Luther King Jr
Ray, John - (born 1627), biologist
Ray, Johnnie - (1927-1990), singer
Ray, Man - (1890-1976), painter, photographer
Ray, Robin - (1935-1998), television presenter
Ray, Satyajit - (1921-1992), film director
Ray, Ted - (1905-1977), British comedian
Rayburn, Gene - (1917-1999), game show host
Rayburn, Sam - (1881-1961), U.S. Speaker of the House
Raymond, John - (1844-1886), U.S. Congressman from Dakota Territory
Raymond, Usher - (born 1978), singer, actor
Raynald of Chatillon - (died 1187), crusader
Reymont, Wladyslaw - (1867-1925), Pole
Roger, Martin du Gard - writer
Rolland, Romain - (1866-1944), dramatist, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature
Russell, Bertrand - (1872-1970), British philosopher
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