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• Raj ChettyAmerican economist at Harvard.
• Raju VegesnaFormer chief executive of American Therapeutics; sentenced in 1990 in the generic drug probe.
• Rakhat Aliyev 1962 – 24 Feb 2015Kazakh official and diplomat; first deputy foreign minister (2005–2007) and ambassador to Austria.
• Ram ShriramInvestor and former Amazon executive; Google director from 1998.
• Ramesh BalwaniChief operating officer and president of Theranos; convicted on all counts in 2022.
• Ramesses IIThird king of ancient Egypt's 19th dynasty, who reigned from 1279 to 1213 BCE.
• Randi ZuckerbergFacebook's director of marketing from 2005 to 2011, then founder of her own media firm; sister of Mark Zuckerberg.
• Randy “Duke” CunninghamFormer U.S. Representative (R) from California who pleaded guilty in 2005 to conspiracy to commit bribery, honest services fraud and tax evasion.
• Raphael LemkinPolish-born jurist who coined the word genocide in 1944 and campaigned for the 1948 Genocide Convention.
• Rashid KhalidiHistorian of Palestine and the modern Middle East.
• Raymond McDanielChairman and chief executive of Moody’s Corporation in 2008 and 2010.
• Recep Tayyip ErdoğanPrime minister of Turkey in 2014; president of Turkey from 2014 onward.
• Reed O’ConnorU.S. district judge in Fort Worth who presided over United States v. The Boeing Company.
• Reid HoffmanAmerican entrepreneur and investor; one of OpenAI's launch donors and a board member in 2019.
• René Schneider 1913–1970Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, shot in a kidnap attempt on 22 October 1970.
• Richard BurrFormer Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina; left the Senate in January 2023.
• Richard DearloveChief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in 2002; "C" in the Downing Street memo.
• Richard Helms 1913–2002CIA officer; Deputy Director for Plans from February 1962.
• Richard Henry PrattArmy officer who founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School in Pennsylvania.
• Richard Nixon 1913–199437th President of the United States, who resigned on 9 August 1974.
• Richard SacklerLongtime Purdue executive and a member of the family that owned Purdue Pharma.
• Rick ScottRepublican U.S. Senator from Florida.
• Rob BontaAttorney General of California since 2021.
• Rob KapitoCo-founder of BlackRock and its president since 2007.
• Rob ReichDirector of Stanford’s McCoy Center for Ethics in Society; author of Just Giving.
• Robert A. KehoeAmerican physician of Cincinnati who studied the men at the tetraethyl lead plant and, for decades, lead in ordinary people; Ethyl’s medical consultant.
• Robert BrulleAuthor of a 2014 study of who funds U.S. climate-policy opposition groups.
• Robert ByrdU.S. senator from West Virginia who voted on both the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and the Iraq resolution.
• Robert CliveOfficer and official of the East India Company who commanded its force at Plassey in 1757 and took over its administration of Bengal's revenue in 1765.
• Robert GersonyConsultant to the UN refugee agency who interviewed Rwandans in July and August 1994.
• Robert Grimm 1881–1958Swiss socialist politician who first took the Russian exiles’ plan for passage through Germany to the Swiss government.
• Robert J. HanyokSenior historian at the National Security Agency who wrote its history of the Gulf of Tonkin incidents.
• Robert JaedickeStanford accounting professor; chaired the audit committee of Enron’s board.
• Robert KhuzamiDirector of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement from 2009.
• Robert LechêneJournalist and popular-science writer; author of L'Imprimerie, de Gutenberg à l'électron and of Britannica's article on printing.
• Robert MalleyU.S. National Security Council aide who took part in the Camp David summit of 2000.
• Robert McNamaraU.S. Secretary of Defense in August 1964.
• Robert RubinU.S. Treasury Secretary in 1998.
• Robert Tappan MorrisComputer scientist and MIT professor; co-founder of Viaweb (1995) and Y Combinator (2005).
• Robert VescoFinancier named in a 1973 indictment with John Mitchell and Maurice Stans.
• Roberto Calvi until Jun 1982Chairman of Banco Ambrosiano of Milan, found dead in London in June 1982.
• Roger B. Chaffee 1935–1967American astronaut who died in the Apollo 1 fire.
• Roger Casement 1864–1916British consul at Boma whose 1903 journey and report on the Upper Congo were printed by Parliament in 1904.
• Roméo DallaireCanadian general; Force Commander of the UN mission in Rwanda in 1993 and 1994.
• Ron JohnsonRepublican U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.
• Ronald DePinhoAmerican cancer scientist; president of MD Anderson Cancer Center from 2011. Co-founded AVEO Pharmaceuticals.
• Ronald HendelScholar of the Hebrew Bible at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Ronald Reagan 6 Feb 1911 – 5 Jun 200440th President of the United States (1981–1989).
• Ronald Wayne 1934 –Third partner in the April 1976 Apple Computer Company partnership, holding 10%; he withdrew eleven days later.
• Rose Cipollone until 1984New Jersey smoker who died of lung cancer in 1984; her suit against cigarette makers reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1992.
• Roswell GilpatricU.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense in 1961.
• Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizHistorian; argues that U.S. policy toward Native nations meets the definition of genocide.
• Rupert MurdochMedia owner; chairman and chief executive of News Corp in 2009.
• Russell ThorntonScholar of Native American population history.
• Ruth SimmonsPresident of Brown University who appointed the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice in 2003.
• Ryan CohenInvestor and co-founder of Chewy; GameStop director from January 2021, chairman from June 2021 and CEO from September 2023.