# List of people by name, Q–R

Subset of List of people by name

## Q

* Qaradawi, Yusuf
* Qarase, Laisenia
* Qassem, Naim
* Qi Jiguang
* Qian, Sima
* Qian Xuesen
* Qin Shi Huang
* Quade, Kirsten Valdez
* Quadros, Jânio
* Qualtinger, Helmut
* Quammen, David
* Quarles, Francis
* Quayle, Dan
* Queen Latifah
* Quesada, Joe
* Quesnay, François
* Quest, Richard
* Questlove
* Quetelet, Adolphe
* Quigley, Carroll
* Quillen, Jimmy
* Quillen, Robert
* Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur
* Quincy, Josiah, II
* Quincy, Josiah, III
* Quindlen, Anna
* Quine, Willard van Orman
* Quinlan, John
* Quinn, Anthony
* Quintero, Isabel
* Quintilian, Marcus Fabius
* Qutb, Muhammad
* Qutb, Sayyid

## R
### Ra

* Ra, see Rueckert, Carla
* Ra, Sun
* Rabelais, François
* Rabi, Isidor Isaac
* Rabin, Yitzhak
* Rachels, James
* Rachmaninoff, Sergei
* Racine, Jean
* Radbruch, Gustav
* Radcliffe, Ann
* Radcliffe, Daniel
* Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli
* Radiguet, Raymond
* Radin, Joshua
* Radke, Ronnie
* Radner, Gilda
* Rae, Bob
* Rae, Issa
* Raeder, Erich
* Raël
* Rafferty, Gerry
* Raftery, Bill
* Rafsanjani, Hashemi
* Raft, George
* Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur
* Rahman, Ziaur
* Rahner, Karl
* Raiffa, Howard
* Raine, Craig
* Raine, Kathleen
* Rainer, Luise
* Rainey, Joseph Hayne
* Rains, Claude
* Raja, Yuvan Shankar
* Rajagopalachari, C.
* Rajan, Raghuram
* Rajapaksa, Mahinda
* Rajaratnam, Sinnathamby
* Rajoub, Jibril
* Raleigh, Sir Walter
* Raleigh, Walter (professor)
* Rall, Ted
* Rāmabhadrācārya, Jagadguru
* Rambachan, Anantanand
* Ramachandran, Vilayanur S.
* Ramakrishna
* Raman, Varadaraja V.
* Ramanujan, Srinivasa
* Ramasamy, Periyar E. V.
* Ramban
* Rameau, Jean-Philippe
* Ramirez, Manny
* Ramírez, Pedro J.
* Ramirez, Richard
* Ramo, Simon
* Ramollah, Elia M.
* Ramsey, Aaron
* Ramsey, Alf
* Ramsey, Bertram
* Ramsey, Norman Foster, Jr.
* Ramsay, William
* Ramsoomair, Scott
* Ramtha
* Ranariddh, Norodom
* Rand, Ayn
* Rankine, William John Macquorn
* Randall, James Ryder
* Randall, Lisa
* Randi, James
* Ranganath, Charan
* Rangel, Charles B.
* Ranger, Terence
* Rania, Queen of Jordan
* Ranjitsinhji, K. S.
* Ranks, Shabba
* Ransford, Edwin
* Ransom, John Crowe
* Ransome, Arthur
* Rantzen, Esther
* Rao, Goparaju Ramachandra
* Rao, Shobha
* Raphael, Frederic
* Rapoport, Anatol
* Rapp, Anthony
* Räsänen, Syksy
* Rascoe, Burton
* Rashi
* Rashid, Rick
* Raskin, Jamie
* Raskin, Jef
* Rasmussen, Anders Fogh
* Rasmussen, Lars Løkke
* Rathbun, Mark
* Rathenau, Walther
* Rather, Dan
* Rathje, William
* Rattigan, Terence
* Raynaud, Serge
* Razak, Najib
* Rauch, Neo
* Raúl
* Rauschenberg, Robert
* Rauschenbusch, Walter
* Ravachol
* Ravel, Maurice
* Ravenscroft, Edward
* Ravnopolska-Dean, Anna-Maria
* Ravuvu, Asesela
* Rawles, James Wesley
* Rawls, John
* Ray, Amit
* Ray, Dixie Lee
* Ray, Gene
* Ray, John
* Ray, Man
* Ray, Satyajit
* Rayburn, Sam
* Raye, Martha
* Raymond, Derek
* Raymond, Eric S.
* Raynaud, Serge
* Rayner, Angela
* Rayner, Claire
* Raza, S.H.
* Razak, Najib

### Re

* Read, Herbert
* Read, Thomas Buchanan
* Reade, Charles
* Reade, William Winwood
* Reagan, Nancy
* Reagan, Ron
* Reagan, Ronald
* Realf, Richard
* Rechy, John
* Redding, Otis
* Redgrave, Vanessa
* Redon, Odilon
* Rée, Paul
* Reed, Alec
* Reed, Jamie
* Reed, John (actor)
* Reed, John (novelist)
* Reed, Lou
* Reed, Talbot Baines
* Rees, Martin
* Rees, Nigel
* Reese, Charley
* Reeve, Christopher
* Reeve, Dana
* Reeves, Hubert
* Reeves, Rachel
* Regan, Ash
* Regan, Brian
* Regan, Tom
* Reger, Max
* Rehman, Waheeda
* Rehn, Olli
* Rehnquist, William
* Reich, Charles A.
* Reitsch, Hanna
* Reich, Steve
* Reich, Wilhelm
* Reichenbach, Hans
* Reid, Harry
* Reid, John
* Reines, Ariana
* Reinfeldt, Fredrik
* Reinhardt, Ad
* Reinhart, Tanya
* Reiser, Hans
* Reisman, George
* Remarque, Erich Maria
* Rembrandt
* Remnick, David
* Renan, Ernest
* Renatus, Publius Flavius Vegetius
* Renault, Mary
* Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
* Rescher, Nicholas
* Rescorla, Cyril Richard "Rick"
* Respinti, Marco
* Reston, James
* Revel, Jean-François
* Revels, Hiram Rhodes
* Reubens, Paul
* Reuss, Theodor
* Reuther, Walter
* Revel, Jean-François
* Rex, Zvi
* Rexroth, Kenneth
* Reynolds, Alastair
* Reynolds, Burt
* Reynolds, Debbie
* Reynolds, Gillian
* Reynolds, Glenn Harlan
* Reynolds, Jason
* Reynolds, Joshua
* Reynolds, Malvina
* Reynolds, Quentin
* Reynolds, Richard (bishop)
* Reyshahri, Mohammad
* Rezaee, Mohsen
* Reznor, Trent

### Rh–Ri

* Rhind-Tutt, Julian
* Rhodes, Cecil
* Rhodes, Happy
* Rhodes, William Barnes
* Rhymes, Busta
* Rhys-Davies, John
* Ribbentrop, Joachim von
* Ricard, Matthieu
* Ricardo, David
* Rice, Anne
* Rice, Condoleezza
* Rice, Donna
* Rice, Susan
* Rice, Tim
* Rice-Davies, Mandy
* Rich, Adrienne
* Rich, Buddy
* Rich, Dave
* Rich, Marc
* Richard I of England
* Richard III of England
* Richard of Chichester
* Richard, Little
* Richards, Ann
* Richards, Denise
* Richards, Frank, pen name of Charles Hamilton (writer)
* Richards, Keith
* Richards, Michael
* Richards, Vernon
* Richardson, Bill
* Richardson, Cameron
* Richardson, Damien
* Richardson, James
* Richardson, Jonathan
* Richardson, Ralph
* Richardson, Samuel
* Richelieu, Cardinal (born Armand Jean du Plessis)
* Richie, Lionel
* Richie, Nicole
* Richler, Mordecai
* Richter, Gerhard
* Richter, Sviatoslav
* Ricketts, Ed
* Rickey, Branch
* Rickey, George
* Rickover, Hyman G.
* Ricœur, Paul
* Ride, Sally
* Ridenour, David A.
* Riding, Laura
* Ridler, Anne
* Ridley, Arnold
* Ridley, Matt
* Ridley, Nicholas, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale
* Riebling, Mark
* Riefenstahl, Leni
* Rieff, Philip
* Riel, Louis
* Riemen, Rob
* Riesman, David
* Rigby, Kasha
* Riggs, Ransom
* Rihanna
* Riley, Bridget
* Riley, James Whitcomb
* Riley, Tim
* Rilke, Rainer Maria
* Rimbaud, Arthur
* Ringer, Javon
* Ringgold, Faith
* Ringwald, Molly
* Ripken, Jr., Cal
* Riquelme, Juan Román
* Risch, Jim
* Risom, Jens
* Ritchie, Dennis
* Ritenour, Lee
* Ritson, Joseph
* Rittenhouse, David
* Ritter, Scott
* Ritzer, George
* River, Okkervil
* Rivera, Carmen
* Rivera, Diego
* Rivera, Jesús Omar
* Rivera, José (playwright)
* Rivera, Tomás
* Rivera-Ortiz, Manuel
* Rivers, Joan
* Rivlin, Reuven
* Rizal, José

### Roa–Rok

* Roach, Archie
* Robb, AnnaSophia
* Robbins, Anthony
* Robbins, Jesse
* Robbins, Tom
* Robert, Henry Martyn
* Roberts, Barbara
* Roberts, Cokie
* Roberts, Dmae
* Roberts, Emma
* Roberts, Howard
* Roberts, Jane
* Roberts, John
* Roberts, John G.
* Roberts, Julia
* Roberts, Keith
* Roberts, Michael (writer)
* Roberts, Pat
* Roberts, Paul Craig
* Robertson, Frederick William
* Robertson, Pat
* Robeson, Paul
* Robespierre, Maximilien
* Robinson, Charles Seymour
* Robinson, Edwin Arlington
* Robinson, George Wade
* Robinson, Jackie
* Robinson, Joan
* Robinson, Ken
* Robinson, Kim Stanley
* Robinson, Marilynne
* Robinson, Phoebe
* Robinson, Smokey
* Robinson, Spider
* Robinson, Sugar Ray
* Robinson, Tommy
* Robison, Shona
* Robson, Bobby
* Robson, Bryan
* Robson, Justina
* Rocha, Zack de la
* Rochau, Ludwig August von
* Roche, Boyle
* Roche, James Jeffrey
* Rock, Chris
* Rockefeller, David
* Rockefeller, John D.
* Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
* Rocker, Rudolf
* Rockwell, George Lincoln
* Rockwell, Lew
* Rockwell, Norman
* Roddenberry, Gene
* Roddick, Andy
* Rodet, Jean-Claude
* Rodger, Elliot
* Rodin, Auguste
* Rodney, Walter
* Rodrigues, Nelson
* Rodriguez, Alex
* Rodriguez, Favianna
* Rodriguez, Luis
* Rodriguez, Michelle
* Rodriguez, Paul (actor)
* Rodriguez, Richard
* Rodríguez Zapatero, José Luis
* Rodrik, Dani
* Roe, Kris
* Roecker, John
* Roerich, Nicholas
* Roethke, Theodore
* Rogan, Joe
* Roger, Brother
* Rogers, Carl
* Rogers, Fred
* Rogers, Ginger
* Rogers, Jane
* Rogers, Jim
* Rogers, John
* Rogers, Kenny
* Rogers, Samuel
* Rogers, Stan
* Rogers, Will
* Rogozin, Dmitry
* Röhm, Ernst
* Rohmer, Sax
* Rohr, Richard
* Rohrabacher, Dana
* Rohrer, Heinrich
* Rokossovsky, Konstantin

### Rol–Roz

* Madame Roland (Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platiere)
* Rolfe, Frederick
* Roll, Eric, Baron Roll of Ipsden
* Rolland, Romain
* Rollin, Charles
* Rollins, Henry
* Romanelli, Carl
* Romano, Ray
* Romario
* Romer, Christina
* Romer, David
* Romero, Elaine
* Romero, John
* Romero, Óscar
* Romilly, John, 1st Baron Romilly
* Rommel, Erwin
* Romney, Mitt
* Ronaldinho
* Ronaldo, Cristiano
* Ronaldo
* Ronell, Avital
* Ronsard, Pierre de
* Ronstadt, Linda
* Röntgen, Wilhelm
* Roochnik, David
* Rood, Ogden
* Rooke, Giles
* Rooney, Andy
* Roosevelt, Eleanor
* Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
* Roosevelt, Theodore
* Rorem, Ned
* Rorty, Richard
* Rose, Axl
* Rose, Ernestine
* Rose, Flemming
* Rose, Howie
* Rose, Katy
* Rosebery, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of
* Rosedale, Philip
* Rosen, Charles
* Rosen, Michael
* Rosen, Mike
* Rosen, Robert
* Rosenberg, Alfred
* Rosenberg, Ariel (a.k.a. Ariel Pink)
* Rosenberg, Harold
* Rosenberg, Isaac
* Rosenberg, Yair
* Rosenfeld, Léon
* Rosenfelder, Mark
* Rosenfels, Paul
* Rosenquist, James
* Rosenthal, Moriz
* Rosenzweig, Franz
* Rosling, Hans
* Ross, Blake
* Ross, Bob
* Ross, Christopher
* Ross, Dennis
* Ross, Diana
* Ross, Gary
* Ross, Jim
* Rossa, Jeremiah O'Donovan
* Rossellini, Isabella
* Rosser, Yvette
* Rossetti, Christina
* Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
* Rossi, Vasco
* Rossini, Gioachino
* Rostand, Edmond
* Rostand, Jean
* Rosten, Leo
* Rota, Nino
* Rotaru, Sofia
* Roth, Cecil
* Roth, David Lee
* Roth, Gabriel
* Roth, Philip
* Roth, Richard, Jr.
* Roth, Veronica
* Rothbard, Murray
* Rothfuss, Patrick
* Rothko, Mark
* Rothschild, Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron
* Rouault, Georges
* Roubini, Nouriel
* Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph
* Rouhani, Hassan
* Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
* Rousseff, Dilma
* Routh, Martin Joseph
* Roux, Joseph
* Rovabokola, Ratu Viliame
* Rove, Karl
* Rovelli, Carlo
* Rowan, Carl
* Rowe, Elizabeth
* Rowe, Nicholas
* Rowland, Helen
* Rowland, Kevin
* Rowling, J. K.
* Roy, Arundhati
* Royce, Henry
* Royce, Josiah
* Roydon, Mathew
* Rozema, Patricia

### Ru–Ry

* Rubaie, Mowaffak
* Rubbia, Carlo
* Rubin, Vera
* Rubinstein, Arthur
* Rubio, Marco
* Rucellai, Giovanni
* Rucker, Darius
* Rucker, Rudy
* Rudd, Kevin
* Rudebeck, Lars
* Rudge, Myles
* Rudner, Rita
* Rudnick, Paul
* Rueckert, Carla
* Ruggedman
* Ruiz, Don Miguel
* Ruiz, Miguel Ángel
* Rujula, Alvaro De
* Rukeyser, Muriel
* Rukeyser, Louis
* Rulfo, Juan
* Rumbaugh, James
* Rumbold, Richard
* Rumi, Jalal al-Din Muhammad
* Rumpe, Bernhard
* Rumsfeld, Donald
* Runciman, Steven
* Rundstedt, Gerd von
* Runyon, Damon
* Ruparelia, Sudhir
* RuPaul
* Rusbridger, Alan
* Ruscha, Edward
* Rush, Benjamin
* Rush, Geoffrey
* Rushdie, Salman
* Rushent, Martin
* Rushton, J. Philippe
* Ruska, Ernst
* Ruskin, John
* Russ, Joanna
* Russell, Bertrand
* Russell, Bill
* Russell, Dora
* Russell, George William
* Russell, John, 1st Earl Russell
* Russell, Mary Doria
* Russell, Nipsey
* Russell, Rosalind
* Russell, Sean
* Russell, Walter
* Russell, Willy
* Russell-Moyle, Lloyd
* Russo, Lucio
* Russo, Rene
* Russo, Richard
* Russolo, Luigi
* Rustin, Bayard
* Rutan, Burt
* Ruth, Babe
* Rutherford, Ernest
* Rutherford, Joseph Franklin
* Rutherford, Samuel
* Rutledge,Edward
* Rutter, Frank
* Ruysbroeck, John
* Ryan, Alan
* Ryan, Leo J.
* Ryan, Paul (politician)
* Ryan, Paul (video artist)
* Ryan, Rex
* Ryan, Richard
* Rybak, Alexander
* Ryle, Gilbert
* Ryle, J. C.
* Ryle, Martin
* Ryōkan
* Ryssdal, Kai