List of people by name: Ra
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- Raab, Julius, (1881-1964), politician and Austrian Bundeskanzler
- Rabanne, Paco, (born 1934), fashion designer
- Rabbani, Burhanuddin
- Rabbani, Mohammad
- Rabbitt, Eddie, (1944-1998), singer
- Rabbitt, Eddit, (died 1981), musician
- Rabelais, François, (ca. 1493-1553), Renaissance writer
- Rabin, Yitzhak, (1922-1995), Israeli prime minister
- Racah, Giulio, (born 1909), Italian mathematician and physicist
- Rachilde, (born 1860), [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author
- Rachmaninov, Sergei, (1873-1943), Russian composer
- Racine, Jean, (1639-1699), classicist playwright
- Rac, Radko Polic, (born 1942), actor.
- Radbruch, Gustav, (born 1878), German law professor
- Radcliffe, Ann, (1764-1823), writer
- Radcliffe, Daniel, (born 1989), actor
- Radcliffe, Paula
- 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
- Radoslav, Stefan, (1217 or 1218-1234), Serbian monarch
- Raeder, Erich, (1876-1960), found guilty on several accounts including war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials
- Raedwald of East Anglia, (616-627), British monarch
- Rae, John, (1813-1893), travelled widely through the Canadian Arctic
- Raekwon
- Raffarin, Jean-Pierre, (born 1948)
- Raffles, Thomas Stamford, (1781-1826), founder of Singapore
- Rafter, Patrick, tennis player
- Raft, George, (1895-1980), actor
- Ragnald of the Isle of Man, (1248-1249), king
- Rahl, Karl, (1812-1865), painter
- Rahman, Mujibur, (1920-1975), Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- Rahn, Helmut, athlete
- Rai, Aishwarya, (born 1973), actress, Miss World, 1994
- Raibolini, Francesco, (1453-1518), painter
- Räikkönen, Kimi, Finnish race driver
- Raimi, Sam, (born 1959), US director, producer
- Raimi, Ted, actor
- Raine, Craig, (born 1944), poet
- Rainer, Luise, (born 1910), actor
- Rainer, Meta, (born 1904), poet
- Rainey, Gertrude "Ma, (1886-1939), blues singer
- Rainier III of Monaco, (1898-1977), Monaco prince
- Rains, Claude, (1889-1967), best known for playing The Invisible Man
- Raitt, Bonnie, (born 1949), singer-songwriter, musician
- Raitt, John, (born 1917), actor, singer
- Rajagopalachari, Chakravarti, (1878-1972), Indian statesman, also known as Rajaji
- Rajneesh, Osho, (1931-1990), Indian spiritualist
- Rakovec, Ivan, (1899-1985), geologist and palaeontologist.
- Raleigh, Sir Walter, (1554?-1618), English explorer
- Rall, Ted, (born 1963), : Current Contemporary American political cartoonist.
- Ralston, William, (died 1875), entrepreneur.
- 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
- Ramirez, Richard, (born 1960), Mexican accused murderer
- Ramiro I of Asturias, Asturian monarch
- Ramis, Harold, (born 1944), actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer
- Ramone, Joey, (1952-2001), musician
- Ramone, Johnny, (born 1951), rock and roll musician
- Ramones, Adal, (born 1969), comedian, show host
- Ramon, Ilan, (1954-2003), astronaut
- Ramos, Alexis, (born 1982), singer, participant of Protagonistas De La Musica
- Ramos-Horta, Jose, (born 1949)
- Ramos, Jorge, news reporter
- Ramos, Ramon, basketball player involved in accident
- Ramovs, Fran, (1890-1952), linguist
- Rampling, Charlotte, (born 1945), actress
- Ramsay of Mar, Alexander
- Ramsay (1713-1784), Allan, (1713-1784), painter
- Ramsay, William, (born 1852), Scottish chemist
- Ramses, (?), Egyptian pharaoh
- Ramsey, Frank P, (1903-1930), philosopher
- Ramsey, JonBenet, (died 1996), murder victim
- Randall, Glenn, Jr, (born 1941), stuntman
- Randall, Tony, (born 1920), US actor
- Rand, Ayn, (1905-1982), US philosopher & Atlas Shrugged writer
- Rand, Paul, (died 1996), famous American graphic designer of corporate logos
- Rand, Sally, (1904-1979), stripper
- Randi, James, (born 1928), Canadian-born skeptic and stage magician
- Randolph, Boots, (born 1926), musician
- Randolph, John, (born 1773), politician
- Randolph, Peyton, US politician
- Randolph, Thomas, (1605-1635), poet
- Raner, Ali, (born 1934), actor.
- Ranfl, Rajko, (born 1937), film and TV director and scenarist.
- Ranfurly, Dan
- 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
- Ranks, Shabba, (born 1966), singer
- Ransome, Arthur, (1884-1967), Swallows and Amazons series
- Raphael
- Rasetti, Franco, (died 2001), physicist
- Rasmussen, Jĝrgen Skafte, (1878-1964)
- Rasmussen, Knud Johan Victor, (1879-1933)
- Rasmussen, Steen Eiler, (1898-1990), Danish architect
- Rasputin, Grigori, (1872-1919), Russian priest
- Rasulala, Thalmus, (died 1991), actor
- Ra, Sun, (died 1993), singer-songwriter, musician
- 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, Roland, (died 1994), Formula 1 driver
- Ratzinger, Joseph, (born 1927), Cardinal
- Rau, Johannes, (born 1931), federal president (SPD)
- Rautavaara, Tapio, (1915-1979), Finnish singer and athlete
- Ravaisson-Mollien, Jean Gaspard Felix, (died 1900), French philosopher
- Ravel, Maurice, (1875-1937), French composer
- Ravenscroft, Thurl, (born 1914), voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger")
- Raven-Symone, (born 1985), actress
- Ravnikar, Edo, (1907-1993), architect.
- Ravnik, Janko, (1891-1982), film director, pianist, composer, pedagogue and photographer.
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, (1896-1953), author
- Rawls, John, (1921-2002), philosopher
- Rawls, Lou, (born 1935), musician
- Rawlston, William Chapman, (born 1826), banker and financier
- Ray, Aldo, (1926-1991), actor
- Rayburn, Gene, (1917-1999), game show host
- Rayburn, Sam, (1881-1961), U.S. Speaker of the House
- Raye, Martha, (1916-1994), comedienne, actress
- Ray, Gene
- 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
- Raymond, Eric S, fetchmail, The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- Raymond, Fred, (1900-1954), composer
- Raymond, Usher, (born 1978), singer, actor
- Raynald of Chatillon, (died 1187), crusader
- Ray, Robin, (1935-1998), television presenter
- Ray, Satyajit, (1921-1992), film director
- Ray, Ted, (1905-1977), British comedian
- Razi, Seyyed, (born 970), important Muslim scholar and writer
- Raznatovic, Zeljko, (1952-2000), Yugoslav officer known as Arkan
