Profiles — Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
Indian statesman, lawyer and writer (1884–1963); first President of India
Rajendra Prasad was an Indian politician, lawyer, journalist and scholar who served as the first president of India from 1950 to 1962 for two terms.
Read biography ↗American philosopher (1803–1882)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
Read biography ↗Indian spiritual teacher (1879–1950)
Ramana Maharshi was an Indian Hindu sage widely regarded by his followers and by "most advocates of Advaita" as a jivanmukta.
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Ramon Llull, sometimes anglicized as Raymond Lully, was a Catholic philosopher, theologian, poet, missionary, apologist and former knight, born in Palma de Mallorca.
Read biography ↗British prime minister in 1924 and 1929 to 1935 (1866–1937)
James Ramsay MacDonald was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, first briefly in 1924 and again from 1929 to 1935.
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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
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Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter.
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Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.
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Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1913 to 1920, and three times as Prime Minister of France.
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