Profiles — Creators

Creators

Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.

American finance author and investor (born 1947)

Robert Kiyosaki

Robert Toru Kiyosaki is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and author, known for the Rich Dad Poor Dad series of personal finance books.

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Austrian philosophical writer (1880–1942)

Robert Musil

Robert Mathias Musil was an Austrian philosophical writer of novels, short stories and plays.

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Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer (1771–1858)

Robert Owen

Robert Owen was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist, political philosopher and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement.

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English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)

Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon, also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis, was a medieval English polymath, philosopher, scientist, theologian and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism.

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American film critic and author (1942–2013)

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic, film historian, essayist, screenwriter, journalist, and author.

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French writer (1881–1958)

Roger Martin du Gard

Roger Martin du Gard was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)

Roland Barthes

Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician.

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American politician (born 1935)

Ron Paul

Ronald Ernest Paul is an American author, activist, medical doctor, and former politician who served as the U.S.

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First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

Rosalynn Carter

Eleanor Rosalynn Carter was an American activist and humanitarian who served as the first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981, as the wife of President Jimmy Carter, from their marriage from 1946 until her death in 2023.

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