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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Nicaraguan poet, journalist and diplomat (1867–1916)
Rubén Darío
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century.
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Persian poet, the father of Persian poetry
Rudaki
Rudaki was a poet, singer, and musician who is regarded as the first major poet to write in New Persian.
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(1846-1926) German philosopher
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Rudolf Christoph Eucken was a German philosopher.
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Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant and speaker with the dead.
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