American Famous Boy Names with Letter R

In 1993, Orrall made his debut on the country charts with the Top 20 single "Boom! It Was Over". Lat

In 1993, Orrall made his debut on the country charts with the Top 20 single "Boom! It Was Over". Later singles proved unsuccessful, however, and Orrall soon lost his record deal with RCA Records. He then teamed up with songwriting partner Curtis Wright to form a duo called Orrall & Wright, which charted two more singles in 1994. After Orrall & Wright disbanded, he returned to songwriting and record producing, primarily in country but occasionally in indie rock as well.

Was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for two seasons. He pitched in the Chicago White Sox

Was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for two seasons. He pitched in the Chicago White Sox for one game during the 1938 Chicago White Sox season and one game for the Detroit Tigers during the 1940 Detroit Tigers season.

Was an American backstroke swimmer from Pennsylvania. Cowell won a silver medal at the 1948 Summer O

Was an American backstroke swimmer from Pennsylvania. Cowell won a silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Cowell was a United States naval officer.

Was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tu

Was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes series of cartoons from Warner Bros. and the television shows Time for Beany, and Beany and Cecil.

An American economist at the University of Chicago. He was named among the 10 best economists,[1] an

An American economist at the University of Chicago. He was named among the 10 best economists,[1] and received the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1995. He is married to economist Nancy Stokey.He received his B.A. in History in 1959 and Ph.D. in Economics in 1964, both from the University of Chicago. He taught at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon University until 1975, when he returned to the University of Chicago.One of the most influential economists since the 1970s, he changed the foundations of macroeconomic theory (previously dominated by the Keynesian economics approach), arguing that a macroeconomic model should be built in analogy with microeconomic models. He is well known for his investigations into the implications of the assumption of rational expectations

Was an American gymnast and track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Was an American gymnast and track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Is an American singer and actor best known for playing the human character "Bob" on Sesame Street. H

Is an American singer and actor best known for playing the human character "Bob" on Sesame Street. He was born in in Ottawa, Illinois.Along with Susan, played by Loretta Long, Bob has been one of the two longest lasting human characters on the series. A Noggin segment proclaimed "the four decades of Bob" when promoting Sesame Street on that network.

Was a Kentucky native who later moved to Alabama and then Texas. Baylor was also the nephew of Kentu

Was a Kentucky native who later moved to Alabama and then Texas. Baylor was also the nephew of Kentucky politician Jesse Bledsoe. Baylor served in the military during the War of 1812. After the war he studied and then practiced law in Kentucky. He was bri

Is an American speed skater who competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics and in the 1952 Winter Olympics

Is an American speed skater who competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics and in the 1952 Winter Olympics.

Is a renowned American computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several important graph algorithm

Is a renowned American computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and Fibonacci heaps.

Was an American physician, military officer, newspaperman, politician and diplomat. He represented V

Was an American physician, military officer, newspaperman, politician and diplomat. He represented Virginia in the United States Senate and served as U.S. Consul in Hong Kong.Following the Civil War, Withers moved back to Lynchburg in 1866 and established

Was an American politician of the Republican party and served as the 33rd mayor of Cleveland, Ohio f

Was an American politician of the Republican party and served as the 33rd mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1895 to 1898.McKisson was elected to Cleveland City Council in 1894 and became an outspoken critic of the mayoral administration of Democrat, Robert Bl

(born on April 18, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He

(born on April 18, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins between 1977 and 1985. He was in the bullpen for the Dodgers in the 1981 World Series, pitching one

Was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective

Was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."

Is a leading American chess player, a Grandmaster, and a chess author. He won the U.S. Championship

Is a leading American chess player, a Grandmaster, and a chess author. He won the U.S. Championship in 1972, and was a World Chess Championship Candidate in 1974. Byrne represented the United States a total of nine times in Chess Olympiads from 1952 to 1976, and won seven medals. He was the chess columnist from 1972 to 2006 for the New York Times, which ran his final column (a recounting of his 1952 victory over David Bronstein) on November 12, 2006.

(born on May 7, 1955 in Arlington, Virginia) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. The 6'6", 22

(born on May 7, 1955 in Arlington, Virginia) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. The 6'6", 225 lb. right-hander was drafted by the California Angels in the 2nd round of the 1976 amateur draft, and he played for the Angels in 1979 and 1980.

Was an American physicist dedicated to learning, research, and education.Marshak received his PhD fr

Was an American physicist dedicated to learning, research, and education.Marshak received his PhD from Cornell University in 1939. Along with his thesis advisor, Hans Bethe, he discovered many of the fusion aspects involved in star formation. This helped him on his work for the Manhattan Project, in Los Alamos, during World War II.In 1957, he and George Sudarshan proposed a V-A ("vector" minus "axial vector") Lagrangian for weak interactions, which was later independently discovered by Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann. His biography below, is explicit about it "Perhaps Marshak's most significant scientific contribution was the proposal of the V-A Theory of Weak Interactions (the fourth force in nature) in collaboration with his student George Sudarshan. Unfortunately, the pair published the theory only in a conference proceedings for a meeting in Italy. Six months later, a different derivation of the same concept was published by Feynman and Gell-Mann in a mainstream scientific journal

Was an infielder for the Major League Baseball Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He was drafted in the eleventh

Was an infielder for the Major League Baseball Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He was drafted in the eleventh round of the 1992 amateur draft by the Atlanta Braves, and was subsequently selected 12th by the Devil Rays in the 1997 MLB Expansion Draft.

Was an American entomologist and artist who made important contributions to the fields of arthropod

Was an American entomologist and artist who made important contributions to the fields of arthropod morphology, anatomy, evolution, and metamorphosis.

Was a Texas politician, a member and Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, the mayor of El

Was a Texas politician, a member and Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, the mayor of El Paso, a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, and a judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Is an Academy Award-winning American art director and production designer.Boyle trained as an archit

Is an Academy Award-winning American art director and production designer.Boyle trained as an architect, graduating from the University of Southern California (USC). When he lost his job in that field during the Great Depression, Boyle found work in films as an extra. In 1933 he was hired as a draftsman in the Paramount Pictures art department, headed by supervising art director Hans Dreier. He went on to work on a variety of pictures as a sketch artist, draftsman and assistant art director before becoming an art director at Universal Studios in the early 1940s.

Is an independent member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 25th Assembly District si

Is an independent member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 25th Assembly District since his election in 1992. Born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Ziegelbauer graduated from Roncalli High School. He was elected County Executive of Manitowoc Count

Is a Canadian professional wrestler, currently wrestling for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where h

Is a Canadian professional wrestler, currently wrestling for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is one half of the tag team Beer Money, Inc., with his partner James Storm.In May 2004, Roode was brought into Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) by Sc

Is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 101st District sin

Is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 101st District since 2003.

Was the 13th Chief Justice of California. Before his election to the Supreme Court of California, he

Was the 13th Chief Justice of California. Before his election to the Supreme Court of California, he had been Judge of the Fourth Judicial District in California.