American Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Is a Honduran football defender. He currently plays for Olimpia in Liga Nacional de Honduras. He pre

Is a Honduran football defender. He currently plays for Olimpia in Liga Nacional de Honduras. He previously played for Platense where he earned more than 100 caps.

Is a Panamanian-born composer

Is a Panamanian-born composer

Was a leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist. He is one of Latin America's most compelling poets. He

Was a leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist. He is one of Latin America's most compelling poets. He wrote emotionally strong, sometimes sarcastic, and image-loaded works dealing with life, death, love, and politics.

Roric Edward Harrison was born September 20, 1946 in Los Angeles, California. He was a pitcher in Ma

Roric Edward Harrison was born September 20, 1946 in Los Angeles, California. He was a pitcher in Major League Baseball for five seasons between 1972 and 1978.

He is known as playing Ron Slater in Dazed and Confused, Lucas in Empire Records, and Tim Speedle in

He is known as playing Ron Slater in Dazed and Confused, Lucas in Empire Records, and Tim Speedle in CSI: Miami.Cochrane was born in Syracuse, New York the third child (siblings Brendan and Siobhan) to a Scots-Irish American father and an Indian American

Is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA. He played collegiately at Villanova

Is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA. He played collegiately at Villanova University, where he scored 1183 career points, and made 495 assists. In college, Sparrow made game-winning shots in the last ten seconds of the game on five occasions.

A professional ice hockey defenseman with the Florida Panthers. He spent his junior career in the OH

A professional ice hockey defenseman with the Florida Panthers. He spent his junior career in the OHL with the Sudbury Wolves, and was selected in the second round of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, 47th overall, by the Montreal Canadiens. He has become a journeyman depth player at the NHL level.After completing his junior eligibility, Fitzpatrick made his professional debut in the AHL, although he eventually joined the Canadiens and played 42 games. Just six games into the following season, however, Fitzpatrick was dealt to St. Louis in the blockbuster Pierre Turgeon trade, where he played a pair of games before being shipped down to the minors

Is a Canadian lacrosse player and an assistant captain for the Edmonton Rush of the National Lacross

Is a Canadian lacrosse player and an assistant captain for the Edmonton Rush of the National Lacrosse League. Glaves also played two years of college lacrosse for the University of Hartford. Glaves has won two Minto Cup championships with the St. Catharin

Is a New York State Assembly member representing the 25th Assembly District in Queens, New York.Lanc

Is a New York State Assembly member representing the 25th Assembly District in Queens, New York.Lancman served on Community Board 8 for over sixteen years, chairing first the Aging Committee and then the Youth & Education Committee. For five years he chai

Is an American soccer player from San Diego, California. She is a midfielder for the Women's Profess

Is an American soccer player from San Diego, California. She is a midfielder for the Women's Professional Soccer club FC Gold Pride.

Was a jazz and blues singer, and vaudeville entertainer.Her nine year recording career began in 1923

Was a jazz and blues singer, and vaudeville entertainer.Her nine year recording career began in 1923. During that time she recorded upwards of one hundred songs using numerous pseudonyms such as Sally Ritz, Flora Dale, Sarah Johnson, Josephine Thomas, Gla

Was the first notable female ichthyologist; first publishing in her own right, she later collaborate

Was the first notable female ichthyologist; first publishing in her own right, she later collaborated with her husband Carl H. Eigenmann, and some 150 species of fish are today credited "Eigenmann & Eigenmann" as a result.

Is an American politician and business executive, currently serving as the CEO of Stanford Managemen

Is an American politician and business executive, currently serving as the CEO of Stanford Management, a low-cost housing provider in Maine.On July 20, 2009, Scarcelli announced that she was seeking the Democratic nomination for Governor of Maine in the J

Was a Canadian politician, the mayor of Chicoutimi, Quebec and a Liberal party member of the Canadia

Was a Canadian politician, the mayor of Chicoutimi, Quebec and a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec and became a businessman and industrialist.

MacDowell was born in Gaffney, South Carolina, the daughter of Pauline "Paula" Johnston (née Oswald

MacDowell was born in Gaffney, South Carolina, the daughter of Pauline "Paula" Johnston (née Oswald), a music teacher, and Marion St. Pierre MacDowell, a lumber executive.[1][2] Her family owned an ante-bellum summer house in Arden, North Carolina. It has

A Canadian jurist. She was appointed in 2004 to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jewi

A Canadian jurist. She was appointed in 2004 to the Supreme Court of Canada, becoming the first Jewish woman and the sixth woman to sit on the Canadian Supreme Court bench.Abella, who is considered one of Canada's foremost experts in human rights law, has also been a chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Ontario Law Reform Commission, and a board member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission. She was also a member of the judicial inquiry on the Donald Marshall case. She chaired the Ontario Study into Access to Legal Services by the Disabled.

An American folk singer-songwriter who resides in the mountains near Boise, Idaho. She began her pub

An American folk singer-songwriter who resides in the mountains near Boise, Idaho. She began her public career as a singer and collector of traditional folksongs in the late 1950s. During the early 1960s she left her husband and began traveling and perfor

Is an American cartoonist and is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. She grew up in the Flatbush

Is an American cartoonist and is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. She grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher who subscribed to The New Yorker. Her earliest cartoons were publis

Was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newsp

Was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway and in film. She won all 5 G

Is an American medical physicist,As she knew how to type, she obtained a part time position as secre

Is an American medical physicist,As she knew how to type, she obtained a part time position as secretary to Dr. Rudolf Schoenheimer, a leading biochemist at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Not believing that any good graduate school would admit and provide financial support to a woman Sussman studied stenography and took a job as a secretary to Michael Heidelberger, another biochemist at Columbia. She graduated from Hunter College in January 1941.

American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for he

American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique.

Was an American pianist and harpsichordist who was particularly associated with the music of Johann

Was an American pianist and harpsichordist who was particularly associated with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.Tureck did not play only Bach, but had a wide-ranging repertoire which included works by composers including Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Frédéric Chopin, as well as more modern composers such as David Diamond, Luigi Dallapiccola, and William Schuman. Diamond's Piano Sonata No. 1 was inspired by Tureck's playing.

Is an American ladies' singles figure skater. She was the World Junior champion in 1980, the U.S. Na

Is an American ladies' singles figure skater. She was the World Junior champion in 1980, the U.S. National champion in 1982, 1983 and 1984, World champion in 1983, and won a silver medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics (second to Katarina Witt). Sumners turne

Is an American actress who has starred in film and in television. She is best known for her role in

Is an American actress who has starred in film and in television. She is best known for her role in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Azetbur, the daughter of Chancellor Gorkon. Her other film roles include La Bamba (1987) as Connie Valenzuela, Stand and Deliver (1988) and Family Business (1989). In the latter film she played the wife of Dustin Hoffman, co-starring with Sean Connery and Matthew Broderick.

Arquette was born in New York City, the daughter of Mardi Olivia (née Nowak), an actress, poet, the

Arquette was born in New York City, the daughter of Mardi Olivia (née Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher and therapist, and Lewis Arquette, an actor and director.[1] Arquette's paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arqu