American Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 19th Congressional distr

Is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 19th Congressional district. The district includes a large swath of West Texas, including Lubbock and Abilene. He was sworn in on June 5, 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of Alabam

Is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Although Alabama only records new albums on occasion,

Is a Hall of Fame jockey inh the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing, Born into a family involved wit

Is a Hall of Fame jockey inh the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing, Born into a family involved with horses, his father Lloyd J. Romero was a Louisiana state trooper who trained American Quarter Horses and later, after a drunk driver crashed into his pol

Is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and comedian. Quaid was born in Houston, Texas, the son

Is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and comedian. Quaid was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Juanita Bonniedale "Nita" (née Jordan), a real estate agent, and William Rudy Quaid, an electrician. Quaid is married to former Helmut Newton model Evi Quaid, and is the elder brother of fellow actor Dennis Quaid. He attended Pershing Middle School and Bellaire High School (Houston).

Is a Republican member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 38th District since 2004.

Is a Republican member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 38th District since 2004.

(born April 20, 1960 in Anchorage, Alaska) was a Major League Baseball utility outfielder for the Sa

(born April 20, 1960 in Anchorage, Alaska) was a Major League Baseball utility outfielder for the San Francisco Giants and Boston Red Sox from 1986 through 1990. He batted and threw right-handed.

Is a retired American basketball player and the current coach of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves. A

Is a retired American basketball player and the current coach of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves. A 6'6" guard, Wittman played college basketball at Indiana University, and was selected by the Washington Bullets with the 22nd pick of the 1983 NBA Draft. However, he never played for the Bullets; instead, over a nine-year NBA career, he played for the Atlanta Hawks, the Sacramento Kings, and the Indiana Pacers.

Is an American gymnast. She started gymnastics at the age of 4 at Ocean Tumblers and in 2001 moved t

Is an American gymnast. She started gymnastics at the age of 4 at Ocean Tumblers and in 2001 moved to Excalibur Gymnastics to train under Jim and Dena Walker. She is currently a senior in high school and will be attending the University of Florida in the fall of 2009.

Is the first player to earn $1,000,000 in beach volleyball. He won one U.S. championship and two Wor

Is the first player to earn $1,000,000 in beach volleyball. He won one U.S. championship and two World championships with Sinjin Smith. He is a four-time winner of the Manhattan Beach Open.

Vasquez has made several appearances in TV series, most notably Marcos in Acapulco H.E.A.T. and as G

Vasquez has made several appearances in TV series, most notably Marcos in Acapulco H.E.A.T. and as Gunnery Sargent Victor Galindez in JAG. In 2005 he directed a comedic drama titled Perceptions.

Is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'8", 240 pound power forward, White was a st

Is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'8", 240 pound power forward, White was a star at Louisiana Tech University, where he averaged 21.2 points and 10.5 rebounds as a senior and earned the nickname "Mailman II" (a reference to NBA legend and Louisiana Tech alumnus Karl "The Mailman" Malone) . He was then selected by the Dallas Mavericks with the eighth pick of the 1989 NBA Draft and played five seasons with them, averaging a career-high 9.7 points per game in 1992-93. He later played in the CBA and in the international leagues, including a stop with European powerhouse Maccabi Tel Aviv and in Italy with Pfizer Reggio Calabria (in 1994-1995).

A Canadian jazz vocalist and musician who resides in Montreal, Quebec.Lee toured North America in th

A Canadian jazz vocalist and musician who resides in Montreal, Quebec.Lee toured North America in the 1970s as a jazz drummer and tenor saxophonist. She subsequently landed a starring role playing Billie Holiday in Lady Day, and won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance. She subsequently began recording as a vocalist, releasing her first album in 1989.

Is a Canadian professional basketball player currently playing for Hanzevast Capitals.

Is a Canadian professional basketball player currently playing for Hanzevast Capitals.

(born 10 February 1926 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is a former American Major League (MLB) player for

(born 10 February 1926 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is a former American Major League (MLB) player for the Chicago Cubs (1950-1955), Dodgers (1956-1958; two seasons in Brooklyn, one in Los Angeles), Cleveland Indians (1958-1959), and ended his career back with the Cubs (1959).

Was an early San Francisco school painter, specializing in Northern California landscapes.Holdridge

Was an early San Francisco school painter, specializing in Northern California landscapes.Holdridge was recognized as a great painter during his life. His paintings are in the permanent collections of many museums, particularly those specializing in California Artists. His works are (or have been) displayed in the Shumate Collection of the Oakland Museum of California[8]; the De Young Museum[9]; the Hart Collection at the Sonoma County Museum[10]; the Utah Museum of Fine Arts[4]; Sacramento's Crocker Museum; Society of California Pioneers; Bohemian Club; University of California Berkeley's Bancroft Library; Prescott, Arizona's The Phippen Museum of Western Art[11]; The Colorado Heritage Center at the Colorado Historical Society in Denver, Colorado[11]

Is a retired middle distance runner from Canada She represented her native country at the 1984 Summe

Is a retired middle distance runner from Canada She represented her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics, finishing in 15th place in the women's 800 metres.

Was a mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense.He later w

Was a mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense.He later went to college at McGill University in Montreal, and then earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1949. His thesis, titled Electric

Was a Canadian politician and longtime organizer in Quebec for the Liberal Party of Canada.He served

Was a Canadian politician and longtime organizer in Quebec for the Liberal Party of Canada.He served as Speaker of the Canadian Senate from 1905 to 1909 and was either Leader of the Government in the Canadian Senate or Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate from 1921 until 1942. As Government Leader in the Senate he served in every Cabinet formed by William Lyon Mackenzie King from 1921 until Dandurand's death in 1942.

Is a sculptor and caricaturist.Hunter studied at the School of fine arts of Quebec city and at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts of Paris

Is an Egyptian singer and actress who rose to fame with her debut single Enta Aref Leih (Do You Know

Is an Egyptian singer and actress who rose to fame with her debut single Enta Aref Leih (Do You Know Why?). Egyptian director and producer, Sherif Sabri, is credited for launching her career. She is considered to be one of the most talked about female artists in Egypt.Her first music video of debut single "Enta Aref Leih" (2003), was directed by Sherif Sabri and was a hit on most satellite music stations in the Middle East during the summer of 2003. This video caused a huge stir in the media, causing people and critics to criticize the way Ruby appeared in provocative costume of a belly dancer, wandering in the streets of Prague

Is heavyweight professional boxer from the United States. Butler now resides in Rochester, Minnesota

Is heavyweight professional boxer from the United States. Butler now resides in Rochester, Minnesota. He had a stellar amateur career, winning the 2004 National Golden Gloves Super Heavyweight Championship. Butler represented the 4th Street Gym in his hom

Is an American computer scientist and a professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the fir

Is an American computer scientist and a professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the Jargon File. He is the author of An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, a textbook on operating systems, and Advanced Programming Language Design, an introductory book on programming paradigms. Raphael Finkel and J.L. Bentley created the data structure called the quadtree.

Was an American mathematician.Robinson worked on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number th

Was an American mathematician.Robinson worked on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Robinson (1937) set out a simpler and more conventional version of John Von Neumann's 1923 axiomatic set theory. Soon after Alfred

Was an American geologist and explorer.Invited by the respective governments, he surveyed parts of J

Was an American geologist and explorer.Invited by the respective governments, he surveyed parts of Japan and China. He made the first extensive survey of the Gobi Desert, and explored Mongolia and Siberia.Later he was Professor of Mining Science at Harvard University. Among his scientific accomplishments was a theory of secular rock disintegration. He was influenced by Louis Agassiz.The mineral Pumpellyite, a variety of "greenstone" found only in Keweenaw County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, was named in his honor.

Was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American

Was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American scene painter. He is identified as a Social Realist because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings which included the streets, subways, salons and artists' studios of New York City, although he avoided subjects that were particularly critical of society. He also wrote several books on his life and art.