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- Qandeel Baloch, Social Media Influencer Who was a Victim of an "Honor Killing"
- Qin Shi Huang, the Terracotta Army is in his tomb
- Qiu Jin, China's Joan of Arc
- Queen Latifah, Musician and Actress
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- R Lee Ermey, Gunnery Sergeant
- Rachel Carson, Marine Biologist and Conservationist
- Rachel Eaton, Cherokee Educator and Historian
- Rachel Wall, Possibly America's First Female Pirate
- Rachel Washburn, Gave up Being a US Army Cheerleader to Join the US Army
- Rachel Weisz, Academy Award Winning Actress
- Rahat Khan, Field Hockey Player
- Raj Rajeshwari Devi, Queen Consort and Regent of Nepal
- Ralph Teetor, The Man Who Invented Cruise Control
- Ranald Mackenzie, who cares about Custer once you've heard this story?
- Ranavalona I, Madagascar's first female queen regnant
- Rania al-Abduhllah, Queen Consort of Jordan
- Raoul Wallenberg, He is credited with saving around 100,000 Hungarian Jews in Six Months
- Ray Chavez, at the time of his death he was the oldest living Pearl Harbor Veteran
- Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first African American woman to receive a modern medical degree in the United States
- Rebecca Lukens, The First Female Industrialist Leader in US History
- Rebecca Nurse, Accused of being a Salem Witch
- Rebecca Peterman, Union Soldier During the War Between the States
- Rebecca Romijn, Actress and Model
- Rebecca Schaeffer, Actress who is better remembered for being murdered
- Rebecca Skloot, author who brought the story of Henrietta Lacks to the mainstream light
- Reva Beck Bosone, First Elected Congresswoman from the State of Utah
- Rhoda Abbott, The Only Female Titanic Survivor to Have Been Pulled From the Water
- Richard Hart, Al Capone's oldest brother
- Richard Overton, when he died he was the oldest World War II veteran still alive
- Rita Levi-Montalcini, Neurologist and Physician
- Robert Irwin, Animal Conservationist and Photographer
- Robert Jan Van Pelt, Auschwitz historian who doesn't bend to history deniers
- Robert Moog, inventor of the synthesizer
- Roberta Cordano, First Deaf Woman to Become President of a United States University
- Robertha Watt Marshall, RMS Titanic Survivor
- Rodney Marks, the only person ever murdered at the South Pole
- Rolf Mengele, he has tried to make amends for the sins of his father
- Roopkuvarba Kanwar, The Last Woman in India to Commit Sati
- Rosa Carmichael, the witch governess of the Gettysburg Orphanage
- Rosalia Lombardo, Famous Child Mummy
- Rosalind Brewer, first female and first African American COO of Starbucks
- Rosalind Franklin, controversy remains over who the true discoverer of DNA was, was it her?
- Rosalyn Yalow, Medical Physicist
- Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States during her husband Jimmy Carter's Term
- Rosana Chouteau, The First Woman Elected Chief of the Osage Beaver Band
- Rose Cecil O'Neill, First Published Female Cartoonist in the United States
- Rose Cleveland, Acting First Lady of the United States During Her Brother, Grover Cleveland's, First Administration
- Rose Michtom, Co-Inventor of the Teddy Bear
- Rose Mofford, The First Female Governor of Arizona
- Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Confederate Spy During the War Between the States
- Rose Valland, the Monument's Woman
- Roseanna McCoy, her story is worse than Romeo and Juliet
- Rosemary Kennedy, her sister Eunice created the Special Olympics in her honor
- Roza Shanina, Soviet Sniper With 59 Confirmed Kills
- Ruan An, one of the most important architects of the Forbidden City in China
- Rudrama Devi, Queen During India's Kakatiya Dynasty
- Rusty Kanokogi, Mother of Women's Judo
- Ruth Becker Blanchard, RMS Titanic Survivor
- Ruth Handler, Invented Barbie
- Ruth Law Oliver, Pioneering Aviatrix
- Dr. Ruth Pfau, Catholic Nun and Medical Missionary
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Sexologist Known Affectionately as Dr. Ruth
- Ryan White, he fought to end the stigma of HIV/AIDS and brought new awareness and education towards the disease