Sergei Rachmaninoff
(1873-1943) composer
Miklos Radnoti
(1909-1944) poet
John Rae
(1813-1893) Arctic explorer
Robert Ransome
(1753-1830) iron foundry owner
Sir Simon Rattle OM CBE
(1955-present) Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Sir Vincent Raven KBE
(1858-1934) last chief mechanical engineer of the North Eastern Railway
Gabrielle Ray
(1883-1973) Gaiety girl
John Ray
(1627-1705) father of natural history
Ralph Reader CBE
(1903-1982) Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Anne Redfearn
(d.1612) Pendle witch
Sir Carol Reed
(1906-1976) film director
Dame Dorothy Rees DBE
(1898-1987) social reformer
Jeremy Rees
(1937-2003) visionary arts administrator
Professor Erasmus Reinhold
(1511-1553) mathematician
Auguste Renoir
(1841-1919) artist
Humphry Repton
(1752-1818) landscape gardener
Stephen Reynolds
(1881-1919) social reformer
James Rice
Mayor of Waterford
Vyvyan Richards
friend
Charlotte Riddell
(1832-1906) Charlotte Cowan
Nicholas Ridley
(1500-1555) Bishop of London
Bernhard Riemann
(1826-1866) mathematician
Adam Ries
(1492-1559) author of Rechnung auff der Linihen
Hugh Ripley
Wakeman
Tom Roberts
(1856-1931) Eminent Artist of Australian Life
Nancy Pool Scrutchfield Roberts
(1800-1839) mother-in-law
Jeannie Robertson MBE
(1908-1975) Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Gilles de Roberval
(1602-1675) mathematician
Alfred Rodewald
(1862-1903) musician
Woodes Rogers
(1679-1732) seaman
Ralph Rokeby Esq
(d.1575) secretary of the Council of the North
Sir Francis Ronalds FRS
(1788-1873) meteorologist
William Roper
(1496-1578)
Margaret Roper
(1505-1544)
William Roscoe MP
(1753-1831) Member of Parliament
Rose Cottage, Whyteleafe
(1842-1993) cottage
Rose Street, Wokingham
street
Lot Rosen
(1939-present) Holocaust victim
Marie Rosenberg
Holocaust victim
Julius Rosenfeld
Holocaust victim
Sir Admiral John Ross CB RN
(1777-1856) Royal Navy Admiral
Thomas C. L. Rowbotham
(1823-1875) watercolourist
Elizabeth Singer Rowe
(1674-1737) poet
Elizabeth Roy
salvationist
William Roy
salvationist
Daniel Rudge
(1841-1880) maker of high wheel racing bicycles
John Russell RA
(1745-1806) Royal Academician
Ken Russell
(1927-2011) film maker
Nancy Ruth
(1942-present) feminist
Sir Lord Ernest Rutherford OM PRS FRS
(1871-1937) Dalton Medal recipient