National Book Awards

Reginald Blyth

Reggie Leach

Reginald Joseph Leach (born April 23, 1950 in Riverton, Manitoba, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey winger who played in the NHL between 1970 and 1983. He has First Nations background like Ted Nolan

Reggie Jackson

Reginald Martinez Jackson (born May 18, 1946), nicknamed "Mr. October" for his clutch hitting in the postseason, is an American former Major League Baseball right fielder who played for five different teams from 1967 to 1987. He won three consecutive World Series titles as a member of the Oakland A's in the early 1970s and also won 2 consecutive titles with the New York Yankees. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1993

Reg Braithwaite

Reed Markham

Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944(1944-01-19)) is a Wall Street stock investor. He is currently a research consultant at Fidelity Investments. Lynch graduated from Boston College in 1965 and earned a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He is not related to Edmund C. Lynch, the co-founder of Merrill Lynch

Redd Foxx

Redd Foxx (December 9, 1922 - October 11, 1991), born John Elroy Sanford, was an American comedian best known for his starring role on the television sitcom Sanford and Son

Red Skelton

Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton was an American entertainer best known for being a national radio and television comedian between 1937 and 1971 and host of the long-running television program The Red Skelton Show.

Peter Kropotkin

Prince Peter (Pyotr) Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December 1842 - 8 February 1921) was one of Russia's foremost anarchists and one of the first advocates of anarchist communism: most of his life he advocated for a communist society free from central government. Because of his title of prince and his prominence as an anarchist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was known by some as "the Anarchist Prince". Some contemporaries saw him as leading a near perfect life, including Oscar Wilde, who described him as "a man with a soul of that beautiful white Christ which seems coming out of Russia." He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops, and his principal scientific offering, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. He was also a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition

Red Buttons

Red Buttons (February 5, 1919 - July 13, 2006) was an American comedian and actor

Red Barber

Walter Lanier "Red" Barber (February 17, 1908, Columbus, Mississippi-October 22, 1992) was an American sportscaster

Katherine Tynan Hinkson

Red

red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year"

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Turkish pronunciation: [ɾeˈd͡ʒep tajˈjip ˈæɾdo.an] born 26 February 1954) is the 25th and current Prime Minister of Turkey, in office since 2003. He is also the chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which holds a majority of the seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Erdoğan served as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998.

Rebecca West

British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983)

Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

Rebecca Johnson

Rebecca Johnson is daughter of Mark Johnson.

Real Live Preacher

Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com

Predator

Raynor Schein

Plontius

Raymond Smullyan

Raymond Merrill Smullyan (born 1919) is an American mathematician, concert pianist, logician, philosopher, and magician

Portuguese Proverb

Portuguese (português or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal

Raymond Loewy

Raymond Loewy was a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries.

PJ Uppal

Doctor of Medicine

Raymond Lindquist

Venezuelan Proverb

Raymond Hull

Raymond Hull (1919-1985) was a Canadian playwright, television screenwriter, and lecturer. He also wrote many non-fiction books, numerous magazine articles, short stories, and poetry. He is best known as the co-author of the book The Peter Principle with Laurence J. Peter

Pope John XXIII

Pope John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the head of the Roman Catholic Church from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963.

Raymond Holliwell

Pioneer Motto

Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was the head of the Roman Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to his death in 1939.

Raymond Chandler

United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959)

Pope Gregory The Great

Pope Shenouda III

Pooja

Pooja is the daughter of Raveena Tandon.

Raymond F. DeVoe

Porfirio Diaz

Pope Shenouda III

Polish Proverb

Polish is a West Slavic language and the official language of Poland

Polly Whitney

Plautus

comic dramatist of ancient Rome (253?-184 BC) a genus of Alcidae

Anna Jameson

Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron

Denis Johnston

(William) Denis Johnston (June 18, 1901 - August 8, 1984) was an Irish writer. He wrote mostly plays, but also works of literary criticism, a book-length biographical essay of Jonathan Swift, a memoir and an eccentric work of philosophy. He also worked as a war correspondent, and as both a radio and TV producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. His first play, The Old Lady Says No!, helped establish the worldwide reputation of the Dublin Gate Theatre; his second, The Moon in the Yellow River, has been performed around the globe in numerous productions featuring such actors as Jack Hawkins, Claude Rains and Errol Flynn, although not all in the same production

Raymond Chandler

United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959)

Jules Verne

French writer who is considered the father of science fiction (1828-1905)

Samuel Beckett

a playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France; wrote plays for the theater of the absurd (1906-1989)

Pope Julius III

Italian pope 1550-1555 (1487 - 1555)

Claude Monet

Joseph Fischer

Joseph Fischer was a German clergyman and cartographer.

Ray Simard

Polish Proverb

Polish is a West Slavic language and the official language of Poland

Ray Mancini

AUTHOR OF ZEN, MEDITATION & THE ART OF SHOOTING. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/10000136/taking-aim-at-life-s-stresses/?fb_action_ids=438231512901141&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=246965925417366

Anne Bradstreet

poet in colonial America (born in England) (1612-1672)

Ray Kurzweil

Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil is an American author, inventor, futurist, a director of engineering at Google.

Ray Kroc

Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc was an American businessman of Czech origin.

PJ Uppal

Doctor of Medicine

Ray Knight

Charles Ray Knight (born December 28, 1952, in Albany, Georgia) is a former right-handed Major League Baseball player who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He was primarily a third baseman, although he did see some action at first base, second base, designated hitter, shortstop and in the outfield. He played for the Cincinnati Reds (1974-1981), Houston Astros (1982-1984), New York Mets (1984-1986), Baltimore Orioles (1987), and the Detroit Tigers (1988). He is now a studio analyst for MASN's coverage of the Washington Nationals

Pietro Aretino

Pietro Aretino (April 20, 1492 - October 21, 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography

Anne Bradstreet

poet in colonial America (born in England) (1612-1672)

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are a British rock band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music

Pindar

Greek lyric poet remembered for his odes (518?-438? BC)

Anna Quindlen

Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is a liberal American author, journalist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter with The New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times

Pierre Bayle

Pierre Bayle (18 November 1647  - 28 December 1706) was a French philosopher and writer

Barbara Adams

Barbara Adams appeared in documentary film series Trekkies.

Pinarius

Anna Quindlen

Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is a liberal American author, journalist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter with The New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times

Anne Brown

Anne Wiggins Brown (born Annie Wiggins Brown August 9, 1912 - died March 13, 2009) was an African American soprano who created the role of "Bess" in the original production of George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess in 1935