Celebrities Starting with the Letter R
Browse celebrities whose name starts with the letter R.
Rachael Leigh Cook
American actress and model
Born:October 4, 1979
Rachael Ray
American television host, businesswoman, celebrity cook, and author
Born:August 25, 1968
Rachel Bilson
American actress
Born:August 25, 1981
Rachel Maddow
American television news host and political commentator
Born:April 1, 1973
Rachel McAdams
Canadian actress
Born:November 17, 1978
Rachel Weisz
British actress
Born:March 7, 1970
Rafa Benítez
Spanish association football manager and former player
Born:April 16, 1960
Rafael
Italian painter and architect
Born:April 6, 1483
Died:April 6, 1520
Rafael Nadal
Spanish tennis player
Born:June 3, 1986
Ralph Fiennes
English actor, director and producer
Born:December 22, 1962
Ralph Lauren
American fashion designer
Born:October 14, 1939
Ralph Macchio
American actor
Born:November 4, 1961
Ralph McTell
English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player
Born:December 3, 1944
Ramsay MacDonald
British prime minister in 1924 and 1929 to 1935
Born:October 12, 1866
Died:November 9, 1937
Randy Couture
American mixed martial artist
Born:June 22, 1963
Randy Jackson
American bassist, singer, record producer, entrepreneur and television personality
Born:June 23, 1956
Randy Newman
American singer-songwriter and pianist
Born:November 28, 1943
Randy Orton
American professional wrestler
Born:April 1, 1980
Randy Rhoads
American guitarist
Born:December 6, 1956
Died:March 19, 1982
Randy Savage
American professional wrestler
Born:November 15, 1952
Died:May 20, 2011
Raquel Welch
American actress
Born:September 5, 1940
Died:February 15, 2023
Raven
American professional wrestler, actor and podcaster
Born:September 8, 1964
Ray Allen
American basketball player
Born:July 20, 1975
Ray Charles
American singer, pianist and songwriter
Born:September 23, 1930
Died:June 10, 2004
Ray Davies
British singer and musician
Born:June 21, 1944
Ray Romano
American stand-up comedian
Born:December 21, 1957
Reba McEntire
American country singer and actress
Born:March 28, 1955
Rebecca Hall
English actress and filmmaker
Born:May 3, 1982
Rebecca Romijn
American actress and model
Born:November 6, 1972
Reese Witherspoon
American actress
Born:March 22, 1976
Reggie Miller
American basketball player
Born:August 24, 1965
Rey de España Carlos III
King of Spain from 1759 to 1788
Born:January 20, 1716
Died:December 14, 1788
Rey Mysterio
American professional wrestler
Born:December 11, 1974
Rhys Ifans
Welsh actor
Born:July 22, 1967
Ric Flair
American professional wrestler
Born:February 25, 1949
Richard Branson
British business magnate
Born:July 18, 1950
Richard Burton
Welsh actor
Born:November 10, 1925
Died:August 5, 1984
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor
Born:October 29, 1947
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist
Born:May 11, 1918
Died:February 15, 1988
Richard Gere
American actor
Born:August 31, 1949
Richard Hammond
English motoring journalist and broadcaster
Born:December 19, 1969
Richard Harris
Irish actor and singer
Born:October 1, 1930
Died:October 25, 2002
Richard I of England
King of England from 1189 to 1199
Born:September 8, 1157
Died:April 6, 1199
Richard II of England
King of England from 1377 to 1399
Born:January 6, 1367
Died:February 14, 1400
Richard III of England
king of England from 1483 to 1485
Born:October 2, 1452
Died:August 22, 1485
Richard Kiel
American actor
Born:September 13, 1939
Died:September 10, 2014
Richard Mentor Johnson
vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841
Born:October 17, 1780
Died:November 19, 1850
Richard Nixon
president of the United States from 1969 to 1974
Born:January 9, 1913
Died:April 22, 1994
Richard Pryor
American comedian and actor
Born:December 1, 1940
Died:December 10, 2005
Richard Simmons
American fitness instructor and video producer
Born:July 12, 1948
Died:July 13, 2024
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
Born:March 16, 1953
Richard Strauss
German composer and orchestra director
Born:June 11, 1864
Died:September 8, 1949
Richard Thompson
British recording artist; singer, songwriter, guitarist
Born:April 3, 1949
Richard Wagner
German composer
Born:May 22, 1813
Died:February 13, 1883
Richie Hawtin
English-Canadian electronic musician and record producer
Born:June 4, 1970
Richie Sambora
American rock musician
Born:July 11, 1959
Rick Astley
British singer
Born:February 6, 1966
Rick Riordan
American author
Born:June 5, 1964
Rick Ross
American rapper and record executive
Born:January 28, 1976
Rick Rubin
American music producer
Born:March 10, 1963
Ricki Lake
American television host and actress
Born:September 21, 1968
Ricky Gervais
British comedian
Born:June 25, 1961
Ricky Martin
Puerto Rican singer
Born:December 24, 1971
Ricky Nelson
American musician and actor
Born:May 8, 1940
Died:December 31, 1985
Ringo Starr
British musician, drummer for the Beatles
Born:July 7, 1940
Rita
Israeli pop singer and actress
Born:March 24, 1962
Rita Hayworth
American actress
Born:October 17, 1918
Died:May 14, 1987
Rita Ora
English-Albanian singer and actress
Born:November 26, 1990
Ritchie Valens
American musician
Born:May 13, 1941
Died:February 3, 1959
Rob Dyrdek
American skateboarder
Born:June 28, 1974
Rob Lowe
American actor
Born:March 17, 1964
Rob Reiner
American filmmaker and actor
Born:March 6, 1947
Died:December 14, 2025
Rob Schneider
American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
Born:October 31, 1963
Rob Van Dam
American professional wrestler and actor
Born:December 18, 1970
Rob Zombie
American rock singer and filmmaker
Born:January 12, 1965
Robbie Coltrane
Scottish actor
Born:March 30, 1950
Died:October 14, 2022
Robbie Keane
Irish association football player and manager
Born:July 8, 1980
Robbie Robertson
Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born:July 5, 1943
Died:August 9, 2023
Robbie Williams
British singer
Born:February 13, 1974
Robert Altman
American filmmaker
Born:February 20, 1925
Died:November 20, 2006
Robert Bloch
American fiction writer
Born:April 5, 1917
Died:September 23, 1994
Robert Browning
English poet and playwright
Born:May 7, 1812
Died:December 12, 1889
Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
Born:April 14, 1961
Robert De Niro
American actor
Born:August 17, 1943
Robert Downey Jr.
American actor
Born:April 4, 1965
Robert E. Howard
American author
Born:January 22, 1906
Died:June 11, 1936
Robert F. Kennedy
American politician and lawyer
Born:November 20, 1925
Died:June 6, 1968
Robert Gates
CIA director, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and university president
Born:September 25, 1943
Robert I of Scotland
King of Scotland
Born:July 11, 1274
Died:June 7, 1329
Robert II of Scotland
King of Scots from 1371 to his death as the first monarch of the House of Stewart
Born:March 2, 1316
Died:April 19, 1390
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist and poet
Born:November 13, 1850
Died:December 3, 1894
Robert Mitchum
American actor
Born:August 6, 1917
Died:July 1, 1997
Robert Palmer
English musician
Born:January 19, 1949
Died:September 26, 2003
Robert Pattinson
English actor and film producer
Born:May 13, 1986
Robert Plant
English musician and lead vocalist of Led Zeppelin
Born:August 20, 1948
Robert Redford
American actor and director
Born:August 18, 1936
Died:September 16, 2025
Robert Rodriguez
American filmmaker
Born:June 20, 1968
Robert Schumann
German composer, pianist and critic
Born:June 8, 1810
Died:July 29, 1856
Robert Todd Lincoln
Union Army officer, U.S. ambassador, and Secretary of War
Born:August 1, 1843
Died:July 26, 1926
Robert Wadlow
American who was the tallest recorded person in history
Born:February 22, 1918
Died:July 15, 1940
Roberto Carlos
Brazilian footballer
Born:April 10, 1973
Roberto Mancini
Italian association football player and manager
Born:November 27, 1964
Robin Söderling
Swedish tennis player
Born:August 14, 1984
Robin Thicke
American singer, songwriter, and record producer
Born:March 10, 1977
Robin Tunneyio
American actress
Born:June 19, 1972
Robin van Persie
Dutch association football player and manager
Born:August 6, 1983
Robin Williams
American actor and comedian
Born:July 21, 1951
Died:August 11, 2014
Robin Wright
American actress
Born:April 8, 1966
Robyn
Swedish singer
Born:June 12, 1979
Rock Hudson
American actor
Born:November 17, 1925
Died:October 2, 1985
Rod Stewart
English singer and songwriter
Born:January 10, 1945
Roddy Piper
Canadian professional wrestler
Born:April 17, 1954
Died:July 31, 2015
Roger Daltrey
English musician and lead vocalist of The Who
Born:March 1, 1944
Roger Federer
Swiss tennis player
Born:August 8, 1981
Roger Moore
English actor
Born:October 14, 1927
Died:May 23, 2017
Roger Waters
English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd
Born:September 6, 1943
Roman Abramovich
Russian-Israeli oligarch and politician
Born:October 24, 1966
Roman Polanski
French-Polish filmmaker
Born:August 18, 1933
Ron Howard
American film director, producer, and actor
Born:March 1, 1954
Ron Perlman
American actor
Born:April 13, 1950
Ron Reagan
American liberal political commentator
Born:May 20, 1958
Ron White
American comedian
Born:December 18, 1956
Ronald Perelman
American businessman and investor
Born:January 1, 1943
Ronald Reagan
president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor
Born:February 6, 1911
Died:June 5, 2004
Ronnie Barker
English actor, comedian and writer
Born:September 25, 1929
Died:October 3, 2005
Ronnie Coleman
American IFBB professional bodybuilder
Born:May 13, 1964
Ronnie James Dio
American heavy metal singer
Born:July 10, 1942
Died:May 16, 2010
Ronnie Wood
British rock guitarist, member of The Rolling Stones
Born:June 1, 1947
Rory Delap
Irish association football player
Born:July 6, 1976
Rory McCann
Scottish actor
Born:April 24, 1969
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer
Born:July 25, 1920
Died:April 16, 1958
Rosamund Pike
British actress
Born:January 27, 1979
Rose McGowan
American actress, director and activist
Born:September 5, 1973
Roseanne Barr
American actress and comedian
Born:November 3, 1952
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
British model
Born:June 13, 1981
Rosie O'Donnell
American comedian, producer, actress, and television personality
Born:March 21, 1962
Rowan Atkinson
English actor, comedian, and screenwriter
Born:January 6, 1955
Roy Orbison
American musician
Born:April 23, 1936
Died:December 6, 1988
Roy Rogers
American actor and singer
Born:November 5, 1911
Died:July 6, 1998
Ruby Lin
Taiwanese actress, singer and producer
Born:January 27, 1976
Rudolph Valentino
Italian actor
Born:May 6, 1895
Died:August 23, 1926
Rudy Giuliani
American attorney and politician
Born:May 28, 1944
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet
Born:December 30, 1865
Died:January 18, 1936
Rufus Wainwright
American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
Born:July 22, 1973
Rupert Grint
English actor
Born:August 24, 1988
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster
Born:June 4, 1975
Russell Crowe
New Zealand actor
Born:April 7, 1964
Russell Peters
Canadian comedian, actor
Born:September 29, 1970
Russell Westbrook
American basketball player
Born:November 12, 1988
Ryan Adams
American musician
Born:November 5, 1974
Ryan Cabrera
American musician
Born:July 18, 1982
Ryan Dunn
American television personality and stunt performer
Born:June 11, 1977
Died:June 20, 2011
Ryan Giggs
Welsh association football player and coach
Born:November 29, 1973
Ryan Gosling
Canadian actor
Born:November 12, 1980
Ryan Lochte
American swimmer
Born:August 3, 1984
Ryan O'Neal
American actor
Born:April 20, 1941
Died:December 8, 2023
Ryan Phillippe
American actor
Born:September 10, 1974
Ryan Reynolds
Canadian-American actor
Born:October 23, 1976
Ryan Seacrest
American television and radio presenter
Born:December 24, 1974