Historians, Miscellaneous: Biographies
- Rosalind Elsie Franklin
- Rose Pesotta
- Rosemary Radford Ruether
- Roy Jenkins
- Rudolf Mossbauer
- Rudolph Fisher
- Russell Means
- Ruth Handler
- Ruth Rendell
- Ruth Westheimer
- Ryan White
- S. E. Hinton
- S.N. Bose
- Sachem of the Wampanoags Philip
- Sam Gilliam
- Samuel Eliot Morison
- Sarah Gibson Blanding
- Savion Glover
- Sebastian Coe
- Selma Burke