Robert Vittek — With 18 goals in 69 international appearances, Robert Vittek is just four strikes short of the all-time Slovak goalscoring record, held by the now-retired Szilard Nemeth. If he is able to overcome this relatively minor hurdle, the second most capped player in the history of Slovak football will have left a lasting imprint on the game. Vittek …

Robert Ross (born Robert Rosen; December 26, 1918 – March 19, 2011) was the founder of the Ross University School of Medicine and the University of Medicine and Health Sciences (St. Kitts). Robert Ross, who is now 82 years of age and lives in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla. made his fortune in 1970’s. He grew up in very harsh …

Rob Pardo (born June 9, 1970) is Executive Vice President of Game Design at Blizzard Entertainment. Previously he was the lead designer of World of Warcraft. In 2006, he was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Pardo appears in animated form in the South Park episode Make Love, Not Warcraft, which …

Ricky Ponting — Ricky Thomas Ponting (born 19 December 1974), nicknamed Punter, is the current captain of the Australian cricket team. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very occasional bowler. He is regarded as one of Australia’s finest cricketers in the modern era. He represents the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic …

Reshma (c. 1947 – 3 November 2013), Sitara-e-Imtiaz, was a renowned folk singer of Pakistan, who was also very popular in India. She died on 3 November 2013 in Lahore, Pakistan, after suffering from throat cancer for several years. Early Life Reshma was born in village Loha, Tehsil Ratangarh district Churu near Bikaner, Rajasthan to a Banjara (Gypsy) family around …

Rexhep Qosja (born 1936 in Vusanje, Zeta Banovina, Yugoslavia) is a prominent Albanian politician and literary critic from a part of Malësia in modern Montenegro (where locally the region is known as Malesija). He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pristina and graduated with a Master’s degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology in 1968. Qosja …

Renzo Piano (born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. He is the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal, Kyoto Prize and the Sonning Prize. One admirer said the “serenity of his best buildings can almost make you believe that we live in a civilised world”. Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937 and maintains a …

Ravi Shankar was born 7 April 1920 in Varanasi to a wealthy and conservative Brahmin family of cultured Bengalis as the youngest of seven brothers, of whom four lived when he was born. Shankar’s Bengali birth name was Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury. His father, Shyam hankar, an administrator for the Maharaja of Jhalawar, used the Sanskrit spelling of the family name …

Reese Witherspoon — Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976), better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer. Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the film The Man in the Moon in 1991; later that year she made her television acting debut, in the cable movie Wildflower. In 1996, Witherspoon …

Rani Mukherjee (also known as Rani Mukerji, born March 21, 1978 in Bengal, India) is a six-time Filmfare Award-winning Indian film actress and one of the most popular Bollywood actress at present. Since her first break on celluloid in 1996, she has appeared in nearly 40 films. Today, Rani is regarded as one of the biggest names in Bollywood. Background …