Rama Yade

Rama Yade was born on December 13, 1976, in Dakar, Senegal. She had two professors as her parents. Her father had been the personal secretary of the first president of Senegal, Leopold...

Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi (1944-1991) was an Indian politician, prime minister from 1984, following his mother Indira Gandhi's assasination, to November 1989. Short Biography: As prime minister...

Ronald Coase

Ronald Coase was born on December 29, 1910 in Willesden, England. He is a British economist and the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law...

Robert Owen

Robert Owen (1771-1858) became manager of a mill at New Lanark, Scotland, where by improving working and housing conditions and providing schools he created a model community in 1800....

Robert Peel

Robert Peel (1788-1850) was a British Conservative politician. Short Biography: As home secretary 1822-1827 and 1828-1830, he founded the modern police force and in 1829 introduced...

Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy (Robert Francis Kennedy) was born on Friday, November 20, 1925 and was a famous politician.General appearance:- 5' 9" (175 cm) height.Being born on Nov 20, Robert was...

Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745) was the first "prime minister" as First Lord of the Treasury and chancellor of the Exchequer 1715-1717 and 1721-1742. He encouraged...

Richard Leakey

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born in 1944) was a British archaeologist, son of Louis and Mary Leakey. Short Biography: In 1972 he discovered at Lake Turkana, Kenya, an ape-form...

Robert Menzies

Robert Gordon Menzies (1894-1978) was a Australian politician, leader of the United Australia and prime minister (1939-1941) and (1949-1966). Short Biography: A Melbourne lawyer...

Roy Jenkins

Roy Harris Jenkins (1920-2003) became a Labour minister in 1964, was home secretary (1965-1967) and (1974-1976), and chancellor of the Exchequer (1967-1970). He was president of the...

Roy Welensky

Roy Welensky (1907-1991) was instrumental in the creation of a federation of North and South Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1953 and was prime minister 1956-1963. His Federal Party was defeated...

Robert Muldoon

Robert David Muldoon 1921-1992) was a New Zealand National Party politician, prime minister (1975-1984). Short Biography: A chartered accountant, he was minister of finance (1967-1972)...

Ruth Bryan Owen

Ruth Bryan Owen was born on Friday, October 02, 1885 in Jacksonville, Illinois and she was a famous politician from United States. She is probably best-known for her position as a woman...

Rab Butler

Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler (1902-1982) was a British Conservative politician, known from his initials as Rab. Short Biography: As minister of education 1941-1945, he...

Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh

Robert Stewart Castlereagh, Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822) was a British Tory politician. Short Biography: As chief secretary for Ireland 1797-1801, he suppressed the rebellion...

Reginald Maudling

Reginald Maudling (1917-1979) was a British Conservative politician, chancellor of the Exchequer (1962-1964), contender for the party leadership in 1965, and home secretary (1970-1972)....

Richard Neville

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428-1471) was an English politician, called the King-maker. Short Biography: During the Wars of the Roses he fought at first on the Yorkist...

Robert Jenkinson

Robert Banks Jenkinson Liverpool, 2nd Earl Liverpool (1770-1825) was a British Tory politician. Short Biography: He entered Parliament in 1790, and was foreign secretary (1801-1803)...

Ramiz Alia

Ramiz Alia is an Albanian communist politician, head of state from 1982 and party leader from 1985. Short Biography: He has slightly modified the isolationist policies of his...

Raymond Barre

Raymond Barre (1924-2007) was a French politician, member of the centre-right Union pour la Democratie Francaise; Short Biography: He was prime minister between 1976 and 1981...

Ramsay MacDonald

Ramsay James MacDonald (1866-1937) joined the Independent Labour Party in 1894, and became first secretary of the new Labour Party in 1900. Short Biography: In Parliament he...

Ron Todd

Ronald Todd (1927-2006) was the son of a London market trader, he rose from shop steward to general secretary of Britain's largest trade union, the Transport and General Workers' (TGWU)....

Rezso Nyers

Rezso Nyers (born in 1923) as secretary of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Worker's Party's (HSWP) central committee (1962-1974) and a member of its politburo (1966-1974), he was the...

Robert Erskine Childers

Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922) was a Irish Sinn Fein politician, author of the spy novel "The Riddle of the Sands" in 1903. He was executed as a Republican terrorist. Short...