People - r

R. H. Tawney (1880 – 1962), historian, teacher, and political writer
R. M. Ballantyne (1825 – 1894), author of books for boys
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941), Indian poet
Radclyffe Hall (1880 – 1943), novelist and poet
Ralph Ellis (1885 – 1963), artist and painter & designer of inn signs
Ralph Richardson (1902 – 1983), actor and Sir
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958), composer
Ram Mohun Roy (1772 – 1833), Indian scholar and reformer
Ramsay Macdonald (1866 – 1937), Prime Minister
Randolph Caldecott (1846 – 1886), artist and book illustrator
Randolph Churchill (1849 – 1895), statesman and Lord
Randolph Sutton (1888 – 1960), music hall star
Ray Noble (1903 – 1978), composer and bandleader
Red House (born 1859)
Rex Silver, designer
Richard Addinsell, composer
Richard Arkwright (1732 – 1792), industrialist, inventor, and Sir
Richard Bright (1789 – 1858), physician
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816), dramatist and statesman
Richard Cadbury (1835 – 1899), chocolate manufacturer and philanthropist
Richard Cobden (1804 – 1865), pioneer of free trade
Richard Dadd (1817 – 1886), painter
Richard I (1157 – 1199), King
Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887), naturalist and writer
Richard Norman Shaw (1831 – 1912), architect
Richard Tauber (1891 – 1948), Lyric Tenor
Richard Westmacott (1775 – 1856), sculptor and Sir
Richmal Crompton (1890 – 1969), authoress
Rio Ferdinand (born 1978), Peckham's football legend
Robert Adam (1728 – 1792), architect
Robert Baden-Powell (1857 – 1941), Chief Scout of the World, founder of the Boy Scouts, hero of the Siege of Mafeking, and founder of the Girl Guides
Robert Bevan (1865 – 1925), artist
Robert Brown (1773 – 1858), botanist
Robert Cailliau (born 1947)
Robert Donat (1905 – 1958), actor
Robert Falcon Scott (1868 – 1912), Antarctic explorer and Captain
Robert Fitzroy (1805 – 1865), hydrographer, meteorologist, and Admiral
Robert Fortune (1812 – 1880), plant collector
Robert Gascoyne Cecil (1830 – 1903), Prime Minister and Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Harley (1661 – 1724), Earl of Oxford and statesman
Robert Howard Spring (1889 – 1965), journalist and novelist
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894), author
Robert Mayer (1879 – 1985), philanthropist, patron of music, and Sir
Robert Peel (1750 – 1830), manufacturer, reformer, and Sir
Robert Polhill Bevan (1865 – 1925), Camden Town Group painter
Robert Smirke (1781 – 1867), architect and Sir
Robert Stephens (1931 – 1995), early star of the National Theatre, Sir, and London stage and screen actor
Robert Stephenson (1803 – 1859), engineer
Robert Stewart (1769 – 1822), statesman
Robert Taylor (1920 – 1950), GC
Robert Travers Herford (1860 – 1950), Unitarian Minister, scholar, and interpreter of Judaism
Robert Walpole (1676 – 1745), Prime Minister and Sir
Robert Willan (1757 – 1812), dermatologist and Dr
Robert William Service (1874 – 1958), poet of the Yukon and socialist
Robin Philipson (1916 – 1992)
Robin Tanner (1904 – 1988), etcher and painter
Roger Bannister (born 1929)
Roger Fenton (1819 – 1869), photographer
Roger Quilter (1877 – 1953), composer
Roland Penrose (1900 – 1984), surrealist and Sir
Rolinda Sharples (1793 – 1838), artist
Ron Greenwood (1921 – 2006), England football manager
Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890 – 1962), Statistician, geneticist, and Sir
Ronald Center (1913 – 1973), composer
Ronald Ross (1857 – 1932), Nobel Laureate, discoverer of the mosquito transmission of malaria, and Sir
Ronnie Barker (born 1929), comedian
Ronnie Lane (1946 – 1997), member of the Small Faces
Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), pioneer of the study of molecular structures including DNA
Rose Macaulay (1881 – 1958), writer
Rowland Hill (1795 – 1879), Postal reformer, KCB, originator of the Penny Post, and Sir
Ruby Helder (1890 – 1938), internationally famous tenor singer
Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936), poet, story writer, writer, and Nobel Laureate
Rufus Isaacs (1860 – 1935), Marquess of Reading, lawyer, and statesman
Rupert Brooke (1888 – 1915)
Russ Conway (1925 – 2000), composer, entertainer, born Trevor H Stanford, and pianist
Ruth First (1925 – 1982), South African freedom fighter