Wikisource:Authors-R
This is an index of authors whose last names begin with the letter "R". Authors whose names appear in bold are very well-known authors or authors with very well-known works. See also the category Authors-R, which is by nature a (usually) more complete but less organized list.
Index of Authors:  A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z
1 Ra
2 Re
3 Ré
4 Rh
5 Ri
6 Ro
8 Ry
Ra[edit]
Rabbani, Shoghi Effendi (1897–1957)
Rabelais, François (ca. 1493–1553)
Rabot, Charles (1856–1944)
Racine, Jean (1639–1699)
Rackham, Arthur (1867–1939)
Rackham, Bernard (1876–1964)
Radau, Jean-Charles Rodolphe (1835–1911)
Radcliffe, Ann (1764–1823)
Radcliffe, Emilius Charles Delmé (1833–1907)
Radford, Dame Emma Louisa (1857–1937)
Radford, Ernest (1857–1919)
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli (1888–1975)
Radowitz, Joseph Maria von (1797–1853)
Rae, John (1845-1915)
Rae, William Fraser (1835–1905)
Ragg, Lonsdale (1866–1945)
Raguet, Condy (1784–1842)
Raikes, Francis William (1842–1906)
Raitt, Lisa (b. 1968)
Rajapaksa, Mahinda (b. 1945)
Raleigh, Walter (1554–1618)
Raleigh, Walter Alexander (1861–1922)
Ralston, William Shedden (1828–1889)
Ramacharaka, Yogi (1862–1932)
Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1887–1920)
Rambaud, Alfred Nicolas (1842–1905)
Rambaut, Arthur Alcock (1857–1923)
de la Ramée, Marie Louise (1839–1908)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683–1764)
Rampa, Lobsang (1910 - 1981)
Ramsay, Andrew Michael (1686–1743)
Ramsay, Elizabeth
Ramsay, George Gilbert (1839–1921)
Ramsay, William (1806–1865)
Ramsay, William Mitchell (1851–1939)
Ramsbotham, Peter Edward (1919–2010)
Rand, Ayn (1905–1982)
Ranade, Mahadev (1842–1901)
Randall, Alice Elizabeth Sawtelle (1865–1909)
Randall, Harry Wayland (1915–1952)
Randall, James Ryder (1839–1908)
Randall-MacIver, David (1873–1945)
Randolph, Edmund (1753–1813)
Rands, William Brighty (1823–1882)
Rangsitpol,His Excellency Sukavich (1935-
Ranjina, Dinko (1536–1607)
Rankin, Jeremiah Eames (1828–1904)
Rankine, William John Macquorn (1820–1872)
Ransome, Arthur (1884–1967)
Rapson, Edward James (1861–1937)
Rarey, John Solomon (1827–1866)
Rashdall, Hastings (1858–1924)
al-Rashid, Caliph Harun (763–809)
Raspe, Rudolf Erich (1736–1794)
Rathbun, Richard (1852–1918)
Rauschenbusch, Augustus (1816–1899)
Ravel, Maurice (1875–1937)
Ravenel, Beatrice Witte (1870–1956)
Ravenstein, Ernest George (1834–1913)
Rawlinson, George (1812–1902)
Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke (1810–1895)
Rawnsley, Hardwicke Drummond (1851–1920)
Rawson, Wilhelmina (1851–1933)
Ray, John (1627–1705)
Ray, Prafulla Chandra (1861–1944)
Rayet, Georges (1839–1906)
Raymond de Sauvetât, Francis (fl. 1125–1152)
Raymond, Robert L. (1874–?)
Raymond, Rossiter Worthington (1840–1918)
Re[edit]
Read, Sir Charles Hercules (1857–1929)
Read, Charles W. (1840–1890)
Read, Emily (1829–1910)
Read, Herbert (1893–1968)
Read, J. Meredith (1837–1896)
Read, Leonard E. (1898–1983)
Reade, Arthur Edward (1848–1912)
Reade, William Winwood (1838–1875)
Reagan, Albert B. (1871–1936)
Reagan, Ronald (1911–2004)
Reasoner, Harry (1923–1991)
Reclus, Jean Jacques Élisée (1830–1905)
Reclus, Maurice (1883–1972)
Recorde, Robert (c. 1512–1558)
Reddaway. William Fiddian (1872 - 1949)
Redgrave, Samuel (1802–1876)
Redway, George William (1859–1934)
Redwood, Boverton (1846–1919)
Reed, Edward Bliss (1872–1940)
Reed, John (1887–1920)
Reed, Stanley Forman (1884–1980)
Reed, Talbot Baines (1852–1893)
Rees, John Morgan
Reeve, Clara (1729–1807)
Reeves, Hon. William Pember (1857–1932)
Rehnquist, William (1924–2005)
Reich, Emil (1854 - 1910)
Reich, Wilhelm (1897–1957)
Reichel, Oswald Joseph (1840–1923)
Reid, Clement (1853 - 1916)
Reid, Francis Nevile (1826–1892)
Reid, George (1841–1913)
Reid, Harry (b. 1939)
Reid, James Smith (1846-1926)
Reid, John (b. 1947)
Reid, John Morrison (1820-1896)
Reid, Stuart Johnson (1848–1927)
Reid, Thomas (1710–1796)
Reid, Thomas Mayne (1818–1883)
Reid, Whitelaw (1837–1912)
Reilly, Anthony Adams (1836 - 1885)
Reinhold, Gregor (18??–19??)
Reinecke, Carl (1824–1910)
Reinick, Robert (1805–1852)
Reinsch, Paul S. (1869–1923)
Reitz, Francis William (1844–1934)
Relhan, Richard (1754–1823)
Remsen, Ira (1846–1927)
Remy, Arthur Frank Joseph (1871–1954)
Renan, Ernest (1823–1892)
Rendle, Alfred Barton (1865–1938)
Renton, Alexander Wood (1861 - 1933)
Renoir, Katherine Mary Dalton (1882–1963)
Renouvier, Charles Bernard (1815–1903)
Reu, Johann Michael (1869–1943)
Reuleaux, Franz (1829–1905)
von Reumont, Alfred (1808–1887)
Reychler, Albert (1854–1938)
Reyer, Ernest (1823–1909)
Reynell, William Alexander (1837–1906)
Reynolds, Francis Joseph (1867–1937)
Reynolds, George (1842–1909)
Reynolds, George William MacArthur (1814–1879)
Reynolds, Herbert (1867–1933)
Reynolds, Joshua (1729-1792)
Reynolds, Osborne (1842–1912)
Reynolds, Richard (1674-1743)
Ré[edit]
Récéjac, Edouard Jérôme (1853—)
de Régnier, Henri (1864–1936)
Rh[edit]
Rhee, Syngman (1875–1965)
Hyneman Rhine, Alice (1840–1919)
Rhoads, Daniel (1821–1895)
Rhodes, Bradford (1849 - 1924)
Rhodes, Cecil (1853–1902)
Rhodes, James Ford (1848–1927)
Rhys, Ernest Percival (1859–1946)
Rhys Davids, Thomas William (1843–1922)
Ri[edit]
Ribbentrop, Joachim von (1893–1946)
Ribicoff, Abraham Alexander (1910–1998)
Ribot, Théodule-Armand (1839–1916)
Ribot, Théodule-Augustin (1823–1891)
Ricardo, Halsey (1854–1928)
Ricci, Matteo (1552–1610)
Rice, Condoleezza (b. 1954)
Rice, Grantland (1880–1954)
Rice, Thomas D. (1808–1860)
Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, Thomas Spring (1790–1866)
Rich, Charles C. (1809–1883)
Rich, Harold Thompson (1873–1974)
Richard of Wallingford (1292–1336)
Richard, Louis Claude (1754–1821)
Richards, Charles Dow (1879–1956)
Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow (1842–1911)
Richards, Eugene Lamb (1838–1912)
Richards, Franklin D. (1821–1899)
Richards, Gertrude Moore (?–1927)
Richards, James Brinsley (1846–1892)
Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howes (1850–1943)
Richards, Robert Hallowell (1844–1945)
Richardson, Benjamin Ward (1828–1896)
Richardson, Charles Francis (1851–1913)
Richardson, Eugene Stanley junior (1916–1983)
Richardson, Godfrey Noel (1865–1925)
Richardson, Henry Handel (1870–1946)
Richardson, James Otto (1878–1974)
Richardson, Sir John (1787–1865)
Richardson, John (1796–1852)
Richardson, Kath.
Richardson, Rufus Byam (1845–1914)
Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642)
Richet, Charles Robert (1850–1935)
Richley, Matthew (1821–1904)
Rickman, John (1771–1840)
Richmond, Thomas Knyvett (1833–1901)
Richmond, William Blake (1842–1921)
Rickenbacker, Eddie (1890–1973)
Ricord, Frederick William (1819–1897)
Ridge, William Pett (1857–1930)
Ridgeway, William (1858–1926)
Ridout, Elizabeth Harriet (1840–1878)
Riedl, Frigyes (1856–1921)
Riel, Louis (1844–1885)
Ries, Heinrich (1871–1951)
al-Rifai, Zaid (1936–present)
Rigdon, Sidney (1793–1876)
Rigg, James McMullen (1855–1926)
Rihani, Ameen (1876–1940)
Riis, Jacob (1849–1914)
Riley, Charles Valentine (1843–1895)
Riley, Henry Thomas (1816–1878)
Riley, James Whitcomb (1849–1916)
Riley, John Athelstan Laurie (1858–1945)
Riley, Woodbridge (1869–1933)
Rimbaud, Arthur (1854–1891)
Rimbault, Edward Francis (1816–1876)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844–1908)
Rinaker, Clarissa (b. 1883)
Rines, George Edwin (1860–1951)
Rines, Irving Everett (b. 1883)
Riordan, Rick (1964–)
Ristori, Emanuel Joseph (1857–1911)
Ritchie, David George (1853–1903)
Ritchie, Lady Anne Isabella (1837–1919)
Ritner, Joseph (1780–1869)
Rivera, Diego (1886–1957)
Rivers, W. H. R. (1864–1922)
Rivers, William James (1822–1909)
Rives, Hallie Erminie (1876–1956)
Rix, Herbert (1850–1906)
Rizal, José (1861–1896)
Ro[edit]
Robbins, Sir Alfred Farthing (1856–1931)
Robert II, King of the Franks (972–1031)
Robert, Henry Martyn (1837–1923)
Roberts, Charles George Douglas (1860–1943)
Roberts, John (b. 1955)
Roberts, Mary Ellen (1866–1924)
Roberts, Owen Josephus (1875–1955)
Roberts, Robert (1839–1898)
Roberts, William (1767–1849)
Roberts, William Rhys (1858–1929)
Roberts-Austen, William Chandler (1843–1902)
Robertson, Archibald (1853–1931)
Robertson, Charles Grant (1869–1948)
Robertson, Charles Moncrieff (1864–1927)
Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee, Edmund (1845–1911)
Robertson, Edward Stanley (1834–1923)
Robertson, Eric Sutherland
Robertson, George Croom (1842–1892)
Robertson, George Scott (1852–1916)
Robertson, James Alexander (1873–1939)
Robertson, James Logie (1846–1922)
Robertson, John George (1867–1933)
Robertson, John Mackinnon (1856–1933)
Robertson, Thomas William (1829–1871)
Robertson, Walford Graham (1866–1948)
Robertson, William John (1846–?)
de Roberval, Gilles Personne (1602–1675)
Robespierre, Maximilien (1758–1794)
Robinson, Charles (1818–1894)
Robinson, Charles Edmund Newton (1853–1913)
Robinson, Charles John (1833–1898)
Robinson, Charles L. (1818–1894)
Robinson, Charles Walker (1836–1924)
Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt (1861–1933)
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869–1935)
Robinson, Fred Norris (1871–1966)
Robinson, G. T. (1829–1897)
Robinson, Gerald Philip (1858–1942)
Robinson, Grace R. (?–?)
Robinson, Henry Crabb (1775–1867)
Robinson, Henry Wheeler (1872–1945)
Robinson, James Harvey (1863–1936)
Robinson, John Hovey (1820-1867)
Robinson, John T. (1923–2001)
Robinson, Joseph Armitage (1858–1933)
Robinson, Paschal Charles (1870–1948)
Robinson, Robert (1735–1790)
Robinson, Stuart (1814-1881)
Roblin, Rodmond (1853–1937)
Robson, John (1802–1873)
Roche, Charles Émile (1847–1935)
Rochfort, George
Rockstro, William Smyth (1823–1895)
Rockwell, Frederick Frye (1884–1976)
Rockwell, William Walker (1874–1958)
Rodd, Thomas (1763–1822)
Roden, A. H. (1876–1957)
Rodenbough, Theophilus Francis (1838–1912)
Roder, Paul W
Rodes, Robert Emmett (1829–1864)
Rodker, John (1894–1955)
Rodkinson, Michael Levi (1845–1904)
Rodwell, George Farrer (1843–1905)
Rodwell, John Medows (1808–1900)
Roe, James Elphinstone (1818–1897)
Roe, John Septimus (1797–1878)
Roeder, Charles (1848–1911)
Rogers, Benjamin Bickley (1828–1919)
Rogers, James Edwin Thorold (1823–1890)
Lindsay Rogers, Lindsay (1891–1970)
Rogers, Robert (1731–1795)
Rogers, Robert William (1864–1930)
Rogers, Samuel (1763–1855)
Roget, Peter Mark (1779–1869)
Rohmer, Sax (1883–1959)
Rolfe, Frederick (1860–1913)
Rolland, Romain (1866–1944)
Rolle, Richard (1290–1349)
Rolls, Charles Stewart (1877–1910)
Romanes, George John (1848–1894)
Romanov, Konstantin Konstantinovich (1858–1915)
Romanov, Konstantin Nikolayevich (1827–1892)
Romanov, Pyotr Alexeyevich (1672–1725)
Romeyn, Theodore Bayard (1827-1885)
Rondot, Natalis (1821–1900)
Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad (1845–1923)
Rood, Ogden Nicholas (1831–1902)
Roof, Dylann
Rooney, Dave (1937–2006)
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882–1945)
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858–1919)
Root, Elihu (1845–1937)
Roper, William
Ropes, James Hardy (1866–1933)
Ros, Richard (1429–c. 1492)
Rosa, Noel (1910–1937)
Roscher, Wilhelm Heinrick (1845–1923)
Roscher, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich (1817–1894)
Roscoe, Sir Henry Enfield (1833–1915)
Roscoe, Thomas (1791–1871)
Roscoe, William (1753–1831)
Rose, Hugh James (1795–1838)
Rose, John Holland (1855–1942)
Rose, Thomas Kirke (1865–1953)
Rose, Vincent (1880–1944)
Rose, William Stewart (1775–1843)
Rosenberg, Isaac (1890–1918)
Rosenfeld, Isidor (b. 1881)
Rosenhain, Walter (1875–1934)
Ross, James Clark (1800–1862)
Ross, John (1777–1856)
Ross, Robert (1740–1794)
Ross, Wilbur Louis (1937-)
Ross, Sir (William) David (1877–1971)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830–1894)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828–1882)
Rossetti, William Michael (1829–1919)
Rossini, Gioachino (1792–1868)
Rost, Reinhold (1822–1896)
Rostenkowski, Daniel David (1928–2010)
Rottbøll, Christen Friis (1727–1797)
Rothschild, Walter (1868–1937)
Roubinovitch, Jacques (1862–1950)
Rouhani, Hassan (1948–present)
Roulhac Hamilton, Joseph Grégoire de (1878–1961)
Round, John Horace (1854–1928)
Roundell, Julia Anne Elizabeth (1846–1931)
Rous, Francis (1579–1659)
Rous-Marten, Charles (1844–1908)
Rouse, William Henry Denham (1863–1950)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–1778)
van Royen, Adriaan (1704–1779)
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer (1674-1737)
Rowe, Frederick James (1844–1909)
Rowe, Nicholas (1674–1718)
Rowell, Edward Thomas (1836–1899)
Rowland, Henry Augustus (1848–1901)
Rowland, Kate Mason (1840–1916)
Rowlands, Samuel (ca. 1573–1630)
Rowlandson, Mary (ca. 1637–1711)
Rowley, James (1934–1906)
Roxas, Manuel (1892–1948)
Roxburgh, William (1751–1815)
Roy, Author:Édouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le (1870–1954)
Ru[edit]
Rud, Anthony Melville (1893–1942)
Rudge, Edward (1764–1846)
Rudler, Frederick William (1840–1915)
Rudmose-Brown, Robert Neal (1879–1957)
Rudolph, Eric (b. 1966)
Ruedemann, Rudolf (1864–1956)
Ruger, Georgie May Johns (1873–1953)
Ruger, Henry Alford (1872–1947)
Ruffin, Francis Gildart (1816–1892)
Ruiz López, Hipólito (1754–1816)
Rumi, Jalal al-Din Muhammad (1207–1273)
Rumphius, Georg Eberhard (1627–1702)
Rumsfeld, Donald (b. 1932)
Runcie, John (1864?–1939)
Runciman, James (1852–1891)
Runeberg, Johan Ludvig (1804–1877)
Runnion, James Boyer (1842–1897)
Runyon, Alfred Damon (1880–1946)
Rusby, Henry Hurd (1855–1940)
Rush, Benjamin (1745–1813)
Rush, David Kenneth (1910–1994)
Rushd, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn (1126–1198)
Rusk, David Dean (1909–1994)
Ruskin, John (1819–1900)
Russell nee Smith, Alyssa Whitall Pearsall (1867–1951)
Russell, Archibald George Blomefield (1879–1955)
Rus­sell, Ar­thur T. (1804–1876)
Russell, Bertrand (1872–1970)
Russell, Charles Edward (1860–1941)
Russell, Charles Taze (1852–1916)
Russell, Edward Francis (1844–1925)
Russell, George William (1867–1935)
Russell, George William Erskine (1853–1919)
Russell, Irwin (1853–1879)
Russell, Israel Cook (1852–1906)
Russell, John (1792–1878)
Russell, John (1885-1956)
Russell, William Clark (1844–1911)
Russell, William Eustis (1857–1896)
Russell, Sir William Howard (1821–1907)
Rust, Cyprian Thomas (1808–1895)
Rutherford, Ernest (1871–1937)
Rutherford, Samuel (1600-1661)
Rutledge, Francis Huger (1799-1866)
Rutledge, John (1739–1800)
Rutledge, Wiley Blount (1894–1949)
Rutter, Cloudsley Louis (1867–1903)
de Ruyter, Michiel Adriaensz (1607–1676)
Ry[edit]
Ryan, Leo Joseph (1925–1978)
Ricaut, Sir Paul (1628–1700)
Rydberg, Viktor (1828–1895)
Rye, Walter (1843–1929)
Rye, William Brenchley (1818–1901)
Ryland, Jonathon Edwards (1798–1866)
Ryle, John Charles (1816–1900)
Ryle, Sir Herbert Edward (1856–1925)
Rymer, Thomas (1641–1713)
Ryōma, Sakamoto (1836–1867)