- Radner, Gilda
- Rains, Claude
- Rathbone, Basil
- Read, George
- Reagan, Ronald
- Red Jacket
- Reed, Thomas Brackett
- Rehnquist, William
- Revere, Paul
- Richardson, J. P. "The Big Bopper"
- Robards, Jason
- Robinson, Jackie
- Rockefeller, John D.
- Rockefeller, Nelson
- Rockwell, Norman
- Rodgers, John
- Roosevelt, Edith Carow
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Ross, Betsy
- Ross, George
- Ruby, Jack
- Rudkin, Margaret
- Rueckheim, Frederich
- Rueckheim, Louis
- Ruppert, Jacob, Jr.
- Rush, Benjamin
- Russert, Tim
- Ruth, George Herman "Babe"
- Rutledge, Edward
- Rutledge, John
