Surnames Starting with R
| Name | Country | Category | Gender | Birth | Death |
| Raeder, Erich | Germany | Military-Sea | Male | 1876 | 1960 |
| Rallis, Ioannis | Greece | Government | Male | 1878 | 1946 |
| Ramsay, Bertram | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1883 | 1945 |
| Rath, Ernst vom | Germany | Government | Male | 1909 | 1938 |
| Ray, Margaret | United States | Military-Air | Female | 1921 | 2008 |
| Reichenau, Walther | Germany | Military-Ground | Male | 1884 | 1942 |
| Reitsch, Hanna | Germany | Military-Air | Female | 1912 | 1979 |
| Reymann, Helmuth | Germany | Military-Ground | Male | ||
| Ribbentrop, Joachim | Germany | Government | Male | 1893 | 1946 |
| Riccardi, Arturo | Italy | Military-Sea | Male | 1878 | 1966 |
| Richthofen, Wolfram | Germany | Military-Air | Male | 1895 | 1945 |
| Ring, Stanhope | United States | Military-Air | Male | 1902 | 1963 |
| Rochefort, Joseph | United States | Military-Sea | Male | 1900 | 1976 |
| Rodionov, Mikhail | Russia | Government | Male | 1907 | 1950 |
| Roettig, Wilhelm | Germany | Military-Ground | Male | 1888 | 1939 |
| Roh, Yong-U | Japan | Military-Air | Male | 1945 | |
| Rokossovsky, Konstantin | Poland | Military-Ground | Male | 1896 | 1968 |
| Rommel, Erwin | Germany | Military-Ground | Male | 1891 | 1944 |
| Roosevelt, Eleanor | United States | Government | Female | 1884 | 1962 |
| Roosevelt, Franklin | United States | Government | Male | 1882 | 1945 |
| Rosenberg, Alfred | Germany | Government | Male | 1893 | 1946 |
| Rosenfeld, Jacob | Austria | Medicine | Male | 1903 | |
| Rotmistrov, Pavel | Russia | Military-Ground | Male | 1901 | 1982 |
| Rowe, Abbie | United States | Photography | Male | ||
| Rowell, Sydney | Australia | Military-Ground | Male | 1894 | 1975 |
| Roxas, Manuel | Philippines | Government | Male | 1892 | 1948 |
| Ruan, Zhenduo | China | Government | Male | 1893 | |
| Rue, Joseph | France | Military-Sea | Male | ||
| Ruge, Friedrich | Germany | Military-Sea | Male | 1894 | 1985 |
| Rumkowski, Chaim | Poland | Commerce-Industry | Male | 1877 | 1944 |
| Ruml, Beardsley | United States | Commerce-Industry | Male | 1894 | 1960 |
| Rundstedt, Gerd | Germany | Military-Ground | Male | 1875 | 1953 |
| Russo, Nadejda | Romania | Military-Air | Female | 1901 | 1988 |
| Rust, Bernhard | Germany | Government | Male | 1883 | 1945 |
| Rutland, F. J. | United Kingdom | Intelligence | Male | ||
| Rybalko, Pavel | Russia | Military-Ground | Male | 1892 | 1948 |
| Rydz-Śmigły, Edward | Poland | Military-Ground | Male | 1886 | 1941 |
| Ryti, Risto | Finland | Government | Male | 1889 | 1956 |
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