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 |
| Reek, Nikolai  | Estonia | Military-Ground | Male | 1890 | 1942 |
| 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 |
| Rosenberg, Vera  | United Kingdom | Intelligence | Female | 1908 | 2000 |
| 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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