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• Rabelais, François (1494–1553), French Renaissance writer.
• Rachel, Mademoiselle, see Félix, Elisa.
• Racine, Jean (1639–99), French dramatist.
• Radcliffe, Ann (née Ward, 1764–1823), novelist.
• Radetzky von Radetz, Johann Joseph (1766–1858), Count, Austrian field marshall.
• Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483–1520), Italian painter and architect.
• Read, Mary J. (née Pratt, 1818–55), wife of Thomas Buchanan Read.
• Read, Thomas Buchanan (1822–72), American painter and poet. In AB-3, AB-4.
• Reade, John Edmund (1800–70), poet and novelist.
• Reeve, Henry (1813–95), journalist, editor of The Edinburgh Review from 1855 until his death. In AB-2, AB-4, AB-5, AB-6.
• Reid, Elizabeth Jesser (née Sturch, 1789–1866), slavery abolitionist and founder of Bedford College, London. In AB–4.
• Reynolds, Charles William (1813–85), army captain. In AB-3, AB-4, AB-5.
• Reynolds, Charlotte (“Arlette”) Mary, (née Butler, 1825–88), EBB’s cousin.
• Reynolds, Ethel Maud (1855–1906), EBB’s cousin.
• Reynolds, Joshua (1723–92), portrait and history painter and art theorist.
• Reynolds, Mary Arabella Susan (1849–1917), EBB’s cousin.
• Ricardo, Harriet (née Mallory, bapt. 1800, d. 1885), wife of Osman Ricardo.
• Richardson, Samuel (bapt. 1689, d. 1761), printer and author.
• Richmond, Thomas (1802-74), portrait painter. In AB-3, AB-4, AB-5.
• Richter, Johann Paul Friedrich (1763–1825), (pseud. “Jean Paul”), German novelist and philosopher.
• Riou, Édouard (1833–1900), painter and illustrator. In AB-4.
• Ripert-Monclar, see Monclar, Ripert-.
• Ristori, Adelaide (1822–1906), Marchessa Capranica del Grillo, Italian actress. In AB-5.
• Ritchie, Lady, see Thackeray, Anne Isabella.
• Roberts, Anne Elizabeth (née Gordon, formerly Moulton-Barrett, 1812–83), widow of Samuel Moulton-Barrett, EBB’s uncle.