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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.