List of Humanists - R

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• James Randi, Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience.
• A. Philip Randolph, a leader in the African American civil-rights movement and the American labor movement. He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly Negro labor union. Given the title, "Humanist of the Year" in 1970 by the American Humanist Association.
• Curtis W. Reese was a signer of the original Humanist Manifesto.
• Oscar Riddle, American biologist. He is known for his research into the pituitary gland and for isolating the hormone prolactin. Given the title, "Humanist of the Year" in 1958 by the American Humanist Association.
• Gene Roddenberry (1921—1991): American scriptwriter and producer, creator of Star Trek. Roddenberry was a member of the American Humanist Association, and has been called "one of the most influential yet unheralded humanists of the twentieth century."
• Carl Rogers, American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology. Towards the end of his life, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with national intergroup conflict in South Africa and Northern Ireland. Given the title, "Humanist of the Year" in 1964 by the American Humanist Association.
• Richard Rorty was a Humanist Laureate in the International Academy of Humanism.
• Joseph Rotblat, Polish-born, British-naturalized physicist. A signatory of the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, he was secretary general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from its founding until 1973. In conjunction with the Pugwash Conferences, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for their efforts towards nuclear disarmament.
• Arnold Ruge
• Salman Rushdie is a Humanist Laureate in the International Academy of Humanism.
• Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician and academic.