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| Marjorie Rambeau | 1889 | 1970 | Nome | actress |
| Kikkan Randall | 1982 | living | Anchorage | cross-country skier |
| Sean Rash | 1982 | living | Anchorage | professional tenpin bowler |
| Joe Redington | 1917 | 1999 | Knik | sled dog racer, co-founder of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
| Robert Campbell Reeve | 1902 | 1980 | Anchorage, Valdez | pioneering aviator |
| Wilds P. Richardson | 1861 | 1929 | Valdez | Army officer headed Alaska Roads Commission |
| Tex Rickard | 1870 | 1929 | Juneau, Nome | Old West figure, boxing promoter; lived in Nome during the height of its gold rush, served on the first city council |
| Libby Riddles | 1956 | living | Shaktoolik, Teller | sled dog racer, first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
| Libby Roderick | ca. 1958 | living | Anchorage | journalist, singer-songwriter, writer |
| Amerie Rogers | 1981 | living | Anchorage | pop singer |
| Ava Rose | 1986 | living | Sutton | pornographic actress |
| Mia Rose | 1987 | living | Sutton | pornographic actress |
| Paul Rosenthal | 1942 | living | Juneau | violinist, founder of the Sitka Summer Music Festival |
| Bob Ross | 1942 | 1995 | North Pole | painter |
| Peter Trimble Rowe | 1856 | 1942 | Episcopal bishop | |
| Jason Ryznar | 1983 | living | Anchorage | professional ice hockey player |
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