Notable inmates

Rafael Hui Si-yan (8 February 1948 – 1 February 2026) was a Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong and a career civil servant.

Rafael Schächter (born 25 May 1905, died on the death march during the evacuation of Auschwitz in 1945), was a Czechoslovak composer, pianist and conductor of Jewish origin, organizer of cultural life in Terezín concentration camp.

Ragheed Ahmed al-Tatari (Arabic: رغيد أحمد الططري; born 25 December 1954) is a former military aviator from Syria, recognized as the longest-serving political prisoner in the country.

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973) was an influential Norwegian economist and econometrician known for being one of the major contributors to establishing economics as a quantitative and statistically informed science in the early 20th century.

Rahim Hasan oghlu Gaziyev (Azerbaijani: Rəhim Həsən oğlu Qazıyev; born 1943) was Azerbaijani Defense Minister in 1992–1993, in the turmoil of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, and later a political prisoner.

Raimondo Ricci (13 April 1921 – 26 November 2013) was an Italian politician and partisan, President of National Association of Italian Partisans from 2009 to 2011.

Raimondo Vianello (7 May 1922 – 15 April 2010) was an Italian film actor, comedian, and television host.

Raisa Noevna Blokh (Russian: Раиса Ноевна Блох; 1898–1943) was a Russian poet.

Raja Eghbaria (Arabic: رجا إغبارية, born 1952) is a Palestinian-Israeli activist.

Rajan Pillai (1947 – 7 July 1995) was an Indian businessman from Kerala, popularly known as the Biscuit Baron.

Rajat Kumar Gupta (Bengali pronunciation: [ɾɔdʒɔt kumaɾ ɡuptɔ]; born (1948-12-02)December 2, 1948) is an Indian-American business executive who, as CEO, was the first foreign-born managing director of management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2003.

Rajakumaran Rajaratnam (born June 15, 1957) is a Sri Lankan-American former hedge fund manager and founder of the Galleon Group, a New York-based hedge fund management firm.

Ralph Klein, also known as Rafael "Ralph" Ram (Hebrew: רלף קליין; July 29, 1931 – August 7, 2008) was an Israeli professional basketball player and coach.

Theodore Cole (born April 6, 1912 – disappeared December 17, 1937) and Ralph Roe (born February 5, 1906 – disappeared December 17, 1937) were Oklahoma bank robbers who took part in the second escape attempt from Alcatraz in 1937.

Ralph Sherwin (25 October 1550 – 1 December 1581) was an English Roman Catholic priest, executed in 1581.

Ralph Tambs Lyche (6 September 1890 – 15 January 1991) was a Norwegian mathematician. He was born in Macon, Georgia as a son of Norwegian father Hans Tambs Lyche (1859–1898) and American mother Mary Rebecca Godden (1856–1938).

Ramón Nse Esono Ebalé (born 22 November 1977) is an Equatorial Guinean illustrator and comics artist.

Ramses Lobazanovich Gaichayev (Russian: Рамзес Лобазанович Гайчаев; born 1976, Shelkovskaya, Chechen-Ingush ASSR, RSFSR) is a Russian serial killer, mass murderer, rapist, robber and brigand of ethnic Chechen descent.

Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah bin al-Shibh (Arabic: رمزي محمد عبد الله بن الشيبة, romanized: Ramzī Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh bin al-Shībh; born May 1, 1972) is a Yemeni terrorist who served as al-Qaeda's communications officer.

Raouf Hannachi is a Tunisian born Canadian citizen who served as the Muezzin at the Assuna Mosque in Montreal.