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- Rabindranath TagoreIndian polymath (1861–1941)
- RahmaniyyaSufi mystic order in Sunni Islam
- Rainer Maria RilkeAustrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
- Rajapur, Uttar PradeshRajapur is a town (Nagar Panchayat) and tehsil of Chitrakoot district in the Indian state
- Rally of Republican LeftsFrench center-right political alliance (1946–1958)
- Ramanandi SampradayaBranch of the Vaishnava Hinduism
- RapunzelGerman fairy tale
- Ray BradburyAmerican writer (1920–2012)
- Ray Bradbury (short story collection)Ray Bradbury is a collection of science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury edited by An
- Raymond ChandlerAmerican novelist and screenwriter (1888–1959)
- RifaʽiSufi mystic order in Sunni Islam
- Roald DahlBritish writer and poet (1916–1990)
- Robert A. HeinleinAmerican author and engineer (1907–1988)
- Robert BurnsScottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)
- Robert DelaunayFrench painter (1885–1941)
- Robert FrostAmerican poet (1874–1963)
- Robert Louis StevensonScottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)
- Romantic poetryArtistic, literary, musical and intellectual genre and movement
- Royal Society of LiteratureLiterature society in London
- Ruba'iPerso-Arabic quatrain form of poetry
- RudakiPersian poet (858–940/41)
- Rudyard KiplingEnglish writer and poet (1865–1936)
- RumiSufi mystic and poet (1207–1273)
- RungstedRungsted, also known as Rungsted Kyst, is an affluent suburban neighborhood in Hørsholm Mu
- Ryūnosuke AkutagawaJapanese writer (1892–1927)