Larisa Romanenko (1923–2007) – a poet and translator. >>

Nikolay Rominsky (1868–1943) – an artist, a teacher of drawing. >>

Boriss Roshchin (1897–1963) – a theatre producer, from 1952 to 1963 chief producer  of  the Riga Theatre of Musical Comedy. >>

Yekaterina Roshchina-Insarova (1883–1970) – a theatre actress. >>

Ivan Roshonok (1911–1982) – a well-known doctor. >>

Galina Rossiyskaya (1949) – from 1971 to 1988 an actress of the Omsk Drama Theater, since 1988 – an actress of the Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theater. >>

Vladimir Rozhinsky (1900–1973) – a physician, colonel-lieutenant of the Latvian Army. >>

Stanislav Rubinchik (1940–1981) – Latvian Russian-language writer, translator, bibliophile, author of books for children and adolescents, member of the Writers' Union of the Latvian SSR (1977). >>

Lev Rudakov (1890–1956) – a chartered lawyer. >>

Ivan Rudenkov (1887–1950) –  a one of the founders of the Puppet theatre in Latvia. >>