RACHEL Elisa 28.2.1820 - 3.1.1858
je francoska klasična tragedinja, ki je 17 let dominirala v gledališču Comedie-Francaise. Rachel, rodila se je v Švici kot Elisa Felix, je prepevala po ulicah Lyona in Pariza. Njeno nadarjenost je odkril igralec in dramatik Isidore Samson, ki jo je na konzervatoriju učil igralske tehnike. Rachel je svoje igralske drže naštudirala na klasičnih kipih, vokalne intonacije in geste pa je vadila na številnih akademskih predstavah. Pri sedemnajstih je v Camedie-Francaise debitirala kot Camille v Corneillovem Horacu. Javnost in tisk sta jo takoj povzdignila v novo zvezdnico. Čeprav je bila drobno in visoka manj kot 150 cm, je na odru prevladala s svojo aristokratsko držo, ognjevitimi pogledi in intenzivno koncentracijo. Rachel so občudovali zaradi njene pantonime, mrzličnega razburjenja, ki ga je vnesla v klimaktične scene. Počasi je začela narekovati strategijo in program gledališča ter njeno opremo in osebje podrejati svoji volji. Največkrat je nastopala v Cornellovih in Racinovih igrah. Največje zmagoslavje je dosegla v Racinovi Fedri. Gostovala je tudi v Angliji, Rusiji, Italiji, Nemčiji in Belgiji. Zaradi napornih turnej in nestanovitnega razvpitega privatnega življenja je zbolela za tuberkulozo in januarja 1858 umrla v Parizu, kjer je tudi pokopana. 

French classical tragedienne (original name  Élisa Félix)  who dominated the Comédie-Française for 17 years. Rachel sang on the streets of Lyon and Paris, where her acting ability was quickly discovered by Isidore Samson, who taught her the acting techniques that he had learned from François-Joseph Talma.

 
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Radivojević Jovanka 1922 - 1943
Članica KPJ, v NOB od 1941. Nemci so jo ujeli in ustrelili. Narodni heroj od 6.7.1953. 

Member of Communist Party of Yugoslavia. In 1941 joined the partisan forces. She was captured by german enemy and shot. On July 6, 1953 she was proclaimed as National Hero.

 
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Radvilaite Barbora 6.12.1520 - 8.5.1551
poljska kraljica, žena Sigmunda II. in Litvanska vojvodinja.

Barbara Radziwiłł (Lithuanian: Barbora Radvilaitė, Polish: Barbara Radziwiłłówna) was Queen of Poland and the Grand Duchess of Lithuania. She was wife of King Sigismund II August. Barbara was the daughter of a powerful magnate of the Radziwiłł family, castellan, voivode and hetman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Jerzy Radziwiłł, and Barbara Koła. She was well educated. She was married to Sanislaw Gassztold, voivode of Nowogrodek. When he died, she married polish king Sigismund II in 1547.

 
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Raeva Iliana 15.3.1963 -
je bolgarska ritmična gimnastičarka. Je ena izmed trojice bolgarskih prvakinj zgodnjih 80. let. Iliana Raeva, Lilija Ignatova  in Anelija Ralenkova so živele v isti ulici in so tekmovale za isti klub Levski. V svoji karieri, ki je trajala od 1978 do 1982, Raeva na pomembnih tekmovanjih ni nikoli osvojila manj kot šesto mesto. Na evropskem prvenstvu 1980 je bila prva v tekmovanju s kolebnico, obročem in kiji in druga s trakom. Leta 1980 je bila sicer v vseh finalih, vendar je dobila "samo" dve srebrni medalji (obroč in trak) in eno bronasto (kolebnica).

She is one of a trio of Bulgarian champions of the early 1980s, Iliana Raeva, Lilija Ignatova and Anelija Ralenkova were, coincidentally, raised on the same street in Sofia, and all competed for club Levski. In a career stretching from 1978 to 1982, Raeva never placed lower than 6th in a major competition. She dominated the apparatus finals at 1980 Europeans, coming in first with rope, hoop, and clubs, and second with ribbon. At the 1981 World Championships she made all four event finals, but she got a collection of silvers (hoop and ribbon) and bronze (rope).

 
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Rajnai Klara 2.11.1953 -
Madžarska športnica, skupaj z Pfeffer Anna sta na OI 1976 v Montrealu v kajaku K-2 na 500 m osvojili srebrno medaljo. Sama pa je osvojila na teh OI še bronasto medaljo v kajaku K-1 na 500 m.

Hungarian canoeist won a bronze medal for kayak  singles 500m and a silver medal for kayak pairs 500 m with Pfeffer Anna in 1976 OG.

 
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Ralenkova Anelija 25.12.1963 -
je bolgarska ritmična gimnastičarka. Dvakrat je bila svetovna prvakinja in dvakrat evropska prvakinja mnogokrat z največjo možno oceno 10. Je ena izmed trojice bolgarskih prvakinj zgodnjih 80. let. Iliana Raeva, Lilija Ignatova  in Anelija Ralenkova so živele v isti ulici in so tekmovale za isti klub Levski.

She is a two-time World Champion and two-time European Champion scoring perfect 10's on many World Class competitions of rhythmic gymnastics. She is one of a trio of Bulgarian champions of the early 1980s, Iliana Raeva, Lilija Ignatova and Anelija Ralenkova were, coincidentally, raised on the same street in Sofia, and all competed for club Levski.

 
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Raskova Marina Mihajlovna 28.3.1912 - 4.1.1943
ruska pilotka, skupaj s Pauline Osipenko in Valentino Grizodubovo so  leta 1938 dosegle ženski rekord o daljinskem neprekinjenem poletu od Moskve do daljnega ruskega vzhoda.

On September 24-25, 1938, Marina Raskova with Paulina Ossipenko and Valentina Grizodubova set world record with their a non-stop flight of 5,900 km from Moscow to Siberia in an ANT-37. During WW II she was a major of Soviet army and commanding officer of the 587th Dive Bomber Regiment, subsequently renamed the 125th "M.M. Raskova" Borisov Guards Dive Bomber Regiment (Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov III Class). She was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on 2 November 1938.

  
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Ranevskaja GEORGIEVNA Faina 27.8.1896 - 19.7.1984
je bila velika ruska gledališka in filmska igralka. Igrala je znanih sovjetskih filmih Vesna, "Mechta"..
  
  
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Rasmussen Anna-Suffia 1876 - 1932

She was a wife of  Rasmus Rasmussen (1871-1962) the founder of Faroe folk high school.
On stamp Faroe-372 is also Skardi Sanna av.

  
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Raškaj Slava 2.1.1877 - 29.3.1906
Slava Raškaj je hrabro prenašala svojo usodo.  Gluhonema od rojstva že zelo zgodaj kaže nadarjenost za risanje. Skrbno opazuje naravo in otroke, ki postanejo najljubši motiv na njenih slikah.in jih dobro razume in občuti. Njene akvarele in pastele odlikuje lahkotnost,  značilna za ljudi neobremenjene akademskim naukom in togim  pravilom.

Slava Raškaj has stood up bravely against her fate. Born deaf-mute, it was very early in her life when she first began showing her drawing talent. She kept closely watching both the nature and children, later to become her favorite motifs in her painting, those that she deeply felt and understood. Her water-colours and pastels are characterized by a true lightness, features that belong to those spirits unburdened by academic tuition and rigid rules.

 
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RATHBONE Eleanor Florence  12.5.1872 - 2.1.1946

She was an Independent British Member of Parliament and long-term campaigner for women's rights. She was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool.

Recamier Juliette 4.12.1777 - 11.5.1849
je bila hči bankirja iz Lyona. Obiskovala je samostansko šolo. Leta 1792 se je pridružila očetu v Parizu in se kmalu poročila z uglednim bankirjem. Njen salon je hitro postal priljubljeno zbirališče imenitnih in manj imenitnih politikov in umetnikov. Leta 1805 je zaradi Napoleonove politike njen mož finančno propadel. Napoleon pa je ukazal naj Madame de Recamier izženejo iz Pariza. Najprej je stanovala pri dobri prijateljici Madame de Stael v Ženevi, potem je odšla v Rim in Neapelj. Njen literarni portret najdemo v romanu Corinnem ki ga je Madame de Stael napisala v tistem času. Po Napoleonovem porazu se je leta 1815 vrnila v Pariz, vendar je spet doživela finančni polom, vendar je kljub temu vzdrževala svoj salon. V poznejših letih je njen stalni spremljevalec postal pisatelj in politik Francois Chateaubriand, ki je v njenem salonu tudi bral svoja dela.

She was celebrated French beauty and social figure, née Jeanne Françoise Julie Adelaïde Bernard. At 15 she married Jacques Récamier, a wealthy, middle-aged banker; their marriage was a mere formality. Her fashionable salon was, from the Consulate to the end of the July Monarchy, a gathering place for some of the most influential political and literary figures. Although many men fell in love with her, Mme Récamier, whose nature was ineffably gentle and unpassionate, probably never had any but platonic attachments. The most celebrated of her liaisons was that with Chateaubriand, to whom she devoted the later part of her life. Among her friends were Mme de Staël, Sainte-Beuve, and Benjamin Constant. The famous portrait of her by Jacques Louis David hangs in the Louvre. Her memoirs and correspondence have been published.

 
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Reed Sally
She is artist from Gurnsey. She studied psychology, sociology and art. First she worked as freelance artist, leter she became a teacher at Brighton  University.
On stamp  Guernsey-609 is her aquatint: The Fish Market.

  
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Rego Paula 1935 -
portugalska slikarka

Portuguese Painter was educated in English schools while growing up and attended the Slade School of Art. There, she studied under Coldstream and also met and married fellow painter, Victor Willing. The couple lived in Portugal for some time before moving to London in 1963. Rego’s early work was strongly influenced by Dubuffet and she made abstract collages sometimes with political themes. However, her later work became figurative and she began creating compositions influenced by childhood stories and memories. A successful artist in the United Kingdom and Portugal, Rego became the first Associate Artist of the National Gallery in London in 1990. She also produced a mural in the Sainsbury Wing of the gallery in 1991.

  
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Reichman Jelka 23.8.1939 -
Podobo Mačjega mesta, kjer je vse do najmanjše podrobnosti ukrojeno po mačjem okusu, je likovno domislila in zaokrožila akademska slikarka Jelka Reichman, že vrsto let ena najbolj priljubljenih slovenskih ilustratork, ki je z likom mačka Murija ustvarila pop junaka v najboljšem pomenu te besede, tako rekoč ikono, ki se je tako tesno sprijela z besedilom, da sta postala nerazdružljiva. O tem pričajo tudi mnogi ponatisi - dosedanja skupna naklada je že presegla za slovenske razmere skoraj neverjetnih 100.000 izvodov!

Maček Muri (Tom-cat Muri), created in 1975 by the poet Kajetan Kovic and illustrator Jelka Reichman, is undoubtedly one of such timeless characters. With more than 100,000 copies published so far - an incredibly high number for such a small nation as Slovenia - the book is one of the children's best-sellers.

  
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REID Nano 1900 - 1981
irska slikarka

Her artistic career began with her winning a scholarship in 1920 to the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Here she trained to be an art teacher, studying under Harry Clarke. She first exhibited at the RHA in 1925 and continued to do so periodically until 1968, showing forty-two works in all. She travelled and studied art in Paris and London.  Upon returning to Dublin she was associated with the Dublin Painters and held her first solo show with them on St Stephen's Green in 1934. She exhibited at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin several times, had solo shows at the Victor Waddington Galleries in Dublin and St George's Gallery in London, In 1950 Reid - along with Norah McGuinness - represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale.
Painting on stamp IE-1631: Seabird and Landmarks

  
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Resnik Judith 5.4.1949 - 28.1.1986
Engineer and astronaut Judith Arlene Resnik, was part of the seven-member crew aboard the US space shuttle Challenger which exploded shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. That mission was her second in the shuttle program. In August-September 1984, on the maiden flight of the space shuttle Discovery, she became only the second American woman to fly in space (the first was Sally K. Ride in June 1983). Resnik attended Firestone High School in Akron and earned her bachelor's degree in engineering from Carnegie Tech in 1970. She received her doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1977. The following year, while working for the Xerox Corporation in California, Dr. Resnik and five others were selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to become America's first women astronauts. On her first mission, she conducted experiments with the shuttle's solar energy instruments. Resnick was also an accomplished classical pianist.

 
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Richier Germanie 16.9.1904 - 31.7.1959

The French sculptor Germaine Richier devoted herself to expressing the most somber aspects of human emotion in sculptural form. She studied in Montpellier and Paris, for a time with Emile Antoine Bourdelle. After a stay in Switzerland during World War II, she began to dwell on images of terror and the fear of death. Using open structural forms (such as the skeleton and the web) that suggest incompleteness, Richier conveyed the horrors of a ravaged, lacerated world. Continually decomposing the human figure into symbolic forms, she pushed her technique to the limits of fragility, creating an image of humanity torn by the mental and physical anguish of war.

 
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Riks Alli 1909 -
finska igralka

Finnish actress was born in Germany. In 1927 she went to Finland. On stamp FI-1338 is with Theodor Tugai in film Wide Road from 1931.

 
           FI - 1338

Rimala Annika 1936 -
Designer of clothes in Marimekko Corporation 1959-82. Marimekko is a world famous Finnish textile and clothing company founded in 1951. In 1967 Annika was elected one of the 10 designers in the world who had influenced fashion most. In that time Marimekko was due to her on the top in the world of fashion. Annika supported ideas of anonymous design which means that you buy clothes because they are nice and comfortable, not because they are in fashion or because of the name of the designer. Her aim as a designer was to create a product which was highly functional and practical, timeless, long-lasting quality, fit for all sizes and ages and as a mass product not too expensive. In 1968 the striped, cotton "Tasaraita" knitwear (depicted on the stamp FI-1453) was born designed by Annika for Marimekko. After she left Marimekko she has run her own shop "Santtu".

  
          FI - 1453

Ristori Adelaide 30.1.1822 - 9.10.1906
italijanska gledališka igralka, tragedinja, vodilna italijanska igralka svojega časa.

As a child she appeared upon the stage, and at fourteen made her first success as Francesca da Rimini in Silvio Pellico's tragedy. She was eighteen when for the first time she played Mary Stuart in an Italian version of Schiller's play.

 
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Rita iz Cascia sv. - RITA of Cascia st. 1386 - 22.5.1457

She is an Italian Augustinian saint. At age 12 she married to Paolo Mancini. and bore two sons. Mancini was rich and immoral man with many enemies. Although she tried to raise them with Catholic values, her sons grew to be like their father. After death of her husband and sons Rita felt the call to religious life. At the age of 36 was enterd the monastery.She lived 40 years in the convent, spending her time in prayer and charity, and working for peace in the region. She is a patron of desperate, seemingly impossible causes and situations. She was beatified on 1st october 1627 by Pope Urban VIII and vanonized on 24th may 1900.

 
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Rivaz Alice 14.8.1901 - 1998

Together with Corinne Bille, Catherine Colomb and Monique Saint-Hélier, Alice Rivaz  brought a bold new tone to the literature of French-speaking Switzerland in the late thirties, even making a name for herself in other countries and building a reputation as a pioneer of feminist literature in Switzerland.

  
         CH - 1746

Robeva Neška 26.5.1946 -
She is a Bulgarian former rhythmic gymnast and coach. Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian Dances" in 1966 and since then had been a member of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics squad until 1973. She took part in four World Championships (1967, 1969, 1971, 1973). In 1974 Robeva graduated from the High Institute for Sports and started work as a coach. From 1993 until 1997 she was a member of the European Gymnastics Committee.

 
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Roef Sonja 1952 -
Luksemburška slikarka in kiparka.

 
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Rogers Mary 1855 - 30.4.1899
je bila strežajka na ladji Stella, ki je leta 1899 potonila na poti med Southampton na Kanalske otoke. Pri nesreči je Mary nesebično pomagala potnicam. Svoj rešilni pas je dala potnici brez njega in ji pomagala v rešilni čoln. Mary se je skupaj s 105 potniki in člani posadke utopila.  Leta 1908 so v Liverpoolski katedrali  v barvni vitraži upodobili 12 znanih žensk, med njimi je tudi Mary. Na znamki Alderney-129 je ta njena podoba.

  
         Alderney - 129

ROJC Nasta 6.11.1883 - 6.11.1964
je ena prvih hrvaških akademsko izobraženih slikark. Šolala se je v Zagrebu, na Dunaju in Münchnu. Prvič je razstavljala leta 1904 v Zagrebu. Razstavljala je po vsej Evropi. Slikala pejsaže, mestne vedute, portrete, avtoportrete in akte v stilu realizma, naturalizma impresionizma in na koncu socrealizma.
Na HR-794 je njena slika: Avtoportret s puško.

She is one of the first academically educated Croatian women painters.Nasta started her education in painting in 1901, in the private painting school of Oton Iveković in Zagreb, and afterwards, with breaks, from 1902 to 1911 she received further education at the Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen in Vienna. She went on to the Frauen Akademie in Munich where she was introduced to the participants of the so called Munich Circle. She had her first public exhibition in 1909 when she exhibited at the collective exhibition of the Croatian Art Society in the Art Pavilion in Zagreb. Since that time, almost every year, she participated in exhibitions not only in Croatia but also all across Europe: in France, England, Scotland, Bohemia, Poland and Romania. her opus based on landscape motifs, countryside scenes and city panoramas, portraits and self-portraits, nudes and genre scenes and on the motifs of animals and flowers, all this passed through all the phases of academic realism and naturalism, symbolism, naturalist en plein air painting, impressionism and post-impressionism and, finally, she painted in the spirit of social realism.

  
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Roland de la Platiere, Jeanne-Marie 1754 - 1793
je francoska revolucionarka, uveljavila se je kot razgledana in privlačna žena francoskega vladnega uradnika. Njen pariški salon je od 1791 postal središče zmernih žirondincev. Bila je v dobrih odnosih z M. Robispierrom. Imela je velik vpliv na svojega soproga, ki je postal notranji minister Ludvika XVI. S svojo politiko je vplivala na dokončni razkol med jakobinci in žirondinci. Pred revolucionarnim sodiščem so jo zaradi simpatiziranja z rojalisti obsodili na smrt. Znan je njen vzklik pred usmrtitvijo z giljotino: "O, svoboda, kakšni zločini se dogajajo v tvojem imenu".

 
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Romanescu Eleonora 26.4.1926 -
je modavijska slikarka. Na znamki MD-426 je njena slika: Domovina.

Moldavina painter studied painting at Chisinau College of Arts (1949). The domain she prefers is landscape interpreted in an individual stylistic manner – contrast of warm and cold colours, which makes the pictures special.

  
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Romanescu Aristita 1854 - 1918
romunska gledališka igralka

              
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Roosevelt Eleanor  11.10.1884 - 7.11.1962
Bila je nečakinja predsednika ZDA T. Roosevelta in soproga predsednika F.D. Roosevelta. Dejavno je pomagala soprogu, ki je bil vse bolj prizadet zaradi bolezni. V času predsednikovanja je opravljala administrativne, organizacijske in propagandne naloge in je postala ena najbolj znanih žensk v ZDA. BIla je predsednica komisije OZN za človekove pravice. Napisala je več del, med drugim spomine Moja zgodba in Tega se spominjam.

The wife of a popular US president, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was a tireless worker for social causes. A niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she was raised by her maternal grandmother after the premature death of her parents. In 1905 she married her cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt; they had six children, one of whom died in infancy. Although extremely shy, she became active in politics after her husband was stricken with polio in 1921. When Franklin became president in 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt made herself a powerful voice on behalf of a wide range of social causes, including youth employment and civil rights for blacks and women. She conducted press conferences, had her own radio program, and wrote a daily newspaper column, "My Day," which was nationally syndicated. After her husband's death, she continued in public life. She served (1945-52, 1961-62) as a US delegate to the United Nations and helped draft the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Her books include The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961) and This I Remember (1949).

                                      
                
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            PL- 1532

Roques Jeanne 23.2.1889 - 11.12.1957
Roques Jeanne (pseudonymous Musidora) was one of the greatest stars in French silent cinema. Not only did she create France's first big-screen vamp, the multi-talented actresss was also recognized as a a writer, painter, dancer, playwright, and filmmaker. She gained national recognition for her role as the sexy, black leotard-clad Irma Vep in Louis Feuillade's adventure serial Les Vampires (1915-1916) "Irma Vep" is an anagram for vampire. She later founded her own production company. She began by adapting the Colette's popular plays, Minnie and La Vagabonde, La Flamme cachee. She then directed four films notable for her on-location settings, and experimental techniques. Her acting career ended with the advent of sound, but this did not stop her from writing. In 1974, the first women's film festival in Paris was named after her.

 
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ROSING Inavc 1965 -
slikarka: Mladenka v grenlandski pokrajini

Greenland - 506
 

ROSSEELS Maria  23.10.1926 - 18.3.2005

Maria, Baroness Rosseels, also known with her pen name E. M. Vervliet, was a Belgian Catholic writer. After three years of technical education she went to the College for Women in Antwerp. She started her professional career as a teacher at a school in Gierle, but she left the school to work, from 1941 up to 1944, at the department of internal affairs of the Ministry of Labor in Brussels. In 1945 she made her first steps in journalism as freelance journalist for the "De Courant". In 1947 she became editor at the daily De Standaard where she would eventually become the movie critic and author of the woman page. After her retirement in 1977 she continued working as a movie critic. As a writer she created some important female characters. First of all Elisabeth from the Elisabeth trilogy, of which the first part appeared in 1953. As a Christian writer she drew attention with novels such as Ik was een christen (I was a Christian - 1957), Dood van een non (Dead of a nun - 1961; her most well-known book) -  and Wacht niet op de morgen (Don't wait for the morning - 1969).
  
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Roten-Meyer Iris von 2.4.1917- 11.9.1990

She was a lawyer and Swiss journalist of German language. She studied the right to the Université of Bern. Young lawyer, it launches out in journalism and the edition. In 1944, it takes again the drafting of the periodical Schweizer Frauenblatt . It quickly finds its topic of predilection in the female emancipation, being interested more particularly in the place of the woman in the company and the economy. She wrote a great study on the female condition Femmes behind the grids. She encourages the women to release herself from the traditional and reducing female diagrams. These “free remarks on the situation of the woman” are inspired by the Second Sex of Simone de Beauvoir. The book started such a scandal that it also was proscribed by the feminist women and was made responsible in 1959 for the refusal by the Swiss people of the right to vote of the women.

  
        CH -1582

ROUMPESI Antigoni 19.7.1983 -
She won silver medal OG 2004 Athene: greek water polo team.

  
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Roux Yvonne le 1882 - 1945
članica francoskega odporniškega gibanja. Leta 1942 so jo Nemci aretirali in poslali v taborišče Ravensbrück. Sicer jo doživela osvoboditev, vendar je zaradi bolezni še istega leta umrla v Parizu.

 
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ROWLING Joanne 1965 -
angleška pisateljica
English author.

GB - 2535-2541

RubČova Nikolaevna Olga 20.8.1909 - 13.12.1994

She was a Soviet chess player. She won the USSR Women's Championship several times, and was second in the 1950 World Championship, a point behind Lyudmila Rudenko. She won the title in 1956, finishing ahead of Rudenko and Elisabeth Bykova in a match tournament, before losing it to Bikova in a match in 1958. Rubtsova also played correspondence chess, and became first Women's Correspondence Chess Champion in 1972 (she also finished second in the next championship, only losing the title to Lora Jakovleva on tie-break, and fifth in the one after that). She remains the only player, male or female, to become World Champion in both over-the-board and correspondence chess.

 
       YU - 3020

Rudenko Ludmila 27.7.1905 - 4.3.1986
beloruska šahistka je prvič tekmovala v šahu leta 1925 na turnirju v Moskvi.

Ludmila Rudenko was born in the Byelorussian town of Lubny. She made her debut in a chess tournament in Moscow in 1925, which was sponsored by the newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda. After mastering the basic problems of Strategy and tactics and master games, she won a  training  tournament  of  Moscow  Women  players  in  1927  and   qualified  for  the  first  USSR Women's Championship. In 1928, she became women's champion of Moscow. In the World Championship Tournament (1949 - 1950) she played brilliantly to win the title, scoring 11.5 points out of 15 and held it till she lost to Elizaveta Bykova in a hard - fought match in 1953.

 
       YU - 3018

Rumbo Urani 1884 - 1936
publicistka, borka za ženske pravice

Urani Rumbo, a teacher and proponent of education and culture all her life, was committed to the emancipation of the Albanian people and in particular of women. She was born at a time of great changes, when Albanian people were in the heat of their attempts for liberation from the Ottoman yoke.  From an early age, she aided the attempts of the Albanians for liberty and at the same time was directly engaged in the progress of Albanian culture and education. Urani’s unsparing commitment bore fruit in the foundation of the first association of women in the city of Gjirokastra.  This was the women’s club called Përparimi (Progress), which both had an impact on raising the educational and cultural level of women and gave them moral support for going further on the paths of emancipation that had been opened. Urani’s activity was also visible as a member of the progressive Gjirokastër association Drita (the Light).  With the help of this association, in her continuing attempts for gender equality and emancipation, Urani succeeded in having the high school of Gjirokastër attended both by boys and by girls.  This school thus became one of the first temples of common education without distinction of sex. Urani’s activity was also visible as a member of the progressive Gjirokastër association Drita (Light).  With the help of this association, in her continuing attempts for gender equality and emancipation, Urani succeeded in having the high school of Gjirokastra attended both by boys and by girls.  This school thus became one of the first temples of common education without distinction of gender. Urani also write articles in the city’s press organs, and her contribution to the development of culture was equally great.  She was the first organiser of theatrical performances in the ancient city of Gjirokastër, through the companies Drita and women’s association Përparimi.
(thanks to Edi Shukriu - Albania)

 
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RUNG Marion 7.12.1945 -

Na znamki FI-1844 sta tudi Katri Helena in Kinnunen Laila.

Marion Rung is a Finish pop singer. She is known to have represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 and 1973, her two Eurovision songs were a big success and in 1973 she managed to bring Finland's second best result ever in this contest, placing 6th. She also won the Intervision Song Contest 1980 with Where is the love.
On stamp FI-1844 are also Katri Helena and Kinnunen Laila.

    
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Ruseva Liliana

 
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Ruslanova Lidija 27.10.1900 - 21.9.1973
ruska pevka, ki je prva zapela znano pesem Katjuša (skladatelja Matveja Blantnerja - 1938)

She was one of the greatest and best-loved performers of Russian folk songs. She first started singing for Russian soldiers during the Russian Civil War. She debuted as a professional singer in Rostov-on-Don in 1923. During World War II she ceaselessly toured from one front to another, helping to boost the soldiers' courage with her patriotic songs. Her signature songs were Valenki and Katyusha, written specially for her. During the Battle of Berlin she performed on the doorsteps of the smouldering Reichstag. Ruslanova was reputedly the richest woman in Soviet Russia and even financed the construction of two Katyusha batteries, which she presented to the Red Army in 1942. Her rough manners and racy language appealed to the soldiers to such a point that she came to be regarded as a potential threat to the Soviet authorities. Three years after the victory, Lidiya and her husband, General Vladimir Kryuchkov, were arrested and sentenced to 10 years of camp labour for alleged anti-Soviet activities. After Stalin's death, she was permitted to return to Moscow. Although awards and titles bypassed her, Ruslanova presided over the first All-Soviet Festival of Soviet Songs, together with Leonid Utyosov, Mark Bernes, and Klavdiya Shulzhenko.

  
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Rusu-Ciobanu Valentina 28.10.1920 -
Moldavska slikarka.
Na znamki MD-427 je njena slika: Ženska pri oknu.

Moldavian painter was born in Chisinau. She studied in Iasi (1940-1942) and Chisinau in the workshop of I.Hazov (1940-1942; 1944-1946). She carried out experiments in painting, promoting different styles and manners – from naive art – to photographic art, being a dynamic artist in the evolution of her creation.

  
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RutherForD Margaret 11.5.1892 - 22.5.1972
britanska gledališka in filmska igralka.

Margaret Rutherford was a much-loved English comic character actress, her quiddity summed up in The Demi-Paradise (1943) where Penelope Dudley Ward tries to explain her to Olivier's Russian visitor and ends up just laughing helplessly "Well, you've seen her for yourself!". She was originally a teacher of elocution, which left its mark on the highly developed comic instrument of her voice. In 1945 she played the first of her great roles in film (which she had also performed on stage), the clairvoyant Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit. Orson Welles made art-house tribute by casting her as Mistress Quickly in Chimes at Midnight (1966), the year she was made DBE, and after she had won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in The VIPs (1963).

  
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RuŽička-Strozzi Marija 3.8.1850 - 28.9.1937
Marija Ružička - Strozzi  je bila še za življenja spoštovana kot največja hrvaška dramska umetnica. Na oder je stopila že z 18 leti, umaknila pa se je z njih leto pred smrtjo. Igrala je v vseh zagrebških predstavah od Eshila, Euripida, Sofokleja do Schillerja, Shakespeara in Gundulića. Gostovala je v Sofiji, Pragi in  Brnu. V zgodovini hrvaškega gledališča je zapisana kot interpretorka likov tragičnih mater (Euripid, Ibsen, Zola, Vojnović).

Marija Ružička - Strozzi  had been admired even in her lifetime as the greatest Croatian dramatic actress. She trod the boards at the early age of 18, and withdrew from them only a year before she died. She acted in all the productions in the Zagreb theatre, in the plays of Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Shakespeare and Gundulić. She triumphed in her appearances in Sofia, Prague and Brno. She remained recorded in the history of the Croatian theatre as the interpreter of roles of tragic mothers (Euripides, Ibsen, Zola, Vojnović).

 
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