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Roger (American Dad!)

Roger Smith is the pansexual gray alien voiced by Seth MacFarlane in American Dad! (2005), living with the Smith family in Langley Falls and known for dozens of disguised personas such as Ricky Spanish.

Roger & Me

Roger & Me is Michael Moore's 1989 Warner Bros. documentary about GM's Flint, Michigan plant closings and his failed quest to interview chairman Roger Smith; a docucomedy that became the highest-grossing documentary to its time.

Roger A. Chevalier

Roger A. Chevalier is a theoretical astrophysicist, the W. H. Vanderbilt Professor of Astronomy at the University of Virginia since 1990, known for his work on supernovae.

Roger A. De Souza

Roger A. De Souza is a physical chemist and professor at RWTH Aachen University since 2017, known for research on ion transport, defect chemistry, and oxygen diffusion in oxides.

Roger A. Garrett

Roger A. Garrett is a molecular biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Copenhagen who led the Danish Archaea Center and co-edited the 2006 volume Archaea: Evolution, Physiology, and Molecular Biology.

Roger A. Greenberg

Roger A. Greenberg, also published as Roger Greenberg, is an American cancer biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies DNA repair and telomere maintenance in cancer cells.

Sep 20, 2026

Roger A. Nicoll

Roger A. Nicoll is an American neuroscientist, professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, whose laboratory established that long-term potentiation, a basis of learning and memory, is expressed by delivering AMPA receptors to synapses.

Roger A. Pedersen

Roger A. Pedersen (1944–2025) was an American stem cell biologist who discovered epiblast stem cells and pioneered human embryonic stem cell research at UCSF, Cambridge, and Stanford.

Roger A. Rosenblatt

Roger A. Rosenblatt (1945–2014) was an American family physician and health-services researcher at the University of Washington who founded the WWAMI Rural Health Research Center and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1987.

Roger A. Schmitz

Roger A. Schmitz, also known as Roger Anthony Schmitz, was an American chemical engineer at Notre Dame who first demonstrated multiple steady states and chaos in chemical reactions.

Roger A. Warnke

Roger A. Warnke, also published as Roger Warnke, is a Stanford hematopathologist, Ronald F. Dorfman Professor Emeritus, known for diagnosing lymphomas with immunologic markers and monoclonal antibodies.

Roger Adams

Roger Adams (1889–1971) was an American organic chemist who spent his career at the University of Illinois, known for Adams' catalyst and pioneering cannabinoid chemistry.

Roger Ailes

Roger Ailes (1940–2017), American television executive and Republican media strategist; Nixon 1968 adviser, CNBC president 1993–96, founding chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel 1996–2016, resigned amid harassment allegations.

Roger Allam

Roger Allam (born 1953, Bow, London) is a British stage, TV, film, and radio actor, three-time Olivier winner, originating Javert in Les Misérables 1985; known for Peter Mannion in The Thick of It, Fred Thursday in Endeavour, and Cabin Pressure's Douglas Richardson.

Roger Angel

Roger Angel, born 1941, is an astronomer and optical scientist at the University of Arizona known for casting lightweight honeycomb mirrors for the world's largest telescopes.

Roger Angell

Roger Angell (1920-2022), American editor and essayist, longtime New Yorker fiction editor and baseball writer; author of The Summer Game; 2014 J.G. Taylor Spink Award winner.

Roger Antonsen

Roger Antonsen (1976–2024) was a Norwegian logician, mathematician, and computer scientist at the University of Oslo, known for a 2015 TED Talk viewed over 4 million times.

Roger Apéry

Roger Apéry (1916–1994) was a French mathematician, professor at the University of Caen from 1949 to 1986, best known for proving in 1978 that ζ(3), now called Apéry's constant, is irrational.

Roger Arthur Johnson

Roger Arthur Johnson (1890–1954) was an American geometer best known for Johnson's theorem, his 1916 result on three equal circles, and the 1929 textbook Modern Geometry.

Roger Avary

Roger Avary (born 1965) is a Canadian-born screenwriter, director, and producer who shared the 1994 Best Original Screenplay Oscar with Quentin Tarantino for Pulp Fiction, directed Killing Zoe and The Rules of Attraction, and hosts the Video Archives Podcast.

Roger B. Chaffee

Roger B. Chaffee (Roger Bruce Chaffee) was an American naval officer, engineer, and NASA astronaut who died in the Apollo 1 launch pad fire in 1967.

Roger B. H. Tootell

Roger B. H. Tootell is a visual neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and the Martinos Center who maps the primate visual cortex with fMRI, in humans and monkeys.

Roger B. Myerson

Roger B. Myerson, also known as Roger Myerson, is an American economist at the University of Chicago who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Roger B. Taney

Roger B. Taney, also known as Roger Brooke Taney, was an American jurist who served as the fifth Chief Justice of the United States from 1836 until his death in 1864.

Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon (ca. 1214/1220–1292), doctor mirabilis, English Franciscan friar and Scholastic philosopher; author of the Opus maius for Pope Clement IV, advocate of scientia experimentalis, and medieval assimilator of Greek and Islamic optics.

Roger Bacon (American physicist)

Roger Bacon was an American physicist who discovered graphite whiskers at Union Carbide's Parma Technical Center in 1958, opening the way to high-performance carbon fibers and earning the 2004 Benjamin Franklin Medal.

Roger Balian

Roger Balian, born in Lyon in 1933, is a French theoretical physicist at the CEA Saclay known for statistical mechanics, the information-theoretic interpretation of entropy, and quantum measurement.

Oct 21, 2026

Roger Bambuck

Roger Bambuck (Célicien Alexandre Roger Bambuck), French sprinter born 1945 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Double European champion 1966, brief 100 m world record co-holder (10.0, Sacramento 1968), Olympic 4x100 m relay bronze 1968, later Secretary of State for Youth and Sports 1988-1991.

Roger Bannister

Roger Bannister (1929-2018), English neurologist and miler, first person to run a sub-four-minute mile (3:59.4, Iffley Road, Oxford, 6 May 1954); lost the record to John Landy 46 days later, won the 1954 Miracle Mile in Vancouver.