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Roger Bart
Roger Bart (born 1962, Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American stage and screen actor and singer; Tony winner as Snoopy (1999), Tony nominee for The Producers and Back to the Future, singing voice of young Hercules, and Doc Brown's originator on stage.
Roger Beaufrand
Roger Beaufrand (1908–2007) was a French track cyclist who won the men's sprint gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and later became the oldest surviving Olympic champion.
Roger Benson
Roger Benson, also known as Roger B. J. Benson, is a vertebrate paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Roger Bilham
Roger Bilham is a geophysicist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for GPS measurements of Himalayan convergence and warnings that great Himalayan earthquakes may be overdue.
Roger Binny
Roger Binny (born 1955, Bangalore), Indian all-rounder, 27 Tests and 72 ODIs; leading wicket-taker with 18 wickets in India's 1983 World Cup win; later 36th BCCI president 2022-2025.
Roger Black
Roger Black (born 1966, Portsmouth) is a British former 400m and 4x400m runner; double European champion, Olympic double silver medallist at Atlanta 1996, and world relay gold medallist.
Roger Blandford
Roger Blandford, born in England in 1949, is a British theoretical astrophysicist at Stanford known for the Blandford–Znajek process, which explains how spinning black holes power relativistic jets.
Roger Boisjoly
Roger Boisjoly (1938–2012) was an American mechanical engineer at Morton Thiokol who warned of the O-ring failure behind the 1986 Challenger disaster and testified to the Rogers Commission.
Roger Bouillon
Roger Bouillon is a Belgian endocrinologist who spent his career at KU Leuven studying vitamin D and bone metabolism, and led the 2001 Leuven intensive insulin therapy trials.
Roger Bowen
Roger Wendell Bowen (1932–1996), American comedic actor and novelist, co-founder of the Compass Players and The Second City, best known as Lt. Col. Henry Blake in the 1970 film MASH; author of eleven novels.
Roger Bowley
Roger Bowley is a physicist and emeritus professor at the University of Nottingham, co-author of Introductory Statistical Mechanics and a regular scientist on the Sixty Symbols YouTube channel.
Roger Brent
Roger Brent is an American molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, known for work on gene regulation, two-hybrid methods, and quantitative cell signaling.
Roger Brown (psycholinguist)
Roger Brown (1925–1997) was an American social psychologist and psycholinguist at Harvard University, acknowledged as the founder of developmental psycholinguistics and a pioneer in the study of how children acquire language.
Roger Buick
Roger Buick is a paleontologist and Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, known for work on early life and the young atmosphere.
Roger C. Carmel
Roger C. Carmel (1932-1986), American character actor, played Harry Mudd in Star Trek's 'Mudd's Women' and 'I, Mudd', voiced him in the Animated Series, starred in The Mothers-in-Law, and voiced Cyclonus and Smokey Bear.
Roger Caillois
Roger Caillois (1913–1978), French sociologist, essayist, and poet, author of Les Jeux et les Hommes (Man, Play and Games, 1958), which classified play into agon, alea, mimicry, and ilinx; co-founder of the Collège de Sociologie and Académie française member.
Roger Casement
Roger Casement (1864-1916), British consul whose Congo (1904) and Putumayo (1912) reports exposed rubber atrocities, then Irish revolutionary who sought German aid in 1916, was tried for treason and hanged at Pentonville; his Black Diaries remain disputed.
Roger Chalkley
Roger Chalkley is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt University, known for research on chromatin structure and histone deposition during DNA replication.
Roger Chou
Roger Chou is a physician-researcher in evidence-based medicine and pain management at Oregon Health & Science University, director of its Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center since 2012.
Roger Clemens
Roger Clemens, 'The Rocket' (born 1962), American MLB starting pitcher 1984-2007, record seven Cy Young Awards, 354-184, 4,672 strikeouts, two 20-strikeout games, Mitchell Report allegations, 2012 acquittal, still outside the Hall of Fame.
Roger Clinton Jr.
Roger Clinton Jr. (born 1956, Hot Springs, Arkansas) is an American actor and musician, younger half-brother of President Bill Clinton; served prison time for cocaine, was pardoned, released the album Nothing Good Comes Easy, and acted in Fred Claus and Spy Hard.
Roger Corman
Roger Corman (1926–2024), American independent producer-director dubbed "King of the Bs," made 400+ low-budget genre films, founded New World Pictures, won a 2009 honorary Oscar, and mentored Coppola, Scorsese, Nicholson, and Cameron.
Roger Corman filmography
Roger Corman filmography: 300+ produced films and 50 directing credits (1954–2021) by the "King of the Bs", spanning AIP Poe horror, New World Pictures, and launches for Scorsese, Coppola, and Cameron.
Roger Craig (American football)
Roger Craig (born 1960) is a former NFL running back for the 49ers, Raiders, and Vikings; first player with a 1,000/1,000 rushing-receiving season (1985), three-time Super Bowl champion, and Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026 senior electee.
Roger Craig Smith
Roger Craig Smith (born 1975) is an American voice actor and former stand-up comic, the long-running English voice of Sonic the Hedgehog since 2010 and the voice of Ezio Auditore, Batman (Arkham Origins), Chris Redfield, Kyle Crane, and Mirage.
Roger Cross
Roger Cross (Roger R. Cross), born 1969 in Christiana, Jamaica, is a Jamaican-Canadian actor known for Curtis Manning on 24, Travis Verta on Continuum, Six on Dark Matter, and Donovan McAvoy on Coroner; not the footballer or the Yorkshire Post crime reporter of the same name.
Roger Curtis Green
Roger Curtis Green (1932–2009) was an American-born archaeologist and professor of prehistory at the University of Auckland, best known for defining the Lapita Cultural Complex.
Roger D. Cone
Roger D. Cone is an American molecular physiologist and neuroscientist known for cloning the melanocortin receptors and showing how the brain's central melanocortin system regulates body weight, work that led to obesity drugs.
Roger D. Kamm
Roger D. Kamm, also published as R. D. Kamm, is an American biomedical engineer at MIT who pioneered mechanobiology and microfluidic devices modeling tumor vessels and the blood-brain barrier.
Roger D. Kornberg
Roger D. Kornberg, born 1947 in St. Louis, is an American biochemist and structural biologist at Stanford who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of eukaryotic transcription.