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Roger Daltrey
Roger Daltrey (born 1944), English singer and actor, founder and lead vocalist of the Who from its 1961 origins in the Detours, with a parallel solo career since 1973, including the hit "Giving It All Away"; distinguished from namesakes by his Who frontman role, 1990 Rock Hall induction, and 2026 "A Great Night Out" solo tour.
Roger Dashen
Roger Dashen (1938–1995) was an American theoretical particle physicist known for chiral symmetry and current algebra, a quantum theory of solitons, and lattice gauge theory.
Roger Davis (television actor)
Roger Davis (Jon Roger Davis, born April 5, 1939) is an American TV actor known for Dark Shadows (1968–70, 128 episodes) and for replacing Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes in Alias Smith and Jones; later a California real estate developer.
Roger de Barbarin
Roger de Barbarin (Émile Roger Thomas de Barbarin, 1860-1925), French trap shooter, first Olympic trap champion, winning gold at Paris 1900 with 17/20 and a 13-12 shoot-off over René Guyot.
Roger de Graaf
Roger de Graaf is a Dutch music executive who co-founded Spinnin' Records in 1999, ran its music side for 25 years, and left in 2024.
Roger Deakins
Roger Deakins (Roger Alexander Deakins, born 1949, Torquay, England) is a British cinematographer and two-time Oscar winner (Blade Runner 2049, 1917), famed for his Coen brothers collaborations, BAFTAs, knighthood, and Team Deakins podcast.
Roger Dean (artist)
Roger Dean (born 1944), English artist and designer famous for Yes and Asia album covers, the Osibisa winged elephant, logos for Virgin Records, Psygnosis and Tetris, and Dragons' Dream publishing.
Roger Donaldson
Roger Donaldson (born 1945, Ballarat, Australia) is a New Zealand film director and producer. His debut Sleeping Dogs (1977) launched the NZ film industry and Sam Neill; later Hollywood work includes No Way Out, Cocktail, Species, and Thirteen Days.
Roger Ducret
Roger Ducret (1888–1962), French fencer, Salle Bouché club; won 8 Olympic medals 1920–1928, including five at Paris 1924 (3 gold, 2 silver); also a journalist for Le Figaro.
Roger E. Mosley
Roger E. Mosley (1938-2022), American actor who played helicopter pilot Theodore 'T.C.' Calvin in 158 episodes of Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988); also starred as Lead Belly in Gordon Parks's 1976 biopic and coached L.A. track athletes.
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert (1942–2013), American film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 and first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize (1975); co-hosted At the Movies with Gene Siskel, popularizing thumbs up/down reviews.
Roger Eckert
Roger Eckert (1934–1986) was an American cellular neurobiologist and UCLA professor who showed that calcium ions entering a cell couple stimulation to the beating of cilia and flagella.
Roger Ehrenberg
Roger Ehrenberg is an American venture capital investor, founder of IA Ventures, a seed-stage firm focused on big data and fintech whose early bets included The Trade Desk and Wise.
Roger Evans Howe
Roger Evans Howe is an American mathematician known for representation theory, invariant theory, and mathematics education, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994.
Roger Faulques
Roger Faulques (1924-2011), French Foreign Legion paratroop officer and mercenary; Indochina RC4 survivor, Battle of Algiers intelligence officer, Katanga gendarmerie commander with Bob Denard in Yemen and Biafra.
Roger Federer
Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player, record eight-time Wimbledon champion and 20-time Grand Slam winner, 310 weeks at No. 1, retired 2022, Hall of Fame 2026.
Roger Federer career statistics
Roger Federer career statistics: 20 Grand Slam titles, 103 tour titles, 1,251-275 record, 310 weeks at No. 1 (record 237 consecutive), $130.6m prize money; head-to-heads vs Nadal, Djokovic, Murray.
Roger Fenton
Roger Fenton (1819–1869), English photographer, first Honorary Secretary of the Photographic Society (1853) and creator of 360 Crimean War photographs in 1855, including The Valley of the Shadow of Death; retired from photography in 1862.
Roger Fletcher (mathematician)
Roger Fletcher (1939–2016) was a British applied mathematician in computational optimization, the 'F' in the Fletcher–Reeves, DFP, and BFGS methods and inventor of the filter method.
Roger G. Burns
Roger G. Burns (1937–1994) was a New Zealand-born mineralogist and geochemist at MIT, a founder of mineral spectroscopy known for crystal field theory and Mars research.
Roger Gautheret
Roger Gautheret was a French biologist and botanist who developed plant tissue culture techniques, achieving continuous growth of plant cells outside the organism in 1939.
Roger Glover
Roger David Glover is a Welsh bassist, songwriter, and producer, best known as the bassist of Deep Purple, which he joined in 1969 and rejoined in 1984 after playing with Rainbow.
Roger Godement
Roger Godement (1921–2016) was a French mathematician known for functional analysis, his synthesis of sheaf theory, and the Godement resolution; with Hervé Jacquet he developed the standard L-function for GL(n).
Roger Goldstein
Roger S. Goldstein is a respirologist at West Park Healthcare Centre and professor at the University of Toronto whose trials and 1996 Lancet meta-analysis established pulmonary rehabilitation as evidence-based care in COPD.
Roger Goodell
Roger Goodell is an American sports executive and commissioner of the National Football League since 2006, whose tenure grew league revenue to over $23 billion.
Roger Goody
Roger S. Goody (born 1944) is a British biochemist who led physical biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund from 1993 to 2013.
Roger Gracie
Roger Gracie (Roger Gracie Gomes, born 1981), Brazilian retired grappler and MMA fighter, grandson of Carlos Gracie; ten-time IBJJF World Champion 2004-2010, ADCC 2005 double gold, ONE light heavyweight champion, famous for mount and cross-collar choke.
Roger Gregory
Roger Gregory is an American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the first African American to sit on that court.
Roger Guenveur Smith
Roger Guenveur Smith (born 1959, Berkeley, California) is an American actor and solo performer known for A Huey P. Newton Story, the Smiley role in Do the Right Thing, and Spike Lee collaborations.
Roger Guesnerie
Roger Guesnerie (1943–2026) was a French economic theorist known for work on general equilibrium, optimal taxation, and sunspot equilibria, and founding president of the Paris School of Economics.