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Roger Guillemin
Roger Guillemin was a French-born American neuroendocrinologist at the Salk Institute who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize for identifying hypothalamic hormones, isolating thyrotropin-releasing hormone, somatostatin, and endorphins.
Roger H. Unger
Roger H. Unger (1924–2020) was an American endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at UT Southwestern in Dallas, known for the first glucagon radioimmunoassay and the bihormonal hypothesis.
Roger Hall Stolen
Roger Hall Stolen is an American physicist and electrical engineer known for pioneering fiber nonlinear optics, first observing optical solitons, and inventing polarization preserving fiber.
Roger Hallam (activist)
Roger Hallam (Julian Roger Hallam) is the British activist who co-founded Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, and Just Stop Oil; a former Welsh organic farmer and King's College London civil-disobedience researcher, he received a five-year prison sentence in July 2024 for the M25 gantry protest conspiracy, reduced to four years in March 2025.
Roger Hällgren
Roger Hällgren is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor of rheumatology at Akademiska sjukhuset in Uppsala, known for a 1990 New England Journal of Medicine study on complement proteins in Crohn's disease.
Roger Hanshaw
Roger Hanshaw is an American Republican politician and Charleston attorney serving as the 58th Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates, representing Clay County since his 2014 election.
Roger Hansson
Roger Hansson names two Swedish Olympians: Kent Roger Hansson (born 1967, Helsingborg), ice hockey left winger and 1994 Lillehammer gold medalist with Tre Kronor, and Christer Mats Roger Hansson (born 1970, Kalmar), rifle shooter at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.
Roger Hardie
Roger Hardie is a Cambridge cellular neuroscientist who identified the Drosophila trp gene as encoding a light-activated calcium channel, founding the TRP ion channel family.
Roger Harrington (electrical engineer)
Roger F. Harrington, born in 1925, is an American electrical engineer and Syracuse University professor regarded as the father of the method of moments, which he named in 1967.
Roger Hauck
Roger Hauck is an American Republican politician who has represented Michigan's 34th Senate district since 2022, after serving three terms in the state House representing the 99th district.
Roger Heath-Brown
David Rodney ("Roger") Heath-Brown, born 1952, is a British number theorist formerly Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford, known for proving infinitely many primes have the form x³ + 2y³.
Roger Hodgson
Roger Hodgson (Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson), English singer-songwriter born 1950 in Portsmouth, co-founder of Supertramp with Rick Davies; wrote and sang hits like The Logical Song, Dreamer, and Breakfast in America, left the band in 1983 for a solo career.
Roger Howarth
Roger Howarth is an American soap opera actor born in 1968, best known as Todd Manning on One Life to Live, for which he won a 1994 Daytime Emmy.
Roger Hoyle
Roger Hoyle is an American compound archer who shot 1414 points in the 144-arrow FITA round at Flushing, USA, on 2 June 2001, a former world record listed in World Archery's 1400 Club.
Roger Huerta
Roger "El Matador" Huerta (born 1983) is an American MMA lightweight, 24-14-1 (1 NC), 6-2 in the UFC, first MMA fighter on the Sports Illustrated cover (2007), later Bellator, ONE, and PFL veteran.
Roger Hunt
Roger Hunt (1938-2021), "Sir Roger", Liverpool striker 1958-1969 with 285 goals in 492 games and a club-record 244 league goals; England 1966 World Cup winner, 34 caps, 18 goals.
Roger I. Glass
Roger I. Glass is an American infectious disease epidemiologist known for rotavirus vaccine research and for directing the NIH's Fogarty International Center from 2006 to 2023.
Roger II of Sicily
Roger II (1095–1154), grand count of Sicily from 1105 and first king of Sicily, crowned in Palermo on Christmas Day 1130; founder of the centralized Norman Kingdom of Sicily and patron of al-Idrisi and the Cappella Palatina.
Roger Ilegems
Roger Ilegems, born 1962 in Niel, Belgium, is a Belgian track cyclist who won the men's points race at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the event's first modern running.
Roger J. Bulger
Roger J. Bulger (1933–2025) was an American physician, infectious-disease researcher, and academic health leader who led the Institute of Medicine, UTHealth Houston, and the Association of Academic Health Centers.
Roger J. Hajjar
Roger J. Hajjar, also known as Roger Hajjar, is an American cardiologist and gene therapy researcher who directs the Gene and Cell Therapy Institute at Mass General Brigham in Boston.
Roger J. Lewis
Roger J. Lewis is an American emergency physician and clinical-trials methodologist at UCLA known for Bayesian adaptive trial design, including the REMAP-CAP COVID-19 platform trial.
Roger J. Pomerantz
Roger J. Pomerantz is an American physician-scientist and virologist known for HIV-1 latency and reservoir research at Thomas Jefferson University, later an executive at Tibotec and Merck.
Roger J. Williams
Roger J. Williams (1893–1988) was an American biochemist at the University of Texas at Austin whose laboratory discovered several B vitamins, including pantothenic acid and folic acid.
Roger Jackson
Roger Jackson (born 1942, Toronto) is a Canadian Olympic rower, gold medalist in the coxless pair with George Hungerford at Tokyo 1964 as one of the 'Golden Rejects', later Sport Canada director, Canadian Olympic Committee president 1982-1990, and Own the Podium CEO; also the name of a former Denver Broncos defensive back and NFL scout from Macon, Georgia.
Roger Jenkins (banker)
Roger Allan Jenkins is a British former banker who became Barclays' highest-paid employee, led its Structured Capital Markets unit, and was acquitted of fraud in 2020.
Roger Johansson
Roger Johansson (Per Arne Roger Johansson, "Ragge", born 1967), Swedish ice hockey defenseman, 1994 Olympic gold medalist with Tre Kronor at Lillehammer, three-time Swedish champion with Färjestad BK, and Calgary Flames NHL draftee; distinct from shooter Roger Jansson.
Roger K. Ulrich
Roger K. Ulrich is an American astrophysicist and professor emeritus at UCLA whose 1970 work on solar oscillations founded helioseismology, earning him the 2022 Kavli Prize in astrophysics.
Roger Kasperson
Roger Kasperson (1938–2021) was an American geographer at Clark University who introduced the social amplification of risk framework and led the Stockholm Environment Institute from 2000 to 2004.
Roger Kibbe
Roger Reece Kibbe, the "I-5 Strangler," was an American serial killer who murdered at least seven women in Northern California, 1977–1987. Convicted 1991 of Darcie Frackenpohl's murder, he pleaded guilty to six more killings in 2009 and was strangled by cellmate Jason Budrow at Mule Creek State Prison in 2021.