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Roger Kingdom
Roger Kingdom (Roger Nona Kingdom), American hurdler born 1962 in Vienna, Georgia; two-time Olympic 110m hurdles gold medalist (1984, 1988) and 1989 world record holder at 12.92 seconds.
Roger Kirby
Roger Kirby is a British prostate surgeon who was President of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2020 to 2024 and pioneered robotic prostate surgery in the UK.
Roger L. Hunt
Roger L. Hunt, born 1942, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the District of Nevada from 2000 to 2011, appointed by Bill Clinton.
Roger L. Jackson
Roger L. Jackson, full name Roger Labon Jackson, is an American voice actor known as the voice of Ghostface in Scream and Mojo Jojo in The Powerpuff Girls.
Roger L. Wollman
Roger L. Wollman, born 1934, is an American jurist who served as chief justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court and as a judge on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Roger Lacroix
Roger Lacroix (1928–2016) was a French civil engineer, professor at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées, and president of the Fédération internationale de la précontrainte.
Roger Laughlin Carvallo
Roger Laughlin Carvallo is a Venezuelan-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Mexican used-car platform Kavak in 2016 and was chief executive of Kavak Brazil from 2020 to 2024.
Roger le Nizerhy
Roger Jean Le Nizerhy (1916-1999), French track cyclist, won gold in the 4,000 m team pursuit at the 1936 Berlin Olympics with Charpentier, Goujon, and Lapébie; later professional, rode the 1949 Tour de France.
Roger Lester
Roger Lester is a physician-scientist in pediatrics and hepatology who established how newborns handle bilirubin and bile salts, and how alcohol affects male sexual function.
Roger Livesey
Roger Livesey (1906–1976), Welsh-born British stage and film actor, starred in Powell and Pressburger's Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going!, and A Matter of Life and Death; husband of Ursula Jeans.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
Roger Lloyd-Pack (Roger Lloyd Pack, 1944–2014) was an English character actor, Trigger in Only Fools and Horses, Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley, and Barty Crouch in Harry Potter, also a left-wing campaigner.
Roger Lyndon
Roger Lyndon (1917–1988) was an American mathematician at the University of Michigan, known for Lyndon words in combinatorics on words and the Lyndon–Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence in group cohomology.
Roger Lynds
Clarence Roger Lynds (1928–2023) was an American observational astronomer at Kitt Peak National Observatory who named the Lyman-alpha forest, co-discovered gravitational arcs, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.
Roger M. Myers
Roger M. Myers is an American aerospace engineer who led in-space propulsion at Aerojet Rocketdyne and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
Roger M. Perlmutter
Roger M. Perlmutter is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who defined tyrosine kinase signaling in lymphocytes and led research and development at Amgen and Merck, overseeing Keytruda.
Roger Machado
Roger Machado names several sports figures: Roger Machado Morales, Cuban 2004 Olympic baseball gold medalist; Roger Machado Marques, Brazilian left-back and football manager; and a 7th-degree coral belt BJJ master of the Machado brothers.
Roger Mais
Roger Mais was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, poet, playwright, and painter, born in Kingston in 1905 and celebrated as a critic of British colonial rule in Jamaica.
Roger Maris
Roger Maris (Roger Eugene Maras, 1934–1985), American MLB right fielder; hit a record 61 home runs for the 1961 Yankees, breaking Babe Ruth's 60; two-time AL MVP, three World Series titles, not in the Hall of Fame.
Roger Marshall
Roger Marshall (born 1960) is an American Republican politician who has served as a U.S. Senator from Kansas since 2021, after representing Kansas's 1st district in the House from 2017 to 2021.
Roger Martin du Gard
Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958) was a French novelist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature for Les Thibault, a cycle about two brothers before World War I.
Roger Mayne
Roger Mayne (1929–2014) was a British photographer and master of documentary photography, best known for about 1,400 pictures of Southam Street in North Kensington between 1956 and 1961.
Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather, nicknamed "Black Mamba" (1961–2020), was an American boxer from Grand Rapids, Michigan, who won world titles in two weight classes and trained his nephew Floyd Mayweather Jr. from his 1996 debut.
Roger McGuinn
Roger McGuinn (James Joseph McGuinn, born 1942, Chicago) is the Byrds' frontman and folk-rock pioneer, known for his Rickenbacker 360/12 12-string jangle, "Mr. Tambourine Man," solo albums like Cardiff Rose, and 1991 Rock Hall induction.
Roger Michell
Roger Michell (1956-2021), British theatre, TV, and film director; directed Notting Hill, Persuasion, Venus, and The Duke; two BAFTAs; RSC and National Theatre director.
Roger Michelot
Roger Michelot (Roger André Michelot, 1912-1993), French boxer, 1932 Olympic middleweight fourth place, light-heavyweight gold medalist at Berlin 1936, beating Germany's Richard Vogt; later a 14-bout professional in Paris.
Roger Milla
Roger Milla (Albert Roger Mooh Miller, born 1952, Yaoundé), Cameroonian striker; 1990 World Cup hero with four goals at 38, first African quarter-finalist, oldest World Cup goalscorer at 42 years 39 days in 1994.
Roger Miller
Roger Dean Miller (1936-1992), American country singer-songwriter of "Dang Me" and "King of the Road"; won 11 Grammys in 1965-66, composed Broadway's Big River, Country Music Hall of Fame 1995.
Roger Moore
Roger Moore (1927–2017), English actor who played James Bond in seven films from Live and Let Die (1973) to A View to a Kill (1985), and starred as Simon Templar in The Saint (ITV, 1962–69) and in The Persuaders! with Tony Curtis; UNICEF ambassador from 1991.
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287–1330), English marcher lord and justiciar of Ireland who escaped the Tower, deposed Edward II with Queen Isabella in 1326–27, ruled England until Edward III's 1330 Nottingham coup, and was executed.
Roger N. Beachy
Roger N. Beachy is an American plant virologist and biotechnologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for creating the first virus-resistant transgenic food crops.