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Roger Niello
Roger Niello is an American Republican politician representing California's 6th Senate district since 2022, after serving in the State Assembly and on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors.
Roger O. McClellan
Roger O. McClellan is an American inhalation toxicologist who led the Lovelace institute in Albuquerque and the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1990.
Roger Parsons
Roger Parsons (1926–2017) was a British electrochemist and professor of chemistry who worked on electrode kinetics and electrocatalysis, edited the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry for nearly forty years, and won the Davy Medal in 2003.
Roger Patient
Roger K. Patient is a molecular biologist and Visiting Professor of Developmental Genetics at Oxford, known for work on globin genes and blood origins in Xenopus frogs.
Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose is a British mathematical physicist at Oxford who won half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing black hole formation follows from general relativity.
Roger Penske
Roger Penske (born 1937, Shaker Heights, Ohio), 'The Captain', American racing driver turned billionaire team owner; founded Team Penske in 1966, record 20 Indy 500 wins, 214 NASCAR victories, owns IndyCar and Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Roger Perry
Roger Perry (May 7, 1933 - July 12, 2018) was an American film and television actor, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer and Desilu contract player discovered by Lucille Ball, known for Captain John Christopher in Star Trek's 'Tomorrow Is Yesterday' and recurring roles on The Facts of Life and Falcon Crest.
Roger Peyrefitte
Roger Peyrefitte (1907-2000), French diplomat-turned-novelist, Prix Renaudot winner for Les Amitiés particulières (1944), a boarding-school love story; also wrote satirical keys to the Vatican, diplomacy, and Freemasonry.
Roger Pyttel
Roger Pyttel (born 1957, Wolfen) is a German former swimmer who competed for East Germany at three Olympics, won 1980 silver in the 100 m butterfly and bronze in the 200 m, and in 1976 became the first man under two minutes in the 200 m butterfly.
Roger R. Reddel
Roger R. Reddel is an Australian medical oncologist and cancer researcher known for discovering alternative lengthening of telomeres, and Executive Director of the Children's Medical Research Institute in Sydney since 2007.
Roger R. Schmidt
Roger R. Schmidt is an American mechanical engineer who spent over 35 years at IBM designing cooling for large-scale computers, then became a Syracuse University professor.
Roger Rabbit
Roger Rabbit is a fictional animated toon star created for the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, based on Gary K. Wolf's novel, voiced by Charles Fleischer, and later featured in three shorts and a Disneyland ride.
Roger Ratcliff
Roger Ratcliff (born 1947) is an American cognitive psychologist at Ohio State, known for the diffusion model of two-choice decision making and his 1978 theory of memory retrieval.
Roger Rees
Roger Rees (1944-2015), Welsh-born stage and screen actor, RSC Nicholas Nickleby star who won Olivier and 1982 Tony Awards, played Robin Colcord on Cheers and Lord John Marbury on The West Wing.
Roger Revelle
Roger Revelle (1909–1991) was an American oceanographer who directed Scripps Institution of Oceanography, drove the founding of UC San Diego, and made the early case for rising atmospheric CO2.
Roger Rogerson
Roger Caleb Rogerson (1941-2024), "Roger the Dodger", was a decorated NSW police detective dismissed in 1986 who became Australia's most notorious corrupt officer, twice jailed for justice offences, and died in custody serving life for the 2014 murder of Jamie Gao.
Roger Romani
Roger W. Romani is a Stanford astrophysicist working on neutron stars, black holes, and gamma-ray pulsars, known for millisecond pulsar discoveries and weighing neutron stars through their evaporating companions.
Roger Rosengarten
Roger Rosengarten, Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle (No. 70), former Washington Huskie; drafted 62nd overall in 2024, 4.92 40-yard dash, sack-free college career, PFWA All-Rookie in 2024.
Roger S. Blumenthal
Roger S. Blumenthal is an American cardiologist who directs the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and co-chaired the 2019 ACC/AHA primary prevention guideline.
Roger S. Lo
Roger S. Lo, also known as Roger Lo, is a UCLA physician-scientist who studies melanoma resistance to targeted therapies; his work provided the rationale for combining BRAF and MEK inhibitors.
Roger S. Rittmaster
Roger S. Rittmaster is an endocrinologist known for research on 5α-reductase inhibitors and prostate cancer chemoprevention, who worked at Dalhousie University from 1985 to 1999 and helped design the REDUCE trial at GlaxoSmithKline.
Roger Sanchez
Roger Sanchez is an American house music DJ, producer, and label head from New York who topped the UK singles chart in 2001 with "Another Chance".
Roger Sargent (chemical engineer)
Roger Sargent (1926–2018) was a British chemical engineer at Imperial College London, known as the founding father of process systems engineering, which applies optimization to chemical processes.
Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton (1944–2020), English conservative philosopher and aesthetics scholar; author of The Meaning of Conservatism and The Aesthetics of Music; Salisbury Review editor, Czech dissident supporter, knighted 2016.
Roger Shepard
Roger Shepard (Roger Newland Shepard, 1929 to 2022) was an American cognitive scientist at Stanford known for the mental rotation experiments founding mental imagery research.
Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman was an American statesman from Connecticut, the only person to sign all four founding documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of 1787.
Roger Smith (actor)
Roger Smith (Roger LaVerne Smith, 1932-2017), American actor best known as detective Jeff Spencer on ABC's 77 Sunset Strip and Lt. Roberts on Mister Roberts; later producer, screenwriter, and 50-year husband and manager of Ann-Margret. Distinct from GM executive Roger B. Smith, actor Roger Guenveur Smith, and voice actor Roger Craig Smith.
Roger Smith (executive)
Roger B. Smith was an American business executive who served as chairman and chief executive of General Motors from 1981 to 1990, pursuing a $50 billion automation program.
Roger Staubach
Roger Staubach, Dallas Cowboys quarterback 1969-1979, 1963 Navy Heisman winner, two-time Super Bowl champion (VI, XII), Super Bowl VI MVP, Captain Comeback, Hall of Fame 1985.
Roger Sterling
Roger Sterling Jr. is the fictional senior partner and accounts executive of Sterling Cooper on AMC's Mad Men (2007-2015), played by John Slattery in four Emmy-nominated seasons. Son of co-founder Roger Sterling Sr., he inherits the Lucky Strike account and embodies the show's older, wealthy establishment generation.