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Roger Stern
Roger Stern (born 1950 in Noblesville, Indiana) is an American comic book writer and novelist best known for long runs on The Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, and Doctor Strange at Marvel Comics.
Roger Stone
Roger Stone, Republican political operative and longtime Donald Trump adviser, Nixon-era dirty trickster, Black Manafort & Stone co-founder, convicted in Mueller probe, sentence commuted 2020 and pardoned December 2020.
Roger Stupp
Roger Stupp is a Swiss neuro-oncologist and Chief of Neuro-oncology at Northwestern University, known for the Stupp protocol, the global standard glioblastoma treatment since 2005.
Roger Summons
Roger E. Summons is an Australian-born biogeochemist and geobiologist, Professor Emeritus at MIT, known for reading molecular fossils in ancient rocks to reconstruct early life.
Roger T. Hanlon
Roger T. Hanlon is an ethologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, who has spent over three decades studying cephalopod camouflage, classifying body patterns into uniform, mottle, and disruptive classes.
Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer)
Roger Taylor (Roger Andrew Taylor) is an English drummer of Birmingham's Duran Duran, a founding-era member who left in 1986, briefly rejoined in 1994, and returned in 2001.
Roger Taylor (Queen drummer)
Roger Taylor, also known as Roger Meddows Taylor, is an English drummer and founder of Queen. He is known for his songwriting and hits like "Radio Ga Ga."
Roger Troutman
Roger Troutman (1951-1999), known as Roger, American funk singer, songwriter, and producer, founder and lead vocalist of Zapp; famed for talk-box-led funk, "More Bounce to the Ounce," the solo hit "I Want to Be Your Man," and heavy sampling in hip hop.
Roger Vadim
Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov, 1928-2000), French director of And God Created Woman (1956), which made Brigitte Bardot a star; also Barbarella; married five times including Bardot and Jane Fonda.
Roger Ver
Roger Keith Ver, nicknamed "Bitcoin Jesus," is an American-born entrepreneur and early Bitcoin investor who broke with Bitcoin Core in 2017 to champion Bitcoin Cash.
Roger Victory
Roger Victory is an American politician and Republican member of the Michigan Senate from the 31st district, and the owner of Victory Farms, a fourth-generation family farm.
Roger W. Brockett
Roger W. Brockett (1938–2023) was an American control theorist at Harvard University who created the field of geometric nonlinear control and founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983.
Roger W. Hendrix
Roger W. Hendrix was an American microbiologist at the University of Pittsburgh who studied the structure, assembly, genomics, and evolution of bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria.
Roger W. Innes
Roger W. Innes is an American plant molecular biologist at Indiana University Bloomington, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025 for work on plant immunity.
Roger W. Sperry
Roger W. Sperry, also known as Roger Sperry, was an American neurobiologist at Caltech who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize for split-brain research and proposed the chemoaffinity hypothesis.
Roger W. Staehle
Roger W. Staehle (1934–2017) was an American corrosion scientist who founded the Fontana Corrosion Center at Ohio State and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1978.
Roger Walden
Roger Walden (died 1406) was an English royal administrator and cleric who served Richard II as treasurer of England and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1398 to 1399.
Roger Waters
Roger Waters is the English bassist, singer, and songwriter who co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965 and wrote its 1973-1983 concept albums including Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, then left in 1985, lost his lawsuit over the band name, and built a solo and activist career.
Roger Wheeler (businessman)
Roger M. Wheeler was an American businessman who owned World Jai Alai and chaired Telex Corporation, murdered in Tulsa in 1981 by the Winter Hill Gang.
Roger Whittaker
Roger Whittaker (1936-2023), British-Kenyan baritone singer-songwriter and whistler of folk-pop hits "The Last Farewell," "Durham Town," and "New World in the Morning"; sold about 50 million records, hugely popular in Germany.
Roger Wicker
Roger F. Wicker (born 1951) is the Republican senior U.S. senator from Mississippi, appointed in 2007 after Trent Lott's resignation, previously a seven-term House member, and chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Roger Wilbraham
Sir Roger Wilbraham (1553-1616), English lawyer, Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1586 under Elizabeth I, later Master of Requests and Surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries under James I; kept a journal published in 1902.
Roger Williams
Roger Williams was an English-born Puritan minister, banished from Massachusetts Bay for his 'new and dangerous opinions,' who founded Providence in 1636, established Rhode Island, and championed religious liberty.
Roger Williams (Texas politician)
Roger Williams, born in 1949, is an American Republican who has represented Texas's 25th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2013, after serving as Texas Secretary of State.
Roger Y. Stanier
Roger Y. Stanier (1916–1982) was a Canadian microbiologist at the University of California, Berkeley and later the Institut Pasteur, known for the 1962 prokaryote concept and for reorganizing cyanobacteria.
Roger Y. Tsien
Roger Y. Tsien (1952–2016) was an American biochemist at UC San Diego who designed fluorescent molecules for imaging living cells and shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995), American science fiction and fantasy writer, Hugo winner for This Immortal and Lord of Light, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.
Roger Zelazny bibliography
Roger Zelazny bibliography: the published novels, short fiction, poetry, and essays of the American SF author (1937-1995), known for the ten Chronicles of Amber novels, Lord of Light, six Hugo and three Nebula Awards, and the NESFA Press Ides of Octember pictorial bibliography.
Roger-Yves Bost
Roger-Yves Bost, nicknamed Bosty, born 1965, is a French show jumping rider, 2016 Olympic team gold medalist and 2013 European individual champion, based at Haras des Brulys, Barbizon.
Rogéria Bolsonaro
Rogéria Bolsonaro (Rogeria Nantes Braga Bolsonaro), born 1960, is a Brazilian publicist and politician, Jair Bolsonaro's first wife and mother of Flávio, Carlos, and Eduardo. Two-term Rio de Janeiro councilwoman; 2026 PL federal deputy candidate with 65,496 votes, remaining a substitute.