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Rogério Ceni
Rogério Ceni (born 1973, Pato Branco) is a Brazilian manager and former São Paulo FC goalkeeper, the highest-scoring goalkeeper in history with 131 goals, holder of Guinness records for single-club appearances and captaincy, and Bahia head coach since September 2023.
Rogerio Sampaio
Rogério Sampaio (Rogério Sampaio Cardoso), Brazilian judoka born 1967 in Santos, won half-lightweight (−65 kg) gold at Barcelona 1992 and later became COB director-general.
Rogernomics
Rogernomics was the market liberalization program of New Zealand's fourth Labour government between 1984 and 1990, named after finance minister Roger Douglas and echoing Reaganomics.
Rogers Arena
Rogers Arena, formerly General Motors Place (GM Place), is Vancouver's 1995 downtown arena, home of the NHL Canucks and NLL Warriors; renamed in 2010, it hosted 2010 Olympic hockey as Canada Hockey Place.
Rogers Centre
Rogers Centre, formerly SkyDome, is Toronto's retractable-roof MLB ballpark, home of the Blue Jays since June 3, 1989; first North American stadium with a motorized retractable roof, renamed in 2005, renovated 2022-2024.
Rogers Commission
The Rogers Commission, formally the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, was appointed by Reagan in 1986, chaired by William Rogers with Neil Armstrong as vice chairman.
Rogers Commission Report
The Rogers Commission Report, chaired by William P. Rogers, was the 1986 report to President Reagan that identified the O-ring failure causing the Challenger accident and made nine recommendations.
Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company headquartered in Toronto, founded by Ted Rogers in 1960; it is Canada's largest cable company.
Rogers Hornsby
Rogers Hornsby, also known as "Rajah," was an American second baseman and manager. He achieved a .424 average in 1924 and won the 1926 World Series.
Rogers Morton
Rogers C. B. Morton (1914-1979), Maryland Republican congressman and RNC chairman, was Nixon's Secretary of the Interior 1971-1975, Ford's Secretary of Commerce 1975-1976, Energy Resources Council chairman, and 1976 Ford campaign chairman; not Gale Norton or J. Sterling Morton.
Rogers Pass (British Columbia)
Rogers Pass, a 1,330 m pass in Glacier National Park, British Columbia, carries the Trans-Canada Highway and Canadian Pacific Railway; site of the world's largest mobile artillery avalanche control program (Operation PALACI).
Rogers Place
Rogers Place, Edmonton's downtown multi-use arena at 10220 104 Ave NW, opened September 8, 2016; home of the Edmonton Oilers and Edmonton Oil Kings, 18,500 seats, $613.7 million project, Oilers home through 2036.
Rogers Stadium
Rogers Stadium is a 50,000-capacity seasonal outdoor concert venue in North York, Toronto, opened in June 2025 on the former Downsview Airport lands and operated by Live Nation Canada.
Rogers Wireless
Rogers Wireless, formerly Rogers AT&T, is the wireless division of Rogers Communications and Canada's largest wireless provider, tracing to Cantel, which made Canada's first cellular call in 1985.
Rogers–Ramanujan identities
The Rogers–Ramanujan identities are two equalities in q-series theory, proved by Leonard Rogers in 1894 and rediscovered by Ramanujan before 1913, relating infinite series to infinite products.
Rogers, Arkansas
Rogers, Arkansas: a Benton County city founded in 1881 as a Frisco Railroad stop, named for railroad manager Charles Warrington Rogers; 69,908 residents in 2020, growing fast in Northwest Arkansas.
Rogers' Rangers
Rogers' Rangers were independent colonial companies led by Robert Rogers of New Hampshire for the British Army in the French and Indian War, famed for wilderness scouting, the 28 Rules of Ranging, and the Battle on Snowshoes.
Rogfast
Rogfast is a 26.7 km subsea road tunnel under construction in Rogaland, Norway, carrying the E39 under the Boknafjorden; when it opens in 2033 it will be the world's longest and deepest subsea road tunnel.
Rogier van der Weyden
Rogier van der Weyden, born Rogier de le Pasture, was a Flemish painter of Early Netherlandish painting, town painter of Brussels from 1435 until his death in 1464.
Rogier Versteeg
Rogier Versteeg (born 1955) is a Dutch cancer biologist who has led the Department of Oncogenomics at Amsterdam UMC since 2003, known for neuroblastoma research.
Rogier W. Sanders
Rogier W. Sanders, born 1975, is a virologist and full professor at Amsterdam UMC and Weill Cornell Medicine, known for pre-fusion protein stabilization built into COVID-19 vaccines.
Rogna
Rogna is a village in Ileanda commune, Sălaj County, Romania, and an ancient place (Barrington Atlas 21 F2) recorded by Pleiades as a Roman-era mine with a salt tag, matching the Salina Rogna mine and a 2nd-3rd century watchtower.
Rogneda of Polotsk
Rogneda of Polotsk (Ragnheiðr, c. 960–c. 1000), daughter of Rogvolod, wife of Vladimir I of Kiev after his 980 capture of Polotsk; mother of Izyaslav of Polotsk and Yaroslav the Wise; later monastic name Anastasia.
Rogneda Patera
Rogneda Patera, a 120 km patera (volcanic depression) on Venus at 2.8°S, 220.5°E, IAU-approved 2003 and named for the Slavic princess Rogneda, wife of Vladimir of Kiev.
Rognes
Rognes, a commune in Bouches-du-Rhône, France, between Trévaresse and the Durance near Aix-en-Provence; known for the Domitii Aquenses Gallo-Roman mausoleum at Barbebelle, prehistoric sites, and the 1909 earthquake-damaged Saint-Marcellin chapel.
Rogowski coil
A Rogowski coil is an air-core current sensor encircling a conductor whose output voltage is proportional to the rate of change of current, linear from milliamps to megaamps of AC.
Rogozhnikovskoye field
Rogozhnikovskoye field (Рогожниковское месторождение) is an oil field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1988, in production since 2005, and operated by Surgutneftegas.
Rogozhsky Chronicler
The Rogozhsky Chronicler (Рогожский летописец) is a 15th-century Russian chronicle compilation written in Tver, the most authoritative source on North-Eastern Rus of the 14th and early 15th centuries.
Rogue (2007 film)
Rogue (2007) is Greg McLean's Australian creature-feature horror about tourists trapped on a tidal mud island by a giant crocodile in Kakadu, starring Michael Vartan, Radha Mitchell, and Sam Worthington; it won the 2007 AFI Visual Effects award.
Rogue (2017 film)
Rogue (రోగ్) is a 2017 Telugu-Kannada bilingual action romance directed by Puri Jagannadh, introducing Ishaan opposite Mannara Chopra and Angela Krislinzki, produced by Tanvi Films with music by Sunil Kashyap, released March 31, 2017 to mixed reviews.