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Roy A. Wise
Roy A. Wise, also published as Roy Wise, is a Canadian behavioral neuroscientist known for the psychomotor stimulant theory of addiction and dopamine's role in reward.
Roy Acuff
Roy Acuff (1903–1992), the "King of Country Music," was an American country singer and fiddler who starred on the Grand Ole Opry from 1938 and co-founded Nashville's Acuff-Rose Publishing with Fred Rose in 1942; first living Country Music Hall of Fame inductee (1962).
Roy adaptation model
The Roy adaptation model is a nursing theory that frames the person as an adaptive system responding to stimuli, first presented in 1970 and centered at Mount Saint Mary's University.
Roy Allan Freeze
R. Allan Freeze, born 1939, is a Canadian groundwater hydrologist and emeritus University of British Columbia professor who co-authored the standard 1979 textbook Groundwater with John Cherry.
Roy Amara
Roy Amara (1925–2007) was an American researcher and forecaster who served as president and CEO of the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, known for Amara's Law.
Roy Ames
Roy Clifton Ames (1937-2003), Houston-based Texas blues producer and archive holder, manager of Johnny Winter, labels Aura, Cascade, Clarity, Home Cooking; convicted in a 1970s child pornography case and repeatedly sued by musicians.
Roy Asberry Cooper Jr.
Roy Asberry Cooper Jr. (born 1957) is a Democratic politician, 75th governor of North Carolina 2017-2025 and four-term attorney general; he expanded Medicaid and is the Democratic Senate nominee against Michael Whatley in 2026.
Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers (1940–2025), American jazz-funk vibraphonist and Roy Ayers Ubiquity leader; 'Everybody Loves the Sunshine' (1976) sampled by Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, 2Pac; 12 Billboard 200 albums.
Roy B. Dalton, Jr.
Roy B. Dalton, Jr., also known as Roy Bale Dalton, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Roy Bainer
Roy Bainer (1902–1990) was an American agricultural engineer at the University of California, Davis, where he served as founding dean of the College of Engineering from 1962.
Roy Bar-Ziv
Roy Bar-Ziv is an Israeli biological physicist and full professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for building artificial cells from DNA on a chip.
Roy Barnes
Roy Eugene Barnes, born 1948, Democratic 80th governor of Georgia 1999-2003, nicknamed King Roy; passed the 2000 education reform act and changed the state flag, then lost the 2002 upset to Sonny Perdue and a 2010 run to Nathan Deal.
Roy Barraclough
Roy Barraclough (1935-2017), English comic actor, played Cissie opposite Les Dawson's Ada and Alec Gilroy, Rovers Return landlord in Coronation Street, 1986-1998; MBE 2006.
Roy Bean
Roy Bean (c. 1825–1903), saloonkeeper and justice of the peace at Langtry, Texas, self-styled "Law West of the Pecos," who held court in his Jersey Lilly saloon, never hanged anyone, and became a Texas folk legend.
Roy Benavidez
Roy Benavidez (Raul Perez Benavidez, 1935-1998), Army Special Forces master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor in 1981 for his May 2, 1968 rescue of a surrounded team west of Loc Ninh, Vietnam, after earlier receiving the Distinguished Service Cross.
Roy Bhaskar
Roy Bhaskar, born Ram Roy Bhaskar (1944–2014), was a British philosopher who founded critical realism in philosophy of science, set out in A Realist Theory of Science (1975).
Roy Bittan
Roy Bittan, "The Professor," born 1949, is the E Street Band's pianist since August 1974, defining Born to Run, and a session keyboardist for Bowie, Meat Loaf, Dire Straits, and Celine Dion.
Roy Black (musician)
Roy Black, born Gerhard Höllerich (1943–1991), was a German Schlager singer and film actor whose 1966 hit "Ganz in Weiß" sold about 2.5 million copies.
Roy Blair (speed skater)
Roy Alexander James Blair (1921–2002) was a New Zealand sportsman from Dunedin whose verified record is one first-class cricket match for Otago in 1953/54, scoring 2 runs.
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt (born 1950) is a Republican former U.S. senator and representative from Missouri, House majority whip and majority leader, Senate Republican Policy Committee chair, and Rules Committee chairman, serving 2011–2023.
Roy Buchanan
Roy Buchanan (Leroy Buchanan, 1939–1988), American blues-rock guitarist and Telecaster master known for pinch harmonics and volume swells; 1972 debut "The Messiah Will Come Again", 1985 Alligator comeback, died in Fairfax, Virginia.
Roy C. Geary
Roy C. Geary (Robert Charles Geary, 1896–1983) was an Irish statistician known for Geary's C, the Geary ratio, and the Geary–Khamis method for comparing real incomes between countries.
Roy Cameron (pathologist)
Sir Gordon Roy Cameron (1899–1966) was an Australian-born pathologist, professor of morbid anatomy at University College Hospital from 1937 to 1964 and Founder President of the College of Pathologists.
Roy Campanella
Roy Campanella ("Campy"), 1921-1993, American catcher; Negro Leagues star with the Baltimore Elite Giants, then Brooklyn Dodgers 1948-1957; three NL MVPs (1951, 1953, 1955), 1955 World Series champion, Hall of Fame 1969; career ended by 1958 auto accident.
Roy Campbell (poet)
Roy Campbell (1901–1957), South African poet and satirist, author of The Flaming Terrapin, The Wayzgoose, and The Georgiad; Voorslag co-founder, Franco supporter, WWII King's African Rifles veteran.
Roy Cape All Stars
Roy Cape All Stars, also known as Roy Cape & the Kaiso All Stars, is a Trinidadian soca and calypso band founded in 1980 by saxophonist Roy Cape.
Roy Carroll
Roy Carroll (born 1977, Enniskillen) is a Northern Irish former goalkeeper; Manchester United 2001-05 (2003 Premier League, 2004 FA Cup), the 2005 Mendes 'goal that never was', 45 Northern Ireland caps, later Olympiacos, Linfield, and NI goalkeeping coach.
Roy Castle
Roy Castle (1932-1994), English entertainer, jazz trumpeter and long-running presenter of BBC's Record Breakers from 1972; broke nine world records, died of lung cancer as a non-smoker, namesake of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.
Roy Cazaly
Roy Cazaly (1893–1963), Australian rules footballer and coach for St Kilda and South Melbourne, famed for high marking, the catchphrase 'Up there Cazaly', Legend status in the Australian Football Hall of Fame, and seven Tasmanian coaching premierships.
Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960), American explorer and AMNH naturalist, led the 1922–1930 Central Asiatic Expeditions to the Gobi Desert, found the first recognized dinosaur eggs, and became the museum's director in the 1930s.