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Roy Choi
Roy Choi, Korean American chef born in Seoul and raised in Los Angeles, co-founded the Kogi BBQ food truck in 2008, pioneering Korean-Mexican fusion tacos and the gourmet food truck movement; restaurants include Chego!, LocoL, and Best Friend at Park MGM.
Roy Chubby Brown
Roy Chubby Brown, stage name of Royston Vasey (born 1945, Grangetown, Middlesbrough), English blue stand-up comedian in flying helmet and patchwork suit; huge video sales, no TV series, repeated venue bans.
Roy Clark
Roy Clark (1933-2018), American country singer and virtuoso guitarist, banjoist, fiddler, and mandolinist; Hee Haw co-host with Buck Owens from 1969; CMA Entertainer of the Year 1973, Grammy 1983, Country Music Hall of Fame 2009, Branson theater pioneer.
Roy Clarke
Roy Clarke (born Royston Clarke, 28 January 1930) is an English sitcom writer who wrote all 295 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine and created Open All Hours, Keeping Up Appearances, and Still Open All Hours; OBE 2002, knighted 2026.
Roy Cochran
Roy Cochran (Leroy Braxton Cochran, 1919-1981), American hurdler; 1948 Olympic gold in 400 m hurdles (51.1, Olympic record) and 4x400 m relay; 440 y hurdles world record 52.2 in 1942; brother of 1924 gold medalist Com Cochran.
Roy Cohn
Roy Marcus Cohn (1927–1986), American lawyer: Rosenberg trial prosecutor, Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel, and New York fixer whose clients ranged from Donald Trump to Mafia bosses; disbarred in 1986, died of AIDS.
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper (born 1957), Democrat, 75th governor of North Carolina 2017–2025 and former four-term state attorney general; known for Medicaid expansion covering 600,000+, a 2021 carbon-neutrality law, and the 2026 Senate race against Michael Whatley.
Roy Cropper
Roy Cropper (Royston Cropper) is a fictional Coronation Street cafe owner played by David Neilson since 19 July 1995; owner of Roy's Rolls, husband of Hayley Patterson, known for his anorak, honesty, and Humanist values.
Roy Curtiss
Roy Curtiss III, born 1934, is an American microbiologist and geneticist known for bacterial plasmid nomenclature and live Salmonella vaccines, now a professor at the University of Florida.
Roy D'Andrade
Roy D'Andrade was an American anthropologist who helped found cognitive anthropology, taught at UC San Diego, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
Roy DeCarava
Roy DeCarava (1919–2009) was an American photographer known for black-and-white pictures of Harlem life and New York jazz musicians, and the first African American photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, in 1952.
Roy Delby
Roy Delby was an American sprinter at USC who ran on a world-record 4x110-yard relay team in 1931 and ranked fifth in the world at 200 meters.
Roy DeMeo
Roy Albert DeMeo, Gambino crime family soldier and leader of the DeMeo crew, ran the Gemini Lounge murder operation and New York's largest car theft ring; killed by his own crew January 10, 1983.
Roy Dotrice
Roy Dotrice (1923–2017), British character actor, Tony winner for A Moon for the Misbegotten, record-holder for 1,782 performances of Brief Lives, and narrator of the A Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks with a Guinness-record 224 voices in A Game of Thrones.
Roy Dupuis
Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor born 1963 in New Liskeard, Ontario; star of Les filles de Caleb, La Femme Nikita, The Rocket, and Shake Hands with the Devil as Roméo Dallaire.
Roy E. Disney
Roy E. Disney, born Roy Edward Disney, was an American executive and film producer who led the Disney animation revival and the campaign that ousted Michael Eisner.
Roy E. Olson
Roy E. Olson (1931–2024) was an American geotechnical engineer and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
Roy E. Rowe
Roy E. Rowe (c. 1928–2008) was a British concrete engineer who led the UK Cement and Concrete Association and was a US National Academy of Engineering Foreign Associate.
Roy Elwood Clausen
Roy Elwood Clausen was an American plant geneticist and cytogeneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for studies of Nicotiana and the textbook Genetics in Relation to Agriculture.
Roy Emerson
Roy Emerson, Roy Stanley Emerson, is an Australian former tennis player who won a record 28 Grand Slam titles, 12 in singles, during the 1960s.
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister, often cited as Roy Baumeister, is a social psychologist known for research on self-control, self-esteem, and the ego depletion model of willpower.
Roy F. Feemster
Roy F. Feemster was an American epidemiologist with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health who led the investigation of the 1938 eastern equine encephalomyelitis outbreak.
Roy F. Weston
Roy F. Weston (1910/11–2007) was an American environmental engineer who founded Roy F. Weston, Inc. in 1957, building it into one of the nation's first Superfund contractors.
Roy Fleischmann
Roy Fleischmann is an American rheumatologist and clinical trialist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for pivotal rheumatoid arthritis drug trials.
Roy Freeman
Roy Freeman is an American neurologist, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, who directs the autonomic nerve unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Roy Freiman
Roy Freiman is an American Democratic politician who has represented New Jersey's 16th district in the General Assembly since 2018, serving as Deputy Majority Leader.
Roy G. Gordon
Roy G. Gordon, also known as Roy Gordon, is an American Harvard chemist, born in 1940, known for low-E window coatings, semiconductor thin films, and organic flow batteries.
Roy G. Smith
Roy G. Smith is an American endocrinology and metabolism researcher known for discovering the growth hormone secretagogue receptor, the receptor for ghrelin, and held professorships at Baylor College of Medicine and Scripps Research.
Roy H. Doi
Roy H. Doi (1933–2017) was an American microbiologist at the University of California, Davis, known for showing how Bacillus subtilis controls spore formation through sigma factors.
Roy H. Perlis
Roy H. Perlis (Roy Perlis) is an American psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studies mood disorders, psychiatric genetics, and predicting treatment response.