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Roy Halladay
Roy Halladay (Harry Leroy Halladay), MLB pitcher 1998-2013 for Blue Jays and Phillies; two-time Cy Young winner, 203-105, 2010 perfect game and postseason no-hitter; died 2017; Hall of Fame 2019 first ballot.
Roy Hargrove
Roy Hargrove (1969–2018), American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist from Waco, Texas; two-time Grammy winner (Habana, Directions In Music), neo-soul collaborator with D'Angelo, Badu, and Common, and leader of the RH Factor.
Roy Harper (character)
Roy Harper, DC Comics archer created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp, debuted as Speedy in More Fun Comics #73 (1941); later Arsenal and Red Arrow, Teen Titans founder, known for the 1971 heroin-addiction story Snowbirds Don't Fly.
Roy Harper (singer)
Roy Harper, English folk-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist born 1941 in Manchester; debut Sophisticated Beggar (1966), Stormcock (1971), sang Pink Floyd's Have a Cigar, honored by Led Zeppelin, comeback Man & Myth (2013).
Roy Henkel
Roy Henkel (Reinhold Henkel, often spelled Hinkel), 1905-1981, Canadian ice hockey defenseman from Winnipeg; 1931 Allan Cup and 1932 Lake Placid Olympic gold with the Winnipeg Hockey Club, 1935 World Championship gold with the Winnipeg Monarchs.
Roy Hertz
Roy Hertz was an American endocrinologist and cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute. With his colleague, he reported the first cure of gestational choriocarcinoma in 1956.
Roy Hibbert
Roy Hibbert, born 1986, Georgetown center and two-time NBA All-Star with the Indiana Pacers; famous for verticality rim protection against LeBron's Heat, later Lakers, Hornets, Nuggets; now CBS Sports analyst.
Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson (born 1947, Croydon) is an English football manager whose 50-year career spans Halmstad, Malmö, Inter Milan, Fulham's 2010 Europa League final, Liverpool, and England (2012–2016), with a 2026 return at Bristol City aged 78.
Roy Hudd
Roy Hudd (1936-2020), English comedian, actor and broadcaster; host of BBC Radio 2's The News Huddlines (1975-2001), Coronation Street's Archie Shuttleworth, and president of the British Music Hall Society.
Roy J. Britten
Roy J. Britten (1919–2012) was an American molecular biologist at Caltech who discovered repeated DNA sequences in animal genomes using DNA renaturation kinetics, and proposed the Britten–Davidson gene regulation model.
Roy J. Glauber
Roy J. Glauber (1925–2018) was an American theoretical physicist at Harvard who won half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for founding the field of quantum optics.
Roy Jeffs
Roy Jeffs (Leroy Barlow Jeffs, 1992-2019), a son of FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs, left the sect in February 2014 and publicly described his father's abuses before dying by suicide at age 26.
Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead (1920–2003), British Labour Home Secretary, Chancellor, first and only British president of the European Commission, and founder and first leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Roy Jones Jr.
Roy Jones Jr. is an American former boxer from Pensacola, Florida, a 1988 Olympic silver medalist who won world titles from middleweight to heavyweight, beat John Ruiz in 2003, and entered the boxing Hall of Fame in 2022.
Roy K. Altman
Roy K. Altman, born Roy Kalman Altman in 1982, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President Trump in 2019.
Roy Keane
Roy Keane, Irish former footballer, Manchester United captain 1997-2005 and Republic of Ireland captain; seven league titles, 2002 Saipan World Cup expulsion, later Sunderland and Ipswich manager and ITV and The Overlap pundit.
Roy Kerr
Roy Patrick Kerr, born 1934, is a New Zealand mathematician who in 1963 found the exact solution to Einstein's field equations describing the space-time outside a rotating black hole.
Roy Kim
Roy Kim (로이킴, Kim Sang-woo, born 1993) is a South Korean singer-songwriter who won Superstar K 4 in 2012, debuted with "Bom Bom Bom" (2013), and is known for folk-pop hits like "그때 헤어지면 돼" and sold-out year-end tours.
Roy Kinnear
Roy Mitchell Kinnear (1934–1988), English character actor and comedian, star of That Was the Week That Was, Mr. Salt in Willy Wonka, and Planchet in Lester's Musketeers films; died filming the 1989 sequel.
Roy Kishony
Roy Kishony (רוי קישוני) is an Israeli-born biologist at the Technion and Harvard Medical School known for the MEGA-plate experiment filming antibiotic resistance evolving in real time.
Roy Klopfenstein
Roy Klopfenstein is an American politician and farmer serving as a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 82nd district, chairing the Agriculture Committee.
Roy Krishna
Roy Krishna (born 1987, Labasa, Fiji) is a Fijian striker and Fiji captain, the national team's most-capped player and top scorer. Johnny Warren Medal and A-League Golden Boot 2018-19 with Wellington Phoenix; ISL star with ATK, Mohun Bagan, Bengaluru, Odisha; now Bula FC.
Roy Kusumoto
Roy Kusumoto (楠本) is an American engineer who founded Solectron in Milpitas, California in 1977, growing the circuit-board shop into the dominant electronics manufacturing services firm before its 2007 sale to Flextronics.
Roy L. Dennis
Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis, American teenager with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia (lionitis), died at 16; subject of the 1985 film Mask with Eric Stoltz and Cher.
Roy L. Silverstein
Roy L. Silverstein, also known as Roy Silverstein, is an American hematologist and cell biologist known for his work on the receptor CD36 in atherosclerosis and thrombosis.
Roy Lee
Roy Lee (born 1969, Brooklyn) is a Korean-American producer, co-founder of Vertigo Entertainment, known for The Ring, The Grudge, The Departed, It, and A Minecraft Movie.
Roy Lee (entrepreneur)
Roy Lee, also known as Chungin Lee, is an entrepreneur and CEO of Cluely, an AI startup he co-founded in 2025 after being suspended from Columbia University.
Roy Levy
Roy Levy is an American educational psychometrician and quantitative methodologist at Arizona State University, the only education-related recipient of a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), American Pop artist and painter of comic-strip, advertisement, and Ben-Day-dot paintings such as Girl with Ball and Whaam!, also known for brushstroke, Mirror, and mural series.
Roy M. Anderson
Sir Roy Anderson (born 1947) is a British mathematical epidemiologist and parasitologist at Imperial College London, known for the 20/80 rule in disease transmission and pandemic modeling.