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Roy M. Gulick
Roy M. Gulick, also known as Roy Gulick, is an American infectious-disease physician and HIV researcher who is Chief of Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Roy M. Harrison
Roy M. Harrison, also published as R. M. Harrison, is a British atmospheric chemist known for research on air pollution, holding an environmental health chair at the University of Birmingham since 1991.
Roy M. Pitkin
Roy M. Pitkin is an obstetrician-gynecologist and nutrition researcher who chaired obstetrics departments at Iowa and UCLA and studied folate's prevention of neural tube defects.
Roy Makaay
Roy Makaay (Rudolphus Antonius Makaay, born 1975), Dutch striker for Vitesse, Tenerife, Deportivo, Bayern, and Feyenoord; 2003 European Golden Shoe winner and holder of the fastest Champions League goal, 10.12 seconds vs Real Madrid in 2007.
Roy Mann
Roy Mann (רוי מן) is an Israeli software entrepreneur who co-founded monday.com in Tel Aviv in 2012 and has served as its Co-CEO since, taking the company public on the Nasdaq in 2021.
Roy Marsden
Roy Marsden, born Roy Anthony Mould (1941), is a British actor famous as Commander Adam Dalgliesh in the ITV Anglia Television adaptations of P.D. James novels (1983-1998), and as Neil Burnside in The Sandbaggers; he legally adopted the name Marsden in 2005.
Roy Moore
Roy Moore (Roy Stewart Moore, born 1947), Alabama chief justice twice disciplined over the Ten Commandments monument and same-sex marriage orders, 2017 Republican Senate nominee, and defamation litigant against Senate Majority PAC.
Roy O. Disney
Roy O. Disney (1893-1971), Walt Disney's older brother and co-founder of the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923, was the company's financial manager, president 1945-1968, chairman 1964-1971, and builder of Walt Disney World.
Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison (1936-1988), American rock singer-songwriter from Vernon, Texas, known for operatic ballads like "Oh, Pretty Woman" and "Crying" on Monument Records, Sun Records beginnings, and the Traveling Wilburys.
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night is a 1988 Cinemax concert special filmed September 30, 1987 at LA's Cocoanut Grove, featuring Springsteen, Costello, Raitt, Waits, k.d. lang and the TCB Band.
Roy Orbison discography
Roy Orbison discography: the recorded catalog of the American singer (1936-1988) across Sun, Monument, MGM, Warner Bros, and Virgin labels; 27 studio albums, over 60 singles, three UK number ones, and major posthumous releases Mystery Girl and King of Hearts.
Roy Oswalt
Roy Oswalt (born 1977) is a former MLB right-handed pitcher, mainly with the Houston Astros (2001-10): 163-102, 3.36 ERA, 1,852 strikeouts, 2005 NLCS MVP, 2004 NL wins leader, 2006 ERA title, 2000 Olympic gold.
Roy Parker (biochemist)
Roy Parker is an American RNA biologist known for identifying the major mRNA decay pathways and discovering P-bodies, and an HHMI investigator at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Roy Porter
Roy Sydney Porter (1946–2002) was a British social historian of medicine, professor at the Wellcome Institute in London, who wrote or edited more than 100 books.
Roy Prasad
Roy Prasad is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in semiconductors and EDA software who co-founded The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) in 1992, naming it, and led P-CAD, Castelle, and Invarium.
Roy R. Gould
Roy R. Gould is a science-education researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He specializes in technology-based tools, the MicroObservatory, and exoplanet education programs.
Roy R. Lobb
Roy R. Lobb is an immunologist and biotechnology executive who identified the VCAM-1/VLA-4 adhesion pathway enabling Tysabri, led research at Biogen, and co-founded Aleta Biotherapeutics.
Roy Radner
Roy Radner (1927–2022) was an American mathematical economist and microeconomic theorist at New York University, known for the economic theory of teams, the turnpike theorem, and Radner equilibrium.
Roy Raymond
Roy Raymond (1947–1993), American founder of Victoria's Secret, opened the first store in Palo Alto in 1977 with Gaye Raymond and sold the company to Les Wexner for $1 million in 1982.
Roy Redgrave
Roy Redgrave (George Ellsworthy Redgrave, 1873-1922), English-born stage and silent film actor in Australia, patriarch of the Redgrave acting dynasty, father of Michael, star of L'Aiglon and Robbery Under Arms (1920).
Roy Reznik
Roy Reznik is an Israeli software engineer who co-founded the cloud security company Wiz in 2020, its VP of Research and Development, after co-founding Adallom, sold to Microsoft in 2015.
Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye, was an American singer and actor known as the "King of the Cowboys," the top Western box-office star from 1943.
Roy Rogers Restaurants
Roy Rogers Restaurants is a Mid-Atlantic fast-food chain founded by Marriott in 1968, named for the cowboy actor, known for its Fixin's Bar and burgers, fried chicken, and roast beef; owned by the Plamondon family since 2002 with about 40 locations.
Roy Romer
Roy Romer (born October 31, 1928) is a Democratic politician, 39th governor of Colorado 1987-1999, three-time elected, later DNC general chair and LAUSD superintendent 2000-2006.
Roy Rosselló
Roy Rosselló (Roy Stephan Rosselló Díaz), Puerto Rican singer and pastor, Menudo member 1983–1986 (replacing Miguel Cancel, replaced by Sergio Blass). Known for abuse allegations against Edgardo Díaz and José Menéndez in the 2023 docuseries Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed, and for the 2026 Menudo 50th Anniversary Tour; distinct from politician Ricardo Rosselló.
Roy S. Herbst
Roy S. Herbst is an American medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer, chief of medical oncology at Yale Cancer Center and, from 2026, director of Dartmouth Cancer Center.
Roy Saari
Roy Allen Saari (1945-2008), American distance swimmer and water polo player; first under 17 minutes in the 1,500 m freestyle (16:58.7), 1964 Olympic gold and silver medalist, nine-time NCAA champion at USC.
Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider (1932–2008), American actor, Police Chief Brody in Jaws, Oscar-nominated for The French Connection and All That Jazz; also Marathon Man, Sorcerer, seaQuest DSV; died of multiple myeloma.
Roy Shaw
Roy "Pretty Boy" Shaw (1936-2012), East London armed robber and unlicensed bare-knuckle boxer, jailed 18 years for a 1963 security van robbery, who fought Lenny McLean three times.
Roy Staley
Roy Mason Staley (1915-2001), American hurdler for USC Trojans; 120-yard hurdles world record (14.2 tied with Phil Cope, 1935; 14.1, 1936), 1936 US Trials third, 1936 Berlin Olympic 110m hurdles semifinalist.