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Roy Sullivan
Roy Sullivan, known as the Human Lightning Rod, was an American park ranger struck by lightning seven times between 1942 and 1977, surviving every strike.
Roy Taylor (British laser physicist)
Roy Taylor, full name James Roy Taylor, is a British laser physicist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for supercontinuum "white light" fiber sources.
Roy Taylor (diabetologist)
Roy Taylor is a British diabetologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Metabolism at Newcastle University, known for the DiRECT trial showing weight loss puts type 2 diabetes into remission.
Roy Thinnes
Roy Thinnes (born April 6, 1938, Chicago) is an American actor, best known as architect David Vincent in ABC's The Invaders (1967-68) and as Jeremiah Smith on The X-Files; also General Hospital, Falcon Crest, Dark Shadows.
Roy Thomas
Roy William Thomas Jr. (born November 22, 1940), also credited as Justin Arthur, is an American comic book writer and editor, Stan Lee's first successor as Marvel editor-in-chief (1972–74), known for The Avengers, Conan, and Star Wars.
Roy Thomas Baker
Roy Thomas Baker was a British record producer known for co-producing Queen's early albums, including A Night at the Opera, and the first four albums by The Cars.
Roy Thomson
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet (1894–1976), was a Canadian newspaper publisher who built a chain of small-town dailies into one of the world's largest media groups.
Roy van den Berg
Roy van den Berg is a Dutch track cyclist, born in 1988, who won Olympic gold in the team sprint at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.
Roy W. Allen
Roy W. Allen (1882–1968) was an American businessman who founded the Lodi, California, root beer stand that grew into the A&W chain, named for Allen and partner Frank Wright.
Roy W. Gould
Roy W. Gould (1927–2022) was an American plasma physicist at Caltech known for the Trivelpiece–Gould modes, plasma wave echoes, and directing US fusion research from 1970 to 1972.
Roy Walker (comedian)
Roy Walker (born 1940, Belfast) is a Northern Irish comedian, original host of ITV's Catchphrase 1986-1999, known for "Say what you see" and "It's good but it's not right"; New Faces winner 1977.
Roy Wang (王源)
Roy Wang (王源), born 2000 in Chongqing, is a Chinese singer-songwriter, TFBOYS member, and actor. Four solo albums including 在星穹下狂奔, 44 original singles, UNICEF ambassador, Berklee student.
Roy Welensky
Roy Welensky (1907–1991), Rhodesian politician, ex-railway union leader and boxer, was Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1956–1963, defending white minority rule until the federation's dissolution.
Roy Williams (basketball coach)
Roy Williams (born 1950) is a retired Hall of Fame college basketball coach; 903-264 over 33 seasons at Kansas and North Carolina, three NCAA titles (2005, 2009, 2017), only coach with 400 wins at two schools.
Roy Williams (safety)
Roy Lee Williams (born 1980), Oklahoma Sooners safety and College Football Hall of Famer, drafted 8th overall by Dallas in 2002; 5 Pro Bowls, 2003 first-team All-Pro, namesake of the NFL horse collar rule.
Roy Williams (wide receiver)
Roy Williams (Roy Eugene Williams Jr., born 1981, Odessa, Texas) is a former NFL wide receiver, a Texas Longhorn drafted seventh overall by Detroit in 2004; 2006 Pro Bowler who led the NFC with 1,310 receiving yards, later traded to Dallas. Distinct from the Oklahoma safety Roy Williams.
Roy Wood
Roy Wood (born 1946, Birmingham) is the British rock multi-instrumentalist who founded The Move, co-founded Electric Light Orchestra, and led Wizzard, whose hits include See My Baby Jive and I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day; distinct from rapper Roy Woods and comedian Roy Wood Jr.
Roy Wood Jr.
Roy Wood Jr. (Roy Norris Wood Jr., born 1978) is an American comedian from Birmingham, Alabama, a Daily Show correspondent 2015-2023, 2023 White House Correspondents' Dinner headliner, host of CNN's Have I Got News for You, and author of the memoir The Man of Many Fathers. Not the musician Roy Wood or the singer Roy Woods.
Roy Woods
Roy Woods (Roy Wood$), born Denzel Spencer in 1996, is a Canadian R&B singer and rapper from Brampton, Ontario, signed to Drake's OVO Sound in 2015; known for "Drama," the albums Say Less and Mixed Emotions, and EPs Dem Times, Rolling Stone, and Dark Nights.
Roy Yorke Calne
Roy Yorke Calne (1930–2024) was a British transplant surgeon who performed Europe's first liver transplant in 1968, led the first clinical use of cyclosporin, and shared the 2012 Lasker Award.
Roy Zisapel
Roy Zisapel is an Israeli technology executive who co-founded Radware, a Tel Aviv cybersecurity company traded on Nasdaq, and has led it as President and CEO since 1997.
Royal (film)
Royal (ರಾಯಲ್) is a 2025 Kannada drama directed by Dinakar Thoogudeepa, starring Viraat and Sanjana Anand, released 24 January 2025; a conman saves his mother's SSF Company. It earned ₹1.07 crore worldwide and streamed on Prime Video from 7 March 2025.
Royal & the Serpent
Royal & the Serpent is the alt-electro-pop project of American singer and songwriter Ryan Santiago, a New Jersey native whose 2020 single "Overwhelmed" went viral on TikTok.
Royal Academy of Artillery, Fortification and Design
The Royal Academy of Artillery, Fortification and Design (Real Academia de Artilharia, Fortificação e Desenho) was a military engineering school founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1792.
Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA), founded in London in 1768 under George III with Joshua Reynolds as first president, is an independent artist-led gallery, art school, and members' institution at Burlington House, home of the annual Summer Exhibition held since 1769 and the free Royal Academy Schools.
Royal Academy of Dance
Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), founded 1920 in London as the Association of Teachers of Operatic Dancing, is a global ballet exam board and teacher-training body with graded and vocational exams in over 80 countries.
Royal Academy of Engineering
The Royal Academy of Engineering is the United Kingdom's national academy for engineering, a chartered charity founded in 1976 whose elected Fellows promote engineering for the public benefit.
Royal Aeronautical Society
Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), founded 12 January 1866 as the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, is the world's oldest aeronautical society, a London-based professional body and charity with over 25,000 members, renamed Royal in 1918.
Royal African Company
The Royal African Company was an English joint-stock company chartered by Charles II in 1672 to hold a monopoly on English trade with West Africa, above all the slave trade.
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force (RAF), UK's independent air force formed 1 April 1918 from the RFC and RNAS. 33,840 personnel, Typhoon and F-35B fleets, 12 F-35A ordered 2025 for NATO nuclear mission, Tempest from 2035.