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* Roger, Archbishop of Patras (in post 1337–1347) * Roger (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (in post from 1155) * Roger (archbishop of Benevento) (died 1221) * Roger (bishop of Ross) (died c. 1350) * Roger (larderer) (died 1102), Bishop-elect of Hereford * Roger Borsa (1060/61–1111), Norman Duke of Apulia and Calabria * Roger (son of Dagobert) (), Norman magnate who served the Byzantine empire * Roger I. de Sentes, 12th century French bishop * Roger I Trencavel (died 1150), Viscount of Carcassonne * Roger I de Fézensaguet (1190–1245), Viscount of Fézensaguet * Roger I of Carcassonne (died 1012), Count of Carcassonne * Roger I of Tosny (died ), Norman nobleman * Roger II Trencavel (died 1194), Viscount of Carcassonne * Roger III, Duke of Apulia (1118–1148), Duke of Apulia, Sicily * Roger IV, Count of Foix (died 1265) * Roger IV, Duke of Apulia (1152–1161) * Roger of Lauria (c. 1245–1305), Italian admiral * Roger Bacon, English philosopher * Roger Bigod of Norfolk (died 1107), Norman knight who participated in the Norman Conquest of England * Roger Frugardi (), Salernitan surgeon * Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (1374–1398) * Roger Niger (c. 1173–1241), Bishop of London * Roger Norreis (died c. 1224), Abbot of Evesham * Roger of Salisbury (died 1139), also known as Roger le Poer, Norman Bishop of Salisbury and Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of England * Roger of Worcester from 1163 to 1179Modern era
* Roger (footballer, born 1972), Roger José de Noronha Silva, Brazilian football goalkeeper * Roger (footballer, born 1978), Roger Galera Flores, Brazilian football attacking midfielder * Roger (footballer, born 1985), Roger Rodrigues da Silva, Brazilian football manager and former player * Roger (footballer, born 1996), Roger Junio Rodrigues Ferreira, Brazilian football midfielder * Roger Adams, American Nobel Prize organic chemist * Roger Ailes, American television executive, chairman and CEO of Fox News * Roger Angell (1920–2022), American writer and editor for ''The New Yorker'' * Roger Ashton (footballer), Welsh footballer * Roger Avary, Canadian producer, screenwriter and director * Roger Ballen, American artist working in South Africa * Roger Bannister, British athlete, first man to run the four-minute mile * Syd Barrett, Roger "Syd" Barrett, founder of Pink Floyd * Roger Bart, American actor and singer * Roger Berrio, Colombian weightlifter * Roger Binny, Indian cricketer * Roger Joseph Boscovich, Croatian-Ragusan physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, and Jesuit * Roger Boylan, American writer * Roger Buckley (1937–2020), American historian * Roger Bumpass (born 1951), American voice actor * Roger Burnley (born 1966), British businessman, former CEO of Asda * Roger C. Carmel, American character actor * Roger A. Caras, American wildlife photographer and writer * Roger Casement, Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and British diplomat * Roger B. Chaffee, Roger Chaffee, American astronaut * Roger Chan, the bus uncle * Roger Chao, Australian explorer and mountain climber * Roger Christian (songwriter) (1934–1991), American radio personality and songwriter * Roger Clarke (rugby union administrator), British rugby administrator * Roger Clemens, baseball player * Roger Cook (journalist), British journalist * Roger Corman, American film director, producer, and actor * Roger Craig (baseball), baseball player * Roger Craig (American football), American football player * Roger Craig Smith (born 1975), American voice actor * Roger Daltrey, lead singer of British rock band The Who * Roger Davis (television actor), American actor * Roger O. DeBruler (1934–2017), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court * Roger Delgado, British actor * Roger Dobkowitz, American television producer, statistics expert for ''The Price is Right'' * Roger Donaldson, New Zealand filmmaker * Roger Ebert (1942–2013), American film critic and writer * Roger M. Enoka, American neurophysiologist * Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player * Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., American CEO and former Federal Reserve official * Roger C. Field, British inventor and industrial designer * Roger Fortin, Canadian boxer * Roger Frampton, Australian jazz musician * Roger García Junyent, Spanish football player * Roger Gibbon, Trinidad and Tobago track cyclist * Roger Glover, Welsh/English bassist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer * Roger Godement, French mathematician * Roger Goldammer, Canadian bikebuilder * Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL * Roger Guerreiro, Polish football player of Brazilian descent * Roger Hall (disambiguation), several people * Roger Hamby (born 1943), American racing car driver * Roger Hodgman, Australian stage and television director * Roger Hodgson, British vocalist and songwriter from Supertramp * Roger Howarth, American actor * Roger Ilegems, Belgian track cyclist and road bicycle racer * Roger Ingram, American trumpeter, educator, and author * Roger Jackson (rower), Canadian rower and academic * Roger Jackson (wide receiver), American football player * Roger L. Jackson, American actor * Roger Jouret, birth name of Plastic Bertrand, Belgian singer, musician and television presenter * Roger Kettlewell, Canadian football player * Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, Royal Navy officer prominent in World War I, and Member of Parliament * Roger Kibbe (1939–2021), American serial killer * Roger Köppel, Swiss journalist * Roger Machado Marques, Brazilian football player * Roger Lloyd-Pack, British actor * Rogério Manganelli, Brazilian-American bass guitarist for Less Than Jake, known as Roger Lima * Roger Manvell, first director of the British Film Academy * Roger Maris, baseball player * Roger Mason Jr., Roger Mason Jr, American basketball player * Roger Mayweather (1961–2020), American boxer * Roger McCreary (born 2000), American football player * Roger McGuinn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist for The Byrds * Roger McMurrin, American conductor * Roger Michell (1956–2021), South African-born British film director * Roger Milla, Cameroon footballer * Roger Miller, American musician * Roger Mills (racewalker), English race walker * Roger Moore, English actor, James Bond * Roger Moreira, Brazilian musician * Roger Moret (1949–2020), Puerto Rican baseball player * Roger E. Mosley, American actor * Roger Mudd (1928–2021), American TV journalist * Roger Muñoz, Nicaraguan basketball player * Roger Myerson, American economist and professor * Roger Penrose, English mathematical physicist * Roger Penske, American businessman * Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist * Roger Pierre (1923–2010), French actor * Roger Price (comedy) (1918–1990), American humorist who created ''Droodles'' and ''Mad Libs'' * Roger Price (television producer) (born 1941), English television producer * Roger Price (Australian politician) (born 1945), Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives (1984–2010) * Roger Rees, British actor * Roger Roger (composer), French composer * Roger Rose (born 1958), American actor * Roger Rogerson, former detective of the NSW Police Force and convicted murderer * Roger Sablonier (1941–2010), Swiss historian and writer * Brother Roger (1915–2005), baptised Roger Louis Schutz-Marsauche, Swiss initiator of the Taizé community * Roger Scruton (1944–2020), English philosopher and writer * Roger Sessions, American music composer * Roger Hale Sheaffe, British general, one of the principal commanders of War of 1812 * Roger Sheaffe (politician), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly * Roger Sherman, American revolutionary, signer of many famous documents, inventor of congressional system, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States * Roger Smith (actor), American actor * Roger Smith (executive) (1925–2007), American chairman and CEO of General Motors and the subject of Michael Moore's documentary film ''Roger & Me'' * Roger Spink (born 1958), Falkland Islands politician * Roger Dale Stafford (1951–1995), American convicted spree killer and serial killer * Roger Staubach, American football player * Roger Stone, American political lobbyist, strategist, and author * Roger Sumich, New Zealand cyclist * Roger Taylor (Queen drummer), Roger Taylor, British drummer for Queen * Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer), Roger Taylor, British drummer for Duran Duran * Roger Toussaint, American transit worker's union official * Roger Troutman (1951–1999), also known as Roger, American R&B recording artist, singer for Zapp * Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (born 1993), New Zealand rugby player * Roger Vadim, French film director * Roger Vangheluwe, Belgian bishop, resigned following pedophilia scandal * Roger Waters, English rock musician and songwriter * Roger Whittaker (born 1936), British singer * Roger Wicker (born 1951), U.S. Senator from Mississippi * Roger Williams (pianist) (1924–2011), American pianist * Roger Williams (theologian) (1603–1683), English minister, theologian, and author, co-founder of Rhode Island * Roger Williams (soldier) (1539/40–1595), Welsh soldier of fortune and military theorist, one of the principal commanders of Eighty Years' War and Battle of Arques * Roger L. Worsley, American educator * Roger Wrightson, English cricketer * Roger Arliner Young (1899–1964), American scientist, first African American woman to earn a PhD in Zoology * Roger Zelazny, American science-fiction authorSurname
* Neil Munroe Bunny Roger (1911–1997), English couturier, war hero * Charles Rogier, Belgian liberal statesman and a leader in the Belgian Revolution, Prime Minister of Belgium 1847–1852 and 1857–1868 * Christophe Roger-Vasselin (born 1957), French former tennis player, father of Édouard * Dimitri Roger, American rapper known as Rich the Kid * Édouard Roger-Vasselin (born 1983), French tennis player, son of Christophe * Julius Roger (1819–1865), German entomologist and medical doctor * Marie-Sabine Roger (born 1957), French writer * Mircea Roger (born 1947), Romanian Olympic rower * Pierre Roger, birth name of Pope Clement VI * Roger Roger (composer) (1911–1995), French composerFictional characters
* Gold Roger (Gol D. Roger), the Pirate King in the manga/anime-series ''One Piece'' * Lord Rogers, a character from The Swan Princess (film series) * Roger (American Dad!), Roger (''American Dad!''), protagonist of the animated sitcom ''American Dad!'' * Roger, in the short story "Thank You, Ma'am" by Langston Hughes * Roger, a jolly prankster of the Burger Palace Boys from the hit 50s musical ''Grease (musical), Grease'' * Roger the Dodger, from ''The Beano'' * Roger (Guilty Gear) * Roger (Hellboy), Roger (''Hellboy''), a homunculus from the series ''Hellboy'' * Roger, a pseudocharacter in Monty Python's Life of Brian whom the crowd wanted Pontius Pilate to release to make fun of his lisp ("Welease Woger".) * Roger, a character in the novel ''Lord of the Flies'', Jack's lieutenant and the tribe's torturer/hangman * Roger (Tekken), Roger (''Tekken''), a kangaroo character from the ''Tekken'' fighting game series, and Roger (Tekken)#Roger Jr., Roger Jr., his son * Roger Ackroyd, title character of Agatha Christie's novel ''The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'' * Roger Brook secret agent and Napoleonic Wars Era gallant in a series of novels by Dennis Wheatley * Roger Chillingworth, the antagonist in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel ''The Scarlet Letter'' * Roger Danish, a minor character in ''Arrested Development (TV series), Arrested Development'', Lindsey's high school counterpart and co-winner of the Best Hair Award * Roger Baxter, Blythe Baxter's father and supporting character in the cartoon Littlest Pet Shop * Roger Davis (RENT), Roger Davis (''Rent''), musician and ex-druggie of ''Rent (musical), Rent'' * Roger Fox, from the comic strip ''FoxTrot'' * Bill Daily, Roger Healey, captain/major played by Bill Daily in the ''I Dream of Jeannie'' 1960's sitcom * Roger Hoyt, the main character on the short-lived series ''Life with Roger'' * Roger Klotz, a bully on the cartoon series ''Doug (TV series), Doug'' * Roger Latimer, a character in the 1987 American comedy movie ''Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise#Cast, Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise'' * Monsieur Roger LeClerc, in the BBC sitcom '''Allo 'Allo!'' * Roger MacKenzie, character in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander (book series), ''Outlander'' series, portrayed by Richard Rankin in the Outlander (TV series), TV adaptation * Roger Murtaugh, cop played by Danny Glover in the ''Lethal Weapon'' movies * Roger Piazza, a supporting character from Max & Ruby * Roger Rabbit, cartoon character from the 1988 film ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' * Roger Radcliffe, in Disney's animated film ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians, 101 Dalmatians'' * The Life and Times of Juniper Lee#Roger Radcliffe, Roger Radcliffe, in ''The Life and Times of Juniper Lee'' * Roger Ramjet, cartoon superhero * Roger Samms, the protagonist in the ''Bad Mojo'' * Roger Smith (The Big O), Roger Smith, the main protagonist of the anime series ''The Big O'' * Roger Sterling, co-owner of the advertising company Sterling Cooper, a character in the television series ''Mad Men'' * Roger the Shrubber, a character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail who sells a shrubbery to King Arthur and Sir Bedevere * Roger Walker, one of the central protagonists in the ''Swallows and Amazons series'' by Arthur Ransome * Roger Wilco (Space Quest), Roger Wilco, protagonist of the ''Space Quest'' game seriesAnimal
* Roger (kangaroo), Australian kangaroo with an extraordinary physique, aka "Ripped Roger" (circa 2006 – 2018)See also
* Roger Dodger (phrase) * Roger-Vasselin (disambiguation) * Roger (voice procedure) * Ruggiero (character) * Raja (similarly pronounced in some accents)Citations
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